Casablanca (1942) | First Time Watching! | MOVIE REACTION!!
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This isn't just one of the best *black and white movies* ever made; it's *one of the best movies ever made....period :-)*
The symbol on that ring is called "the Cross of Lorraine." It was the symbol of the "Free French," the ones who were still fighting Germany.
The two regions of Alsace and Lorraine had been swapped between France and Germany for decades. They are currently part of France, as the Nazis lost that round.
The thing with Journey is from the beginning she did the basics so well; paid attention, paused to comment, didn't talk over dialog, etc. Now, she is finding her groove, her intuition, understanding, deductions, all are top notch. In the intangibles she has a surprising ability to be able to give honest opinions aside from her own personal beliefs, to accept the story based upon the time period it was set in, such maturity from someone so young is a rare thing indeed. Last and most important (to me anyway) is the editing; Great! Rarely is there a scene of significance left out or cut mid-scene in her reactions. Journey, I hope you are having a great time doing this because we're having a great time watching. "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.* - Aristotle*
She understands plot points better than most reactors...
This is one of the sweetest, most meaningful comments I’ve gotten, so thank you for that. You guys are the reason I keep going, & yes, I’m having a great time & I’m so glad you are too!🥹🙏🏼
I was going to say the same thing, only you put it more eloquently than was going to. Bravo young lady, you did a fine job.
I’m shocked! Shocked to see there are reactions going on here!
One of the top 100 best Casablanca quotes.
😆 good one!
Here is your thumbs up, sir.
So, major Strasser is played by my favorite actor of all time. His name was Conrad Veidt, a German actor starting in early black and white silent films in that late teens and early 20s. He died at 50 years old in 1943, much too early. He was a bisexual, crossdressing, feminist, anti fascist/anti nazi and overall great person. He was really close with his daughter Viola. He was the biggest actor in Germany in the 1930s and the nazis tried to get him for propaganda, and not only did he refuse but he was arrested and tortured by them for a few days. He would later flee with his third wife and her family, who were jewish. He helped them get out and when he left he put his race identifier as jewish to signify he stood with them against the nazis. He also donated so much money when he got to Britain and gave presents to kids suffering from the Blitz. He also agreed to play nazi characters as long as he could make them look as stupid as possible.
Overall, a great actor and person. I highly recommend reacting to more of his movies and just look on his wikipedia, there are so many to choose from. Interesting to note he played Jaffar in the thief of Baghdad which how he portrayed him was the inspiration for how Jafar in Disney's Aladdin is.
One of the greatest scripts in movie history. Almost every single line is a classic. The plotting brilliant, the acting incredible. They don't make many like this, certainly not in the past 30 years. You did a great job! The movie gets better each time you watch it, as you can listen to the wittiness of the dialogue and not have to pay such close attention to the plot mechanics.
next up = Sunset Boulevard
Yet again, Marie, you had insights that many other first time Casablanca watchers don't. You understood all of the character motivations, and the tragedy of the situation. Props to you.
Thank you! I try my best😊
That's for certain!
I second that. In many reactions there are second-guessings that miss the point. But Marie typically hits it on the nose.
i never actually thought of this movie having a vague ending but i have a completely different interpretation of rick's and ilsa's relationship.
ilsa never fell out of love with laszlo. rick was the rebound guy. her feelings for him were sincere but when she discovered her true love was still alive she returned to him. at casablanca she was willing to scrafice herself for her true love. realizing this, himself, rick sacraficed himeslf for his true love.
laszlo was willing to sacrafice himself for his cause. and the police chief, played wonderfully by one of my favorite character actors, claude raines, was willing , at the end, to scarafice himself for his country, france. the whole film was about the virtues of sacrafice for the greater good. that's my take on it.
@@cjmacq-vg8um Well said. "The lives of three little people in the scheme of things don't amount to a hill of beans." -- Rick.
There is an excellent "making of" about the film by Warner Brothers that deals with all aspects, including the actors not knowing, one day to the next, where the script was going. Through much of it it wasn't yet settled which man -- Laszlo or Rick -- Ilsa would be with at the end, and those differences were actually under active consideration. It wasn't decided until the end what the ending would be.
(There is a tradition in writing "mysteries" of starting with the ending, then working backward from there.)
Thus the frustration of Rick tearing into Ilsa, for never having given an explanation -- he was justified -- and Ilsa arguing with him out of BEING OFFENDED by his tearing into her, instead of finally giving a damned deserved explanation. That is a potential flaw in the script -- which resulted from having made it up, day to day, as they went along.
Also worth viewing is the dick cavett ingrid bergman (also on youtube) interview about the non-relationships among the actors, and the constant uncertainty caused by the unfinished script -- none of the actors knew what the next day's script would be.
