Casablanca

 Even the map looks different- Southern Rhodesia named and only Arabia 

Well they don't make them like that anymore. Even with what nearly 80 years slowly burning in pop culture- Magnum P.I - Cheers, The Naked Gun. I still had butterflies in my stomach until that damn plane took off for Lisbon

Cafe is pronounced in Latin style 

Bergman looks so beautiful. Her tears move me. 

The subplot with the Bulgarian woman and her husband was moving too- the Bulgarian woman is offered an exit visa in return for sleeping with the chief of police. She begs Rick to know if the deal will be honoured and will her husband understand? 

 The mess of accents is not jarring. Senor Ferrari being an Englishman- he also sports a fez

One of the soldiers at the Gard in Paris is African. I noticed it was raining Paris fell in the summer. 

The scene where Bogart confronts the German sounds terrible though

Well what more can I say. Go and watch it. 


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