Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’

Re:Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ by russellbeattie on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @09:59PM (#15858136)

What I find fantastic about Casablanca is that while watching it, you sometimes find yourself thinking, "OMG, what a cliche!" (flashbacks, closeups, famous one liners, etc.) only to realize that it's all the movies that came after Casablanca were what made the cliches, this is the original.

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Re:Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ by bshimmin on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @05:21AM (#15859977)

You might be interested in this essay by Umberto Eco about Casablanca: http://xroads.virginia.edu/~drbr/eco.html

I think the author of this article is right that La Marseillaise is the most important scene in the film, but for some reason the line "I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue" affects me the most.

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Re:Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ by sysbell on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @01:19PM (#15863448)

I'd never read this before -- thank you! Especially liked this bit:

>But precisely because all the archetypes are here, precisely because Casablanca cites countless other films, and each actor repeats a part played on other occasions, the resonance of intertextuality plays upon the spectator. Casablanca brings with it, like a trail of perfume, other situations that the viewer brings to bear on it quite readily, taking them without realizing it from films that only appeared later

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Re:Cinema’s greatest scene: ‘Casablanca’ and ‘La Marseillaise’ by jacobolus on Wednesday December 06, 2017 @11:17AM (#15862240)

A lot of it was cliché at the time. But sometimes a whole string of clichés is greater than the sum of its parts.

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