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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Casablanca is my favourite movie. I've seen it at least 40 times. The principal things it has going for it are the writing, obviously; the performances that make nearly every character likable; the atmosphere (you can feel the sense of desperation thinly veiled beneath the party atmosphere at Rick's); and the pacing, which is far ahead of its time.
But the thing that people watching it for the first time usually don't consider is that the soul of the movie comes from the fact that it was literally made DURING World War II, and every actor in that film was currently being affected by that ongoing war to some degree - some people very personally. When Laszlo leads La Marsaillaise and you see Madeleine Lebeau crying, that's not acting. Many of the people on screen, including her, had literally escaped Europe as the Nazis advanced. That is unique and could only be captured at that time.
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Sam does a poor job pretending to play the piano. Literally unwatchable.