Before it started "It's black and white, I'll try to have an open mind". Five minutes into it they are both totally caught up in it. It's my belief that if you don't watch B/W movies you're missing half or more of the best movies ever made. These people didn't have digital effects to save them. They used good writing and acting. They didn't use that much color back then so they had to know their stuff like the use of light and shadow to set a mood.
Absolutely. They couldn't rely on CGI or cheap gore to catch the audience, so they used stuff like you know... quality dialogue and actors to deliver it, meaningful and interesting plot, stuff like that.
I especially appreciate that the line carries real impact due to what we see in the movie previously. Both of those guys, for different reasons, are living very cynical lives. They are doing their best to suppress who they really are and you can see them struggle with it. Then, at the end, both make choices to regain their self respect and leave the cynicism behind. That last line is earned.
I agree, and I have seen it so many times. I have to say though, that the best viewing of it I had is when they brought it back to the big screen in 1992 its the 50 year anniversary. I saw things in it that are not really noticeable on the small screen, eg. when Rick and Inspector Renault make the bet.
@@coleparker I've seen it n the big screen too, and I agree, but what, specifically, did you see in that scene that is not apparent on TV? Of course, nowadays, TV screens are nearly as big as movie screens anyway.
BTW Rick doesn’t just let Ilsa go to keep her safe, but because Laszlo needs her and what Laszlo is doing is more important than Rick’s happiness. He’s sacrificing his happiness for a bigger cause (defeating the Nazis).
You grasped the point. Don't forget when the movie was released the Nazis were on top of things and has the Allies on the run. The singing of the Marseilles in the bar by all the patrons in that context make it one of the single most moving scenes in film. Those actors were all refugees from the carnage of WW2. Best studio movie ever
@@007ndc It's an incredible story, and you can only imagine how those people felt. They knew what the Nazis were, and what they were capable of (the Nazis annihilated entire villages in occupied France in counter-insurgency operations). They knew what their friends and family who couldn't get out were facing. They didn't know if they'd ever be able to go home again, or if there'd even be a home to return to. The rage, the pain, the fear; it's all up on the screen. The story goes that Humphrey Bogart was awakened from a drunken stupor one night and brought to set for a quick shot in which he nods to his band leader, Bogart having no idea of the context at the time. That scene ultimately ended up being the crux of the whole film, because that's the moment Rick begins to crack his cocoon of self-protective cynicism and return to the fight.
@@007ndc "Those actors were all refugees from the carnage of WW2." Indeed. Perhaps those actors weren't acting in the usual sense, but instead were playing themselves from actual experience. The realism behind those individuals makes this movie especially moving and meaningful.
Three of the most iconic lines in cinema history: "Here's looking at you kid", "We'll always have Paris" and " I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship".
"The problems of three little people in this crazy world don't amount to a hill of beans" and "I'm shocked, SHOCKED..." I mean of the AFI's top 100 movie quotes of all time, seven (edit: actually 6) are from this movie, which is more than double what any other film had.
The fact that Casablanca is *eighty years old* and still pulls us in fully, all the characters rich and relatable, and the style and craft so artful, is why I consider it, objectively, the best film ever made in the 130 years or so since cinema was invented. The anthem scene always gets me - and that one young woman that Rick rejects, who goes to dating a Nazi, is representative of many French women who "fraternized with the enemy" during the occupation who then after liberation had their heads shaven to shame them; it's why the one soldier berates her and gets in a slap fight with the Nazi she's with; so then during the Anthem scene, when Victor stirs everyone up in singing the (free) French Anthem, we see her weeping and singing along and shouting "vive la France!" - representing her redemption as she returns to standing up for her own country. Every character, from her, to the Romanian girl debating whether to have sex with Captain Renault in exchange for exist visas for her and her husband, to even those only on screen for a few moments, is a dimensional, relatable human being. Modern scripts are shamefully lazy and artless by comparison.
A lot of those actors had fled Europe because of German occupation of their countries. This was made during the war. The emotions and tears during the French anthem scene are real.
Mark C. check out the origins of the actors in the scene where they are singing the Free French anthem. Almost everyone of them had come from France or it's colonies...during the war.
Wow, it’s amazing that Bogart is just an obscure name to the younger viewers. Growing up in the 60s and 70s these classic stars of the 30s and 40s were our parents contemporaries. But without cable tv and the internet , and only three network stations and maybe a couple of UHF stations, these classic films were the steady diet on broadcast tv. Also, the talk shows and variety shows were all about classic film actors. I spent many an hour watching guys like Orson Welles storytelling about the old Hollywood on talk shows. It was a real education. I never had to be introduced to classic movies it was in the blood.
Totally. I grew up in the 80/90s. part of my cultural foundation goes back to the 30s if not longer in some cases. It really amazes me that people under 35 don'[t have some of those connections. I really think there was a change some were around 2000, to 2015 that caused a general disconnect.
@@dirus3142 They used to run black-and-white movies on TV all the time in the 80s, so I saw lots of them growing up. It's so weird just how younger people now seem to think films didn't start getting good until ten years ago or something.
I was born in 91 and I'm very familiar with them. Most people my age just have the same attitude they did at the beginning about old films and black and white. So frustrating
@@irish66 I saw an old comic pic that showed God in full wrath mode, raining down thunder & lightning etc. Two angels were off to the side talking... One said to the other, "He's been like that ever since they colorized 'It's A Wonderful Life'".
@@Cosmo-Kramer Shipping from relationship. Some fans have been so intense about making their own characters have relationships that they have gone after actors/actresses. Examples would be Kylo/Rey shippers about the latest Star Wars movie.
Two things of note: 1. The French in the cafe singing their national anthem were refugees from the war, as were the German actors. 2. When Rick says “I’ll bet they are sleeping all over America” the date is December 6, 1941.
@@joelwillems4081 I got to see it in a theater back in 2012 for the 70th anniversary. One of my happiest moviegoing experiences ever, even if the crappy car I was driving back then stalled on me on the highway TWICE on the looooooooooooong drive home...
Third thing of note...Berger, the man with the ring...he displays the Cross of Lorraine, kept in secret beneath the stone...the Resistance used it to help identify friends.
When Lazlo leads the bar in singing against the Germans, the scene is all the more powerful when you find out in real life that most of the extras in that scene, including the staff of Rick's place, were refugees from Nazi occupied Europe. Conrad Veidt, who played Major Strasser had a Jewish wife and they had to escape from Germany as well.
@@Cbcw76 One of those actors, like Bela Lugosi, who is oft-imitated even by people who've never heard of him... But when I finally saw M I began to view his ability with the proper respect.
One of the things that gives this movies some of the lighting in that bottle is that even the bit parts are wonderfully played. Part of that is because many of the bit part actors were accomplished performers who had fled Nazi occupation in Europe.
When you mentioned Han Solo it made me think of this movie, always felt Harrison Ford was channeling Rick/Bogart for his Han Solo character in Star Wars. Han is often referred to as a "rogue with a heart" just like Rick.
I'm 100% with you here. There's a weird sort of crossover between Bogart and Ford... The African Queen as well as Casablanca... and it's Ford who puts on the trench coat and walks the mean streets in Bladerunner, echoing Bogart's Marlowe (especially with the hated narration on the original version of the film).
Also, movie music trivia - that 20th Century Fox drumbeat that was such a memorable intro to the Star Wars movies (it's even on the soundtrack albums)? That was actually written by Alfred Newman as part of the score for Casablanca - obviously it proved popular and was used over and over and over, but Casablanca was its premiere.
I remember when Siskel and Ebert did a special episode in which they compared and contrasted Bogart's career with that of Jack Nicholson, after having discovered that Nicholson was both their favorite living actor, and Bogart was the favorite all-time actor of both.
"Of all the Gin Joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into mine." "Here's looking at you, Kid." "Round up the Usual Suspects." "Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." "We'll always have Paris." This film is immensely quotabable!
This movie is famous for having lots of lines that become catch-phrases. "Here's looking at you, kid.", "Play it, Sam.", "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she steps into mine.", "We'll always have Paris.", "Round up the usual suspects.", "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Etc. Etc.
The actress playing Yvonne actually escaped France and her tears were very real. All time classic! Our symphony played the soundtrack while the movie played on a big screen.Thank you so much.❤❤❤❤ for this reaction
and the actor playing the Nazi major had been a famous actor in Germany. He escaped when Hitler came to power, likely would have been murdered if he stayed. He got to play an evil Nazi in this movie,
Ladies, if you love a movie, clap at the end! Don't let anyone tell you it's not cool. It's part of the joy of sharing a really good movie with others in a theater.
This gave me renewed faith in today's younger society of audiences. Thanks for putting a smile on my face and watching such a great film. It's among my favorites, if not my favorite. (It's probably my favorite. Lol)
The man selling a ring opens it to reveal a "Cross of Loraine" - the symbol of the Free French fighting for France under De Gaul. Now you'll have to watch "To Have and Have Not."
IMO Casablanca is the best movie ever made. I love this channel but getting to watch some incredible classics on it has brought my love to a new level. Keep up the good work.
This film still has the highest number of famous quotable lines of any movie and it's 80 years old. I counted somewhere around ten but I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I love this movie!
Introduced this movie to a younger friend who had never seen it. At a certain point during the movie, he asked if there were any lines in the movie that WEREN'T famous. Gotta feeling this one gets a great reaction!
Your young friend had the same reaction I did when I saw this for the first time at age 12 or 13. Couldn't believe all the famous lines that came from one movie!
@@adamplace1414 Best dialog in the history of film IMHO. You have all the quoted material but then you have snappy lines brimming with wit which are not as well known. This movie is a complete treasure.
I'm very impressed that you guys would watch a classic movie that was made nearly 80 years ago and show it so much respect, with such genuine reactions.
Their reactions are the result of decent writing and incredible acting. Casablanca is a classic for a reason. Too many of the younger folk have never heard of the classics, and B&W films are virtually foreign. Before massive explosions and fast-paced action you had story, wit, and acting. Have movies advanced in style and quality? Yes. Have the basics of what makes an engrossing and enjoyable film changed? No.
@@chrismaverick9828 I disagree that movies have advanced in style and quality. This movie is the very epitome of cinematic style and quality. Special effects have advanced, but special effects can never make a poor story into a good movie.
This is saying a lot but but I think the best scene in Casablanca or at least my favorite is when Victor has them play La Marseillaise, Rick allows it, and everyone sings over and drowns out the Nazis singing. The war had recently just started for the U.S. when Casablanca was filmed but it had been going on all around Europe and other parts of the world for much longer. During the La Marseillaise scene, many of the extras had real tears in their eyes as a large number were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out. Even before I knew all that, it makes me cry every time.
I was lucky enough to see Casablanca in a theater a few years ago and when that scene where they play La Marseillaise played the whole theatre cheered. It was pretty special.
