The Lighting Effects

Rating: Null/10 (19 April 2011)

Casablanca (1942) was directed by Michael Curtiz and started being filmed right after the Pearl Harbor bombing on December 7, 1941. The movie is about two Germans who were killed in the very beginning in Morocco (Then occupied by France). The main character (Humphrey Bogart) obtained Letters of Transit that he was going to use to escape Morocco before the German invasion. This movie came out in the midst of the U.S. arrival in World War II, and the way it showed how the Nazi's would lose and the American's would win in the movie. At the time, people had no idea who would win the war.
In the very beginning of the film when they first showed Rick's Cafe, they showed police spotlights that flashed by the main door in a very distinct way. Lighting was specifically used later in the film they had Rick behind a curtain and you could see his shadow and all of the motions that he was making too with inverse lighting effects.