Key Movie Elements in: Casablanca
Production: Movie Elements
Production Designer George James Hopkins
Production Management Al Alleborn
Art Director Carl Jules Weyl
Director of Photography Arthur Edeson
Music Director Max Steiner
Movie:
Character #1 Rick Blaine - Complicated American Gun Runner turned Saloon owner in Casablanca
Character #2 Ilsa Lund - Long lost lover to Rick “Richard”. She is conflicted about her love for her husband and the love she feels for her lover.
Character #3 Victor Laszlo - Rebel forces leader and revolutionary. He is the husband to Ilsa.
Character #4 Captain Louis Renault - Corrupt official and friend to Rick
Setting The setting is placed in WWII French Neutral Casablanca,
Story Line This is a love story about love found & lost, then found & lost.
Point of View Third Person Omniscient
Theme Drama/Love story
Overview
This is a love story that is told over and over again. It is hard to change something that seems to work. Although this has been re-written into several different movies, you can never change the classic.
In an emotional turn of events the lead character, Rick, goes from having everything he wants to being tossed about like a storm. There is a lot to be said to minding your own business and keeping to your morals. Here that is shown to be truer than ever. In the movie Rick is even warned to just stay out of it. Only thing that will happen is trouble.
It is amazing the changes in lighting and the use of angles that are employed in the movie to change the mood of the different scenes. The lighting usage of shadows brings about a since of expectation for the moviegoers. The blurring of scenes to travel back into memories and the use of the fog and darkness to bring the viewer deeper into the movie adds a lot to the movies impact.
The effort put into the movie by Jack Warner and Michael Curtis show throughout. Making this movie a classic.