That is one of my all time favorite scenes from any movie...the Marseillaise - such emotion and pride of country. It was symbolic in every way. Major Strasser was right to be afraid. But I love how the band looks to Rick for the okay, and he gives it. This movie is filled with this type of symbolism, more patriotic than political. In a movie filled with plot twists, this twist was unmistakable and so fitting of Rick's character. It is in these moments that we come to know Rick.
I first watched this film 50-years ago when I was still a bartender. When the movie came on TV at 4am, I decided to watch it anyway, especially after hearing about Humphrey Bogart for so long. In a few minutes, I was hooked, and suddenly realized why everyone liked Bogie for much. He was the ultimate, "tough guy with a heart of gold," and nobody did it better. Btw, in the scene where the Nazis were singing their German national anthem and the crowd began singing the French national anthem, all of those extras with tears in their eyes were actually crying. Many of them were Eastern Europeans who just came to America after fleeing Nazi domination, and those tears were 100% REAL.
And since they loved Ingrid Bergman's outfits so much; Grace Kelly's outfits in Rear Window are incredible. I first saw this movie in a big old theater, and that first shot of Grace Kelly literally made me gasp. She was that beautiful.
@@rbash : Yes, indeed! Cassie really needs to watch Rear Window, IMHO. I wonder what Cassie will think when she learns that Grace Kelly later became Princess Grace of Monaco? 🙂
I was intrigued when I discovered that you had stumbled across what in my opinion is the greatest American movie ever made, but you did not know anything about it except that it was filmed in black and white and was from the 1940’s. Casablanca won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1944. The movie has so many iconic scenes and lines. I heard that it was filmed in just one week with the final scene at the Burbank Airport. Somehow, all the stars seemed to have aligned and the final result is an absolute cinematic masterpiece. The incredible setting of World War II and the struggle to see which side would win with the stakes so high creates intense drama. Would we have freedom with the Allies or would we have oppression under the Nazis and the Axis powers? Add into the mix the amazing love triangle that was created because of the war. What guy would not want to have a woman gaze at him the way Elsa looks at Rick? What woman would not want someone like Rick or Victor Laszlo staring into their eyes with absolute love? Everything from the deeply emotional singing of the French national anthem La Marseillaise by the people at Rick’s Cafe Americain during the period when Germany occupied France and the Vichy puppet government was in place adds to the depth of the film. The movie has so many other iconic scenes and lines as well. The more you know about the background of the movie, the more amazing it becomes to you. Have you ever had someone love you so much that they would sacrifice everything for your well being? That is the kind of love that Casablanca depicts. The more times you watch Casablanca, the better it gets.
Best American film ever? Yeah, arguably, at least. My list changes some with my moods, but Casablanca is always in the top 3 or 4. As for non-American movies, I might recommend Life Is Beautiful. Also set in WWII, which may be why I think of it at this time. A really good movie, though.
"Greater love hath no man than this..." Thankfully, Rick didn't have to give up his life for his friends, but he still threw an awful lot to the winds in letting Ilsa go. He is every inch an American hero who speaks to all could-be heroes everywhere. 😏 🤧 😭
"I heard that it was filmed in just one week" They could crank 'em out fast, but not _that_ fast. "Principal photography began on May 25, 1942, ending on August 3;" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)
This film had production problems from the start! They actually were writing the script every day and filming! There were alot of rewrites and they had no ending! What saved it was the way Michael Curtiz had the film edited which was seamless according to Steven Spielberg who was a big fan of this movie!
The scene that always kills me is when they sing La Marseillaise in the cafe. They filmed the movie in 41 I believe before the Americans enter the war and the cast is filled with actors who had fled Europe because of the war especially several French actors. So the real emotion of these people singing the French national anthem makes me cry every time. And I personally would always choose Victor over Rick.
With all the scenes with my all time favorite actress posing so astonishingly beautiful in them I have always found myself as you described about the scene were they sing La Marseilles... It still makes my eyes well up and a feeling overcomes my entire body... This movie is an absolute Masterpiece
They started filming in May of ‘42. About 75 of the extras were actual refugees who’d come to Hollywood, USA because they had been in the film business mostly in Germany. “Here’s looking at you, kid” was dialogue not found in the script; story goes Bogart improvised it because in the little time between shots, he’d been teaching Bergman poker and thus, “Here’s looking at you.” Then “kid.”
@@dr.a.995 I've seen other posts describing how much of the final film was not in the script, though changes and ad-libbing during production is not all that uncommon....and often improves whatever the script had.
"Does she think Victor is dead?" "Does she already know she's not going to the train?" You are surprised by every plot twist in scifi and action movies, but you two nailed the plot twists in this one.
The great fiction writer Elizabeth Bear once told me that Casablanca is a perfect example of a character in conflict with himself: Rick initially thinks that he wants to be left alone, and then he thinks that he wants Ilsa. But what Rick really wants, and what he doesn’t discover until the last scene, is that he wants to be part of something bigger than himself. Victor already knows this about Rick, but Rick doesn’t.
Not bad for a movie where no one (not even the cast) knew what the ending was going to be until two days before it was filmed. The writers didn't even know--they had to come up with an ending in 48 hours.
Wonderful idealistic film. I love it when the crowd stands up to the Nazis in a sing off. I understand that the crowd was made up of actual French refugee. I love how Rick's cynicism is only a cover for a idealism wounded by lost love and how that idealism is recovered when he meets Elsa and Victor and is given the opportunity to do the right things. But even at his cynical worst Rick was never as bad as he seemed such as when he let the young refugee man win at roulette to save the man's young wife from have to have sex with the Captain in exchange for a pass. He wanted to save her from having to betray her husband out of love for him. I love how this story is about how true love is about sacrifice, about the higher good.
You don't think the girl knew he could let him win at roulette? Why would she be asking him about infidelity? She was asking for his help while letting Rick make it his idea.
@@markman613 "Children of the Motherland, the day of glory is upon us: Against us stands tyranny, raise up the red banner..." A literal call to arms and a song so bellicose that it has been forbidden by law several times... *in France!*
@@MrX-hz2hn Some national anthems: Germany: sings about how great Germany is Britain: sings a prayer for God to guide the Queen America: sings about never giving up France: LET'S WATER OUR FIELDS WITH THEIR BLOOD!!! 😁😎
We’ll always have Paris. Here’s looking at you. The famous quotes just keep coming! My favorite was Yvonne with the German and Rick says “in her own way she might constitute an entire second front”.
"We'll always have Paris" a line that tells us so much about their love story, but also about great memories to sooth a broken heart. Besst Fucking Movie Ever, IMHO.
That was so funny when both of you just sat there with your mouths dropped open. I am also always amazed at the way classic movies with classic lines are so distant from younger folks experience. The lines from this film were etched in my generation.. And I'm not that old. It's like everything from 1980 backwards was erased or something and I find myself asking," How can you not know about that?"
I've often thought about this and I believe that Gen-X is the last generation to really know about all the classic old stars. We (especially those of us oldest Gen-Xers) grew up with 3 networks and most of us grew up with independent stations that had a massive selection of old movies. Cable wasn't widespread until we were teenagers or young adults and so we didn't have that many choices. I remember our local independent station would play Shirley Temple movies, Abbot and Costello movies, Bowery Boys movies, and the old Universal monster movies along with all the cheesy science-fiction and horror films of the 40s and 50s. All over TV we were given healthy doses of 1960s reruns and all the talk shows of the day (Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas, et al) had classic stars talking about their careers. We couldn't help but know who a lot of those stars were. Those who grew up in the 1980s and each decade later have gained more and more choices but also lost all that knowledge of the classics that we grew up with. It's great to see younger people discovering the classics just like we did.
@@ryansoprovich2258 That is amazing. Marilyn died before I was born but decades later she was still iconic. I imagine if you showed him a picture of her he would at least recognize the image even if he didn't know the name. Her image is still to this day being used in many commercial uses, not to mention all the parodies. She is probably still the all-time number one Hollywood sex symbol.
@@bradparnell614 I am Generation Z and I know the old stars and movies, Capra and Chaplin are among my favourite directors of all time and I also watch foreign stuff like Bergman, Clouzot etc, I have a friend the same age who is into old Westerns, he loves Winchester '73 so they do live on among some of us just diminished.
@@Mr.Goodkat That's good to know. I can't help but think most in my generation wouldn't really care much for the old classics except that we had such little choice. The fact that you have more choices than ever and like a lot of the old stuff says a lot about how good that it really was. UA-cam is of course full of reaction videos from people checking out all kinds of older music, movies, and TV shows. I do like a lot of modern entertainment but in a lot of ways they just don't make 'em like they used to.
His character is in no way a villain, or portrayed as one. He is a politician. He tries to please both sides, which sometimes means that he must do things he doesn't believe in or care for. But they are necessary. Is he a sleaze? sure. Is he a villain? no. Hell, he's not even an antagonist in this film. He's the part of Rick that Rick can't fully be, just like Rick is the part of Louis that Louis can't fully be. Until they get together. It's a beautiful friendship.
There is nothing, nothing like a Bogart movie. He was the absolute best. Meanwhile the only thing more beautiful than Ilsa”s outfits was Ingrid Bergman.
Every time I watch one of these reactions to Casablanca, I'm always surprised when, when Ilsa enters the cafe for the first time, the reactors don't immediately blurt, "Oh my god, she's beautiful!" I've seen this movie countless times, and I *still* want to say it.
Everyone who was involved in the making of this movie (actor, actress, writer, director, producers etc.) have all passed away since. Madeleine Lebeau who played Yvonne was the last surviving cast member. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.
This is my favorite film of all time. Two good men, a good woman, and everyone just trying to figure out the right thing to do in the worst possible situation. On top of all that, the acting was superb -- utterly unbeatable. Ilsa paints Rick's face with her eyes. It's just the best.
@Nature and Physics That's not how that happened. As a very young woman, she married a charismatic leader she admired, and she thought that was love. Then, when Ilsa thought Victor was dead, she met Rick, and she learned that true love includes a passion she never felt for her husband, as admirable a man as he genuinely was. That's why Ilsa felt emotionally wracked throughout the story. Your interpretation is shared by *very* few.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver It's pretty clear that Ilsa prefers Rick as a romantic partner, since Victor, for all his heroism, is something of a stuffed shirt. But she knows that Victor needs her, so it's a matter of sacrificing her personal happiness for a greater cause (anti-fascism). Rick also sacrifices his love for Ilsa to the greater cause. This was 1942, after all, and the story still grabs us today.
This is by far my favourite film of all time. I also think it is one of the greatest ever made. I'm a 75 year old man but I can't watch it without crying.
Same here. 65 and saw it the first time when I was in college at the 25cent movie night and was BLOWN AWAY. Ingrid Bergman has been a crush of mine for almost 50 years.
