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