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YouTube Doc on making of Casablanca

posted a year ago by TrentnQuarantino (9443)
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Casablanca | An Unlikely Classic: Behind The Scenes | Warner Bros. Entertainment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ED3l5fWzFio

About Casablanca:
Academy Award winners Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman light up the screen in one of the most enduring romances in movie history--Casablanca. Rick Blaine (Bogart) owns a nightclub in Vichy-controlled Casablanca, frequented by refugees desperate to escape German domination. Despite the ever-present human misery, Rick manages to remain uninvolved in World War II now raging across Europe and Northern Africa. But all that changes when Ilsa Lund (Bergman) walks through the front door of Rick's club. Rick must now choose between a life with the woman he loves and becoming the hero that both she and the world need.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9443) a year ago

Lighting: https://youtu.be/ED3l5fWzFio?t=1118

[–] ronatola (398) a year ago

That was a good doc - thx for the recommendation.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9443) a year ago

I'm left with the last part where they talked about the timing.
How they point out what was happening in 1942.
Pearl Harbor was the end of 1941, and in 1942 the American
the allied leaders met in Casablanca, so the name was in the wind.
Also in 1942 Casablanca came out, but also the newsreels were
going, and the government produced some fascinating documentaries
called "Why We Fight" that are really interesting to watch.
Casablanca fit into that in a real life kind of way.
I actually wonder if Casablanca was not as they claim in the beginning
of this documentary, just another of a score of studio movies, because
it so perfectly rallied our Western nationalism.
I'm thinking if they did coordinate all that stuff they did a masterfully
perfect job at it.

[–] ronatola (398) a year ago

One of the interviewees said they actually went to Casablanca and it was boring as fuk - like a strip mall. LOL

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9443) a year ago

That was funny.

[–] TrentnQuarantino (9443) a year ago

"I made a film in Morocco several years ago, and I went to Casablanca. It's one of the dullest cities I've ever seen. It's like Long Beach.
...
You come away from that film thinking you've just been in the most romatic places in the world, and believe me it's anything but."

https://youtu.be/ED3l5fWzFio?t=1235