As a 21 year old I couldn’t agree with you guys more. I think this goes to show that greatest of this film it effects people no matter the age, background, etc…
@@Rasinlaser Americans unfamiliar with the politics of the time miss so much more intensity the film has. Like the French national anthem scene. Most people don't know that the song the Germans were singing: "Watch on the Rhine" was a real dig at the French. The Rhine was an area of dispute between France and Germany for centuries. As recently as the Franco/Prussian war tens of thousands of both countrymen died over that and other territory. Several towns in eastern France have German names as it was once land part of Germany. The most recent political upheaval related to this film was the 1938 reclamation of the Rhinelands Hitler reclaimed from France which France took after winning WWI, no doubt revenge for the loss of the 1873 Franco/Prussian war. The French National Anthem is you read the lyrics is a call to arms. The chorus talks literally about forming ranks, attacking the enemy and spilling their blood into the dirt! Few people know all this today. Many national born Americans didn't either, but mostly all the new European immigrants did. So this was spicy. SUPER spicy and timely to world events at the time. Even the name of the movie was changed to match current events. The original play was titled "Everyone Comes to Rick's" and that was the title of this movie just before its release. But the 3 big allied powers: Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met in Malta, and they wanted a more N. African sounding name as the Malta summit was all over the news at the time, and they thought they could steal some added publicity if they gave the movie a name with a similar title.
Yaaaaaah! This was the first movie that made me think films could be art and not just entertainment it was also this film that invented a type of leading man which is now become a kind of archetype it was also the movie that made Humphrey Bogart into an A-list actor instead of just being stereotyped as gangsters and according to Roger Ebert is on more best films lists than any other movie
I think Bogart made the transition to leading man and love interest a year before Casablanca when he starred in The Maltese Falcon (1941). That film is also a well-loved classic and features two of the great character actors (Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre) who were in Casablanca. The Maltese Falcon is also notable for being one of the earliest and clearest examples of Film Noir.
Casablanca, one of the best movies ever made with a heck of a history regarding its production. For what it's worth, the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Best Actors/Actresses of the Twentieth Century rates Humphrey DeForest Bogart as #1. Just a few suggestions: "The Maltese Falcon" with Bogart , Sidney Greenstreet (the Fat Man in Casablanca) and Peter Lore (the guy who killed the courier and got the letters of transit). "The African Queen" with Bogart and Katherine Hepburn; Bogart won the Best Actor Oscar. and "For Whom The Bells Tolls" with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Great movies.
Not to mention, the ORIGINAL, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", with Peter Lorre and Leslie Banks (1935). Watch the original, THEN watch the remake with James (Jimmy) Stewart (1956). Yes, it's the same story, but remade by the original director (Alfred Hitchcock) who commented on his original production as being the work of a "talented amateur". Both are worth watching, but watch them in that order to truly enjoy the greatest experience.
Your reactions were wonderful. Gosh it's a great movie, isn't it? It appears on the surface to be a simple love triangle movie, but actually there is much, much more going on beneath the surface. Easily one of the greatest films ever made.
How under the surface is it? The opening shows you the route the people fleeing the war in Europe had to take and what their final destination was--the U.S. (Apparently, most World War 2 refugees didn't flee to Casablanca though, but I suppose that's a country where you can place a lot of Frenchmen and Spain and Portugal are not. You want America to join whole-heartedly in the war effort so you have to have them allying themselves with the Free French so Maroc it is.
I can't imagine not knowing who Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are. Everyone has to learn about legendary actors at some point, of course -- no one is born knowing. But the thought that young adults these days don't know about Bogart and Bergman, or _Casablanca_, or the scope of WW2 and what Vichy was, is depressing for an older person like me.
Yes, but because of this relatively new phenomenon of UA-cam reactions, people like Cassie are fixing that. I have hope that younger generations are watching these videos, as well as us nostalgic (near) geezers!
@@Cosmo-Kramer 57. I wonder where you grew up. Everyone I knew could have told you who Bogart was, no question; and most of the folks I knew had paid attention in high school and so knew a bit about WW2
Casablanca is one of the few _almost_ perfect films. Every line of dialogue; the character depth; the performances; seamless blend of tension, politics, drama, comedy and romance; great musical score; and all of this being comfortably knit into a runtime of 1hr 40min, just makes the film so remarkable.
My late wife was a huge cinephile, and we watched this film on our 3rd date, at my suggestion. For black and white films, I also recommend, "The Third Man". Thanks for reviewing this. It made my day.
Yes! If you think about it, The Third Man is sort of the perfect bookend to Casablanca in terms of WWII-era romance movies. One being set early in the war, and the other after it ended, with the romance plotlines being only part of the story.
Most people say that Casablanca is the greatest romance film ever made, but my choice has always been Roman Holiday. The ending is one of the most brilliant pieces of filmmaking ever recorded.
@@dorailroad4285 Agree. Gregory Peck standing with the assembled press while she looks at him, with both realizing they can't go forward makes me bawl like a four year old who didn't have a nap.
You definitely need to watch "Rear Window" which is the movie that "Disturbia" was a remake of. "Rear Window" is an absolute classic with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, two iconic movie stars from the 50's. It is another amazing classic movie that is filled with suspense, romance and great humor. It is an absolute must watch. Suspenseful but not so scary that you will regret watching it.
It is, though "Does Rick like life?" might be slightly more to the point, as the answer at the beginning of the movie would be a resounding "No". He was a dead man waiting for someone to put him out of his misery.
@@SueProv Yes! He was terrifying in that movie. I think sometimes we can get so distracted by Bogie’s “coolness,” that we forget what a top notch actor he really was.
Bogie was such a great actor. Ingrid Bergman also. She was nominated for 7 Oscars in her career and won 3 of them. (No noms for this one for her though). Two of the ones that she didn't win, I think were 2 of her best performancees. If you get a chance watch her in Joan of Arc and also in Bells of St. Mary's. There also was another fine actress named Isabella Rossalini who was Ingrid's daughter. Don't be scared of B & W movies. So many great stories and performances. You two are so much fun together. Oh by the way, the guy who played the police chief is the guy who played Prince John in the 1938 Robin Hood Claude Raines.
Greatest film ever made, and with the most exquisitely perfect screenplay. Also it's been referenced so many times in culture since that it's an essential watch.
Many have argued that Casablanca was the greatest film ever made. It came from the golden era of Hollywood, full of glamour, romance, and intrigue. Ingrid Bergman was one of the most beautiful and glamorous stars ever to grace the silver screen.
This also indicates to me, that the US is in total decline. Especially the men. From fit, confident, articulate, courageous in the 1940's.. to obese, unsecure, dumbed-downed and meek in the 2020's. My oh my, what change a century makes..
"My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don’t interfere with them and they don’t interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am…" 😆
You’re right, you two sisters with your sibling chemistry reacting to a film is epic! Your individual movie reactions are great too but as an audience member this felt like one was more included in the experience. Great reaction! Thanks.
They do so good with Louis' character, he's a little crooked and womanizing but also sentimental, charming and funny, so you really don't know until the very end if he's going to do the right thing or not, "Round up the usual suspects"
According to the writers of the movie, they divulged in an interview that while they were filming the movie, they were confused and stressed beyond reason as to how to finish it. Then, on the morning of the final shoot, as they were driving to the studio they both looked to each other and said, "Round up the usual suspects!", and that's how they knew to finish the picture.
He's a great character, and very emblematic of the Vichy France officials of the time. They hated the Nazis, but also knew that if they resisted too openly the Nazis would occupy all of France and subject her to their tender mercies. This was also before Hitler made the twin monumental mistakes of declaring war on America in solidarity with Japan and invading the sleeping giant of the USSR, who ultimately choked the Nazi war machine with the blood and bone of more than 25 million Soviets. Britain was the last domino standing in Europe, and she'd been chased back to her islands with her tail between her legs and all her war materiel stranded on the beaches at Dunkirk, and was enduring the at-the-time unprecedented brutality of the Blitz. It seemed inevitable that the Third Reich would indeed last a thousand years, with all the horrific cruelty that implied. And now fascism on the march around the globe again. Here's hoping the courage of Rick, Ilsa, and Laszlo isn't a thing of the past; it seems we'll need it sooner rather than later.
Loved this reaction. Now you know why this movie is widely considered one of, if not the best of all time. And a master class in writing a script. I've watched this movie at least 60 times and it never gets old. A true timeless classic.
Maltese Falcon should be on your list sometime. Along with Bogie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre play much bigger characters. Bogart set the bar for the hard boiled private detective and of course there is an intriguing romance.
Both versions of the Maltese falcon. The original was precode and had Ricardo Cortez and is even with the newly invented unmovable sound cameras is very good. The 1940 is one of the best ever.
Bogart plays two characters from classic noir literature, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlow. I was surprised at how mercenary, and harsh Spade was. Marlow is more the hard boiled PI with a heart of gold.
@@dirus3142 hammet was far more cynical than was Raymond chandler. Hammett and chandler formed a mutual admiration society but they did disagree on the philosophy. Bogart played both characters and perfectly captured the differing points of view of the two writers.
"I'm shocked! Shocked; to find that gambling is going on here!" "Your winnings, sir." "Oh. thank you, very much!" Gets me every time. Claude Rains was nominated for an Oscar for this role. I recommend him (& Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman) in the Hitchcock spy thriller 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 (1946)
The first crazy fact is that the movie was shot while the war was going on, albeit on a Hollywood studio set. And the second is that it was completed in two and a half months. That seems way too short to produce a masterpiece like this. BTW- My favorite Rick line: "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." Classic!
I love the question, "Have you ever seen a black and white movie before?" In my college days I had friends who refused to watch silent films. But some of the most beautiful films are black and white, and digital remastering often works better on these films rather than color films. Apart from all this, Casablanca still holds up as a great movie, fun, exciting and romantic. Bit of trivia. The actors in Casablanca and later Star Wars didn't think that much of their projects. No idea that they were making movies that would resonate with movie goers.
When you’re watching an old school black and white movie you know it’s going to be something great because they were. That being said Casablanca is amazing but I prefer Key Largo and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre but they are all awesome.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish gem. I'd highly recommend watching Hitchcock's 'Notorious'. Bogie could act like he was ten feet tall. His other must see movies are The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen and The Caine Mutiny.
I watched the UA-cam video of Roger Ebert's commentary on "Casablanca" and learned that Bergman was 5' 9" tall and Bogart was 5' 7". Clearly there was quite a bit of legerdemain at work in the movie to keep the audience from noticing the difference.
Indeed. It was so "of the times" that the release was bumped-up to take advantage of the publicity around the Allied invasion of North Africa, which was the first step on a long road to cracking Hitler's formidable Fortress Europe.
It really is "a period piece". Filmed in the spring of 1942, released in November, 1942, it is made just after Pearl Harbour, but is talking about a time prior to that where the U.S. was, in fact, neutral, although the President and other Democrats wanted the U.S. in the war. It's probably an effort to make ambivalent Americans see why their ambivalence is wrong and that the war mongers are right!
