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Casablanca - YouTube Version (Patreon)

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2024-01-25 13:00:03
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No Sync Required Version: https://cinebingers.ca/E2UNnYE6W3 - For Patreon tier "Bingers on The Wall" or higher.

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Casablanca | Canadian First Time Watching | Movie Reaction | Movie Review | Movie Commentary

Full length/Unedited: https://www.patreon.com/Cinebinge https://www.instagram.com/cinebingechannel/ Merch: https://www.cinebinge.ca BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/cinebinge.bsky.social Simone & George are reacting to Casablanca for the first time! Canadians React! 00:00 - Intro 01:42 - Casablanca 27:25 - Discussion Subscribe | Like | Share | Comment Early Access & Full Reaction available on Patreon! #moviereaction #moviereview #casablanca Instagram: @cinebingechannel Instagram: @simone.swan Movie Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakYDfILlxWOp8Rwm60i6s31 The Witcher Reactions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakPpBOOSyThaEu9GBs7h5af Squid Games Reaction: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHakSIA0kJIJkUmcxmms0m_Q0 Band of Brothers: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHanBD7cksu-blgCyxZOJrgT0 Blind Playthrough: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLN1ts9cZbHan3qPNF7wNbOvo653VjhxOR

Comments

Jeff K

HELL YES. My absolute favorite film of all-time, and IMO, the greatest of all-time. Minimally, I firmly believe it has the best dialogue ever written.

redddfer44

A A A A A A A A A A A A

Tim Nicolle

So glad you've done this film- my favourite by miles!

Byron Abrahams
>>127895879

With you on all points. A perfect masterpiece. The very fact that it has spawned endless quotes for 80 years....

Josh B

Yes. Also my fav of all time, or at least top 5. Dozens of brilliant, quotable lines.

Rachel W

Simone was born in the wrong decade. She looks fab in those 40s clothes!

JakeyShakeyBakeyBoy

Great movie and glad you got around to this one. The soundtrack that gets me reminiscing and commiserating is (oddly lol) The Imitation Game’s original score by Alexandre Desplat. Excellent movie and definitely worth a watch! The score is haunting and hopeful at the same time, in an odd way

Jeff K
>>127897060

And meanwhile, I can only imagine how stoked George was to be able to put himself as Rick, because it's impossible not to feel and look suave as fuck when you're dressed like Rick Blaine.

michael clarke

for me its the red hot chilli peppers album californication. a lot of music reminds me of her, being in high school, music was really special then, but probably that album most of all. she died tragically. the feel of the album is fairly somber, but for that reason especially. if you guys are doing the classics, should check out the original psycho.

Zero Cochrane

“ Of all the gin joints in all the world she has to walk into mine.”

Elder Lyons
>>127897060

hahah i mean nothing stopping her from just dressing like that anyways, its not like a clothing stores checks ID and stops you from buying a blouse if youre from the 90s instead of the 40s.

Hamesque

After that Chun-li move did so bad they went a really different direction on their movie about Blanka's origin.

Matthew Wabals

FUCK YA !!!! First lost in Translation now this your just hitting all my top 10’s

Happy Hanukkah

What watch? Casablanca watch! Such much?!!! :-) [ADDED:] (I'm very pleased with this selection. There is so much history and movie trivia one could mention regarding this movie that I won't. To y'all's great relief :-) .)

punterjoe

Google "Hays Code" - the self-censorship Hollywood used to keep the government & 'morality groups' from interfering were pretty strict. In fact, Casablanca pushed a few boundaries - Rick having a relationship with a married woman caused some grief until they convinced the censors that she thought she was a widow. One of the other rules was "crime does not pay" (which they completely flaunted in 'It's a Wonderful Life') Not recommending it for the channel, but 'pre-code' Hollywoor movies could get pretty racy - even by today's standards! Want to see a 'modern' silent film that was NOT The Artist? Check out Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" 😁

mojo shivers

Now that you guys watched this, you’re ready to watch Out Cold (2001) the snowboarding comedy that loosely lifts the main romantic subplot from Casablanca. They didn’t even bother to change the main couple’s names from Rick and Ilsa. Lol It’s weird when your throwaway comedy just has so many references to Casablanca Seriously, though, one of the better classic films. I’ve watched many so-called great old films, but this is the only one I’ve watched over five times and it’s only gotten better with each viewing.

Mathew Hill

100% with Simone on the thruple solution. Polyamory for the win.

Jeff K

George might be right about actors having clauses to only be good guys, but Bogart certainly didn’t. He’s played some heroic characters, but just as many unscrupulous ones, and some straight up villains. One of my favorite actors ever. You guys should watch Treasure of the Sierra Madre for what I consider his best (and most complex) performance.