Ultimately that uncertainty seems to have contributed constructively to the outcome: the setting -- escaping the Nazis, Casablanca being temporary and desperate pass-through -- itself being uncertain.
So in the end -- there were hints along the way -- Rick rose above the personal -- even better than did Ilsa -- for the greater good.
Imagine: Warner Brothers made 50 films that year, "Casablanca" being just one of them and nothing special. And it turned out to be a great and enduring classic in spite of all the problems in making it.
I was one of those who suggested Casablanca. Thanks for your excellent reaction!
Most of the actors were European, many of whom had fled Nazi Germany. Madeleine Lebeau, who played Yvonne, is a case in point. She and her husband Marcel Dalio (who played the croupier, and was Jewish) fled France in 1940. They got to Lisbon, then got visas to travel to Chile. But when they reached Mexico it was discovered the visas were forged. They were stuck there until they somehow obtained temporary Canadian passports, which they used to enter the United States. The similarity of her experience to Yvonne's story was not lost on her. Her tears during the playing of La Marseillaise were real.
The playing of La Marseillaise is one of the most stirring things I've seen in any movie. In the 1950s, Casablanca became popular with American college students. The movie would play on college campuses, and when this scene would come on, everyone in the theater would stand, like the patrons of Rick's in the movie.
You got everything in the movie pretty much right. One small thing: I believe Ilsa did love Victor. She had passion for Rick that she would never have for Victor, but she really did care for Victor. It was a different kind of love, one that came from admiration and gratitude, rather than from chemistry.
The line, "I'll bet they're sleeping all over America" was an ironic comment on America's position at the time. The story was written before the U.S. entered the war, but filmed after. Before Pearl Harbor, the U.S. was officially neutral, though we did help Britain with ships, weapons, and other materiel. Many Americans wanted their country to stay out of the war, believing it to be a European conflict that they didn't have a stake in. This is how people were asleep all over America. Rick meant it literally, of course.
In the end, Louis wasn't just protecting his own interests. He decided that he had to side with the resistance against the Nazis and against the Vichy government. His throwing the bottle of Vichy water in the trash was symbolic of that.
I'd love it if you reacted to some more of the movies I listed in my comment on your reaction to 12 Angry Men:
- Some Like It Hot (1959)
- The Apartment (1960)
- The Maltese Falcon (1941)
- Psycho (1960)
- It's a Wonderful Life (1946) (Save this one for Christmas if you want to react to it)
- Roman Holiday (1953)
- The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
- The Third Man (1949)
Thanks!
I’m glad you enjoyed! Thanks for all the background info, I really appreciate it👌🏻& I’ll definitely add those to my list😁
@@journeymariereacts I would add "The Best Years of our Lives" to the list. It won best picture 1946 and deals with vets coming home. Excellent movie. I think what is most interesting about watching very old movies is that you realize how much is the same now as it was then. Nothing about the characters, emotions and reactions is that different today as it was in 1942.
For those of us who grew up in the 50s and 60s, this movie was full of pop culture references that we'd grown up with. It might be the most often quoted movie of all time. The writing so clever, the cinematography is brilliant. The funny thing is that they were still writing the script as the shooting was going on. The actors only got their lines the night before they had to shoot and didn't know where the story was going. So, yeah, it kept you wondering.
Really enjoyed your reaction...subscribed. Put "To Kill a Mockingbird" on your list of classics to watch.
Thank you for subscribing, I appreciate it! & I’m glad you enjoyed my reaction😁& that’s on my list for sure👌🏻
I was born in 1950 and I wholeheartedly agree with you. For me this was a wonderful time to grow up and watch the works of Master performers, writers, directors etc.
As a kid and later I saw this film dozens of times on TV. Wasn't impressed by it any more than any other. Now that I'm older I experience it as deeply moving. Amazing and superior film.
Rick is not just a character, he also symbolizes a USA that still felt scarred by its losses in the First World War and didn't want to "stick its neck out for anyone" by officially joining WWII against the Axis Powers. Like Rick, the US was doing little things here and there behind the scenes to help the allies and take in refugees from Europe, but until Pearl Harbor (which happened a day or two after the events in the movie) they didn't join in the fighting.
Indeed, Rick says It's December 1941!
@@jamesalexander5623 And we and the audiences of the time knew well that it was the FIRST week, when America was still asleep but about to be quite rudely awakened!
Great point. A lot of Americans were isolationist, because World War 1, the first European war the US ever got involved in, was just a corrupt great power struggle. There were no good guys; the Allied side (Britain, France, and Russia) which we joined, was just as aggressive, just as responsible for war as the Axis side (Germany & Austria-Hungary).
When the Allies won, US President Woodrow Wilson tried to broker a just peace (the 14 points) and establish an early United Nations, called the League of Nations. If he had been successful World War 2 might never have happened. But Britain and France were vindictive and forced through the punitive Treaty of Versailles, which blamed Germany for the war, humiliated it, and bankrupted it. This caused the rise of Hitler and Naziism. So many people in our country were reluctant to see the US get involved in another European meat grinder.