In 1942 nobody knew who would win the war, and objectively, it wasn't looking good for the Allies. This makes the various layers and messages of this film all the more compelling. Imagine an audience watching it in 1942 having only read newspapers or watched newsreels about the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Europe. We watch it from the safe perspective of knowing the outcome, but as you said, it was current events for them, and no doubt a deeply moving experience.
A fantastic movie. As a young person who loves 'old' movies, trust me, you'll have so much joy watching a lot of those classics. IMO, They are mostly better than what we have nowadays.
This somehow just hit my recommendations and decided to watch. I’m 70-years old and over the years I have introduced a number of younger generations to this masterpiece. I’ve probably seen it 30 times and to this day still notice subtleties for the first time! I really enjoyed your reactions. I recommend you watch it a second time… I promise you’ll love it even more. Cheers! 👍👍👍
Loved watching two 21st century movie-loving sisters totally absorbed in this classic 80-year-old film. A well-written and directed movie is timeless - and speaks across the decades straight into our hearts. Keep watching the classic old films - don't deny yourselves these treasures.
I really think Louie is the best drawn character in this movie. His performance not only provides comic relief in a very tense film but his dramatic turn at the end was every bit as surprising as Rick's.
Louie knew how to play the game, kowtowing to the Vichy and Nazis without being a total prick. Right up to the point where he thought , screw it I'm gone.
Timeline: the Nazi’s invade France in may 1940. Rick asks Sam, “If it’s December 1941, what time is it in New York?” So it’s been at least a year and a half since Rick and Ilsa saw each other.
@@thomasknash oh absolutely. Also note the film was based on a play. Debuting in late 1942. So not only was a play and film about the war released in such a short time, but the war was still in full swing. Especially in 43.
@@thomasknash December '41 was a real turning point. It saw both America's entry into the war, as well as Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union stalling out at the gates of Moscow.
Two notes for you: 1. They were still writing the script while filming and had not definitively settled on how to end it and who Ilsa would end up with...so one day they would tell Ingrid Bergman "It's Rick." The next day they would reverse themselves and say "It's Victor", which meant she had to play the way she did because she honestly didn't know who she would end up with. 2. During the flashback to Paris and their confessions the song in the background is "Perfidia " signalling that one of them is lying. Thanks for the reactions, both as a solo and a duo.
This is my favorite film of all time and I have watched it 30 or 40 times. I have the Blu-ray box set and I will never get tired of it, but I must say that I was recharged with a uniquely fresh energy watching your reaction to it. Seeing you so engrossed in my favorite movie and reacting to all of the poignant moments filled my eyes with tears.
Truly one of the greatest movies ever made. No extreme violence, no bad language, no sex scenes, just brilliant writing all around. Claude Rains is awesome as Capt. Renault, delivering his lines flawlessly. If you want to see him in a scary-but-not-too-scary movie, watch The Wolf Man (1941). He plays the father, and he's awesome in that, too. He's also great in Phantom of the Opera (1943).
Some of your comments were hilarious. The "well, he's officially gross now," line describing Captain Renault had me dying. Since Casablanca is my all-time favorite movie I had to watch this when this was suggested by the UA-cam algorithms. Bravo ladies, bravo.
Karl in the movie was played by a character actor named S. K. Sakall and in real life he was just as lovable as Karl appears in the movie. Other actors loved him so much they nicknamed him "Cuddles," and it fit.
Before it started "It's black and white, I'll try to have an open mind". Five minutes into it they are both totally caught up in it. It's my belief that if you don't watch B/W movies you're missing half or more of the best movies ever made. These people didn't have digital effects to save them. They used good writing and acting. They didn't use that much color back then so they had to know their stuff like the use of light and shadow to set a mood.
These two should watch Roman Holiday.
Absolutely. They couldn't rely on CGI or cheap gore to catch the audience, so they used stuff like you know... quality dialogue and actors to deliver it, meaningful and interesting plot, stuff like that.
@@michaelstach5744 excellent suggestion. Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn, a real swoon fest.....
Excellent comment!
@@michaelstach5744 OH LORDY YES. And I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING with Wendy Hiller. Oh lordy yes...
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
One of the greatest line's in cinema history.
Indeed, there has never been a more fitting, perfect, closing line than that one!
I especially appreciate that the line carries real impact due to what we see in the movie previously. Both of those guys, for different reasons, are living very cynical lives. They are doing their best to suppress who they really are and you can see them struggle with it. Then, at the end, both make choices to regain their self respect and leave the cynicism behind. That last line is earned.
So many wonderful one-liners in Casablanca.
Louie was played by Claude Raines … the invisible man
@@wabals And the Wolfman's Dad.
80 years old and this movie still has the emotional impact of a sledge hammer
And it's also complex.
The battle of anthems gets me every time.
I agree, and I have seen it so many times. I have to say though, that the best viewing of it I had is when they brought it back to the big screen in 1992 its the 50 year anniversary. I saw things in it that are not really noticeable on the small screen, eg. when Rick and Inspector Renault make the bet.
@@Argumemnon The Germans were singing Watch on the Rhein, not Deutschland Uber Alles.
@@coleparker I've seen it n the big screen too, and I agree, but what, specifically, did you see in that scene that is not apparent on TV? Of course, nowadays, TV screens are nearly as big as movie screens anyway.
BTW Rick doesn’t just let Ilsa go to keep her safe, but because Laszlo needs her and what Laszlo is doing is more important than Rick’s happiness. He’s sacrificing his happiness for a bigger cause (defeating the Nazis).
You grasped the point. Don't forget when the movie was released the Nazis were on top of things and has the Allies on the run. The singing of the Marseilles in the bar by all the patrons in that context make it one of the single most moving scenes in film. Those actors were all refugees from the carnage of WW2. Best studio movie ever
@@007ndc It's an incredible story, and you can only imagine how those people felt. They knew what the Nazis were, and what they were capable of (the Nazis annihilated entire villages in occupied France in counter-insurgency operations). They knew what their friends and family who couldn't get out were facing. They didn't know if they'd ever be able to go home again, or if there'd even be a home to return to. The rage, the pain, the fear; it's all up on the screen.
The story goes that Humphrey Bogart was awakened from a drunken stupor one night and brought to set for a quick shot in which he nods to his band leader, Bogart having no idea of the context at the time. That scene ultimately ended up being the crux of the whole film, because that's the moment Rick begins to crack his cocoon of self-protective cynicism and return to the fight.
@@michaelccozens The other is his conversation with Joy Page (the Bulgarian Couple) "Nobody ever loved me that much."
Also because of the Hays Code which DEMANDED that wives Must ALWAYS end up with their husbands!
@@007ndc "Those actors were all refugees from the carnage of WW2." Indeed. Perhaps those actors weren't acting in the usual sense, but instead were playing themselves from actual experience. The realism behind those individuals makes this movie especially moving and meaningful.
Three of the most iconic lines in cinema history: "Here's looking at you kid", "We'll always have Paris" and " I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship".
Round up the usual suspects
Of all the Gin joints.....
You played it for her, play it for me (not Play it again Sam)
etc.
And the most iconic movie line that wasn’t in a movie,”play it again, Sam.”
have the movie counts as a famous quote
"The problems of three little people in this crazy world don't amount to a hill of beans" and "I'm shocked, SHOCKED..." I mean of the AFI's top 100 movie quotes of all time, seven (edit: actually 6) are from this movie, which is more than double what any other film had.
And also a penny for your thoughts as well
The fact that Casablanca is *eighty years old* and still pulls us in fully, all the characters rich and relatable, and the style and craft so artful, is why I consider it, objectively, the best film ever made in the 130 years or so since cinema was invented. The anthem scene always gets me - and that one young woman that Rick rejects, who goes to dating a Nazi, is representative of many French women who "fraternized with the enemy" during the occupation who then after liberation had their heads shaven to shame them; it's why the one soldier berates her and gets in a slap fight with the Nazi she's with; so then during the Anthem scene, when Victor stirs everyone up in singing the (free) French Anthem, we see her weeping and singing along and shouting "vive la France!" - representing her redemption as she returns to standing up for her own country. Every character, from her, to the Romanian girl debating whether to have sex with Captain Renault in exchange for exist visas for her and her husband, to even those only on screen for a few moments, is a dimensional, relatable human being. Modern scripts are shamefully lazy and artless by comparison.
Exist Visas, a typo that fits perfectly with the scope of the film.
@randywhite3947 "Casablanca " debuted in NYC on Thanksgiving Weekend in November 1942.
A lot of those actors had fled Europe because of German occupation of their countries. This was made during the war. The emotions and tears during the French anthem scene are real.
That is amazing. Thank you.@@joebombero1
Mark C. check out the origins of the actors in the scene where they are singing the Free French anthem. Almost everyone of them had come from France or it's colonies...during the war.
Wow, it’s amazing that Bogart is just an obscure name to the younger viewers. Growing up in the 60s and 70s these classic stars of the 30s and 40s were our parents contemporaries. But without cable tv and the internet , and only three network stations and maybe a couple of UHF stations, these classic films were the steady diet on broadcast tv. Also, the talk shows and variety shows were all about classic film actors. I spent many an hour watching guys like Orson Welles storytelling about the old Hollywood on talk shows. It was a real education. I never had to be introduced to classic movies it was in the blood.
Totally. I grew up in the 80/90s. part of my cultural foundation goes back to the 30s if not longer in some cases. It really amazes me that people under 35 don'[t have some of those connections. I really think there was a change some were around 2000, to 2015 that caused a general disconnect.
LOL I thought the same thing.
@@dirus3142 They used to run black-and-white movies on TV all the time in the 80s, so I saw lots of them growing up. It's so weird just how younger people now seem to think films didn't start getting good until ten years ago or something.
I was born in 91 and I'm very familiar with them. Most people my age just have the same attitude they did at the beginning about old films and black and white. So frustrating
Yeah. I remember some list or another by one of the big film magazines years ago that ranked Bogart as the #1 male star of all time.
This is why we still watch black and white movies. Not only do they look beautiful, but a great number of them are among the greatest films ever made.
Any film will look good in b/w. Only some films look good in colour.
It’s because it was all about story and character. Not pew pew pew boom boom.
"The Best Years of Our Lives". Another classic worth watching.
@@irish66 I saw an old comic pic that showed God in full wrath mode, raining down thunder & lightning etc. Two angels were off to the side talking... One said to the other, "He's been like that ever since they colorized 'It's A Wonderful Life'".
@@peckish_tooth6515 Brilliant.
"I came to Casablanca for the waters"
"But we're in the desert"
"I was misinformed."
"I kinda like Laszlo."
"I know. But I think I'm team Rick."
Priceless.
Made me laugh out loud too.
Comment from the "shipping" generation!
@@rfdarsie Nothing on google for that term. What is the shipping generation, and what does it mean?
@@Cosmo-Kramer Shipping from relationship. Some fans have been so intense about making their own characters have relationships that they have gone after actors/actresses. Examples would be Kylo/Rey shippers about the latest Star Wars movie.
Wonderful reaction! It tells me, though, that the filmmakers really did their job!!
