"pjallittle's new TANGIER Page" a Casablanca Travel Page by pjallittle

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Understand that we have never been to <font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> and there are several other impressive pages to visit. The best as of April 22, 2001 was artfully crafted by <b>LysDor</b> Anyone who is disappointed by this substitution tocover<b>TANGIER</b>in this fashion may contact VT and urge them to modify their program to allow <b>all of us</b> to add cities which we feel are relevant. <b>TO SEE LysDor's PAGE ~ VISIT HER AT:</b><a href=http://www.virtualtourist.com/m/.88942/649/?s=997760292>--{[:-0-:]}--</b></a>
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VT is aware of the difficulty and will look into how best to handle this for us. Meanwhile, <b>patience</b> must be the order of the day as we improvise. Let's put substance over form. With due deference, I don't think we should dislodge someone who has legitimately been to a country or city that we have taken over as our own.

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One of the very best films in Hollywood history,<font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> is set in<b> French Morocco</b> just before the start of World War II. Humphrey Bogart plays Rick, the nightclub owner who has refused thus far to take sides with the French resistance or the newly-appointed Nazi officials. He's his usual cool, collected self until a ghost from his past walks in on the arm of the most wanted man in the resistance. The woman is Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), his lost love from Paris who never made it onto the train with him.

Since then he's managed to suppress the emotional scars of jilted love, but finds himself drinking alone that night, pondering the reason why, "of all the gin joints in all the cities in all the world,

she had to walk into mine." No one tells him that if she hadn't there wouldn't have been a movie, but the Paris past of Rick and Ilsa and her reasons for staying behind are what drive the movie, along with the exit visas Rick has in his possession that are the only chance of Ilsa's man, the resistance leader, to get out of<font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> safely.

Repeated viewings add a lot of poignance to the early scenes, not just in putting the intricate, slowly-unfolding plot in big picture perspective, but in fully appreciating the reunion of Rick and Ilsa in his nightclub and understanding why Rick comes storming out to stop Sam the piano player (Dooley Wilson) from playing "As Time Goes By" after Ilsa requests it. The song, for anyone who's seen
<font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> , is symbolic of so much of the movie's meaning that it will be forever identified with <font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> , even though it pops up in a great many other romances, including SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE.

In the end it comes down to the age-old love triangle scenario. Bergman is still in love with Bogart but feels obligated to support her husband, while Bogart is in the situation of being in control of the destiny of the man who is married to the woman he loves. The ending is one of the most famous and memorable in movie history, and just about any line of dialogue is quotable. <font color="blue"><b>CASABLANCA</b></font> is a wonderful, must-watch film from the Golden Age of Hollywood, one of the few movies that has actually improved with age and demands repeat viewings
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I saw this movie when it was first shown and even as a young child was touched. Come to think of it, I'm still touched.
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