@@seanmcmurphy4744 A bit oversimplified, and omitting one point. It's not like a large swathe of the American public disagreed with Nazi Germany (nor the British or French, to be honest). After all, the US was still largely a segregated country, from which the Nazis adopted their race laws. And when you watch the film again, you might notice that the references to America are not quite as jingoistic as propagandists might have you believe. Casablanca is not film noir, but it inhabits a noir-ish universe, and America is not what it's cracked up to be. After all, why isn't Rick there, and why can't (or more accurately, won't) he go back?
@@Hexon66 I have to agree. Rick doesn't want to go back and his one American ally is a black man, and they were originally in France - where, I think, it was better for some WWI black veterans to be (I'd have to double-check). He wants to help but isn't big on helping, and works with equally opportunistic men who also are 'helping' but tend to move in their own way. Neither are happy with how things are, but will play their parts. That Rick helps signals the entry into WWII, and that the constable agrees signals his move to help liberate France.
33:45 "He's going to accept the lie that Rick told him." Very nice insight. It's a pleasure seeing a young person like you discover the magic of classic black & white movies.
An element of this film, that made it so suspenseful, was the love triangle between Rick, Ilsa and Victor. Normally in a Hollywood movie two of the people, the leading man and the girl are obviously meant to end up together. The third character is always shown with some flaw or attitude that makes them an unsuitable mate.
In Casablanca, all three leading characters are shown to be equally heroic and desirable choices. Thus making it more difficult for the theater audience to decide who should end up flying off together and who should be the one left behind.
I'm very glad that you enjoyed watching this classic movie! It ranks among the most incredible of all time. Each performance was breathtaking and remembered among the Humphrey Bogart's best performances.
4:52 "-Where were you last night?
-That's so long ago, I don't remember.
-Will I see you tonight?
-I never make plans that far ahead." :D
One of the greatest movies ever made
19:23 "she was married!" 😲
As usual, smart as you are, you got (almost) everything right. Just two points:
1. When Laszlo told Ilsa that if things were the other way ‘round, he’d leave her behind… come on, *of course* he was lying. He was lying because of his love for her and wanting her to leave without him… and so to be safe.
2. The older couple telling the time. It’s not “how they tell the time”… they’d been unsuccessfully trying to learn English.
3. One other thing… you got it perfectly right. Louis (the police captain) *was* ‘sleeping’ with women in order to let them have their exit visas. Well done… annoyingly, many other ‘reactors’ completely miss that.
I had a feeling that he was lying lol. Thanks for confirming it though. & ohh ok that makes sense, that’s why that guy said they’d do great in America🤣🤦🏽♀️
It's worth watching Captain Renault closely, and hearing every words he says. The second great love story in Casablanca is between Rick and Louis!
@@stevetheduck1425 "If I were a woman I should be in love with him."
Ilsa is still misunderstood by many. There was a good reason she didn't explain everything right away when she and Rick were reunited in Casablanca. And why she didn't tell Rick about Laslo in the cafe in Paris before she stood him up. Can you figure it out?
The word for hour and clock is the same word in Russian, and maybe other languages. Probably what happened to this couple.
I think it's a cool idea that you've decided to react to many of the classics across all decades: it will obviously give you a good arts background, like reading the 100 greatest novels.
It's wonderful how this script is perfectly constructed -- so that even after 80 years (!) it still has the power to keep viewers guessing and wondering: What kind of man is Rick, deep inside? What does he want? What will he do? And what does Ilsa want? Who will she choose? Such brilliant writing, and then when you add the awesome direction, great cast, and superb acting, you get a one-of-a-kind masterpiece of cinema.
Credit to the reactor here...she had the ending figured out way ahead of most, though there were still a few surprises on the path there.
I so wish people your age would stop deciding about a movie because it's either black and white or not. This is a great movie, with a great screenplay, fabulous actors, and a great director. It should NOT matter that it's black and white. You're SMARTER than that. Most of your friends are probably focusing on the fact that it's "black and white". You're smarter than that, and smarter than most people your age. Again, I wish young people would refer to this film on its merits and not that it's black and white. By the way, I'm a photographer, and some of the most gorgeous photographs are shot in black and white. It's a very special genre in photography. I wish more young people realized that! Enjoyed your reaction!
So much more than just a “movement”, Victor was the heartbeat of the global battle against the Evil Empire. And Ilsa…well loving Isla was the fuel, the engine, the soul, the primary motivating and inspirational source driving this hero. He masked his vulnerabilities through his love for her, allowing him to courageously focus on his role as antagonist against the plight facing humanity. It begs the question, “…do the times make the man, or is it the man who determine the times?”.