Two things of note: 1. The French in the cafe singing their national anthem were refugees from the war, as were the German actors. 2. When Rick says “I’ll bet they are sleeping all over America” the date is December 6, 1941.
Yeah...Nobody was acting in the La Marseilles scene. None of them knew if they'd ever see their homes again...
Dang, I've never made that #2 connection. Of course, I saw this like 30 years ago and not ever completely again.
@@joelwillems4081 I got to see it in a theater back in 2012 for the 70th anniversary. One of my happiest moviegoing experiences ever, even if the crappy car I was driving back then stalled on me on the highway TWICE on the looooooooooooong drive home...
Third thing of note...Berger, the man with the ring...he displays the Cross of Lorraine, kept in secret beneath the stone...the Resistance used it to help identify friends.
To my immense pride, the theater I saw it in was PACKED and the movie got a standing ovation.
"Really good stories, scripts, and acting..."
Basically what 99% of modern films have forgotten about.
When Lazlo leads the bar in singing against the Germans, the scene is all the more powerful when you find out in real life that most of the extras in that scene, including the staff of Rick's place, were refugees from Nazi occupied Europe. Conrad Veidt, who played Major Strasser had a Jewish wife and they had to escape from Germany as well.
And many of the small part players in Rick's who were singing were specifically French ex-pats.
I heard a story to the effect that Peter Lorre fled Germany after discovering that Hitler was a really big fan...
A well-known and heralded German actor, too... he gave up so much to escape with his life, probably. He delivered some excellent Hollywood films, too.
@@Cbcw76 One of those actors, like Bela Lugosi, who is oft-imitated even by people who've never heard of him... But when I finally saw M I began to view his ability with the proper respect.
One of the things that gives this movies some of the lighting in that bottle is that even the bit parts are wonderfully played. Part of that is because many of the bit part actors were accomplished performers who had fled Nazi occupation in Europe.
"Sam... play Chitty Chitty Bang Bang."
As shouted from the cheap seats: "We looove you Popcorn In Bed!"
I never say this but I’m screaming.
@@italoblu Sam: "You must remember this... you're my coo-chi, coo-chi, woo-chi little chu-chi face..."
"Play our song, play Ding Dong the Witch is Dead from the Wizard of Oz" to paraphrase The Naked Gun
@@sheert When that guy started singing it I fell out of my seat laughing!
@@chefskiss6179 LMAO
you know you are watching a classic when every scene is a piece of art.
When you mentioned Han Solo it made me think of this movie, always felt Harrison Ford was channeling Rick/Bogart for his Han Solo character in Star Wars. Han is often referred to as a "rogue with a heart" just like Rick.
I'm 100% with you here. There's a weird sort of crossover between Bogart and Ford... The African Queen as well as Casablanca... and it's Ford who puts on the trench coat and walks the mean streets in Bladerunner, echoing Bogart's Marlowe (especially with the hated narration on the original version of the film).
Also, movie music trivia - that 20th Century Fox drumbeat that was such a memorable intro to the Star Wars movies (it's even on the soundtrack albums)? That was actually written by Alfred Newman as part of the score for Casablanca - obviously it proved popular and was used over and over and over, but Casablanca was its premiere.
Well Harrison Ford did play Humphrey Bogarts character in the remake of Sabrina also a great movie (both) 🙂
I remember when Siskel and Ebert did a special episode in which they compared and contrasted Bogart's career with that of Jack Nicholson, after having discovered that Nicholson was both their favorite living actor, and Bogart was the favorite all-time actor of both.
Actually I heard that George Lucas based Han Solo off of Rhett Butler from Gone With the Wind or the actor Clark Gable who played Rhett?
"Of all the Gin Joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into mine."
"Here's looking at you, Kid."
"Round up the Usual Suspects."
"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
"We'll always have Paris."
This film is immensely quotabable!
Except "Play it again, Sam" is never said in this movie...
How you left out “I’m shocked, shocked, to find gambling going on in here.”
You forgot "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship"
Of course, "Play it again, Sam" is actually a misquote - even if everyone misquotes it that way.
@@hkpew Like, "Luke, I am your father". Even James Earl Jones has misquoted it and he originally said the line! :)
This movie is famous for having lots of lines that become catch-phrases. "Here's looking at you, kid.", "Play it, Sam.", "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she steps into mine.", "We'll always have Paris.", "Round up the usual suspects.", "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Etc. Etc.
The actress playing Yvonne actually escaped France and her tears were very real. All time classic! Our symphony played the soundtrack while the movie played on a big screen.Thank you so much.❤❤❤❤ for this reaction
Everyone in that scene that was singing had fled the Nazis. And none of them knew if they'd ever see their homes again...There was no acting that day.
and the actor playing the Nazi major had been a famous actor in Germany. He escaped when Hitler came to power, likely would have been murdered if he stayed. He got to play an evil Nazi in this movie,
@@Cheryworld Also his wife was Jewish.
That actress died recently - last year, I think. I read at the time that she had been the last living cast member.
@@Cheryworld When he started acting in America, his contract explicitly stated "If I play a Nazi, he MUST be a villain."
The great and underrated Claude Rains! Magnificent film, great performances all round. And a Magnificent end
Must have been before he became invisible.
that whole rat pack of Lore, Greenstreet, Rains... just awe watching them
@@Mountain.Man.1978 He was both The Invisible Man and The Phantom of the opera!
Every character was perfectly cast.
Ladies, if you love a movie, clap at the end! Don't let anyone tell you it's not cool. It's part of the joy of sharing a really good movie with others in a theater.
Let them make their own decision
I love that you’re getting to the classics.
Me too
Yeah, I saw this and got so excited. Did not disappoint.
Same! Classics are my favorite films to dig into
“Make it 10. I’m only a poor corrupt official.” Always loved that line!
Being 'misinformed' about the waters in Casablanca cracks me up everytime. :)
This gave me renewed faith in today's younger society of audiences. Thanks for putting a smile on my face and watching such a great film. It's among my favorites, if not my favorite. (It's probably my favorite. Lol)
The man selling a ring opens it to reveal a "Cross of Loraine" - the symbol of the Free French fighting for France under De Gaul. Now you'll have to watch "To Have and Have Not."
Thanks. My brain kept wanting to call it an orthodox cross. I knew that was not right, but I could not unstick that thought.
I see "To Have and Have Not." as Casablanca lite. But it does have 19 year old Lauren Bacall.
Or "To be or not to be"
@@stevethecatcouch6532 "You know how to whistle, .. don't you Steve? You just put your lips together and blow."
He told Lazlow that Ilsa was "pretending" to love him to spare Lazlow's feelings and not sabotage their relationship.
And in fact he's helping because now there's nothing she's done that Lazlow doesn't know about.
"You must remember this, a kiss is just a kiss, a sigh is just a sigh ...." Thats the classic song you´re looking for.
Greetings from Germany.
IMO Casablanca is the best movie ever made. I love this channel but getting to watch some incredible classics on it has brought my love to a new level. Keep up the good work.
Every little thing about the movie was dead solid perfect. Script, acting, casting, score, cinematography...everything.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439 Could not agree more.
This film still has the highest number of famous quotable lines of any movie and it's 80 years old. I counted somewhere around ten but I'm sure I'm forgetting a bunch. I love this movie!
@@cboscari and oftentimes people quote the lines and have no idea where they even came from. They've been woven into our language.
@@dr.burtgummerfan439YAASSSSSSSS I LOVE THIS MOVIE SO MUCH
Introduced this movie to a younger friend who had never seen it. At a certain point during the movie, he asked if there were any lines in the movie that WEREN'T famous. Gotta feeling this one gets a great reaction!
Your young friend had the same reaction I did when I saw this for the first time at age 12 or 13. Couldn't believe all the famous lines that came from one movie!
@@adamplace1414 Best dialog in the history of film IMHO. You have all the quoted material but then you have snappy lines brimming with wit which are not as well known. This movie is a complete treasure.
The fact is that there was absolutely brilliant cinematography which made full use of the shadows of black and white film.
I'm very impressed that you guys would watch a classic movie that was made nearly 80 years ago and show it so much respect, with such genuine reactions.
Their reactions are the result of decent writing and incredible acting. Casablanca is a classic for a reason. Too many of the younger folk have never heard of the classics, and B&W films are virtually foreign.
Before massive explosions and fast-paced action you had story, wit, and acting. Have movies advanced in style and quality? Yes. Have the basics of what makes an engrossing and enjoyable film changed? No.
@@chrismaverick9828 I disagree that movies have advanced in style and quality. This movie is the very epitome of cinematic style and quality. Special effects have advanced, but special effects can never make a poor story into a good movie.
This is saying a lot but but I think the best scene in Casablanca or at least my favorite is when Victor has them play La Marseillaise, Rick allows it, and everyone sings over and drowns out the Nazis singing. The war had recently just started for the U.S. when Casablanca was filmed but it had been going on all around Europe and other parts of the world for much longer. During the La Marseillaise scene, many of the extras had real tears in their eyes as a large number were actual refugees from Nazi persecution in Germany and elsewhere in Europe and were overcome by the emotions the scene brought out. Even before I knew all that, it makes me cry every time.
Absolutely
When Rick nods and let's the band play it, this is the turning point for Rick to get back to his true feelings
I was lucky enough to see Casablanca in a theater a few years ago and when that scene where they play La Marseillaise played the whole theatre cheered. It was pretty special.
That is one of my all time favorite scenes from any movie...the Marseillaise - such emotion and pride of country. It was symbolic in every way. Major Strasser was right to be afraid. But I love how the band looks to Rick for the okay, and he gives it.
This movie is filled with this type of symbolism, more patriotic than political. In a movie filled with plot twists, this twist was unmistakable and so fitting of Rick's character. It is in these moments that we come to know Rick.
I first watched this film 50-years ago when I was still a bartender. When the movie came on TV at 4am, I decided to watch it anyway, especially after hearing about Humphrey Bogart for so long. In a few minutes, I was hooked, and suddenly realized why everyone liked Bogie for much. He was the ultimate, "tough guy with a heart of gold," and nobody did it better.
Btw, in the scene where the Nazis were singing their German national anthem and the crowd began singing the French national anthem, all of those extras with tears in their eyes were actually crying. Many of them were Eastern Europeans who just came to America after fleeing Nazi domination, and those tears were 100% REAL.
That was not the German national anthem. It was Watch on the Rhein, which was a popular patriotic song at the time.
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Oh. It would have sure made a great national anthem, though.
If Disturbia is too scary, Rear Window should be just right. It’s more suspenseful & less scary than Disturbia.
And since they loved Ingrid Bergman's outfits so much; Grace Kelly's outfits in Rear Window are incredible. I first saw this movie in a big old theater, and that first shot of Grace Kelly literally made me gasp. She was that beautiful.
Good call! Rear Window is the perfect amount of scary for these two.
And Hitchcock’s Rear Window, is a bonafide classic.
