Analysis: Casablanca, 1942

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HRS 180 The Film CSUS R. Cooper Analysis: Casablanca, 1942 1. Is the film in the realist or the formalist style? Why? 2. analyze these specific scenes as indicated: a. Rick is first encountered off-camera, when we see only his hands and he writes "OK" on a gambling chit: why is he introduced this way? b. Ilsa and Victor enter the café for the first time: what is the dominant? c. the satin dress scene, with Rick and Ilsa on the couch after she offers him a franc for his thoughts: --closed or open form? --the dominant? --the direction the scene leads the eye? --the distance between the characters? --the camera angle? d. railway station platform in the rain: closed or open form? e. Rick and Sam in doorway as train pulls out of station: what is the dominant? f. last scene, as Rick and Louis walk off: what is the camera angle? Why? 3. Why are the costumes so beautiful? HRS 180 The Film CSUS R. Cooper notes on Casablanca French Morocco, under Vichy The French government set up at Vichy, not Paris, after the surrender to Germany in 1940, collaborated with Nazi Germany; it exercised authority in Unoccupied France, which was in the south, and the colonies, such as Morocco. Nazi Germany controlled the north--Occupied France--from Paris. Rick asks Louis, " Are you pro-Vichy or Free French?" The Free French under General de Gaulle rejected the surrender and the collaboration with Germany. Free French forces fought on alongside the British. One of their bases was in Brazzaville. the Underground Anti-Nazi Resistance in virtually every occupied country. refugees People who left countries occupied by the
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