Sequence Analysis for Casablanca “Play it again Sam” Shot 1 - Establishing shot shows Selective focus on Sam as piano wheeled in focus‚ within Ricks bar - Black and white color scheme with hard lighting and low-key illumination effectively recreates bar image - Sam face fronting camera‚ well lit‚ Ilsa back to camera - Background out of focus‚ thus centering the scene around Sam and Ilsa - Diegetic sound of conversation between sam and Ilsa - 2 planes of action -Sam and Ilsa conversation
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Jimmy Gorman 1206 Wellesley ct Lower Gwynedd‚ PA 19002 OWI Dear Warner Brothers Pictures‚ My name is Jimmy Gorman with the Motion Picture Bureau of the OWI. I am glad to be the one to address you about your latest movie called Casablanca. I would like to start by congratulating you on the approval of your film. We will definitely be releasing it to the public soon. I very much enjoyed the story as well as some of your styles and techniques. I analyzed it myself a picked up on some
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features of this scene amalgamate to make it a powerful microcosm of the film by both displaying and representing the main theme of Blake’s inner struggle to escape his thoughts and reconnect with reality. Through the effective use of mis-en-scene‚ cinematography‚ sound‚ and editing‚ this scene demonstrates a unique significance that makes it stand out from the rest of the film. In this scene‚ mis-en-scene functions to propel the viewer into focusing on the development of Blake as an alienated character
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Catherine Cox October 10‚ 2011 Casablanca Movie Review Grade 9 drama A The movie watched from September 26th to the 28th in Mr. Sheridan’s class was Casablanca. It was produced by Hal .B. Wallis‚ directed by Michael Curtiz with music done by Max Steiner. It is based on a play written by Murray Burnett and Joan Allison called “Everybody comes to Rick’s”‚ a contract was signed by the original writers‚ giving Warner Bros. complete ownership of the play. Warner Bros. then hired Julius J. Epstein
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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
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"Casablanca:" A New Perspective Throughout history‚ the film industry has seen many directing styles and techniques. The early part of the 20th century saw a factory style of film production‚ but as the years went by‚ director’s began to employ new and untried techniques in their pictures. One such technique which these director’s implemented was a new approach to the use of the camera and camera angles. "Casablanca‚" an Academy Award winning film of 1942 saw director Michael Curtiz manipulate
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Citizen Kane-Cinematography Citizen Kane is about a man who is given the chance to be successful and he is but he dies with his last words being rosebud but what does this mean‚ people are trying to find out. In the end we find out it’s the sledge‚ which symbolises his childhood that he lost. Orson Welles created a new style of filmmaking by as he said himself in interview “ignorance.... sheer ignorance” One innovative aspect Citizen Kane introduced was deep focus because in lots of scenes
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begins the journey that is Michael Curtiz’s 1943 film‚ “Casablanca”: “With the coming of the second World War many eyes in imprisoned Europe turned hopefully‚ or desperately‚ to the freedom of the Americas. Lisbon became the great embarkation point‚ but not everyone could get to Lisbon directly‚ and so a tortuous‚ roundabout‚ refugee trail sprang up; Paris to Marseille‚ across the Mediterranean to Oran‚ then by train‚ or auto‚ or foot to Casablanca in French Morocco.” Last stop: Rick’s Café Americain—December
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In the 1942 classic‚ Casablanca‚ Rick is the American owner of the prominent bar‚ Café Américain‚ where people from all over the Moroccan city come to gamble and make shady deals to escape the place. Despite all of the drama and variety of people that pass through‚ however‚ Rick has remained largely uninvolved‚ maintaining a strictly neutral stance with all who know him. This all changes‚ however‚ the day his ex-lover and her husband stop in. Despite his character’s initial detachment‚ Bogart allows
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Casablanca Critique The story about Rick Blaine and his American bar in Casablanca‚ and how he falls into such a strong relationship with Ilsa is wonderful. They met in Paris and had the most wonderful time but they had to escape. The morning they had to leave the girl‚ Ilsa‚ is not there. She had sent him a letter saying that she was sorry she couldn’t be with him‚ and Rick was feeling like his inside had been ripped out. Feeling very betrayed by Ilsa‚ Rick being a very hard headed character
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