I think the film pushed the subtext coming from Rains' character as far as they could get away with under the Hays Code.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 21, 2012 5:08:57 pm PDT #18871 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Scrappy - Mar 21, 2012 5:16:01 pm PDT #18872 of 30000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Rick/Louis is perfection.
Steph L. - Mar 21, 2012 5:16:43 pm PDT #18873 of 30000
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Rick/Louis is perfection.
I mean, REALLY.
Polter-Cow - Mar 21, 2012 5:54:23 pm PDT #18874 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
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.
Burrell - Mar 21, 2012 7:24:05 pm PDT #18875 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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.
DavidS - Mar 21, 2012 7:42:23 pm PDT #18876 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Screw Ilsa.
I wish!
§ ita § - Mar 21, 2012 8:14:43 pm PDT #18877 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
Fiona - Mar 21, 2012 8:48:57 pm PDT #18878 of 30000
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".
Consuela - Mar 21, 2012 11:11:37 pm PDT #18879 of 30000
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
My 2 disappointments about being in Spain right now are missing that Casablanca showing, and the Hunger Games premiere.
le nubian - Mar 22, 2012 2:19:14 am PDT #18880 of 30000
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ha! on balance I'd prefer to be in Spain! :-)