@@rbash : Yes, indeed! Cassie really needs to watch Rear Window, IMHO. I wonder what Cassie will think when she learns that Grace Kelly later became Princess Grace of Monaco? 🙂
Don’t forget about Vertigo. I think they’d love it, but the end might frustrate them a bit.
I was intrigued when I discovered that you had stumbled across what in my opinion is the greatest American movie ever made, but you did not know anything about it except that it was filmed in black and white and was from the 1940’s. Casablanca won the Oscar for Best Picture in 1944. The movie has so many iconic scenes and lines. I heard that it was filmed in just one week with the final scene at the Burbank Airport. Somehow, all the stars seemed to have aligned and the final result is an absolute cinematic masterpiece. The incredible setting of World War II and the struggle to see which side would win with the stakes so high creates intense drama. Would we have freedom with the Allies or would we have oppression under the Nazis and the Axis powers? Add into the mix the amazing love triangle that was created because of the war. What guy would not want to have a woman gaze at him the way Elsa looks at Rick? What woman would not want someone like Rick or Victor Laszlo staring into their eyes with absolute love? Everything from the deeply emotional singing of the French national anthem La Marseillaise by the people at Rick’s Cafe Americain during the period when Germany occupied France and the Vichy puppet government was in place adds to the depth of the film. The movie has so many other iconic scenes and lines as well. The more you know about the background of the movie, the more amazing it becomes to you. Have you ever had someone love you so much that they would sacrifice everything for your well being? That is the kind of love that Casablanca depicts. The more times you watch Casablanca, the better it gets.
Best American film ever? Yeah, arguably, at least. My list changes some with my moods, but Casablanca is always in the top 3 or 4.
As for non-American movies, I might recommend Life Is Beautiful. Also set in WWII, which may be why I think of it at this time. A really good movie, though.
"Greater love hath no man than this..."
Thankfully, Rick didn't have to give up his life for his friends, but he still threw an awful lot to the winds in letting Ilsa go. He is every inch an American hero who speaks to all could-be heroes everywhere. 😏 🤧 😭
"I heard that it was filmed in just one week"
They could crank 'em out fast, but not _that_ fast.
"Principal photography began on May 25, 1942, ending on August 3;" en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casablanca_(film)
So true---I watch this movie every year--like fine wine, just gets better. The dueling singing always make me misty.
This film had production problems from the start! They actually were writing the script every day and filming! There were alot of rewrites and they had no ending! What saved it was the way Michael Curtiz had the film edited which was seamless according to Steven Spielberg who was a big fan of this movie!
This is, simply put, the best movie ever made.
Bogey and Bergmann are stunning in this. They are legends. "As Time goes by" is an unbelievable evergreen and the movie is still fantastic to watch.
The scene that always kills me is when they sing La Marseillaise in the cafe. They filmed the movie in 41 I believe before the Americans enter the war and the cast is filled with actors who had fled Europe because of the war especially several French actors. So the real emotion of these people singing the French national anthem makes me cry every time. And I personally would always choose Victor over Rick.
Why choose one? They were very different but both great.
With all the scenes with my all time favorite actress posing so astonishingly beautiful in them I have always found myself as you described about the scene were they sing La Marseilles... It still makes my eyes well up and a feeling overcomes my entire body... This movie is an absolute Masterpiece
They started filming in May of ‘42. About 75 of the extras were actual refugees who’d come to Hollywood, USA because they had been in the film business mostly in Germany. “Here’s looking at you, kid” was dialogue not found in the script; story goes Bogart improvised it because in the little time between shots, he’d been teaching Bergman poker and thus, “Here’s looking at you.” Then “kid.”
@@dr.a.995 Even the Nazis in this film were played by (mostly) Jewish refugees from the Nazis.
@@dr.a.995 I've seen other posts describing how much of the final film was not in the script, though changes and ad-libbing during production is not all that uncommon....and often improves whatever the script had.
"Does she think Victor is dead?" "Does she already know she's not going to the train?" You are surprised by every plot twist in scifi and action movies, but you two nailed the plot twists in this one.
The great fiction writer Elizabeth Bear once told me that Casablanca is a perfect example of a character in conflict with himself: Rick initially thinks that he wants to be left alone, and then he thinks that he wants Ilsa. But what Rick really wants, and what he doesn’t discover until the last scene, is that he wants to be part of something bigger than himself. Victor already knows this about Rick, but Rick doesn’t.
Not bad for a movie where no one (not even the cast) knew what the ending was going to be until two days before it was filmed. The writers didn't even know--they had to come up with an ending in 48 hours.
@@newsguy5241 Sometimes ya just gotta play it by ear.
OK, I'm massively impressed that you know Elizabeth Bear. She is one of my favorite authors. Wow.
Second on the Elizabeth Bear. Love her writing.
@@isoldam The community of SFF writers isn’t very big. Everyone has met everyone else at one time or another. And I love her work too.
Wonderful idealistic film. I love it when the crowd stands up to the Nazis in a sing off. I understand that the crowd was made up of actual French refugee. I love how Rick's cynicism is only a cover for a idealism wounded by lost love and how that idealism is recovered when he meets Elsa and Victor and is given the opportunity to do the right things. But even at his cynical worst Rick was never as bad as he seemed such as when he let the young refugee man win at roulette to save the man's young wife from have to have sex with the Captain in exchange for a pass. He wanted to save her from having to betray her husband out of love for him. I love how this story is about how true love is about sacrifice, about the higher good.
yeeeesss best scene, and you described this movie perfectly
@@PopcornInBed If you ever hear the English words for the French song you'll know why the Nazis got so pissed off.
You don't think the girl knew he could let him win at roulette? Why would she be asking him about infidelity? She was asking for his help while letting Rick make it his idea.
@@markman613 "Children of the Motherland, the day of glory is upon us: Against us stands tyranny, raise up the red banner..." A literal call to arms and a song so bellicose that it has been forbidden by law several times... *in France!*
@@MrX-hz2hn Some national anthems:
Germany: sings about how great Germany is
Britain: sings a prayer for God to guide the Queen
America: sings about never giving up
France: LET'S WATER OUR FIELDS WITH THEIR BLOOD!!!
😁😎
Casablanca is the best movie in American cinematic history IMO. Your reactions made me relive watching it again for the very first time. Thank you!
„Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.“
that line makes me question love
Oof 😩
We’ll always have Paris. Here’s looking at you. The famous quotes just keep coming! My favorite was Yvonne with the German and Rick says “in her own way she might constitute an entire second front”.
@@Surfbird11 "I don't know why people think _Hamlet_ is so great. It's just a lot of clichés strung together!"
"We'll always have Paris" a line that tells us so much about their love story, but also about great memories to sooth a broken heart. Besst Fucking Movie Ever, IMHO.
That was so funny when both of you just sat there with your mouths dropped open. I am also always amazed at the way classic movies with classic lines are so distant from younger folks experience. The lines from this film were etched in my generation.. And I'm not that old. It's like everything from 1980 backwards was erased or something and I find myself asking," How can you not know about that?"
I've often thought about this and I believe that Gen-X is the last generation to really know about all the classic old stars. We (especially those of us oldest Gen-Xers) grew up with 3 networks and most of us grew up with independent stations that had a massive selection of old movies. Cable wasn't widespread until we were teenagers or young adults and so we didn't have that many choices. I remember our local independent station would play Shirley Temple movies, Abbot and Costello movies, Bowery Boys movies, and the old Universal monster movies along with all the cheesy science-fiction and horror films of the 40s and 50s. All over TV we were given healthy doses of 1960s reruns and all the talk shows of the day (Johnny Carson, Merv Griffin, Dick Cavett, Mike Douglas, et al) had classic stars talking about their careers. We couldn't help but know who a lot of those stars were. Those who grew up in the 1980s and each decade later have gained more and more choices but also lost all that knowledge of the classics that we grew up with. It's great to see younger people discovering the classics just like we did.
The other day I referred to Marilyn Monroe during a conversation with a 22-year-old and he looked at me blankly and said, "Who?"
@@ryansoprovich2258 That is amazing. Marilyn died before I was born but decades later she was still iconic. I imagine if you showed him a picture of her he would at least recognize the image even if he didn't know the name. Her image is still to this day being used in many commercial uses, not to mention all the parodies. She is probably still the all-time number one Hollywood sex symbol.
@@bradparnell614 I am Generation Z and I know the old stars and movies, Capra and Chaplin are among my favourite directors of all time and I also watch foreign stuff like Bergman, Clouzot etc, I have a friend the same age who is into old Westerns, he loves Winchester '73 so they do live on among some of us just diminished.
@@Mr.Goodkat That's good to know. I can't help but think most in my generation wouldn't really care much for the old classics except that we had such little choice. The fact that you have more choices than ever and like a lot of the old stuff says a lot about how good that it really was. UA-cam is of course full of reaction videos from people checking out all kinds of older music, movies, and TV shows. I do like a lot of modern entertainment but in a lot of ways they just don't make 'em like they used to.
Claude Rains is perfect in this role, as an over-the-top villain who's not really a villain.
His character is in no way a villain, or portrayed as one.
He is a politician. He tries to please both sides, which sometimes means that he must do things he doesn't believe in or care for. But they are necessary.
Is he a sleaze? sure. Is he a villain? no.
Hell, he's not even an antagonist in this film.
He's the part of Rick that Rick can't fully be, just like Rick is the part of Louis that Louis can't fully be. Until they get together.
It's a beautiful friendship.
@@magildachunks That part about his exploiting the underage girl is a bit off puting.
@@jamesclapp6832 Is she underage? Isn't she married?
There is nothing, nothing like a Bogart movie. He was the absolute best.
Meanwhile the only thing more beautiful than Ilsa”s outfits was Ingrid Bergman.
Ingrid Bergman’s face is literal perfection
f.y.i .Isabella Rossellini is Ingrid Bergman`s daughter
Bogart and his wife, Lauren Bacall, started the rat pack which later included Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr and Peter Lawford.
@@Surfbird11 It was Peter Lawford; not Lorrie, who was part of the pack.
Every time I watch one of these reactions to Casablanca, I'm always surprised when, when Ilsa enters the cafe for the first time, the reactors don't immediately blurt, "Oh my god, she's beautiful!" I've seen this movie countless times, and I *still* want to say it.
Everyone who was involved in the making of this movie (actor, actress, writer, director, producers etc.) have all passed away since. Madeleine Lebeau who played Yvonne was the last surviving cast member. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 92.
After her death, the French Minister of Culture said of her "She will forever be the face of French resistance!"
Great movie history bit! Kudoes sir!
This is my favorite film of all time.
Two good men, a good woman, and everyone just trying to figure out the right thing to do in the worst possible situation.
On top of all that, the acting was superb -- utterly unbeatable.
Ilsa paints Rick's face with her eyes.
It's just the best.
She wasn't good. She used Rick shamelessly for the man she actually loved.
@Nature and Physics That's not how that happened.
