There, people will try to work hard or get money to pay their way to acquire exit visas to make their way out. The film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz portrays the theme of love and sacrifice. In the 1940s there was the second world war so all the people in Europe were trying any means to get to America because that was the haven during that decade. The police in Casablanca were corrupt and that the refugees had to always bribe them so that they will be able to get their visas so that they can depart Casablanca to America. At that time u had to wealthy or know someone to be able to get out of Casablanca and make it to the Americas to have a better life. This act of bribery and corruption plays an important …show more content…
Laszlo is a known to be opposer to the Germans, so the Germans were looking for him. Lisa knows Rick can find them a way to get out of the country. The film started with the owner of a famous night club, Rick Blaine, receiving two important visa letters. These letters are so important because these letters are coming straight from above so one will go straight to America without any issue with the people that will check it. When a Czech underground leader, Victor Lazlo, came in town with Rick’s old love flame the plot gets thick. Now Rick Blaine has to make a decision whether not to help Lazlo escape the Germans and get back together with his long-time love Lisa or to help Lazlo run to the Americas to assist in a revolution against the Nazi’s. This clearly shows how the problems of war and love become very complex in the film. Casablanca is a great piece of movie history because not only did it do a great deal to show how people were affected by the war, but also because …show more content…
One night, Laszlo, thinking that Rick has the transit pass, spoke with him privately about getting them. They're disturbed when a group of Nazi officers, led by Major Strasser, commandeer Sam's piano and began to sing "Die Wacht am Rhein" (The Watch on the Rhine), a German patriotic song. Brave and controversial, Laszlo orders the club band to play "La Marseillaise" in respect of Occupied France. The one in charge of the band looks to Rick for instruction on whether to do what laslo told him; rick instructed him to go ahead and play it. Laszlo starts singing, alone at the beginning, then long-suppressed patriotic fervor touched the crowd, and they all joins in, drowning out the Germans. In retaliation, Strasser orders Renault to shut down the club because he felt humiliated. Later that night, Ilsa met Rick in an abandoned cafe. He didn’t want to release her the documents, even when she pulled out a gun on him to frighten him to give her the transit pass with a gun.
In the essay “Beautiful Friendship: Masculinity & Nationalism in Casablanca”, Peter Kunze lavishly explains the magnificence of Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film Casablanca. Kunze focuses on how the movie not only highlights an exchange of relationships, but how the film has an underlying meaning between these relationships. He also implies that there is a more complex meaning behind every character in regards to their gender, economic, and social roles. The overall thesis of his reading is “the patriarchal ideology underlying the narrative commodifies Ilsa, leading Rick to exchange her with other men in an act of friendship and solidarity as well as to dissuade any perception of queerness between the strong male friendships in the narrative” (Kunze
The plot of Casablanca is that during World War 2 many people were trying to escape Europe and out of all these people we study three interesting characters. As we get to know these characters we learn that they are willing to sacrifice things that are important to them just so that humanity can be better. Getting to know the characters is a very important part of the whole movie because the characters can represent certain things. I think the climax of the movie is when Rick gives the transits to Iisa and her husband. He loves this woman so much that he is willing to do this for her. At the beginning of the movie Rick says "I stick my neck out for noboby" or something along those lines and this sacrifice proves how much love has changed him for the
This is an immigration movie geared towards kids to show and teach them about immigration to America. It shows them the reasons they (the Mousekewitz) left their homeland Russia to come to America. In their case it was to escape the Czarist rule of the cats, parallel to most immigrants who escaped their land due to religious and political persecution. Once aboard the ship to America, it showed the long and unpleasant trip to New York Harbor, where in this movie, Fievel gets separated from his family to inclimate weather. Once they arrive in New York Harbor, it shows children the happiness immigrants got when they saw the statue of liberty and the process through Ellis Island to become a citizen of America. The rest of the movie takes place in America where it shows “political machines”, such as Warren T. Rat, who really is a cat but takes advantage of new immigrants by dressing as a mouse and receiving the mice’s trust. With trust came their money and broken promises, just as “political machines” really did back then. The movie shows the immigrants hardships and poor living conditions in America with tenement housing and unsanitary conditions.
How much are you willing to sacrifice for another? Whether they are a family member or a complete stranger. In the novel The Kite Runner Baba was was willing to risk his life when he had stood up and was trying to stop the Russian soldier from rape the young woman as payment for letting them pass through one of the checkpoints. Then there had been Amir it was when he had suffered extreme injuries, nearly losing his life when he had fought Assef, so that he could save Sohrab for the abuse he was suffering from the Taliban. Both Character Baba and Amir were willing to sacrifice themselves for another person, regardless of who they were. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, teaches the reader sacrificing your life can lead to another person’s happiness through Baba saving the woman from the Russian soldier and Amir fighting Assef.
In the film Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, a clear juxtaposition exists between Rick and America. Despite Rick’s numerous similarities to America and his deep longing to be part of the country, a physical and psychological barrier separates the two. With America practically being on the opposite end of the world, Rick understands that he cannot abandon his responsibility to aid and influence others in Casablanca. Rick is willing to sacrifice his personal comfort and well-being for the greater good of society. This juxtaposition between America and Rick foreshadows that the United States would soon become involved in the war by overtly displaying Rick’s transformation when he confronts his troubled past.