A true classic and an all-time favorite. I can quote each line of the screenplay verbatim. An ill fated, heart rendering romantic love story against the backdrop of a literal battle between good and evil. An unrequited love because the two forsake their personal happiness for a world that could not even acknowledge their sacrifice. Cinematography at its finest ‼️💯
These B&W classics really bring out your best!! Great reaction & beautiful singing voice, especially that vibrato! Ms. Etta James herself would give you a big 👍
Lol I’m flattered, I wish I could really sing, I’d never shut up! But thank you for the kind words once again & I’m glad you enjoyed😁🙏🏼
@@journeymariereacts Hey, if you don't believe me, I'm gonna get Elizabeth over at The Charismatic Voice or Beth Roars to convince you!!😁😁😁
Thank you so much for reacting to this movie. It in nice that you are branching out into all types of movies. I had a great time.
I’m so glad you’re enjoying my reactions😁
This was a quintessentially American movie. Part of that is because there are only two American born characters. Rick and Sam. Everyone else is foreign born but share a long list of common dreams. The director was a Hungarian escapee, and the extras in the singing scene were also refugees. It's a beautiful movie!
I'd say you got this movie pretty well, and hat's off to you for spotting that Rick would let Ilsa go with Victor. But let me give you a little more historical context to help explain one of the reasons why this movie has such a following.
The movie was made and premiered in 1942 but it's set late in 1941 which was the bleakest time of the war. The good guys, the Allies were in bad shape. France had already fallen and Germany had driven deep into the Soviet Union and was threatening to take their capital, Moscow. Britain was hanging on, but barely, and its people were preparing for an invasion. The USA was staying out of it; that line from Rick about people being asleep all over America was about America sleeping on how bad the situation was. The movie is set in early December 1941, just before Pearl Harbor woke America up. In hindsight the tide began to turn in 1942 while they were making the movie but at the time all they knew that there was still a lot of danger ahead. The movie was meant to give people hope and hype them up for the fight.
An additional note about Pearl Harbor. It did finally wake America up and get us into the war, but at the time it also looked like the attack crippled our Pacific fleet, which would have just added to the stress.
Thank you for breaking that down! It gives me more of an appreciation for this movie🙏🏼
@@journeymariereacts You're very welcome! Thank you for giving this classic a chance. I look forward to seeing more of your reactions.
@@dansdiscourse4957 But six months later the Japanese overplayed their hand and had their own fleet crippled at Midway. Things went downhill for the subsequent three years, just not as fast as the US hoped...
@@flarrfan Yes, true, as I said, the tide began to turn in both theaters during '42. But my point was that while in hindsight we can see that's true, at the time everything was still pretty damn scary
Let's get her to watch, "Gone with the Wind." One of the greatest and also most controversial movies of all time.
It’s on the list👌🏻
Yeah, sometime when she's got nothing better to do!
NO no no! Mythological history and poorly written soap opera. It would be a huge waste of time. It wasn't even the best film made in 1939...That would be the eternal Wizard of Oz.
@@flarrfan You may not like it, but Gone with the Wind is one of the greatest films ever made. It held the box office record for 60 years.
This is my favorite film. They really don't make movies like this anymore. Everything is obvious, but with Casablanca, you really had to think. So amazing
It’s incredible to consider that this was released in 1942, while the outcome of the war was completely uncertain. The US had barely joined the war when this was filmed.
Best reactor on RUclips,just natural with good commentary,no over the top reactions for views like a lot of reactors on here
I appreciate that a lot! Thank you🙏🏼
‘Casablanca’ is renowned and is justly acknowledged as one of the most romantic films of all time but it is much more than the tale of a love triangle. Of course, it shows that the power of love can affect the human psyche, as demonstrated by Rick’s metamorphosis.
This film has so many levels to it that it takes many viewings to appreciate them. The main theme is not romance but self-sacrifice as the film’s message to the world at war is to give up the personal agenda for the common cause. It reminds wartime audiences, many of whom have loved ones fighting abroad, that their situation is the same as that of Rick, Ilsa and Victor.
The screenplay is so intelligently written. It is a masterpiece of complexity, containing subliminal political opinions and messages all carried along on a thrilling plot with brilliant one-liners and memorable quotes, comedic elements together with contemporary, social commentaries. Basically, the film is politically motivated because it is a plea to America to join the war. Please note that the action takes place in pre-Pearl Harbour, December, 1941.
This is the the first non-musical movie to use music almost as an another protagonist, (which Tarantino does now). For example, ‘As Time Goes By’ is a valuable recurring theme and, in Paris and Rick and Ilsa dance to ‘Perfidia’ which means untrustworthiness.
Michael Curtiz’s direction is multi-faceted: Documentary, Film Noir, German Expressionism, Flashback etc. He is the master of creating the plot via seamlessly connecting a series of rapid-fire vignettes.