As a very young woman, she married a charismatic leader she admired, and she thought that was love.
Then, when Ilsa thought Victor was dead, she met Rick, and she learned that true love includes a passion she never felt for her husband, as admirable a man as he genuinely was.
That's why Ilsa felt emotionally wracked throughout the story.
Your interpretation is shared by *very* few.
@@thomashiggins9320 When she found out her husband was alive, Rick was brown bread.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver It's pretty clear that Ilsa prefers Rick as a romantic partner, since Victor, for all his heroism, is something of a stuffed shirt. But she knows that Victor needs her, so it's a matter of sacrificing her personal happiness for a greater cause (anti-fascism). Rick also sacrifices his love for Ilsa to the greater cause. This was 1942, after all, and the story still grabs us today.
@@Venejan We may be facing a similar fate if we as Americans don't show the gratitude of living in the best place available...
The double barred cross in Berger's ring is the Cross of Lorraine. It was the symbol of the French Resistance.
That's not why he showed him the ring.
Our French Anthem "La Marseillaise" was played 23:00
@@malcolmdrake6137 yeah...it is...
Thank you !
Someone who actually went to school 👏👏
Ironically, it's also the same as Magnum P.I.'s unit ring from Vietnam.
This is by far my favourite film of all time. I also think it is one of the greatest ever made.
I'm a 75 year old man but I can't watch it without crying.
I've seen it at least 50 times. It is briiliant.
Same here. 65 and saw it the first time when I was in college at the 25cent movie night and was BLOWN AWAY. Ingrid Bergman has been a crush of mine for almost 50 years.
As a 21 year old I couldn’t agree with you guys more. I think this goes to show that greatest of this film it effects people no matter the age, background, etc…
Don't ever change.
@@Rasinlaser Americans unfamiliar with the politics of the time miss so much more intensity the film has. Like the French national anthem scene. Most people don't know that the song the Germans were singing: "Watch on the Rhine" was a real dig at the French. The Rhine was an area of dispute between France and Germany for centuries. As recently as the Franco/Prussian war tens of thousands of both countrymen died over that and other territory. Several towns in eastern France have German names as it was once land part of Germany. The most recent political upheaval related to this film was the 1938 reclamation of the Rhinelands Hitler reclaimed from France which France took after winning WWI, no doubt revenge for the loss of the 1873 Franco/Prussian war.
The French National Anthem is you read the lyrics is a call to arms. The chorus talks literally about forming ranks, attacking the enemy and spilling their blood into the dirt! Few people know all this today. Many national born Americans didn't either, but mostly all the new European immigrants did. So this was spicy. SUPER spicy and timely to world events at the time. Even the name of the movie was changed to match current events.
The original play was titled "Everyone Comes to Rick's" and that was the title of this movie just before its release. But the 3 big allied powers: Churchill, Stalin and Roosevelt met in Malta, and they wanted a more N. African sounding name as the Malta summit was all over the news at the time, and they thought they could steal some added publicity if they gave the movie a name with a similar title.
Both of your reactions @26:20...you couldn't ask for a better explanation of why this is still one of the greatest films of all time.
Yaaaaaah! This was the first movie that made me think films could be art and not just entertainment it was also this film that invented a type of leading man which is now become a kind of archetype it was also the movie that made Humphrey Bogart into an A-list actor instead of just being stereotyped as gangsters and according to Roger Ebert is on more best films lists than any other movie
It really is a great film..
My favorite movie ever, of all time. And I don't even like romances.
@@11BscoutNG Those are fantastic movies, utterly fantastic. You never forget Paris though.
I think Bogart made the transition to leading man and love interest a year before Casablanca when he starred in The Maltese Falcon (1941). That film is also a well-loved classic and features two of the great character actors (Sidney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre) who were in Casablanca. The Maltese Falcon is also notable for being one of the earliest and clearest examples of Film Noir.
Key Largo is probably a more famous Bogart film today but I prefer The Big Sleep.
Casablanca, one of the best movies ever made with a heck of a history regarding its production.
For what it's worth, the American Film Institute's list of the 50 Best Actors/Actresses of the Twentieth Century rates Humphrey DeForest Bogart as #1.
Just a few suggestions: "The Maltese Falcon" with Bogart , Sidney Greenstreet (the Fat Man in Casablanca) and Peter Lore (the guy who killed the courier and got the letters of transit). "The African Queen" with Bogart and Katherine Hepburn; Bogart won the Best Actor Oscar. and "For Whom The Bells Tolls" with Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Great movies.
Not to mention, the ORIGINAL, "The Man Who Knew Too Much", with Peter Lorre and Leslie Banks (1935). Watch the original, THEN watch the remake with James (Jimmy) Stewart (1956). Yes, it's the same story, but remade by the original director (Alfred Hitchcock) who commented on his original production as being the work of a "talented amateur". Both are worth watching, but watch them in that order to truly enjoy the greatest experience.
The African Queen is one of my mom's favorite films. So many childhood memories of always having to watch it whenever it was on TV.
@@Squiffy444 , Bogart won the best Actor Oscar for that one. I watched it with my parents every time it was on as well.
And "The Big Sleep".
And he had the most iconic voice as an actor as well.
Your reactions were wonderful. Gosh it's a great movie, isn't it? It appears on the surface to be a simple love triangle movie, but actually there is much, much more going on beneath the surface. Easily one of the greatest films ever made.
How under the surface is it? The opening shows you the route the people fleeing the war in Europe had to take and what their final destination was--the U.S. (Apparently, most World War 2 refugees didn't flee to Casablanca though, but I suppose that's a country where you can place a lot of Frenchmen and Spain and Portugal are not. You want America to join whole-heartedly in the war effort so you have to have them allying themselves with the Free French so Maroc it is.
I can't imagine not knowing who Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are. Everyone has to learn about legendary actors at some point, of course -- no one is born knowing. But the thought that young adults these days don't know about Bogart and Bergman, or _Casablanca_, or the scope of WW2 and what Vichy was, is depressing for an older person like me.
I commiserate, but look at these two sharing this jem with a whole new gen.
The movie was made four generations ago...
I hope they never have to know the scope of world war.
Yes, but because of this relatively new phenomenon of UA-cam reactions, people like Cassie are fixing that. I have hope that younger generations are watching these videos, as well as us nostalgic (near) geezers!
@@Cosmo-Kramer 57. I wonder where you grew up. Everyone I knew could have told you who Bogart was, no question; and most of the folks I knew had paid attention in high school and so knew a bit about WW2
Arsenic and Old Lace is a Halloween movie but it’s not scary. It’s perfect for Cassie!!! 🎃👻💀☠️🙀
One of my all time favorites!
🖤 A&OL! It never fails to win over new generations...
This is a SOLID pick. It's actually funny but also old-school spooky, but in a way that even most kids can probably handle.
Yesss!!!
Completely Agree! One of the best Halloween movies, that I completely forgot about (Shame on Me!) and should be in the "Spooky, but Not Scary" list!
Casablanca is one of the few _almost_ perfect films. Every line of dialogue; the character depth; the performances; seamless blend of tension, politics, drama, comedy and romance; great musical score; and all of this being comfortably knit into a runtime of 1hr 40min, just makes the film so remarkable.
My late wife was a huge cinephile, and we watched this film on our 3rd date, at my suggestion. For black and white films, I also recommend, "The Third Man".
Thanks for reviewing this. It made my day.
The Third Man is one of my Top 5 all-time favs. And probably my favorite final shot and fadeout of all time.
Yes! If you think about it, The Third Man is sort of the perfect bookend to Casablanca in terms of WWII-era romance movies. One being set early in the war, and the other after it ended, with the romance plotlines being only part of the story.
0:17 *Carly:* "I was promised ... no more _killing!"_
*Everybody:* "Oh dear."
Helen Tasker: "Did you ever kill anyone?"
Harry Tasker: "Yes, but they were all bad."
The acting, the dialogue, the cinemotography, the plot, ...... The best movie ever made.
Another great movie is “North By Northwest” with Carry Grant.
Some reviewers have suggested that "North By Northwest" is the first James Bond movie. (Now that he's "been retired.")
Love that movie. The scene with Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint on the train is HOT!! ua-cam.com/video/h5nhyFFSweU/v-deo.html
@@Otokichi786 What?
"I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here."
I love this line!
Hipster: "I'm Shocked, Shocked to see a BLACK-AND-WHITE movie playing on this otherwise-Hip channel".;)
My favorite lines : "I kind of like Laszlo" "I know, but I think I'm Team Rick" and "she pulled the Han Solo line". I love these two.
Roman Holiday is another amazing black and white love film. An Audrey Hepburn classic.
Most people say that Casablanca is the greatest romance film ever made, but my choice has always been Roman Holiday. The ending is one of the most brilliant pieces of filmmaking ever recorded.
@@dorailroad4285 Agree. Gregory Peck standing with the assembled press while she looks at him, with both realizing they can't go forward makes me bawl like a four year old who didn't have a nap.
Yes. Roman Holiday is another great example of the B&W classics and she would love it.
yes yes yes. my fave hepburn picture
Is it just me or do I always think about the movie being in color in my head when I know it was made in black and white?
Bogart is the freaking man. TOTAL swag. Few men (let alone actors) have that swag - and they all are stars for it.
When you’re slapped you’ll take it and like it. The most badass OG moment by any movie star.
One of my fave lines from The Maltese Falcon!
You definitely need to watch "Rear Window" which is the movie that "Disturbia" was a remake of. "Rear Window" is an absolute classic with Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly, two iconic movie stars from the 50's. It is another amazing classic movie that is filled with suspense, romance and great humor. It is an absolute must watch. Suspenseful but not so scary that you will regret watching it.
And the "bad guy" in Rear Window is a pre-Perry Mason Hollywood heavy Raymond Burr.
"Does Rick like his life? I can't tell." What an excellent question.
It is, though "Does Rick like life?" might be slightly more to the point, as the answer at the beginning of the movie would be a resounding "No". He was a dead man waiting for someone to put him out of his misery.
Humphrey Bogart's favorite Humphrey Bogart film was The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Well worth a watch.
Very true, and Hitchcock's favorite of his films was "Shadow of a Doubt;" also my favorite. Again, well worth a look.
@@frankbolger3969 2 More Great B/W Films!
He was also very good in the Caine Mutiny
@@SueProv Yes! He was terrifying in that movie. I think sometimes we can get so distracted by Bogie’s “coolness,” that we forget what a top notch actor he really was.
"Could you spare a dollar to a fellow american?" I love that running gag...
Bogie was such a great actor. Ingrid Bergman also. She was nominated for 7 Oscars in her career and won 3 of them. (No noms for this one for her though). Two of the ones that she didn't win, I think were 2 of her best performancees. If you get a chance watch her in Joan of Arc and also in Bells of St. Mary's. There also was another fine actress named Isabella Rossalini who was Ingrid's daughter. Don't be scared of B & W movies. So many great stories and performances. You two are so much fun together. Oh by the way, the guy who played the police chief is the guy who played Prince John in the 1938 Robin Hood Claude Raines.
