I saw Casablanca for the first time last night

[BeatleBoot]

on PBS...

I don't know why, but I just never saw it before. Strange.

Ingrid Bergman - oh la la!!!

:loveya:

I fell in love with her in For Whom the Bell Tolls...

And don't get me started with Isabella Rosselini

:loveya:

(Oh, it was a great movie too!)

[Nikepallas]

1. I know the feeling I want to watch it but something in my mind says

"save it. If you watch it then it is one less classic for you to discover". Isn't that stupid.

[charlyvi]

2. It's better the second and third time

so watch away!!!! You'll always have Paris.

[Feathered Fish]

3. You need

to discover the classics sometime!
;-)

[BeatleBoot]

6. Exactly. It was the perfect time to watch last night...

We were pooped out from the holiday...roaring fire in the fireplace...the Beaujolais Nouveau poured into a glass...

Just perfect.

[tigereye]

16. oh I am so glad for you

it is always a fun revelation, especially if you haven't seen it for a while. And a great tearjerker. Odd that it was so under-rated at the time.

[brainshrub]

4. I watched it for the first time about a year ago.

It was a great movie.

[K8-EEE]

5. Wonderful Cinematography In That Film...

That's what I never get sick of. The way they lit Ingrid! BEAUTIFUL!

You must read her auto-biog....she said when she landed in Hollywood (having been in some hit films in Sweden) they tried to make her over and she wouldn't let them. They wanted to thin her eyebrows, bleach her hair, get a nose job, they wanted her to lose 20 pounts and she was almost on the plane home when a director or someone came to her defense and said, just lipstick...that's it! Leave her alone!

She was definitely the least made-up actress of that era, and her clothes in Casablanca were so simple and beautiful. You could wear them all today and they'd be perfect.

[BeatleBoot]

7. I loved the use of Ceiling Fans in the scenes

And how they related to the airplane propeller at the end of the movie...

What do you call that again...my film class in college was years ago....


On edit: Mrs BeatleBoot just yelled to me that it was "a recurring theme"....

[K8-EEE]

9. Yeah!

I had film history also, like...recurring visual theme?

Nobody making that film thought it was anything special....they all thought it would just come and go. certainly there is something magical about how it all came together.

[Kahuna]

8. IMHO, Bergman is the greatest actress during my life time, bar none..

If anybody thinks there's been a better actresss, I would like to know her name.

On second thought... Greta Garbo was great too.

[K8-EEE]

10. McCarthyists Obsessed On Her Big Time

Can't think of anybody better than Ingrid, with that body of work too.

Remember how the McCarthyists (50's Freepers) made such a BFD about her running off with Rosselini? They literally had Senate hearings denouncing her!! She was banned from coming here for a long time. There's always been wacky freeper types in this country.

When you read the transcripts in her auto biog of those hearings, it is really wild. Although then you look at the Dixie Chick bru haha, it's pretty depressing.

[Kahuna]

13. Liberal artists are always persecuted in the USA... Chaplin, Bergman,..

Hollywood Ten, Lenny Bruce, Hugh Hefner. The list is very long.

[skygazer]

11. One of my all time favorites

I can watch that movie over and over again. I find I pick up more delightful little nuances every time. There are so many nice little inclusions that don't necessarily have to be there but serve to round out the whole so nicely - the Frenchman and Italian who are constantly bickering, the young Bulgarian couple, the pickpocket.

Great movie - I may have to watch it again today....

[Aristus]

12. Wonderful movie!

"I am shocked, SHOCKED to find out there's gambling going on in this establishment!"

"Major, here are your winnings."

"...oh, thank you......"

[Oeditpus Rex]

14. Some "Casablanca" trivia

Howard Koch, who co-wrote the screenplay, also adapted H.G. Wells' "War of the Worlds" into the radio script for Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre.

Talk about contrast.

Anyway... Hollyweird wanted to "fix" Bergman's nose? That was the greatest nose in nose history!

[outraged2]

20. more trivia

Ronald Reagan was originally slated to play Rick.

[Hailtothechimp]

15. My favorite line from the movie.....

a woman asks Rick (Bogart's character) is she can see him tonight, and he says "I never make plans that far in advance." Perfect.

[tigereye]

17. yes it has so many great lines

[Left Is Write]

18. One of my favorites.

[Lisa]

19. many of the extras singing the French national anthem ...

... were refuges who had recently escaped from Europe. They really are crying.