Casablanca (1942) Full Length Reaction
Added 2024-02-08 02:55:25 +0000 UTCHere's looking at you kid.
Winner of the Patreon Romance Poll. Watching Casablanca reminded me of all the old movies I used to watch as a kid with my mom and my sister: The Sound of Music, Meet Me in St Louis, Shirley Temples (Curly Top, Bright Eyes, Dimples, Poor Little Rich Girl, Heidi), Singin in the Rain, Babes on Broadway, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Daddy Long Legs, Top Hat, Swing Time, White Christmas, etc. We didn't watch new movies very often, we watched all my moms favs from her childhood. Mostly musicals, and a lot of the critically acclaimed ones like this one we didn't watch.
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Many of the extras at Ricks including the young woman playing Yvonne "Madeleine Lebeau" , escaped the Nazi's . In June 1940, Lebeau and he husband Dalio (who was Jewish) fled Paris ahead of the invading German Army and reached Lisbon. So when they were singing the French National Anthem, "La Marseillaise", they weren't acting, those tears and emotions were real. Every time it gets to that part of the movie it brings tears to my eyes knowing what the went through in real life. It's a great movie and Ingrid Bergman was breathtakingly beautiful. It's just one of the greatest movies of all time!
Lana Gorgeous
2024-02-14 01:28:47 +0000 UTC“End of the affair” to me is like this movie X10. I don’t think it’s that known. w Julianne Moore and a few other amazing actors. Romance ww2 plus’s a little science fiction.
E
2024-02-13 03:46:07 +0000 UTCHello fellow restauranteur. In solidarity, I join you from afar in not celebrating Valentine’s Day next week. The restaurant business has permanently ruined so many holidays for me, not the least of which is Valentine’s day. However, St. Patrick’s day and New Year’s eve are the only two nights I’ve sworn to never leave home again, so help me God, so long as I ever shall live. I’m no longer capable of seeing people having a good time out, I only see grown adults, all on their worst behavior, as far as the eye can see. May you enjoy a peaceful quiet holiday at home, and many more.
Thegonagle
2024-02-11 03:02:38 +0000 UTCMy knowledge of old movies is a little patchy, but I know a lot of them. It just depends what was on BBC2 on a Saturday afternoon when I was a kid - Hitchcock thrillers, John Wayne westerns, Mario Lanza musicals, you name it. But this one will always be special. I especially love Claude Rains as Captain Renault. He was one of those actors who could play the lead, or could just as easily steal a scene with his comic timing as a supporting player. And he was badass enough that he'd lost much of his eyesight from poison gas in WW1, but that never held him back.
Jon Anderson
2024-02-08 23:44:46 +0000 UTCHere's Looking at You, Miss Jen - We'll always have Casablanca to rewatch.
Clifton Owens
2024-02-08 23:02:41 +0000 UTCI like the lax rules of the Bridge; if there's something cool to look at, one is permitted to let go of your prisoner, and go wth the flow.
Steve H
2024-02-08 19:42:43 +0000 UTCI was going to say something similar. There is a larger and more nuanced conversation to have about how film and pop culture is used as propaganda. You might not be as familiar as a Canadian, but the US, at least as far as the general culture of the people, were deftly against getting involved in another World War despite Churchill begging Roosevelt for help, and Roosevelt doing what he could without fully comitting to war in opposition of public opinion. It wasn't until the Bataan Death March, and Pearl Harbor that opinion changed. How do you get a liberal democracy off it's ass to go to war? Fear, hatred, and self interest. An ages old tale, but you can see in a lot of movies just before The US entering the war, and during the war that were intentionally meant to influence public opinion and the culture, and it wasn't something that happened organically. It was done deliberately for a purpose. Also, I too want you to do "When Harry Met Sally"!
Richie Cabral
2024-02-08 18:05:35 +0000 UTCI have considered recommending some MST3K, but Mike and the boys make so many deeply specific Gen X references I think a lot of it would be lost on the younger reactors.
Who Are These People
2024-02-08 17:02:48 +0000 UTCJennifer, this is the beginning of a beautiful watchalong … ✈️ And remember… … We’ll always have Patreon.
