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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone is in love with Rick, Aug 27 2010

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bernie "webviator" (Arlington, Texas) - See all my reviews
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1942 the Nazi occupation of France. Refugees must take a long and torturers rout Through Casa Blanca on their way to America; there "Everybody comes to Rick's." Rick's is a nightclub and a way station for a chance to get to America. Rick is played by Humphrey Bogart.

Here we also stay for a while to watch a drama unfold. There are overlapping stories. One of a young couple trying to get to America and the girl wondering if a girl should have to do something naughty was wondering what would happen if her husband, "a boy in many ways", would find out? A second rate crook (Peter Lorre) obtains something of value at the expense of two German curriers. A Police Captain (Claude Rains) is shocked to find there is gambling going on at Rick's as he stuffs his pocket with his gambling earnings. Many other stories surround the main theme of a love triangle that started in Paris and now can mean so much to individuals or the effort for freedom.

Will the Nazi's win their prize?
Will Capt. Renault get the young girl?
Will Rick get away with Ilsa?

This film has become quite a classic. There are many quotes and misquotes attributed to the film. You will find your self kibitzing. One memorable seen for all is the showdown where the Germans are singing "Watch on the Rhine" and Yvonne (Madeleine LeBeau) over powers them leading the "La Marseillaise."

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I saw the Blu-ray version. Cannot tell if it is Blu-ray or just the big screen but many details are all of a sudden visible. It does not add to the story but is improves the viewing experience.

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5.0 out of 5 stars CASABLANCA, Jun 4 2010

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This is a clasic movie, what can I say about it? It is one of the best ever.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The great "Casablanca", April 23 2012

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One could say that "Casablanca at its core is about love and romance", Rick and Elsa's time in Paris is at the core of their wonderful love affair. But Casablanca is much more then an ordinary romantic fling. The lovers who met in Paris found things about each other that excited them and made them yearn for an even more intimate relationship; but ironically what they didn't know about each other set the stage for a far more profoundly consequential development one which neither of them would have initially chosen.

The conclusion of Casablanca can be characterized but Rick words to Elsa, "remember we will always have Paris"; for it the essence of what this extraordinary movie is about and that is that the passion and feelings that the two lovers felt for each other paled in comparison to the profound cause that Elsa's husband was fighting for i.e., the defeat of the Nazi cancer that was sweeping across Europe, and that it was ultimately the extraordinary character of Rick, cynical, selfish Rick, that moved him ever reluctantly and sadly to conclude that Elsa's husband needed her to continue his cause and that cause was more important and profound than an even a loving relationship between a man and a women.

One could say that "Casablanca at its core is about love and romance", Rick and Elsa's time in Paris is at the core of their wonderful love affair. But the core theme of Casablanca is much more than about an great romantic interlude; it about the character of man who was moved to give up the love of his life for a cause, that sadly he found far more worthy.

You don't see that strength of character very often in so called "real life" and this is what separates Casablanca from other great movies and makes it perhaps the greatest in the history of cinema.

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