So, there was a 70th anniversary showing of Casablanca tonight, apparently all over (other than just Ohio, I mean). I hadn't seen it in a long time, and had never seen it in a theater, so we went to see it.
Like I said, it had been a LONG time since I'd seen it.
...Rick/Louis, right? I mean, from their very first scene, before Ilsa ever walks through the door of Rick's Cafe?
After the movie was over, I said to Tim, "My god. Fandom has ruined me."
Him: "How's that?"
Me: "It's touted as the most romantic movie of all time, and all I can think is, forget Ilsa; it's Rick/Louis all the way!"
Him: "Fandom didn't ruin you. They're like Sherlock and Watson."
Me: "Oh my god, *I* have ruined you!"
...but seriously. I just want to draw sparkly hearts around them. Screw Ilsa.
Also, I think the movie should be renamed Victor Laszlow: Balls of Steel. Seriously, the man is a badass.
I think the film pushed the subtext coming from Rains' character as far as they could get away with under the Hays Code.
Rick/Louis is perfection.
Um.
Paramount is giving Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer a 21st century makeover.
The storyline [of Huck] is being kept under wraps, but the project is described as a re-imagining in the vein of Snow White and the Huntsman, focusing on Sawyer and Finn as adults. There also are supernatural elements to the script.
Ha to the first comment, though:
If they make them aliens instead of mutants, I know a buttload of overzealous fanboys who will go apeshit.
forget Ilsa; it's Rick/Louis all the way!
I love buffistas!
I was just hearing about all the Casablanca showings. I didn't realize it came out in 1942, so that was well before the war was over. Somehow that shifts my whole memory of the film.
If they make them aliens instead of mutants, I know a buttload of overzealous fanboys who will go apeshit.
That's pretty much the perfect comment right now.
I didn't realize it came out in 1942, so that was well before the war was over.
It was made not long after Pearl Harbor, before the horrors of the war in Europe had really sunk in. Hence the line, "I bet they're asleep all over America".
My 2 disappointments about being in Spain right now are missing that Casablanca showing, and the Hunger Games premiere.