Happy Hanukkah
>>127897060

Jeff: Except that his hangdog expression here is more evocative of Peter Lorre. Forgive me, George! :-)

MikeBdrx

1940s Simone commands extra simpage.

Michael

A great classic movie, and also a great double feature with one of my other favorite movies you've seen: Children of Men. The latter uses the same basic framework of some plot points: a depressed and disenfranchised lead is visited by a former lover from a more rebellious and idealistic past; that lover still fights for a cause and asks the lead for transit paperwork, which pulls them into caring again and revealing that the cool and detached exterior masks deep wells of emotion and pain that the adventure helps them work through.

Adam Wetstein

"scissor me timbers " lesbian pirate film

michael clarke
>>127898472

nah. the remake was bad. im pretty sure thats when everyone turned on vaughn. i know they pretty much did it shot for shot, but you arent going to achieve hitchcock.... so why? why did they do that?

Michael Kemmet

Best looking Cinebinge thumbnail ever. :)

Happy Hanukkah
>>127898472

But it's in color! Nah, I fully* agree with you. (* Except for the Vaughn part, which I have no idea about. In fact, I had completely forgotten he starred in this.)

Chris Bruneau

it is import to note, that when this movie was made, victory over the Nazis was not assured. So, it was great propaganda, and one of the greatest films EVER made!!!

Alexander Sparf

If you want another classic movie featuring Claude Rains (Captain Renault), I highly recommend checking out The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938). One of my favourites.

Stephen S

This movie was released like a year and half before D-day so right in the middle of WW2

Mark McConnell

Ilsa Lund, the only woman to rival Simone’s beauty.

Ken Schneyer

I love you guys like Simone loves Victor Laszlo. ;)

Happy Hanukkah
>>127936865

If I may add more context: The movie takes place in December 1941 and was released in January 1943. (i) The characters in the movie have already experienced (close-up or not) two years of war (from September 1939)* (ii) In the movie, the US is still not at war (Pearl Harbor presumably takes place immediately after the movie ends) (iii) Real-life Americans were already at war for a year upon the movie's release (iv) The movie was released on the heels of the first American land involvement in the Euro-Med theater (November 1942's Allied invasion of French North Africa). (* One can only wonder about the two characters George noticed at 3:30.)

Happy Hanukkah
>>127933817

One might almost conclude that great art/entertainment is more effective than preachiness!

ShoNuff3000

No one! No one!? No one saw the 1952 sequel? Rio de Janeiro where Rick & Louis finally fall in love and live happily ever after.

ShoNuff3000

The only thing I've ever learned from watching Cinebinge is bad guys like milk.

Kron0n

Cooper Temple Clause - Blind Pilots, reminds me of the first person i ever fell in love with :( Loved it. Haven't listened to it for 20 years but I still remember it.

Happy Hanukkah

/sings loudly, off-key, and drunkenly "Claude Rains was the invisible man!"

JBK405

You made a joke in the opening about the cast on the poster looking likes spies, then said maybe people just dressed like that back then. You were actually correct! The idea of Spies/Private Detectives wearing a trenchcoat and fedora comes from the films of this era because they were the standard outerwear for middle-class men on an average day. In that outfit you instantly blend in with a crowd, so spies/PIs wore them when they're supposed to come across as inconspicuous. But then they fell OUT of style after the '50s, so when people from the '60s and later watch The Classic Spy Dramas it looks like a Spy Costume. This lead to jokes and references of suspicious characters looking instantly noticeable and out-of-place by wearing trenchcoats at the beach and such. Humphrey Bogart himself is one of the foundations of this mental image from his role in "The Maltese Falcon" (Which I also HEAVILY recommend. I think you two will love it). He spends much of the film in a trenchcoat and fedora, which at the time would make him look like an average guy, but now when people watch The Classic Film they think "Wow, he looks like a Private Eye". I think the modern equivalent would be somebody in a business suit talking on a cell phone. If you passed by that guy on the street you wouldn't give him a second look.

JoeNotCharles
>>127936865

Many (most?) of the European actors were actual war refugees, which is one reason the emotions in the French anthem theme hit so hard.

JoeNotCharles
>>127936865

Also the actor who played Major Strasser, Conrad Veidt, was one of the biggest stars of German film before the war. He left Germany because he refused to denounce his Jewish wife, and instead devoted himself to making anti-Nazi films in Britain and America. One of his German silent movies, The Man Who Laughs, was the visual inspiration for The Joker.

scott melton

"The Big Sleep" is also a classic: Bogart/Bacall, screenplay by William Faulkner. Some of the snappiest dialog ever.

