casablanca

Rating: Null/10 (26 April 2004)

The writers of Casablanca put the history into the movie which I found was unique, because how many writers do that today? Not many. One thing the writers could have done was show more of the history instead of talking about it. The war shoots were incredible because they looked like real war footage. Rick (Humphrey Bogart) was a young man who ran away from the law and government once in America and wasn't afraid to loose all of his money and/or his life in Casablanca. Rick (Bogart) plays a big role in the movie, in a way he was a symbol, a symbol of freedom. The Captain Renault (Claude Rains) also is a symbol, he is a symbol of command and conquer, meaning he can control every one and everything. In Casablanca his role is an officer that make women sleep with him in order to allow them out of Casablanca. He even broke couples, and husband and wives break up because he would only give them one visa allowing only one of them to go. By him doing that caused a great love to come and then go which comes to bite Rick (Bogart) butt, So Rick (Bogart) prevents it from happening again to the newlyweds. Rick (Bogart) was a softy and now wanted what was once his, by setting him up and ends up helping in the end. The last scene was also a symbol because one, the part where Captain Renault (Rains) was going to drink water that had a label that said `VISHI' which means it was French, and he throws it away showing Rick (Bogart) that he is a freedom fighter. Another symbol part was when his ex-lover Ilsa Laszlo (Ingrid Bergman) and her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid) walk into the darky fog, this means that she is out of Rick's (Bogart) life forever, And the finally symbol part was when the Captain Renault (Rains) and Rick (Bogart) walk into the fog saying one of the many famous lines ` this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship'. Other noticeable famous line is `here's looking at you kid'.