Casablanca

Casablanca In choosing the movie Casablanca, I looked forward to re-aquatinting myself with a wonderful old classic Noir film. I wanted to know more about this film for a better understanding of the plot and symbolism, as well as the powerful mystique behind the film that has made Casablanca so enduring. Casablanca (1942), a review by Damian Cannon, movie review UK 1998, provided the following information: Amidst the Second World War the African City of Casablanca becomes the backdrop for Rick’s Café (where everybody goes), as well as the many dispossessed refugees, black marketers, and a variety of colorful characters, when resistance fighter Victor Laszlo enters the scene. The plot thickens and tension becomes palpable. Accompanied by his beautiful wife Ilsa (Rick Blaines’ ex-lover), Laszlo soon finds himself immersed in the seamy underworld of Casablanca, and the constant menace of the Nazi occupation with Rick’s Café as the only neutral focal point. As the movie draws to a conclusion Rick (Humphrey Bogart) is forced to take a moral stand which leads to an interesting ending, with unexpected twists. Based on the play, “Everybody Comes to Rick’s”, Casablanca was written by Murray Burnett, and directed by Michael Curtiz. Along with Humphrey Bogart casablanca, plot, movie, rick’s, rick, laszlo, wonderful, understanding, review, mr, ilsa, humphrey, film, classic, characters, café, victor, symbolism, interesting, information, everybody, damian, curtiz, conclusion, cannon’s, cannon, bogart, behind, becomes, yet, years, written, world, working, wife, whole