David Olden
2024-02-08 12:36:52 +0000 UTCAll i can think of is the MST3K episode of Overdrawn at the Memory Bank 😆😆. With your love of movies, you'd get a kick out of that show haha
Carlos Perez
2024-02-08 09:41:43 +0000 UTCI'm glad you enjoyed it so much. :) Now that you've seen Casablanca, a really good Woody Allen 70s comedy is; 'Play It Again Sam' (1972). The film is about a recently divorced film critic, who is urged to begin dating again by his best friend and his best friend's wife. Allen identifies with the 1942 film Casablanca and the character Rick Blaine as played by Humphrey Bogart. The film is liberally sprinkled with clips from the movie and ghost-like appearances of Bogart (played by look-a-like Jerry Lacy) giving questionable advice on how to treat women. Jen, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
Jason Scade
2024-02-08 06:55:40 +0000 UTCI liked the movie more on this rewatch. The movie Casablanca is part of our culture. Cool how you still hear several phrases today from that 80+ year old movie. I noticed that Rick says "here's looking at you, kid" to Ilsa more than once in Paris but zero in Casablanca. I like Victor. Ingrid Bergman is beautiful, and I thought compelling in her acting. I noticed that Ilsa called Sam that "boy" who played the Piano. She could have told Rick sooner: "she was married to Victor; she thought he had died in a concentration camp; she hooked up with Rick; she learned Victor was alive after all; she immediately ended the affair." I read this comedic characterization of Rick's Café Américain: "reminiscent of a cantina in 'Star Wars,' only with more grotesque creatures, e.g., Peter Lorre." Yet, Peter Lorre was a damn good actor, and Rick's Café Américain was appealing. Me and my son visited Morocco a few years ago. Stayed in Marrakesh. We wanted to go to Casablance (but didn't) to do tourist stuff including going to Rick's Cafe that is a re-creation of Rick's Café Américain.
Clay F
2024-02-08 06:24:21 +0000 UTCThere is so much depth to this movie. While it was made in 1942, Rick said, "If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?" which suggests that while the movie was shot and released in 1942, it's set in December of 1941. The US didn't enter WWII until the attack on Pearl Harbor, which was on Dec 7, 1941 (The date is burned into my brain because I have a brother who was born on the 20th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Mine's on Tax Day/Sinking of the Titanic/death of Abraham Lincoln). The line "I bet they're asleep all over America" was a jab at the isolationist "America First" movement, who fought against the US going to war against Germany. BTW, I mentioned this when you watched the Star Trek episode in question, but do you recall the name of the cafe that Picard said was on Sarona Eight where they were going? It was the "Blue Parrot Cafe." Blue Parrot was the name of Ferrari's restaurant. A lot of the extras and bit characters were played by actors who were refugees from Europe, so the emotions they showed in scenes like the one where they "sang down" the Germans were genuine. I was wondering how you'd react to the Claude Rains character (Renault). His character is definitely complex and has a lot of great comic quotes, although some modern audiences might cringe at some of them. He was a very famous actor and you might want to check out one of his other famous movies from 1933, although you won't see much of him in it... (It's The Invisible Man). Looking at his bio, I forgot he was in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, so I'll have to check that out again. I think one of the reasons so many people consider this such a great romantic movie is because you have a love triangle where no one is really at fault and the full romantic part is the sacrifice that Rick has to make in the name of love. And now you are free to watch "When Harry Met Sally." Let's just say that you have to know Casablanca before you can really understand some of the scenes from that movie. Now you understand the reference from The Naked Gun when Frank Drebbin says "But this is our hill and these are our beans!"
Chris Biebel
2024-02-08 06:18:40 +0000 UTCYou should check out “Arsenic and Old Lace”, released in 1944 is a screwball comedy and is pretty funny. It is my mother’s favorite movie because it is so absurd that it is absolutely hilarious. It stars Cary Grant who made his career in screwball comedy.
MrDannySteele
2024-02-08 05:07:47 +0000 UTCNow that you've seen the movie you may be interested in watching the rarely seen alternate ending they filmed. 😉 https://youtu.be/LQKVIJnfiNM?si=diVMdtN4X-dLYYvJ
spacious_recroom
2024-02-08 05:05:57 +0000 UTCI was going to skip the full version but I really wanna watch your reaction now because of your love of old movies so that I shall do 👍 after work ofc . I would guess calamity Jane was another you would have watched with mum and sis that ones a lot of fun 🙌
Ian
2024-02-08 04:43:13 +0000 UTCOh you mentioned Top Hat in your intro there, my favorite dance musical! And Swing Time!
Who Are These People
2024-02-08 03:53:49 +0000 UTCI’m SO happy that you know Meet Me in St. Louis! It’s one of my favorite movies of all time!
Geoff S.
2024-02-08 03:42:53 +0000 UTCthe best years of our lives is probably my favorite " old " movie
zynjams
2024-02-08 03:11:56 +0000 UTCNice! A definite classic, but I think for good reason. What I mean by that is, "Citizen Kane", at least used to be, considered the greatest movie of all time, and there definitely are some historical and technical claims that make it very important, as there are with "Casablanca", but I first saw "Citizen Kane" when I was maybe 14 years old, but have never really had much motivation to watch it again. I probably totally should, because I probably didn't get everything I should have out of it at that age, and I've learned a lot about it since, that I appreciate and whatever else, and I'm glad that it exists, but from a story and emotional stand point, I'd rather watch "Casablanca".
Richie Cabral
2024-02-08 03:09:33 +0000 UTCYeah but,you haven't watched 'The King and I'⭐⭐⭐⭐ "Here's looking at you Kid" :-)
Celeste McAllister
2024-02-08 03:04:55 +0000 UTC