POINTS OF INTEREST AND NOTES FOR SUBSEQUENT VIEWINGS.
Rick’s initial selfishness, (I stick my neck out for nobody’), is a metaphor for USA indifference. It must be remembered that the events and politics are hard to comprehend and put into perspective for modem audiences than in the actual time when the film was made. The script is a 'State of the Union' address, both for home and foreign policies. There are references to Civil Rights as embodied in Sam and, of course, the debate about America’s involvement in the conflict.
Each character represents a country e.g. Two Japanese plotting . The Italian on the tail of the German. American indifference. French collaborators, the British robbed by foreign policy. Even the Balkans are mentioned via the Bulgarian couple. Rick’s actions symbolise the USA in its change in policy from isolationism to participation and ‘….the beginning of a beautiful friendship…’ is the USA and Europe joining forces to fight Nazism.
There is subtle direction. For example, Ilsa wears black and white clothes and is cast in shadows and in a mirror which portrays the ambiguity of her role.
The ‘La Marseillaise’ scene is the pivotal moment in which both Ilsa and Rick realise that saving Victor is more important than their own personal relationship. It also comes in just as Rick and Victor are about to argue over Ilsa but both drop the issue when they hear the music. This scene is rousing now but imagine how it must have felt for audiences right in the middle of the war when Germany seemed invincible and we need to put it in perspective in terms of world events full of Nazi domination.
The facial close-ups used throughout the film speak a thousand words: but particularly note Ilsa during ‘La Marseillaise’ when her expressions show her admiration of Victor’s power and her realisation that this must be preserved at all costs.
In any case... there is so much alcohol!!!!
POINTS TO WATCH
‘It’s December, 1941 in Casablanca: what time is it in New York?...
I bet they are asleep all over America’. PEARL HARBOUR
‘Even Nazis can’t kill that fast’
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
‘I don’t buy or sell human beings..’
CIVIL RIGHTS
The Bulgarian couple keep appearing as symbols of hope and determination.
In the bar room fight over Yvonne, Rick attacks the German only and not the Frenchman.
Captain Renault dumps the bottle of Vichy water to represent his rejection of the Nazi- collaborating French Government which was located in Vichy.
Just one example of the excellent and complex scriptwriting occurs immediately after the roulette scene. The girl thanks Rick for letting her husband win and Rick replies, ‘He’s just a lucky guy’, which, on the face of it, refers to the gambling, but, in Rick’s mind, means that the husband is ‘lucky’ because his partner truly loves him.
Astute! Simply astute!
Something almost everyone misses, is when Rick is getting drunk, waiting with Sam for Ilsa, he gives the date: Dec 7, 1941 and says I'll bet they're asleep in America. Everyone in the audience, at the time the movie was released, would have understood the significance of that date, and his statement.
Top 5 all time. Essential. Impossibly rewatchable, endlessly quotable, hopelessly romantic. Yeah, I kinda sorta love this one.
Other classic black & white films on the must-react to list:
-Citizen Kane
-The Philadelphia Story
-The Best Years of Our Lives
-It’s a Wonderful Life
-Modern Times
-The Longest Day
Great List!
Sam's treatment was VERY progressive for the time. He was a friend, much more than and employee and shared Rick's deep emotional moments.
The singer in the cafe is singing a tango song titled ‘Tango delle rose’, it is not opera. The singer, born in Mexico, was a well-known cabaret and Broadway theater singer at the time.
At 18:15 the " problem with a visa " thing is Louis trading his signature on a visa for sex . This happens a lot in the movie and makes him even more of a creep. At 19:18 at the time she was with Rick, her husband Lazlo was reported killed. She left Rick when Lazlo reappeared. 21:09 the young woman has made a deal with Louis but can't go through with it, so Rick helps her. 22:39 the battle of anthems was very emotional for most of the actors as they were real refugees of the Nazis, including the Nazi actors !
Great to see you reacting to these old B&W classics. They are before my time but when I was a teenager a local tv station every Sunday would have this show called Saturday Matinee where you would get the whole experience of being at a Movie Theatre back in the 30s and 40s. They would show the pre movie cartoons, newsreels short features land Movie trailers from back then before showing a feature movie. I fell in love with Humphrey Bogart movies back then. He had a lot of great ones.
Another great black and white movie is Marty with Ernest Borgnine. Great story about a man who feels worthless, but finds worth when he meets a woman who’s a lot like him.
Casablanca is the best movie ever made!
The most romantic movie ever made, by a country mile.
And in this one, the guy DOESNT wind up with the girl.
This film has 6 quotes in the American Film Institutes compilation of the 100 greatest movie quotes.
SIX.
What were those writers eating?
One of the 5 best American movies ever made.
Louis (Captain Renault) has all the great lines.
