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communist propaganda would even black list people that were justified to be contributing in this idea. The final straw that really had Paramount going under was the control of their stars that were in the films. When they couldn’t get any lower television appears and this was just the icing on the…

The film starts with two police stating that two german officers were murdered on a train heading to Casablanca. The murderer asks Rick Blaine to hold the papers he had stolen from the officers. Rick Blaine runs a nightclub and in the beginning of World War I. The nightclub has become a safe place for refugees looking to escape to America. One day Rick’s rival Victor Laszlo and his wife Ilsa, Rick’s true love who deserted him when the Nazis invaded Paris, show up in the nightclub. Rick is very…

Casablanca as a film pioneered many cinematic techniques and aspects of film, used acting techniques that hadn’t been used previously such as by Stanislavski’s method, and utilized technical aspects of film rarely used previously, and only used in “big budget” films of the day like “Metropolis”. Casablanca used cinematic techniques that had rarely been used before, such as tracking shots, lighting based on day and night, and close-ups. The film has actors channeling genuine emotion rather than…

In the film Casablanca the songs played in Rick’s Cafe have incredible significance both later in the film and outside the film in the real world. When the viewer is first welcomed into the Cafe the song playing is foreshadowing for Rick unexpectedly meet Ilsa in Casablanca, and when Rick first walks into the bar the song playing foretells Ugarte’s future situation. The opening lyrics to “As Time Goes By” are proof that Rick and Ilsa are not meant to be together. When the Germans start to sing…

I Think This is The Beginning of A Beautiful Paper The movie Casablanca is directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman play Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund respectively, two main characters of the film. They are supported by Claude Rains, who was cast as Captain Jean Renault, and Paul Henreid, who played the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo. Casablanca appears to fit the film noir genre at the beginning because…

In 2013, George Zimmerman began the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Today, according to www.pbs.org, 51% of white adults between the ages of 18-36 say they support this movement, while 49% say they do not. Much of the increase in support for this movement and others has come from celebrities who help gather rallies or spread information about these types of movements. One of these celebrities is the genius behind Purple Rain, Prince Rogers Nelson, who has helped this movement thrive with his…

Prince Rogers Nelson, also known as “Prince” and “the artist formerly known as Prince”, inspired generations and challenged society’s preconceived notions of African Americans, sexuality, and gender. He was born in Minnesota on June 7, 1958 and died at the age of 57 on April 21, 2016. His parents were Mattie Shaw and John L. Nelson, and the couple separated when he was young. Both his mother and father have passed away: his father in 2001 and his mother a year later. During his life, Prince…

The final product was only successful because Nichols (and screenwriter-producer Ernest Lehman) were willing to take risks. On March 5th, 1964, Warner Brothers purchased the rights to Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? for $500,000 at the time ($3.8 million now). This was a highly controversial move on the part of Warner Brothers executive, Jack L. Warner, as Who’s Afraid of…

SUPERNATURAL ELEMENTS IN PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK AND THE LAST WAVE Australian cinema has started to gain succes at the beginning of the 1970s. As well as the films that are screened in succession demonstrate varities in Australia, Australian cinema awake the attention in Hollywood. Picnic at Hanging Rock is a film that directed by Peter Weir in 1975 and is acclaimed worldwide. Actually this mysterious film is the adaptation of an Australian historical novel by Joan Lindsay. The plot is…

Classic American Every day our lives are molded by those around us. We grow up learning to live like those who raise us. We see their happiness, hardships, and everything else that comes between. All of the things that happen to them, we take and make our own or try to do better than, but more importantly we learn what life is really about. Our lives would never be the same if we never saw what life is supposed to be about from those who influence us, and we only saw the easiness of some parts…