Rick`s cautionary comment to the Germans about invading N.Y. brought cheers & standing O`s from New Yorkers in theatres at the time of this great films release.
@@alanrogs3990 Careful kid. You're stepping on your dignity and showing your immaturity. Get some perspective and come back next year when you're a bit taller and learned a thing or two ✌️
Veidt was a popular film and stage actor in Germany for most of his career. When the Nazis came to power he refused to denounce his wife, who was Jewish, and was blacklisted and never worked in Germany after that. He and his wife emigrated to Britain and he donated most of his estate and salaries to the British war effort. With all that it's rather amazing he plays such a sleazy Nazi character so convincingly. Sadly, he died shortly after this movie premiered.
"With all that it's rather amazing he plays such a sleazy Nazi character so convincingly. " Not amazing at all. It was a type he knew very well from personal experience. I bet he got a big kick out of playing the role.
Conrad Veilt played Nazis on purpose to show how evil and ridiculous they were, and donated much of the proceeds of his movie roles to anti-Nazi causes. He always insisted that any Nazis he played on screen get their comeuppance by the end of the picture.
The German word for “dog” is “hund,” which has the same etymology as the English “hound.” Do the Germans have a different word for “hound,” or is that also “hund”?
Rains dominates every scene he is in, excepting his scenes with Bogart, where the two are back and forth like champion tennis players. Two great actors making it look easy.
The production was chaotic, the script was being written as the filming was going on, and the cast thought it was going to flop. Source : Ingrid Bergman's autobiography. I'd say it was the best script ever written, so I guess they knew what they were doing. I think the low budget forced a brevity and quick pace on them that is effective.
Semi-comedy? This movie is for all intents and purposes the greatest dramady ever made, far better writing and comedic timing than most pure comedies now or then.
Believe me, had the Germans invaded New York, Detroit or Chicago, I doubt seriously they would have been concerned about the citizen's, or the mob's and gang's, civil rights. They would have machine gunned anyone who gave them any lip, and shelled into rubble any areas that didn't tow the line. The "toughs" gunning down people everyday now in Chicago, Detroit and New York, do so because the civilian governments don't have the authority nor the stomach to put an end to it. The Germans would not have been so "democratic."
Interesting that Major Strasser is usuallly identified as a member of the Gestapo (secret police) yet he wears a Luftwaffe uniform. Everyone knows who he is, so he's not in disguise.
Hollywood makes many errors that they're aware of. Like "Where Eagles Dare" when officers identified as SS were in Wehrmacht uniforms and those identified as Gestapo were in SS garb. I think Gestapo officers actually wore ordinary business attire.
He’s 37? Fuck. I can’t believe I’m older than him now. Oh wait, I should look Humphrey Bogart up and see how old the actor was when he filmed it. 41? Same age I am now. Man, I feel really old…
Casablanca has a great script but it's shocking that the script writers, just a little over 20 years after the end of WW1, were unaware that NO allied troops, American or otherwise, "stumbled into Berlin in 1918." When the war ended, the front was still in France and Belgium.
You had a bunch of detachments that were sent to Berlin as escorts when dealing with the government (on the rare occasion they didn't deal with them near the front lines at Compiegne and Spa), and in particular after the war you had lot of Allied Arms Investigators and whatnot going up and around Berlin and other parts of Germany looking for hidden weapons, trying to ensure compliance with Versailles, and aid shipments to Poland and other places attacked by the Bolsheviks.
@@stevejauncey3086 In a Lauren Bacall-narrated documentary on "Casablanca," she said the only remake that was any good was Bugs Bunny in "Carrotblanca"
Yamamoto had it more clearly. It is said that he would not abide an invasion of mainland U.S., as he believed there would be " a rifle behind every blade of grass ".
Yamamoto may have believed something like that but the quote is unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus. Just like the "sleeping giant" quote attributed to Yamamoto, there is no record of his ever saying such a thing to anyone.
When you present ambiguous citations like "it is said" and then follow it with quotes, the facts invariably come home to roost. History doesn't care about sentiment.