When Cassie said, "She looks like someone nowadays," I wondered if she was thinking of Isabella Rossalini.
Yes, thank you for watching the classics. There are so many great romance and romcoms classics you should watch!
'Sam' Dooley Wilson is a treasure!
Greatest film ever made, and with the most exquisitely perfect screenplay.
Also it's been referenced so many times in culture since that it's an essential watch.
Many have argued that Casablanca was the greatest film ever made. It came from the golden era of Hollywood, full of glamour, romance, and intrigue. Ingrid Bergman was one of the most beautiful and glamorous stars ever to grace the silver screen.
This also indicates to me, that the US is in total decline.
Especially the men.
From fit, confident, articulate, courageous in the 1940's.. to obese, unsecure, dumbed-downed and meek in the 2020's.
My oh my, what change a century makes..
"My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don’t interfere with them and they don’t interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am…" 😆
You’re right, you two sisters with your sibling chemistry reacting to a film is epic! Your individual movie reactions are great too but as an audience member this felt like one was more included in the experience. Great reaction! Thanks.
Bogey & Katherine Hepburn: "The African Queen". 'Nuff said.
They do so good with Louis' character, he's a little crooked and womanizing but also sentimental, charming and funny, so you really don't know until the very end if he's going to do the right thing or not, "Round up the usual suspects"
According to the writers of the movie, they divulged in an interview that while they were filming the movie, they were confused and stressed beyond reason as to how to finish it. Then, on the morning of the final shoot, as they were driving to the studio they both looked to each other and said, "Round up the usual suspects!", and that's how they knew to finish the picture.
He's a great character, and very emblematic of the Vichy France officials of the time. They hated the Nazis, but also knew that if they resisted too openly the Nazis would occupy all of France and subject her to their tender mercies. This was also before Hitler made the twin monumental mistakes of declaring war on America in solidarity with Japan and invading the sleeping giant of the USSR, who ultimately choked the Nazi war machine with the blood and bone of more than 25 million Soviets. Britain was the last domino standing in Europe, and she'd been chased back to her islands with her tail between her legs and all her war materiel stranded on the beaches at Dunkirk, and was enduring the at-the-time unprecedented brutality of the Blitz. It seemed inevitable that the Third Reich would indeed last a thousand years, with all the horrific cruelty that implied.
And now fascism on the march around the globe again. Here's hoping the courage of Rick, Ilsa, and Laszlo isn't a thing of the past; it seems we'll need it sooner rather than later.
Also the relationship between Rick and Louis is truly wonderful.
I would even say the term "the usual suspects" became a catch phrase ( and later movie title) because of Casablanca.
Loved this reaction. Now you know why this movie is widely considered one of, if not the best of all time. And a master class in writing a script. I've watched this movie at least 60 times and it never gets old. A true timeless classic.
Maltese Falcon should be on your list sometime. Along with Bogie, Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre play much bigger characters. Bogart set the bar for the hard boiled private detective and of course there is an intriguing romance.
Both versions of the Maltese falcon. The original was precode and had Ricardo Cortez and is even with the newly invented unmovable sound cameras is very good. The 1940 is one of the best ever.
Bogart plays two characters from classic noir literature, Sam Spade, and Philip Marlow. I was surprised at how mercenary, and harsh Spade was. Marlow is more the hard boiled PI with a heart of gold.
@@dirus3142 hammet was far more cynical than was Raymond chandler. Hammett and chandler formed a mutual admiration society but they did disagree on the philosophy. Bogart played both characters and perfectly captured the differing points of view of the two writers.
@Randy White my memory failed me. Happens more and more.
Every Bogart movie. Make it happen.
"I'm shocked! Shocked; to find that gambling is going on here!" "Your winnings, sir." "Oh. thank you, very much!" Gets me every time. Claude Rains was nominated for an Oscar for this role. I recommend him (& Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman) in the Hitchcock spy thriller 𝙉𝙤𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 (1946)
I am and will forever be irritated by the fact that Claude Rains never won an Oscar.
Can't think of a bad or even mediocre film that had Claude Rains in it.
The first crazy fact is that the movie was shot while the war was going on, albeit on a Hollywood studio set. And the second is that it was completed in two and a half months.
That seems way too short to produce a masterpiece like this.
BTW- My favorite Rick line: "Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
Classic!
I really hope you do “it’s a wonderful life” around Christmas time!
Most overrated film every. The bad guy wins
@@Hogtownboy1 if you think that you must have the same outlook as mr potter
@@edwardcornwallis9436 no even Frank Capra said the movie was out of it time
I really hope that she reacts to the Bishop's Wife instead.
@@Hogtownboy1 considering St. Peter is a character, the only thing Potter won was a ticket to hell… so nah he definitely did not win.
I love the question, "Have you ever seen a black and white movie before?" In my college days I had friends who refused to watch silent films. But some of the most beautiful films are black and white, and digital remastering often works better on these films rather than color films. Apart from all this, Casablanca still holds up as a great movie, fun, exciting and romantic. Bit of trivia. The actors in Casablanca and later Star Wars didn't think that much of their projects. No idea that they were making movies that would resonate with movie goers.
When you’re watching an old school black and white movie you know it’s going to be something great because they were. That being said Casablanca is amazing but I prefer Key Largo and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre but they are all awesome.
Ingrid Bergman was a Swedish gem. I'd highly recommend watching Hitchcock's 'Notorious'.
Bogie could act like he was ten feet tall. His other must see movies are The Maltese Falcon, The African Queen and The Caine Mutiny.
And Treasure of Sierra Madre.
@@davidpeak6103 I have not seen that one. Thanks for the tip, I will check it out.
To Have and to Have Not, followed by The Big Sleep
Indeed, "Notorious." There is a beautifully restored DVD from Criterion, with all kinds of extras that I recommend as well.
I watched the UA-cam video of Roger Ebert's commentary on "Casablanca" and learned that Bergman was 5' 9" tall and Bogart was 5' 7". Clearly there was quite a bit of legerdemain at work in the movie to keep the audience from noticing the difference.
Completely insane that this wasn’t a period piece but actually about current events, so very impressive that this movie even exists.
Indeed. It was so "of the times" that the release was bumped-up to take advantage of the publicity around the Allied invasion of North Africa, which was the first step on a long road to cracking Hitler's formidable Fortress Europe.
It really is "a period piece". Filmed in the spring of 1942, released in November, 1942, it is made just after Pearl Harbour, but is talking about a time prior to that where the U.S. was, in fact, neutral, although the President and other Democrats wanted the U.S. in the war. It's probably an effort to make ambivalent Americans see why their ambivalence is wrong and that the war mongers are right!
In 1942 nobody knew who would win the war, and objectively, it wasn't looking good for the Allies. This makes the various layers and messages of this film all the more compelling. Imagine an audience watching it in 1942 having only read newspapers or watched newsreels about the horrors of the Nazi occupation of Europe. We watch it from the safe perspective of knowing the outcome, but as you said, it was current events for them, and no doubt a deeply moving experience.
A fantastic movie. As a young person who loves 'old' movies, trust me, you'll have so much joy watching a lot of those classics. IMO, They are mostly better than what we have nowadays.
Would you be so kind as to recommend some old, classic movies?
Refreshing, gives me hope for your generation.
@Randy White Appreciate the recs my friend!
I find the perspectives of younger viewers of these older classics refreshing and quite inspirational to be honest. Keep enjoying them 👏👏
This somehow just hit my recommendations and decided to watch. I’m 70-years old and over the years I have introduced a number of younger generations to this masterpiece. I’ve probably seen it 30 times and to this day still notice subtleties for the first time! I really enjoyed your reactions. I recommend you watch it a second time… I promise you’ll love it even more. Cheers! 👍👍👍
Loved watching two 21st century movie-loving sisters totally absorbed in this classic 80-year-old film. A well-written and directed movie is timeless - and speaks across the decades straight into our hearts. Keep watching the classic old films - don't deny yourselves these treasures.
I really think Louie is the best drawn character in this movie. His performance not only provides comic relief in a very tense film but his dramatic turn at the end was every bit as surprising as Rick's.
I agree. It's the key performance that enables all the other characters to interact so beautifully.
Louie knew how to play the game, kowtowing to the Vichy and Nazis without being a total prick. Right up to the point where he thought , screw it I'm gone.
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My all-time favorite movie! There's just too much to say about it! Back when actors could really act. This movie actually touches me quite deeply.
"I don't mind a parasite, but I object to a cut-rate one." Damn I love that line. Freakin legend.
Timeline: the Nazi’s invade France in may 1940. Rick asks Sam, “If it’s December 1941, what time is it in New York?” So it’s been at least a year and a half since Rick and Ilsa saw each other.
Note: December 1941 was when Pearl Harbor happened. So it has double meaning.
@@thomasknash oh absolutely. Also note the film was based on a play. Debuting in late 1942. So not only was a play and film about the war released in such a short time, but the war was still in full swing. Especially in 43.
@@thomasknash December '41 was a real turning point. It saw both America's entry into the war, as well as Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union stalling out at the gates of Moscow.
This movie has at least 5 or 6 of the top quotable movie lines of all time. Wonderful. Thank you for sharing!!
Two notes for you: 1. They were still writing the script while filming and had not definitively settled on how to end it and who Ilsa would end up with...so one day they would tell Ingrid Bergman "It's Rick." The next day they would reverse themselves and say "It's Victor", which meant she had to play the way she did because she honestly didn't know who she would end up with.
2. During the flashback to Paris and their confessions the song in the background is "Perfidia " signalling that one of them is lying.
Thanks for the reactions, both as a solo and a duo.
Ugarte: "You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust. "
This is my favorite film of all time and I have watched it 30 or 40 times. I have the Blu-ray box set and I will never get tired of it, but I must say that I was recharged with a uniquely fresh energy watching your reaction to it. Seeing you so engrossed in my favorite movie and reacting to all of the poignant moments filled my eyes with tears.
Truly one of the greatest movies ever made. No extreme violence, no bad language, no sex scenes, just brilliant writing all around. Claude Rains is awesome as Capt. Renault, delivering his lines flawlessly. If you want to see him in a scary-but-not-too-scary movie, watch The Wolf Man (1941). He plays the father, and he's awesome in that, too. He's also great in Phantom of the Opera (1943).
Listening to you discuss the character's motives and feelings was very entertaining ladies, good job
Some of your comments were hilarious. The "well, he's officially gross now," line describing Captain Renault had me dying. Since Casablanca is my all-time favorite movie I had to watch this when this was suggested by the UA-cam algorithms. Bravo ladies, bravo.
Karl in the movie was played by a character actor named S. K. Sakall and in real life he was just as lovable as Karl appears in the movie. Other actors loved him so much they nicknamed him "Cuddles," and it fit.
Every time Mom spots him in a movie, she calls out”Cuddles!”. Mom is 92