Audience members, when seeing Casablanca, would associate it as a war film, and I agree with that, but to be more precise, it is a pro-Allie war film. The literary elements in the film are the reasons why it can be viewed this way, with the emphasis on the plot and characters. The timing of when the film was released also supports the idea of it being an anti Axis film. Although it was set in 1940, it was made a year after Pearl Harbor and America entering the war, but it was released right before the Allies had a meeting in Casablanca, so the filmmakers seemed to have wanted the audience to empathize with the Allies. The whole plot seems to be focused around how Rick is neutral at the beginning of the film, but because of an old flame coming into his life once again, he slowly becomes in favor of the Allie side.
The city of Casablanca is a bleak place full of hardship and full of people that are tied down. These people look for an escape that can set their mind on a different path. Rick’s Cafe Americain reflects that place to visit that can set the people’s minds free. Specifically, there rests a piano that can turn the minds of the people away so that they can feel free and have an enjoyable time at the cafe. With this, the cafe and piano give the people a sense of living a normal life. In the movie, Casablanca, Sam’s piano resembles a symbol that not only resembles a sense of enjoyment and freedom, but helps establish a connection to the past of Rick and Ilsa.
New Wark or New York A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is a story of great sacrifices being made for the sake of principle. There are many examples of this throughout the book made by many of the characters, but some more evident than others. In Book The First, entitled “Recalled to Life,” the most obvious sacrifice for the sake of principle was made by Dr. Manette. He was imprisoned for eighteen years in the Bastille, for no apparent reason.
Despite not being considered as the traditional ‘hero’s journey’ which is outlined in Joseph Campbell’s argument of ‘separation-initiation-return’, Humphrey Bogart’s character Rick Blaine, in the 1942 film Casablanca, can be argued to follow this twelve-step journey. Campbell states “whether the hero be ridiculous or sublime…” (p.38), on this basis, Rick Blaine qualifies as a hero. These twelve steps are: Ordinary World; Call to Adventure/Disruption; Refusal of the Call; Meeting with the Mentor; Crossing the First Threshold; Tests, Allies, and Enemies; Approach to the Inmost Cave; Ordeal; Reward; The Road Back; The Resurrection; and Return with the Elixir. Although in some parts stages may overlap, this essay aims to argue that Casablanca still
What makes this film a favorite of women? Lets take a closer look at the film and find out. Casablanca is set in the exotic land of Morocco where refuges wait for passage to America, the Promised Land. In a popular American café, Rick, the café owner, hides from the memories of a lost love. Rick is a mysterious, masculine hero who hides behind a hard outer shell but is really thoughtful and unpredictable. Rick soon runs into the girl he loves, Ilsa. Ilsa Lund is a beautiful woman who is torn between two lovers. Thus begins the tender love story that women cannot turn away from.
...t it is clearly obvious what is about to happen using an establishing shot. Casablanca also uses camera angle specifically portraying Captain Renault and Strasser as less powerful people in the office scene. Editing allows for smooth transitions between shots and allows for us as viewers to experience the scene like we are seeing through the characters eyes. Lighting provides us a mood of the scene, specifically when Rick first sees Ilsa for the first time since Paris. The Music plays a role in how we as audiences should feel while watching the movie. And without production design movies would not flow correctly. Every setting is specifically chosen to depict the location where the scene takes place. Casablanca is a quintessential film because it ties up all the formal elements of classical Hollywood. Without this movie Hollywood may be a completely different place.
During the time of the making of Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942), the debate on World War 2 and the United States’ involvement reached its peak. The makers of Casablanca perfectly used the characters in the movie as an allegory to the current political sentiments of the major countries in the war. The most striking example is from Rick. Before the war, the United States’ policy was to try and avoid being involved in another world war and were openly neutral. The U.S. had an underlying hate for the Germans though and secretly helped the British and French. Rick is a perfect example of this U.S. sentiment. During the beginning half of the film, the isolationist policy of the U.S. was epitomized by the loner actions that Rick displayed. For
The Michael Curtiz’s 1942 film Casablanca depicts Richard Blaine as an isolated individual obsessed with his memories of his former love. He begins to challenge his own policy of isolationism with the return of his love, Ilsa, and the spread of Nazism; his conflict with himself over his ideals forces him to consider the future of others and helps him overcome his past. Throughout the film, Richard begins to internally battle himself to overcome his own differences and help not only himself, but others for his own freedom.
Robert B. Ray categorizes Casablanca as "the most typical" American film. Ray uses Casablanca as a tutor text for what he calls the formal paradigm of Classical Hollywood as well as the thematic paradigm that addresses the conflict between isolationism and communitarian participation. The film is typical in its appropriation of an official hero Laszlo, who stands for the civilizing values of home and community, and an outlaw hero Rick, who stands for individu...
This film is divided into two separate parts. First, is a story that shows a situation in Italy during the Nazi occupation of World War II. There are a couple of members of a secret underground movement that try to keep the Nazis away from them. This movement is made up of poor Italians, who are troubled by the war and other Nazi ideologies. One of the members of the revolutionist group is engaged to a mother of the young boy, and the wedding is about to take place in a matter of days. But all sorts of problems follow, and all of this is based on how the Nazis will finally catch up with these traitors. The second, more effective and emotional part of the film is a tragic melodrama.