Haha! Greatest movie line ever when he tells the Major: "Well, there are certain sections of New York I wouldn't advise you to try to invade." Truth! I grew up near there, and know first hand about some of those Gambino family-run; or Lecchese family-run hoods!
TRIVIA: In the final scene where Rick shoots the Major, Rick says, "put that phone down" then shoots. Where did the line, "you asked for it" from that same scene come from? The same scene, different take was used in the "coming soon" movie promotions they showed at theaters prior to the release of Casablanca. If you have the DVD, watch the "promo" section and you'll see.
Don't forget, Rick is a citizen of the world. In addition to English he also spoke French. Before leaving Paris he said his German was rusty, but he didn't say nonexistent (in Casablanca he would have constantly encountered many languages). The word brown is braun in German...so not too difficult to distinguish when listed with all his other physical descriptors.
In English... maybe that was the point; Strasser wanted Rick to understand his own countrymen would betray him for money, and Rick pointed out that a person who knew his eye colour wasn't being impersonal and probably couldn't be trusted to tell the truth? This stuff has so many layers. .
Certain sections of N.Y. Major... One of the greatest lines in film history. When I watch The Warriors, which I happen to do frequently, I have to concur. The Nazis could never defeat The United States let alone take NYC. The preposterous arrogance of the Nazis to declare war on our great country. Please...
Which is why even the white nationalists who hide out in certain areas of brooklyn, queens and most of staten island won't try to pull any shit. Nuyawkas won't stand for it.
@@jputterman26 and yet, on 9/11 they all reverted back to the herd mentality that has ruled that city for as long as it's been a city. George W. Bush along with his father orchestrated the deaths of over 2000 people, displacing lives and people while he himself hid in a kindergarten in Florida. Bush's younger brother was in charge of security in all 3 of the buildings that "imploded" that day. The 3rd building wasn't even hit and yet went down in seconds. The security had been planting charges for months inside those buildings. Anyone who understands demolition of buildings in big cities will tell you that, yet brave NY immediately blamed terrorists. Like mushrooms they were fed b.s. and kept in the dark for months. On the day it happened NY was trying hard to make sense of it all, misinformation spread like wildfire. George H.W. was responsible for the gulf of tonkin incident that pulled the US into the Vietnam war. It was all a lie, president Eisenhower tried to warn us about the military industrial complex, and yet we chose to ignore his warning. All it takes for evil to succeed is good men doing nothing.
@@petergarcia589 "Anyone who understands demolition" I understand demolition which means that I also understand that when a building is deliberately demolished it is imploded from the base-up, whilst the twin towers went from the top-down. Besides, the work taken to rig these buildings could not possibly have gone unnoticed. And about the 3rd building: damage of that magnitude does not respect property lines. The fire that took down the first two building simply spread to the 3rd.
How about the point of view of this is supposed to be 4:3 aspect ratio, dlckwad. Too lazy to upload it right? There is software even a chimpanzee can use
@susanb2015, written & spoken like a real film buff. High def. TV is great but nothing tops The theatre experience. Especially @ night. & then coffee & muffins or bagels after to discuss the film to cap off the evening!
Anyone who is interested in reading the screenplay for the new movie [The Fight for Love and Glory] which begins as Casablanca ends go to creativescreenplays.com
"are my eyes really brown?" Lol gotta love Rick
Strasser: "What nationality are you?" Rick: "Well, the big neon sign says "Rick's Cafe Americain."
"Can you see us in London?"
"I dunno, does the Kriegsmarine have the boats to get you there?"
The Red Octkrieger
You try to get to London, you're like to get bitten by a Sea Lion 😉
Rick`s cautionary comment to the Germans about invading N.Y. brought cheers & standing O`s from New Yorkers in theatres at the time of this great films release.
"at the time of this great film's release".....I would say that sentiment has, and never will, change, thank you very much.
It brought cheers from every audience every time I've seen the movie.
lame
@@alanrogs3990 Careful kid. You're stepping on your dignity and showing your immaturity. Get some perspective and come back next year when you're a bit taller and learned a thing or two ✌️
Imagine the Germans invading NY? That'll be Stalingrad turned up to 11.
