Casablanca: Film Critique
Casablanca response
Casablanca is a romantic-melodrama that is a heart-warming, funny, and for professor Kredell it “brings tears to his eyes”. The Film Casablanca explores the themes of sense of duty, sacrifices, and letting go of past love, all in chaotic and disastrous world. Casablanca was set in Moscow during the Second World War. The film follows an American club owner Rick Blaine and his journey reuniting with past love IIsa Lund. The director Michael Curtiz chose eliding duration technique because Casablanca took place at least in a couple days. Within the first minute of the film he uses montage a form of elide duration, Michael Curtiz uses montage to show the events happening and why Casablanca attracted many different people. Having the montage in the beginning sets the viewer on what kind of people come to Casablanca. Apart from Casablanca’s great plot and acting was the editing, Owens Mark does a terrific job. His cuts were smooth and portrayed the emotion the viewer were supposed to feel during that scene. The cuts that stuck with me from the film was the scene of the plane landing and the crowd watching it, in that moment watching the scene looking at peoples emotion you see that they want to be on that plane. Owen Mark also uses the dissolve transition in many ways, in the beginning of the movie he uses it to show a change of location, but towards the middle of the film he uses the dissolve to signal the flashback of Ricks and IIsa romance in Paris. Towards the end of the film Michael Curtiz uses a continuity editing famous technique in today’s film the 180 degree system, he uses it when rick is trying to explain to IIsa why she is going with Victor Laszlo.
Casablanca is a romantic-melodrama that is a heart-warming, funny, and for professor Kredell it “brings tears to his eyes”. The Film Casablanca explores the themes of sense of duty, sacrifices, and letting go of past love, all in chaotic and disastrous world. Casablanca was set in Moscow during the Second World War. The film follows an American club owner Rick Blaine and his journey reuniting with past love IIsa Lund. The director Michael Curtiz chose eliding duration technique because Casablanca took place at least in a couple days. Within the first minute of the film he uses montage a form of elide duration, Michael Curtiz uses montage to show the events happening and why Casablanca attracted many different people. Having the montage in the beginning sets the viewer on what kind of people come to Casablanca. Apart from Casablanca’s great plot and acting was the editing, Owens Mark does a terrific job. His cuts were smooth and portrayed the emotion the viewer were supposed to feel during that scene. The cuts that stuck with me from the film was the scene of the plane landing and the crowd watching it, in that moment watching the scene looking at peoples emotion you see that they want to be on that plane. Owen Mark also uses the dissolve transition in many ways, in the beginning of the movie he uses it to show a change of location, but towards the middle of the film he uses the dissolve to signal the flashback of Ricks and IIsa romance in Paris. Towards the end of the film Michael Curtiz uses a continuity editing famous technique in today’s film the 180 degree system, he uses it when rick is trying to explain to IIsa why she is going with Victor Laszlo.