Play it again, Sam....
"Exactly just what kind of man is Captain Renault?"
"Just like every other man, only more so..."
Casablanca was aired this fine, rainy, blowy evening. It doesn't get any better than this(unless you count viewing it next to Diane Farr, who is only humoring you till it's over and she can have Barnum and Bailey center ring type sex afterward.)
Authenticity
Please note that this film was released in 1942 and shot in 1941. In a tension building scene taking place inside Rick's Cafe Americain' , German soldiers break out, rather boisterously, into a german drinking song. The French stage entertainers counter by starting to sing La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, and all the French patrons join in, drowning out the Germans. The camera focuses singly on several of the French singers, and they are singing with all heart and soul, tears streaming down their faces. Great acting, huh? Nope. Those actors happened to be displaced or expatriated French, and every tear was real. Not even the director of the film anticipated this reaction to be captured on film.
Man. I could take over for that Introduction Guy on American Movie Classics Channel.....
"Just like every other man, only more so..."
Casablanca was aired this fine, rainy, blowy evening. It doesn't get any better than this(unless you count viewing it next to Diane Farr, who is only humoring you till it's over and she can have Barnum and Bailey center ring type sex afterward.)
Authenticity
Please note that this film was released in 1942 and shot in 1941. In a tension building scene taking place inside Rick's Cafe Americain' , German soldiers break out, rather boisterously, into a german drinking song. The French stage entertainers counter by starting to sing La Marseillaise, the French National Anthem, and all the French patrons join in, drowning out the Germans. The camera focuses singly on several of the French singers, and they are singing with all heart and soul, tears streaming down their faces. Great acting, huh? Nope. Those actors happened to be displaced or expatriated French, and every tear was real. Not even the director of the film anticipated this reaction to be captured on film.
Man. I could take over for that Introduction Guy on American Movie Classics Channel.....
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