Casablanca - What's Your Favourite Scene in the Movie?
Casablanca - What's Your Favourite Scene in the Movie?
A member of NT has posted that I should stick to "olde black and white movies and dead actors and actresses" so I thought I would post this article about an "olde" black and white movie with dead actors and actresses. Casablanca has long been my favourite movie. The main reason I like it so much is because of the repartee between Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Captain Louie Renault (Claude Rains).
It has always ranked high on "best movie" lists. Even though it was released before a lot of you were born, since it was one of the best movies ever made, and since many people have chosen it to be among their most favourite movies, I hope that you will indicate YOUR favourite scene in the movie. There are so many great moments, so many memorable quotations from them, that I know it will be hard to choose.
I have a favourite scene, a most poignant moment. It is after Ilse (Ingrid Bergman) has asked Sam (Dooley Wilson) to play As Time Goes By and when he does, Rick comes down the stairs, over to the piano and says: "Sam, I told you never to play...." and at that momentous instant he sees Ilsa. I cannot find a screen shot of that instant, but if you can open this link, it goes through that scenario:
Now, what about your favourite quotation from the movie - again there are so many that have been repeated over the years. In fact, 5 of them are included in the American Film Institute's list of 100 best movie quotations. What is my favourite? It's so hard to choose, but if I am limited to only one it would be Rick telling Ilse: "We'll always have Paris".
An interesting fact about the movie is that a number of actors were actually refugees from occupied Europe, and the tears that flowed from the eyes of Yvonne (Madeleine Lebeau) were real when La Marseillaise was being played.
So please tell us your favourite scene and your favourite quote from Casablanca.
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Here's looking at you, cinephiles.
Here's Looking at you kid.
"Here's looking at you, kid" is number 5 on the American Film Institute's list of 100 most famous movie quotes of all time. Rick says it four times in the movie.
This was the final scene and as I interpret it in that instance, was Ricks last "I love you" to Ilsa.
Sorry, Let's Get Lost. I think I should put a banner of this every time I post an article. A lot of members already know it. I'm an expat Canadian living in China. I came here to teach English and stayed. The problem is that China has blocked YouTube, FaceBook, Twitter, and various other web sites, so I am unable to open what you posted, and since you did not identify it with text I cannot tell what it is. However, it is my responsibility to know and moderate what is posted on my articles so if you would, please identify what you posted.
John has good taste in scenes Buzz. That's the one where she tells Rick how she met Lazlo and why she married him. It's the scene that sets up the whole Rick/Ilsa conflict.
My favorite, of course, is the scene where the whole bar (with the exception of a few German soldiers who preferred the Horst Wessel song) gets very involved in singing Les Marseillaises.
Another interesting fact is that, at the time the movie was being made, she was married to the man who played the croupier.
Good comment, TTGA. John? I don't see his comment.