Bogart and Bergman are the definition of chemistry.
Rick has to watch the love of his life walk out of his life TWICE.
Ilsa has it even worse.
She will spend the rest of her days happily married to a great man, who is not the ONE.
In some ways, this film is a Shakespearean tragedy.
Great reaction! Very perceptive. Fun fact: the ACTORS didn’t know how the story was going to end. Ingrid Bergman kept asking the director, "But who is my character really in love with? Who does she go with in the end?" She never found out until the end, and she had to play it so that either one have been believable. And it payed off!
You were way ahead of most Reactors! "Here's Looking at you Kid!"
Really enjoyed watching your reaction to this classic. F.y.i., the German actor Conrad Veidt, who played the menacing Major Strasser, was actually vehemently against everything the Nazis stood for and donated and raised huge amounts of money in support of the war effort against them. Cheers.
What you learned here also was it;s never whether a movie is in black and white, or color, it's about the quality of the script and acting and production. Casablanca kept you on your toes and you immediately forgot about it being in black and white. It kept you guessing so your reaction was genuine. Other Humphrey Bogart movies [he was a big damn star, make no mistake] are The Maltese Falcon, the African Queen, To Have and Have Not, Key Largo, The Treasure of Sierra Madre, The Big Sleep, In a Lonely Place...so many more.
One of the most insightful beats into Rick's character that many people miss in their reaction videos is that Rick saves the girl from "doing favors" for Louis. She's trying to convince herself that her husband is "still a boy" and that she's being grown up by making tough decisions. This is the only time when Rick "sticks his neck out" for anyone besides Ilsa. He's not the cynic he pretends to be. He will still protect innocence. I'm really glad you picked up on that storyline. Wonderful video
This is one of the best movies of the 20th century.
Humphrey Bogart is my favorite actor of all time😊…
Great reaction! Thanks for watching my favorite movie! There's a suggestion down below for Marty from '55, a Best Picture winner that no one reacts to, I don't know why. Maybe put it on your list?
"Marty" is solid gold
This is not only one of the greatest classic Old Hollywood movies and greatest movies ever made period but it’s definitely way up on my all time favorites movie list. It never gets old. So many memorable iconic lines of dialogue, incredible acting performances by Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as well as the entire cast. Also love the As Time Goes By song by Dooley Wilson. I really believe this is one of those classic all time great movies that would be impossible to remake anywhere near as good as the original. It’s an untouchable movie. I also recommend you watch Ben-Hur 1959 version that won 11 Academy Awards including Best Picture. That an incredible classic film. It stars Charlton Heston.
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Yayyyyy😁😁🎉
Viktor is a good guy? Hey, Viktor is all man, he's a next level bad-ass.
Ilsa loves Viktor, no question. She's conflicted because she loves them both, and can only have one.
Rick turned out to be committed to a higher cause than the personal.
13:33 "well ok." 🥰
I very much enjoyed your reaction!
My opinion: Ilsa loves Victor and Rick both, but in different ways. She feels the passion for Rick, but the respect and commitment for Victor. It's not surprising that she loves them both, because they're so much the same person: the same drive to do the right thing, the same capacity to lead. Except Rick has been broken in love and has lost himself, which is a fate Victor is spared because Ilsa stays with him.
But by the end, Rick has found himself again and once more become the man he's supposed to be. There are more movies that work like that, where the emotional payoff at the end is that the protagonist has at last become the person we knew they were supposed to be. It's good story structure. We even get the payoff that Louie becomes a better person too, and the ending is not an ending so much as a new beginning.
Yes, I think she respects Victor more deeply because he is fighting for the greater good, but personally wants to be with Rick.
I think Louis always knew where his loyalties lie, but couldn't express them as he would be kicked out of his position.
The ending kind of forced him to make a choice.
Thanks for that breakdown, it was very insightful! & I’m glad you enjoyed my reaction😁🙏🏼
Black and white or not - this may be the best movie ever made.
"What right do I have to think?" -- the great Peter Lorre. See "M".
Once again, just a fantastic reaction, you made me see what I like about this movie all over again. You got EVERYTHING, from beginning to end. EVERYONE doesn't know what's happening first time they see it.....she doesn't walk in for twenty minutes! First we think it's about these German letters of transit! Turns out it's about this dame! 😂 I'm so happy you liked it. Always love seeing you react to romance, and always love seeing you react to something with a good plot! Watching you try to figure out the twists and turns of this movie was SO MUCH FUN!! 😄 I forget that when a person first sees this movie, they don't trust Ingrid Bergman! I'm so used to having sympathy for her the minute she walks in! So fun to see you make that switch, "oh, now I see why she did what she did!" lol. I always call this the greatest good movie. I always say about this one: damn good movie! So many great lines!😄
PS: Here's a great black and white movie for you that a lot of reactors have hit: the Alfred Hitchcock movie, "Psycho"! I think you'd do GREAT on that one! Also for romance, "Roman Holiday", Audrey Hepburn's first movie. Also, I'm assuming you've seen "The Wizard Of Oz", but if you haven't seen that one, that's a must! "Singin' In The Rain" also (that's in color, but from the 50s). "Some Like It Hot" is a really funny black & white classic, Marilyn Monroe is in that. Reactors have done these so you can see the kinds of views they get. "Citizen Kane" of course is another one, the movie more than any other that gets called "greatest of all time", definitely in black & white. Ok, thanks again, Journey Marie!!!!!!
