Casablanca

[Que]

http://ffilms.org//?s=casablanca

I am surprised at how many people under thirty that have never seen this.

Not Bogart's best..I like Treasure of The Sierra Madre, but watching this always makes me nostalgic.

 

[RedAllan]

Not the best I agree, but a classic.
I have on DVD and a VHS somewhere.
I also heard some years ago that there were thoughts of a remake going around, I hope it never happened, somethings should not be copied.

 

[CandiCame]

http://ffilms.org//?s=casablanca

I am surprised at how many people under thirty that have never seen this.

Not Bogart's best..I like Treasure of The Sierra Madre, but watching this always makes me nostalgic.

I've been meaning to watch this for like 10 years...

 

[StrayKat]

Not a fan. I admit its classic but too cheesy for my taste.

 

[oggbashan]

Not a fan. I admit its classic but too cheesy for my taste.

It's full of quotes...

 

[Bad_Doggie]

One of my top ten favourite films; seen it a dozen times or more.

Which in itself is my definition of a great film; one that you can watch again and again and still get caught up in the characters

The scene where Rick gets the band to play the Marseillaise still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Would love to see it on the big screen.

Woof!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

http://ffilms.org//?s=casablanca

I am surprised at how many people under thirty that have never seen this.

Not Bogart's best..I like Treasure of The Sierra Madre, but watching this always makes me nostalgic.

I have both. You are correct.

I do not like the colorized version.

I still have a soft spot for the days when movie dialog was important...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The Big Sleep

You're cute...

 

[Mockingjay]

Not also a fan but it pisses me out seeing Bogart smoking a million times.

I understand the setting was that way baaack then - the manners, etc. But smoking a million times?! Ugh.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

My mother's family even smoked at meals.


That's probably why I never did.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Whatcha wanna bet that wasn't tea in his glass, either?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My mother's family even smoked at meals.


That's probably why I never did.

My father was the master of adding one more butt to the impossibly highly stacks mountain in the ashtray . . .


when the trash can was withing reaching distance.


I smoked for 50 years - and 58 weeks of them, no cheating.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I learned aim by pissing on butts in the can...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Major Strasser: What is your nationality?



Rick: I'm a drunkard.



Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I am a world citizen.



Now it is time for the horse show...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Junior is looking at the new Dodge Hellcat.


Apparently, his Little Missus is (mostly) agreeable.


In other news, I have cantaloupes on the vine. Never planted any before. If this works, I shall be overrun soon.

 

[StrayKat]

Not also a fan but it pisses me out seeing Bogart smoking a million times.

I understand the setting was that way baaack then - the manners, etc. But smoking a million times?! Ugh.

What setting and what manners? People smoke nowdays too. I smoke.

If he is not blowing that smoke in your face what is there you have the right to be pissed about?

 

[AllyRose]

Casablance > African Queen.

And I agree with Ogg. It's full of great quotes.

 

[RedAllan]

Major Strasser: What is your nationality?



Rick: I'm a drunkard.



Captain Renault: That makes Rick a citizen of the world.

That has got to be my favourite piece of dialogue.

 

[AllyRose]

The way Claude delivered his lines...

Mmm. I'm going to need to sit down.

 

[Que]

Not the best I agree, but a classic.
I have on DVD and a VHS somewhere.
I also heard some years ago that there were thoughts of a remake going around, I hope it never happened, somethings should not be copied.

My original copy was lovingly labeled by hand with the little peel-and-stick letters that came with a 10-pack of blank VHS cassettes. I am still close with my friend John who used to swing by on Saturday nights for Channel 5's "Hollywood Greats"

We were not that interested in the intermission where the making of details went on for a half hour or so, so we would hoof it down to Murph's on the corner for an icy-cold Hires in a glass bottle.

One of the many things bespoiled a few years ago for no good reason by someone with no good reason to be hateful.

