I'm not sure why I never sat through it before, as I was very much aware of its reputation.Certainly 11 pm on a school/work night was not the best time to sit down and make up for lost time but I'm glad I did.
It more or less lived up to its hype, which pleased me greatly. I loved Claude Raine's character, and Ferrari. It's amazing to see just how many everyday quotes come from that movie. "Here's looking at you kid" ,"this is the start of a beautiful friendship", etc.
Heck, the only bad part was the begining naration and cheap map of Africa.
My favorite scene is not one that I've heard discussed before. A young woman from Bulgaria approaches Rick. She wants to know if Claude Raines would keep his word and get her and her newlywed husband out of Cassablanca if she would sleep with him, tho' of course given the censorship of the day it's never spelled out in black and white. Rick blows her off, but a moment later walks over to the roulette wheel and rigs it for the young husband to win, giving him the money to bypass the twisted arrangement.
I loved that scene.
4 stars for the movie classic
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SPOILERS AHEAD!
I recently finished Hell House by Richard Matheson. Stephen King calls it 'the' masterpiece of haunted house fiction, but I don't agree. I'm not sure what book is (The Shining?) but it isn't this one.
Still a fun read, and genuinely scary at parts, but c'mon! You are about to spend 7 days in a famously haunted house that has killed groups of paranormal investigators in the past. So . . you all decide to take seperate overnight rooms, take time to brush your teeth, wander around alone and after your husband is bashed to bits and dragged to his doom in a swimming pool and you escape YOU GO BACK FOR HIS 'THINGS'.
Mister, I don't care if I left the Hope Diamond behind, I'm not going back in.
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1 comment:
HA! Too funny! So no Indecent Proposal scene huh? I wonder if that was an idea from Casablanca...just a modern twist.
Haunted House that kills Paranormal people...ha that is too funny! I'd want my money back if they came to exorcise my house! HA! Carol Ann would never be saved! I guess they didn't know "Who to call" Ha!....I'm pathetic I know. Don't you think it is time for a new & updated Ghostbusters? Lets work on a script...now Bill Murray & Harold Ramis are older...I actually have talked to Rick Moranis professionally for quite some time one day & then he called me back once so that could work...ha! Sigourney hasn't doing much lately but commercials with her Alien character so...
Maybe a politic satire...get rid of the ghost politicians in office? Ha!
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