Atmosphere In Casablanca

The atmosphere of a film is very important to any film, regardless of the it’s genre. It establishes the tone of the film and manipulates the audience's mood through imagery, setting, and character emotion/action. Successful producers know that setting the atmosphere of a film is essential in the filmmaking industry because it allow the viewers to appreciate, enjoy, and relate to the film. Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca offers an atmosphere in his prominent screenplay to hide the fact that the film’s main goal was to brainwash millions of people for the benefit of the U.S. government. The atmosphere that was created was strong because it masked the scent of the hidden anti-fascist propaganda within the film. People related to the film so

The first time we see Rick, there is a sense of authority with his image due to the camera angle he was presented in, the low angle shot. Then the viewers welcome Rick into a corrupt world. His legendary motto screams everything about the type of person he is at the beginning of the film: “I stick my neck out for nobody.” Suddenly, one of the main actors appear; this time a woman known as Ilsa Lund, a woman that already knew Rick. It is revealed that Rick had loved this girl years before in the iconic and romantic city of Paris. Under the disguise of a German, he had planned their runaway from the Nazis, but he believes that she had left him, left him at the transit with the big tickets to democracy. But maybe it was just destiny that she suddenly appears in his bar in current time-referring to one of the most iconic film quotes of all time “of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.” Now there is conflict though because Ilsa already has an established relationship with Victor Laszlo, a hero of France. All that had happened in this scene was captured in a few artistic, frugal camera shots, and invites the audience to be emotionally moved by the coincidence that had just occurred. After the sense of sight is manipulated, use of music is slyly included. The bar’s piano player plays the perfect song for the perfect moment, “As Time Goes By.” The dramatic tune marks Rick and Ilsa’s closeups, and the scene remembers bitterness, guilt, and the fading memory of the couple in Paris with regards that their love was very real. In Casablanca, it will never be forgotten that in this world, there is a place where good rules evil, and regardless of immorality, romance can still be kept in this chaotic