What nationality are you? "I'm a drunkard" 😃😂
@Street Hawk yes 😃
@Street Hawk I know a few Americans who fight for that title...staggering of course.
Veidt was a popular film and stage actor in Germany for most of his career. When the Nazis came to power he refused to denounce his wife, who was Jewish, and was blacklisted and never worked in Germany after that. He and his wife emigrated to Britain and he donated most of his estate and salaries to the British war effort. With all that it's rather amazing he plays such a sleazy Nazi character so convincingly. Sadly, he died shortly after this movie premiered.
"With all that it's rather amazing he plays such a sleazy Nazi character so convincingly. " Not amazing at all. It was a type he knew very well from personal experience. I bet he got a big kick out of playing the role.
Conrad Veilt played Nazis on purpose to show how evil and ridiculous they were, and donated much of the proceeds of his movie roles to anti-Nazi causes. He always insisted that any Nazis he played on screen get their comeuppance by the end of the picture.
I love his last comment regarding fox and hound...Rick essentially called Major Strasser a dog.
He put JUST a slight enough emphasis on "hound" that it showed just that. Well said :)
The German word for “dog” is “hund,” which has the same etymology as the English “hound.”
Do the Germans have a different word for “hound,” or is that also “hund”?
@@paulchapman8023 Hetzen
Keepers of hounds will be insulted should one be so uncouth as to refer to their "dogs."
Certainly one of the all time PERFECTLY cast movies (although Claude Rains somehow makes a good run with much of the best lines!)!
I’m shocked-SHOCKED!-that Claude Rains got so many of the best lines.
Rains dominates every scene he is in, excepting his scenes with Bogart, where the two are back and forth like champion tennis players. Two great actors making it look easy.
I still think they made a huge mistake not putting Jim Carrey in the role of Rick.
@@Mikey300 "Your winnings, sir"
@@billolsen4360 “Thank you very much . . . Everybody out at once!!”
Casablanca is a wonderful sensible chuckle sort of film, kind of like old-fashioned political humor. Remarkable script
The production was chaotic, the script was being written as the filming was going on, and the cast thought it was going to flop. Source : Ingrid Bergman's autobiography. I'd say it was the best script ever written, so I guess they knew what they were doing. I think the low budget forced a brevity and quick pace on them that is effective.
Have you ever realized that"Casablanca" is actually semi-comic melodrama?? ;)
Yep. It's one of my favorites because of the humor.
Yeah, its a GREAT film. Humor and melodrama are at the heart of English writing.
I'm shocked! Shocked to find that you have written such in here!
Semi-comedy? This movie is for all intents and purposes the greatest dramady ever made, far better writing and comedic timing than most pure comedies now or then.
@@MaxwellAerialPhotography Hitchcock had a flair for that sort of story structure. Spielberg does as well.
Still one of my favorite movies.
Best movie ever made.
One of the*
Well there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade.
wittggestein One of the greatest lines ever committed to celluloid.
Ditto Philadelphia!!!
Yeah, only the dumpy sections. The nice areas would give up instead of getting dirty.
@@christopherweber9464 Just surround it, cut off the food supply and they'll give up when Popeyes runs outta chicken.
@@alanrogs3990 You know in Naples it was the slum kids who kicked the Germans out before the Allies got there.
They should try to invade Detroit.
Good luck with that too!! LOL
Chicago, Too. (smile)
@@jputterman26 Britain: Been there done that.
Brooklyn would be a tough nut to crack, too!
Believe me, had the Germans invaded New York, Detroit or Chicago, I doubt seriously they would have been concerned about the citizen's, or the mob's and gang's, civil rights. They would have machine gunned anyone who gave them any lip, and shelled into rubble any areas that didn't tow the line. The "toughs" gunning down people everyday now in Chicago, Detroit and New York, do so because the civilian governments don't have the authority nor the stomach to put an end to it. The Germans would not have been so "democratic."
