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In Reply to: The Bicycle Thief? Your derailleur gear needs fine tuning! I've seen that flick; it's okay, but it ain't NO Casablanca! posted by Audiophilander on December 05, 2003 at 11:14:22:
To a masterpiece.
I do not no of Victorīs derailleur..but you seems not to have one at all....* A good accident, as every involve with " Casablanca " was baffle at the success...
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You have to understand, my dear Patrick, the American obsession with the cool, square-jawed, self assured male super-hero characters.As you guys in decadent Europe were laughing whatching Fantomas, America was sitting on the edges of its chair, tears in the eyes, trying to catch every quick and smart retort dropped by its hero, the square jaw barely moving and the martini glass not even spilled.
Truth is Borart's character is the standard of cardboard cut-outness, having as little to do with the way real people behave in real life as Fantomas has with you.
Well, maybe even less.
So the true reason behind the mad love for Casablanca lies not in its artistic values, but in being the proper response to a particular needs of a particular society.
A great film needs just an ordinary person in order to touch your nerve - a Cabiria, or Lamberto Maggiorani from the Bicycle Thief... a weak film needs a cool super-hero. A Fantomas. A Cling Eastwood. A Bogart.
Thatīs true. But we all needs our heros, or I better said most of us, that would not be too arrogant of a ringing in my ears.
The point was how can one compare AND dismisse the real film, the one that is made of human flesh, of blood, of love, of purity, of sensibility, of shame, to a cartoon, even if pleasantly romantic, professionally played, well photographed, but a work made " a la chaine " like Curtis did with more or less " bohneur ".
How can he dare!
And I really like Casablanca.But for what it is.
I also love many films with Eastwood and Bronson for the same reason - we all need a dose of tostesterone fantasy from time to time.But the original question was about the "perfect" film... that is one tough call!
Easwood grew better and better, for Bronson...I did like a some but...it was just too caricatural....one look at each was enough for my soul....
In a contemporaneous review of "Death Wish", a critic wrote (paraphrase), "We are expected to believe that Bronson is a successful architectural engineer, when he looks like he'd have trouble signing his own name".
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