I would give the film a 4/10 was an intriguing story but the other areas lacked compared to the other films on this course and can be hard to follow sometimes, but is forgivable baring in mind how old it is. My personal favourite scene is the plane scene where Rick tells llsa that she is flying without him as it was a really impactful scene with lots of emotion.
iconic shot:
9/10 – For me the most memorable scene was the final one where Rick Helps Ilsa and Lazlo escape Casablanca from the Nazi’s. This is so prominent for me as it is an emotional comeuppance of Ricks closed of nature and reveals his true intentions on how he loves her and wants Ilsa and Lazlo take make a difference in the war by escaping to America.
rating- 5/10
i thought that movie was good for an old movie, however it was bot very clear on what was happening in the exact moment. it had a really good storyline to it because of the war happening at that period.
my most memroble scene when the main woman first showed up in the movie and everyone was in shock
Invisible style storytelling – The treatment of space in classical Hollywood strives to overcome or conceal the two-dimensionality of film and is strongly centered upon the human body. The majority of shots in a classical film focus on gestures or facial expressions (medium-long and medium shots). – Gives a sense of Verisimilitude, continuity editing.
Continuity editing – the process, in film and video creation, of combining more-or-less related shots, or different components cut from a single shot, into a sequence to direct the viewer’s attention to a pre-existing consistency of story across both time and physical location. – Directs audiences attention, narrative continuity.
1930-1947
(The Golden Age of Hollywood)
Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) was associated with some famous epics, producing both versions of Mutiny on the Bounty (1935, 1962) and Ben-Hur (1925, 1959) and Musicals like ‘The Wizard of Oz.
RKO produced the well-known Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers series of musicals and the early films of Katharine Hepburn, including Bringing Up Baby (1938).
20th Century Fox produced mainly westerns, musicals, screen biographies, and religious epics.
Warner Bros. turned to more socially realistic storylines. Because of its many films about gangsters, Warner Bros. soon became known as a “gangster studio”.
Paramount Pictures was well known in the era for its comedies, both the sophisticated sex comedies and the crazier, anarchic works.
2. Vertical Integration enabled studios to achieve control over the entire film industry and this studio system (from the 1930s to the1950s) affected the way films were made and the way they were watched. Films were made very cheaply during the studio system.
Block booking is a system of selling multiple films to a theatre as a unit. Block booking was the prevailing practice in the Hollywood studio system from the turn of the 1930s until it was outlawed by the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Paramount Pictures, Inc. (1948).
3.The original Studio system collapse – In the end, the Court ruled in United States v. Paramount on May 4, 1948, finding that the studios had violated anti-trust laws, in a devastating blow to five major studios and three smaller ones. The case had roots dating back to 1921, when concerns first arose about the studios and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
4. The Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the start of World War II on the European front were some of the most impactful historical events of 1930-1947.