I found a real copy of it in a thrift store but lost that to the first girl I got a phone number from. I brought it by her place, and one thing didn't lead to another, yet we never watched it, and she never returned it so I was thrilled to find this online.

I've been meaning to watch this for like 10 years...

Me too; you are welcome!

It's full of quotes...

It's like a Cohen movie, before the brothers were so much as a gleam in their pappy's eye. Hard to believe the movie is 72 years old...

...I remember when the movie was in its mid thirties.

It is dialogue-rich, likely, because it was an adaptation of a play that I am not sure was as well received as the movie. I might be wrong about that.

One of my top ten favourite films; seen it a dozen times or more.

Which in itself is my definition of a great film; one that you can watch again and again and still get caught up in the characters

The scene where Rick gets the band to play the Marseillaise still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

Would love to see it on the big screen.

Woof!

Indeed. Few movies (and books for that matter) are worth having a copy of.

I have both. You are correct.

I do not like the colorized version.

I still have a soft spot for the days when movie dialog was important...

I had pretty much all of Bogart's movies all neatly labeled on commercial breaks that I oh, so carefully paused out. As the second or commercial faded to black I would hit un-pause. If another commercial I had to rewind and wait to pounce again. I EARNED those tapes that these days would be considered some sort of criminal offense. Before Sony argued against fair use in Napster, they argued for fair use in the beta-max case. I hate lawyers even if I do understand and at times abet and co-conspire with them.

I am pleased to say I have always avoided Turner's travesties. Good thing he didn't have the money to by the Louvre. He would have had the Mona Lisa as a leering, smiling, Gif.

Captain Renault: What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?
Rick: My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.
Captain Renault: The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.
Rick: I was misinformed.

Dammit. You beat me to the money quote.

The Big Sleep

You're cute...

Put your lips together and blow. She is the only woman I ever liked the cigarettes and whiskey voice on. Probably because that onscreen chemistry made you want to be Bogart.

Not also a fan but it pisses me out seeing Bogart smoking a million times.

I understand the setting was that way baaack then - the manners, etc. But smoking a million times?! Ugh.

That is exactly where the term "Bogart-ing" a joint comes from. (hat-tip, Botany Boy)

Bogart smoking was the only reason I would have ever considered doing it. I am barely old enough to recall a Kool Cigarettes commercial on television. Even when they banned them everyone smoked on TV. Early product placement.

Not a fan. I admit its classic but too cheesy for my taste.

The ending does ruin the movie. I agree with the premise for the way it ends, but the dialogue is hideously cheese-tastic and the whole thinking for both of us thing makes me wonder how any woman watched that. Different times. I think that dynamic in an unstated form exists even in modern times, but who says it out loud? Ugh

I have unsuccessfully re-written that scene a hundred times.

Casablance > African Queen.

And I agree with Ogg. It's full of great quotes.

Exactly right. African Queen is a better script, but a worse movie. I think it is because the chemistry is off. Bogart liked his gals compliant. Hepburn was always her own person. Hepburn, I couldn't appreciate till I say her with Spencer Tracy. I didn't even know the back-story when I first saw them together but i knew. They sizzle. I was big on unrequited love back then, so I always liked Tracy/Hepburn much more than Bogie/Bacall.

 

[ms_ann_thrope]

I recently saw it on the big screen at an art theater. Hearing all the oft used quotes coming from the characters themselves is a kick.

 

[pointless]

http://ffilms.org//?s=casablanca

I am surprised at how many people under thirty that have never seen this.

Not Bogart's best..I like Treasure of The Sierra Madre, but watching this always makes me nostalgic.

really? you're surprised, are you? hmmph. alright. carry on.

 

[doctor_insanus]

Not also a fan but it pisses me out seeing Bogart smoking a million times.

I understand the setting was that way baaack then - the manners, etc. But smoking a million times?! Ugh.

That's just part of what made Bogey a badass. That, and the Whiskey.

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