Interesting that Major Strasser is usuallly identified as a member of the Gestapo (secret police) yet he wears a Luftwaffe uniform. Everyone knows who he is, so he's not in disguise.
Hollywood makes many errors that they're aware of. Like "Where Eagles Dare" when officers identified as SS were in Wehrmacht uniforms and those identified as Gestapo were in SS garb. I think Gestapo officers actually wore ordinary business attire.
He’s 37? Fuck. I can’t believe I’m older than him now. Oh wait, I should look Humphrey Bogart up and see how old the actor was when he filmed it. 41? Same age I am now. Man, I feel really old…
are my eyes really brown?
Am I really 37 ? 😳
- Can you imagine us in London?
- When you get there, ask me!
Casablanca has a great script but it's shocking that the script writers, just a little over 20 years after the end of WW1, were unaware that NO allied troops, American or otherwise, "stumbled into Berlin in 1918." When the war ended, the front was still in France and Belgium.
I think he was speaking metaphorically.
The US has many war-time myths, which are good for keeping the average idiot in his place and paying taxes in ways the rich don't have to.
They certainly arrived in 1945, with the red army and the British, they were projecting the future...
Or Renault was lying. Which would be completely in character.
You had a bunch of detachments that were sent to Berlin as escorts when dealing with the government (on the rare occasion they didn't deal with them near the front lines at Compiegne and Spa), and in particular after the war you had lot of Allied Arms Investigators and whatnot going up and around Berlin and other parts of Germany looking for hidden weapons, trying to ensure compliance with Versailles, and aid shipments to Poland and other places attacked by the Bolsheviks.
Professionals in dialogue. Outstanding.
Oft gesehen aber immer was besonderes. ❤❤❤
As long as no desperate producer / director decides to do a remake. It would be a disaster.
I think the fact that this movie depicting WW2 being shot and released during WW2 raises the bar for a remake quite a lot.
They did,it was
@@stevejauncey3086 In a Lauren Bacall-narrated documentary on "Casablanca," she said the only remake that was any good was Bugs Bunny in "Carrotblanca"
Yamamoto had it more clearly. It is said that he would not abide an invasion of mainland U.S., as he believed there would be " a rifle behind every blade of grass ".
He was also opposed to the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. He knew how to count and where the oil, coal, bauxite, and iron ore was in the world.
He spent time in the States, he knew Japan was no match technologically
Yamamoto may have believed something like that but the quote is unsubstantiated and almost certainly bogus. Just like the "sleeping giant" quote attributed to Yamamoto, there is no record of his ever saying such a thing to anyone.
@@jkorshak Now, we can all sleep well knowing that. I get it, but the sentiment holds.
When you present ambiguous citations like "it is said" and then follow it with quotes, the facts invariably come home to roost. History doesn't care about sentiment.
Great. Now I have to watch the whole movie.
You won't regret it.
It's incomprehensible that 16 people would "thumbs-down" this.
Casablanca
The Godfather
Doctor Zhivago
Cool Hand Luke
I liked that girl washing her car in Cool Hand Luke. Who could vote that one down?
does ghostbusters count
It was thumbs up, but they were standing on their heads.
Bogey was a master
Haha! Greatest movie line ever when he tells the Major:
"Well, there are certain sections of New York I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."
Truth! I grew up near there, and know first hand about some of those Gambino family-run; or Lecchese family-run hoods!
I beg your pardon Colonel.
TRIVIA: In the final scene where Rick shoots the Major, Rick says, "put that phone down" then shoots. Where did the line, "you asked for it" from that same scene come from?
The same scene, different take was used in the "coming soon" movie promotions they showed at theaters prior to the release of Casablanca. If you have the DVD, watch the "promo" section and you'll see.
His dossier is as "dodgy😊" as tony Blair's😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
"Are my eyes really brown?" 😅
This is very true ...
When your going through comments and see where you already 👍 some of the gold 😊
Why would twelve people give this a thumbs down?
Teenagers trying to provoke comments.