Happy Hanukkah
>>127954771

Y'all read JBK's entire comment. But just in case you don't, here's the TLDR: "I heavily recommend The Maltese Falcon." :-)

Jeff K
>>127958195

YES. A lot of people would probably put Maltese Falcon as Bogart's best private detective film, but Big Sleep is easily my preference because the dialogue is just crackling.

Jeff K
>>127898472

Vince Vaughn was such a terrible choice to play Norman Bates. I say that as someone who typically enjoys Vince, but... man. Norman is supposed to be meek, and easy to dismiss as a threat. Hard to do with a big 6-6 dude like Vince Vaughn. He's a good actor, but sheesh, what a poor casting decision.

Jeff K
>>127936865

As many times as I've seen this film, and even with at least some familiarity of The Man Who Laughs and the name Conrad Veidt, and that film being the inspiration for the Joker, I somehow never realized that was him. His story is pretty damned incredible.

Jeff K
>>127947705

Speaking of the Team Victor/Team Rick thing, boy am I glad they watched this before they inevitably watch When Harry Met Sally, given that movie completely spoils the end of Casablanca (if you can consider a movie made 40 years after Casablanca talking about its plot "spoiling" it).

Matthew Johnson

George as Bogart in the thumbnail = total smokeshow

Peter Dillard

I'm so glad you watched this; it's a classic. Simone noticed the lack of 'I love you's between Ilsa and Lazlo but did not mention the different kisses. A number of movies from this time had the non-stop dialogue you mentioned including the comedy 'His Girl Friday' which I'd recommend I like SImone's idea of a thruple but too advanced for the time :-)

Zinphad
>>127910179

Indeed, if Bogie went through with the underhanded plan we were led to believe he was doing, the code would have had him not benefit from it.

Kinokind
>>127958195

Both are wonderful, although "The Big Sleep" always leaves one going "That was great, but what?"

Kinokind

It's interesting to watch different reactors seeing the film. Many reactors speak more than one language, and have been able to translate various background conversations. Because the cast was made up of real international refugees (yes, even the evil Germans) they spoke many languages - no bad phonetic imitations here. So far reactors have translated Russian, Spanish, and now Cantonese background conversations.

Kinokind
>>127938508

Victor was obviously the best choice, but a number of critics have pointed out that he's the most boringly two-dimensional character. He's altruistic, noble, brave and kinda tedious. Still, he's perfect for what he is. We also need to remember that they were writing the screenplay as they went along, so the actors didn't know how to play it, since they didn't know who was to end up with Ilsa.

Joshua M Freeman

When you stop to think that this film was made when the fate of the world was balanced on a razor's edge, and had the Allies lost everyone involved in its production would have been executed... I get chills.

Jonathan Wyman

This film has some of the most spectacular black and white photography ever. Several scenes are filmed in almost total shadow and many scenes are anchored by shadows projected on the walls.

Jeff K
>>127958195

Including the author of the novel, Raymond Chandler (who famously said, when asked what happened, that even he didn't know).

JoeNotCharles
>>127983164

That was pretty standard actually. Black and white is what they had, and they got really good at working with it. There are a lot of films that went way farther in making dramatic statements with light and shadow - that's what Film Noir is named for!

JoeNotCharles
>>127983164

Which reminds me, a great followup to this is The Third Man, set (and filmed) just AFTER the war, making it one of the first cold war spy thrillers when the cold war had barely begun. Great thematic use of shadows in a movie about secrets and murky loyalties.

JoeNotCharles

I can't believe I never noticed this before: "You fought on the losing (but morally superior) side in two wars, and smuggled guns to the Resistance." "And I was well paid for it." "No, I suspect it wasn't just the money, I think you DO have a heart." Rick's backstory = Han Solo.

Jonathan Wyman
>>127983164

It's the other way around actually. Film noir is named for the dark and dire themes and was then interpreted by the cinematographers into the use of shadows (chiaroscuro) and contrast to help support the dark themes of pessimism and menace. Casablanca is considered film noir for those themes and supported by the brilliant cinematography by Arthur Edeson. Believe me, his cinematography is considered far from "standard".

Happy Hanukkah
>>127996252

Not only that, but the female lead is torn between the seeming scoundrel and the simpler idealistic fellow. :-P

Erik Brown

I'll second the suggestion of "The Big Sleep", but also "To Have and Have Not" with the first paring of Bogart and Bacall is fabulous as well, with lots of stellar dialogue.

Hollis Hamilton

If Simone has seen When Harry Met Sally as the recent poll indicates, (not sure how long ago) she has forgotten Harry and Sally were discussing this movie in the car before the "great sex" conversation in the cafe, not to mention the "high maintenance" conversation on the phone later in the movie. Undoubtedly when they react to that film, it will spark her memory.