I’m so glad you enjoyed my reaction to this classic! & yea I love reacting to great movies that keep me guessing, & the romance is always a plus😁🥰
@@journeymariereacts This might be the best list I've seen in these comments yet!
Maybe the greatest love story ever put on film. It's all about sacrifice. Just amazing.
As we say in Texas; y'all be safe.
One of the greatest movies ever! Gets even better with repeated viewing over time!
Another great! b&w film with the same actress who played Ilsa, Ingrid Bergman, is NOTORIOUS (1946).
Great reaction, thank you, Journey Marie.
The making of what are essentially propaganda movies was big business in the USA and UK and this film wasn't meant to be anything special.
But it was.
You got more right than most who review for the first time - great reaction, great comments!
Awesome! Thank you!
Great film. Good to see that it's still being watched.
One of the greatest love stories of all time. Definitely the best movie of all time. "Here's looking at you, kid"
Another great old movie about England, family life, romance under the cloud of WW2 and German bombing, is “Mrs. Miniver”, starring the gorgeous Greer Garson 😍
You didn't get anything wrong. Your insights were spot on. I've known lots of people who didn't get this movie or its subtleties. Well done for a first time watcher and I'm glad you enjoyed it
I appreciate that, thanks😊I’m glad you enjoyed it🙏🏼
In that time period, especially in a remote locale like French Morroco, the only entertainment one had at night might be a 'ham radio' or going to a cafe/bar like 'Rick's Cafe Americain". TV was at least a decade away from being invented, and the Internet was at least 40 years away.
I probably would have hung out at the Blue Parrot. ;)
She loves Rick and Lazlo, maybe differently but she does love them both
The best thing about Renauld is just how brazen he is - "shocked" about the gambling and accepts his winnings without skipping a beat - completely unapologetic about everything he does. Same with the "round up the usual suspects" - it's perfectly obvious who killed Strasser, but he tells the men to go look elsewhere without batting an eye.
Ugarte: You know, Rick, I have many a friend in Casablanca, but somehow, just because you despise me, you are the only one I trust.
Fun line.
11:59 Sam really is a good friend! If they ever made a sequel to this (which they better not), I like to think that Rick and Louie start some kind of shady business, like smuggling, and they convince Sam to join them. But then again, he’s not Sam if he’s not tickling those ivories.
Sam didn't actually play the piano in the scenes. Dooley Wilson was a drummer.
Black and white has a subtlety that colour photography cannot match. The shades of grey and the contrast can evoke a mood and comment on the emotions in a way that is lost with colour. Remember that colour was available at this time but the choice was made to film it in B&W. Thank you for realizing the value of the true classic films: great scripts, great acting, great directing.
For this and many other studio projects of the time, budget was a primary issue when considering color vs. B/W.
I love the way Spielberg used B&W in Schindler’s List for the same reason, even thou it would have been easier to use color. It helps to situate the film in time and makes you pay more attention to the dialogue and the characterization.
Great reaction as always! You've got to react to either or both of these black & white movies when you get a chance: The Shop Around the Corner or It's A Wonderful Life.
Yes, these two movies are real jewels !!!
Will do!!
@@journeymariereacts Suggestion: Do Shop Around the Corner (my favorite James Stewart) and follow it up with You've Got Mail with Tom Hanks, which was inspired by the original Shop.
@@flarrfan That’s a really point! “You’ve Got Mail” is def a modern classic 🔥
1:43 😂😂 good movie love the video Marie stay motivated Dream big 1 mill on the way congratulations on 14k
Agree 💯
Another awesome black and white movie is "It's a Wonderful Life" with Jimmy Stewart.
26:44 people are complicated
My all-time favorite movie. You stayed on top of things pretty well.
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Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks for giving the classics a chance J! 🔥🔥 Lots of great black and white movies out there... Strangers on a Train, Sunset Boulevard and Pyscho to name a few...
Also, I definitely think you should watch the original West Side Story!
I loveee west side story! My mom is Puerto Rican & from Brooklyn so I’ve seen it a few times lol
@@journeymariereacts !! I think West Side Story is easily one of the best movies ever made
Thank you! So nice watching my favorite movie with someone seeing it for the first time.