"Arer my eyes really brown?"
❤️
Sorry about that everyone. This is one of my all time favorites.
In The sequel novel Rick was jewish.
“Are my eyes really brown?”
Would Major Strasser’s dossier on Rick be written in English?
Don't forget, Rick is a citizen of the world. In addition to English he also spoke French. Before leaving Paris he said his German was rusty, but he didn't say nonexistent (in Casablanca he would have constantly encountered many languages).
The word brown is braun in German...so not too difficult to distinguish when listed with all his other physical descriptors.
@@jamesjoseph1249 True. 👍
In English... maybe that was the point; Strasser wanted Rick to understand his own countrymen would betray him for money, and Rick pointed out that a person who knew his eye colour wasn't being impersonal and probably couldn't be trusted to tell the truth?
This stuff has so many layers. .
Brown in German is “Braun.” So easy translation.
@@sirmount2636 As long as you also know "Augen" (Eyes).
This is how I feel when the Chinese talk about invading Taiwan.
Movies have really gone downhill since then
Humphrey Bogart does a better Bruce Willis better than Bruce Willis ever could.
Imagine trying to stare down Bogey.
Kraut never had a chance.
That's why Strasser was so sour
Certain sections of N.Y. Major... One of the greatest lines in film history. When I watch The Warriors, which I happen to do frequently, I have to concur. The Nazis could never defeat The United States let alone take NYC. The preposterous arrogance of the Nazis to declare war on our great country. Please...
And yet that exact same thing happened this year.
Which is why even the white nationalists who hide out in certain areas of brooklyn, queens and most of staten island won't try to pull any shit. Nuyawkas won't stand for it.
@@jputterman26 and yet, on 9/11 they all reverted back to the herd mentality that has ruled that city for as long as it's been a city. George W. Bush along with his father orchestrated the deaths of over 2000 people, displacing lives and people while he himself hid in a kindergarten in Florida. Bush's younger brother was in charge of security in all 3 of the buildings that "imploded" that day. The 3rd building wasn't even hit and yet went down in seconds. The security had been planting charges for months inside those buildings. Anyone who understands demolition of buildings in big cities will tell you that, yet brave NY immediately blamed terrorists. Like mushrooms they were fed b.s. and kept in the dark for months. On the day it happened NY was trying hard to make sense of it all, misinformation spread like wildfire. George H.W. was responsible for the gulf of tonkin incident that pulled the US into the Vietnam war. It was all a lie, president Eisenhower tried to warn us about the military industrial complex, and yet we chose to ignore his warning. All it takes for evil to succeed is good men doing nothing.
@@petergarcia589 And trauma. Psy-ops is something this country is good at.
@@petergarcia589 "Anyone who understands demolition" I understand demolition which means that I also understand that when a building is deliberately demolished it is imploded from the base-up, whilst the twin towers went from the top-down. Besides, the work taken to rig these buildings could not possibly have gone unnoticed. And about the 3rd building: damage of that magnitude does not respect property lines. The fire that took down the first two building simply spread to the 3rd.
When is the avengers sequel? That’s what today’s audience wants. But not in Morocco. Too appropriation-y
Spike Lee references this scene in his new 9/11 CoVid NYC documentary on HBOMAX
Is a famous director. Yes? Is there more?
Has nothing to do with Casablanca.
@@sambenavidez7067 if you watch his new documentary he references this scene
@@bbmcrae if you watch spike's new documentary he references this scene
@@KokomoGreenberg So what? What's your point?
Soooo.. Anyone's seen any good flic lately?
How about the point of view of this is supposed to be 4:3 aspect ratio, dlckwad. Too lazy to upload it right? There is software even a chimpanzee can use
Pure propaganda.
@susanb2015, written & spoken like a real film buff. High def. TV is great but nothing tops The theatre experience. Especially @ night. & then coffee & muffins or bagels after to discuss the film to cap off the evening!
Anyone who is interested in reading the screenplay for the new movie [The Fight for Love and Glory]
which begins as Casablanca ends go to creativescreenplays.com