Films/DVD Asylum

Posted by Edp (A) on November 10, 2002 at 15:34:04

In Reply to: Am I the only one here who finds "Casablanca" boring and generally poorly made? posted by Victor Khomenko on November 07, 2002 at 08:05:57:

just another movie that was churned out by the machine to make bucks.

But sometimes a cake tastes better than just the pieces of the batter. Don't know why, but it just works for many people looking at cut-out film charaters with nostagic eyes.

It also was timely in that it was good against evil. Pull together. One persons agenda (or two) didn't add to a hill of beans in that crazy world.

America as the brash rough place full of hope, filled with flawed brash rough people with soft spots for the weak and opressed.

The people most suprised by the inital success and could never fathom the lofty/cult heights were the studio heads, director and producer. It was another formulmatic piece that they had turned out dozens of times before.

But with it being chock full of charaters. Lorie, Greenstreet, Raines, the Russian Bartender, the Jewish Head waiter, the sinister German Officer, the fleeing/hoping refugees, all cut out charaters, but what characters.

Seen it alot. Never looked at it like the greatest drama, cinema or film. Just marveled at the 3 sigma creation of chemistry by a factory that used simple formulas. Famous and good, not by design, but by sheer luck.

It is an American film, with flawed American as star, who sacrifices all for duty and love. Better to have a cult about that then Pink Flamingos.