You really followed along and managed to see ahead. You’d make an observations and I’d think just wait two more scenes!
Glad you enjoyed it!😁
13:42 "...saying some bullsh*t." 🤨
"Play it Again Sam" is a Woody Allen movie where he gets dating advice from the ghost of Humphrey Bogart. It's in color.
Actually Ilsa was very much in love with Victor also, she explained this when telling of their marriage and it was shown in the way she looked at him.
there is a legend that ilsa did not know which man she would end up with. in reality, the Hayes office (the Hollywood morality police, active from the late 30's to the late 50's) would not have permitted a woman to leave her husband for another man, no matter how much she loved him. The Hayes office also did not permit any hint that Rick and Ilsa had a sexual relation in Paris, and they could only slightly hint that Captain Renault was seducing refugee women in exchange for exit visas
This is a classic film. I’m glad you reacted to it and not to change the subject but another black-and-white film. You should check out is “Arsenic and Old Lace” from 1944, it’s one of Frank Capra‘s best movies he ever directed
Greatest movie of all time.
My reading has always been that Ilsa loved both men. The way she looks at Victor during the La Marseillaise scene shows her love and admiration for him.
Of course since this movie was produced under the Hays Code, the only way for her to end up with Rick was for Victor to die, whic could have happened since they hadn't decided on the ending when they started filming.
Love it. In my top ten films of all time. What great dialog and characters.
Big props for reacting to this classic. 👍A lot of reactors shy away from black and white movies, regardless of how good/great they are. 👍
I just re-watched your reaction. I have to say you got most of the twists and nuances of the story on first watch. Congrats. Roger Ebert once said everyone is talking in code in this movie. It takes an astute observer to get what they're *really* saying, which is part of the genius of the script.
It’s great to see that a B&W film produced over 80 years ago is just as powerful today as back then. Great art is truly timeless. If you get the opportunity, may I suggest one of the classic crime dramas of all time featuring the great James Cagney; White Heat.
People forget that this movie was filmed and released while WWII was still going on and the Nazis were still in power in much of Europe. Releasing this movie during that time took a lot of guts. Other great B&W films are Some Like it Hot, Witness for the Prosecution and Key Largo.
It was an american made film, not sure why it took "guts". The US wasn't the world power it is today and didn't much reckon into German thinking at the time.
By sitting back and bleeding Britain dry of money the US rode of the back of WW2 to get to the position it did post WW2.
Perfect reaction. I was grinning from ear to ear watching you watch this classic. Notice that even when people were shot there was no bullet wounds or blood but it didn’t matter. The “letters of transit” were utter nonsense, of course (and even if there had been such a thing it wouldn’t have stopped the Nazis from killing whoever had them). Not that any of that matters, of course.
The "no blood" always bugged me, I thought it was because studio head Jack Warner was too cheap, but I recently learned it may have been more director Michael Curtiz' fast-paced retakes so that the time needed to clean up squib spills between takes would have slowed him down too much.
Great reaction! Some of the best movies are from the black and white or otherwise old era. Some favorites of mine include The Maltese Falcon, To Kill A Mockingbird, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1939), The Wizard of Oz, and the many episodes of The Three Stooges. All of which I recommend :)
This movie was filmed in 1941 before Pearl Harbor, Rick is isolationist America, the Captain is the French who cooperated with the Nazis, the Germans are Germans, the French people are expatriates who fled occupied France (the French actors were French expatriates who fled occupied France). At the end, the American got involved, the cooperating French turned against the Germans. The French Vichy regime in South France cooperated with the Germans. When the Captain threw away the Vichy water, was him turning against the Vichy regime and joining the French resistance. The movie was encouraging the US to get involved in the war.
A correction, it was filmed in 1942 after Pearl Harbor, Rick represents the isolationist Americans.
@@jd-zr3vk Yes, it debuted shortly after allied troops went ashore in Casablanca at the invasion of North Africa.
21:00 One question I can answer! In German "Uhr" means Time but it also means Clock or Watch.
Glad to see you are willing to explore some great classic movies.
It is all about sacrifice and that there are things bigger than us that matter more. The world was at war, and to win would require the sacrifice of lifestyle, material things, and possibly your life.
Another excellent choice! A classic. Thanks for giving us genuine reaction and analysis. 💪🏾
My pleasure!!😁🙏🏼
Some of my favorite B&W movies -- Best Years of Our Live, On the Waterfront and Psycho.
Angels With dirty Faces is another b&w classic. Bogart has a side part and the lead is played by James Cagney - a real force of nature on the screen, pure charisma and you can't take your eyes off him.
You did very well seeing this for the first time JM! You picked up that Rick was going to send Elsa with Victor. That was very perceptive! Now you should check out The Maltese Falcon (1941) to really test yourself. You really have to pay attention to that one! I had to see it at least three times to really get most of the plot!