*Casablanca* Classic! - Reaction & Commentary ft. Cam

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A couple of black guys named Noob & Awesome along with a woman named Cam'ron watch the perfect classic film Casablanca(1942). Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman are great. This is a first time blind reaction. She has never seen this before.

[@TwoScoopsXD]

Of all the vape shops in all suburbs

[@zenarcher9633]

Conrad Veidt, who played Major Strasser, was a huge silent movie star and was offered the chance by the Nazis to stay and work in Germany for them, but only if he divorced his Jewish wife. Instead, he changed his religion to Jewish on all his official documents, in solidarity with his wife, and fled to the UK. For the rest of his career, he donated large proportions of his wages to the British War Effort. He absolutely hated the Nazis and only agreed to play Strasser as long as he had no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Sadly, he died suddenly shortly after Casablanca was released.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

Arguably the most quoted movie in history.

[@frankcastle9991]

Probably the best movie ever.

[@tomwillcutts2918]

Yes - and caviar and champagne would not have been odd back then or even today. It could be a pre-dinner appetizer or stand alone bar fare - nothing unusual there at all.

[@auapplemac2441]

@@tomwillcutts2918 Usually served with small pieces of toast.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

Such a phenomenal film and the scene of the people crying singing the French National Anthem were actual refugees who fled the country. Also the director Michael Curtiz had a few years prior directed Adventures of Robin Hood and Claude Rains who was Louis in this was Prince John in that film.

[@jwoodard29]

Ugarte asks to cash in his chips as he's being arrested. He has already decided to run and knows he likely will be shot and killed. So "cashing in his chips" has a double meaning.

[@TwoScoopsXD]

Good double meaning

[@CameronBaba]

the writing in this is top tier

[@phila3884]

Roger Ebert said in his original review that everyone is talking in code. And if you watch it more and more, EVERY line has a double meaning.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Many of us old folk never caught that, Hahahaha, very clever...

[@jayarr961]

I see you noticed tat some of the actors were also in Maltese Falcon. In the old days of hollywood, movie stars did not decide what movies they would be in. They would sign contracts with studios. The more popular the Actor/Actress the more they would get for the contract. After they signed, they would act in the movies the studio chose for them. The other actors in the film(s) would be other actors who had signed with that studio. Almost every Bogart movie also has Sydney Greenstreet.

[@HuntingViolets]

I was with you till the joke at the end. Bogart and Greenstreet were in a few movies together but not close to almost every one for Bogart (who made a more movies than Greenstreet). A good movie with Greenstreet and Peter Lorre is _The Mask of Dimitrios._

[@auapplemac2441]

The likes of Greenstreet, Sakall and Lorre were known as character actors. They played smaller, but important roles. I like to think of them as the seasoning of a movie while the stars were the main course. When watching old movies, I often look for my favorites and will watch it even if I'm not fans of the stars.

[@TC_Smitty]

Great watch/reaction. If I may suggest a feel-good movie, you might enjoy Harvey (1950). Fairly simple, but fun movie staring Jimmy Stewart. Cheers

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

"Letters of transit," were a McGuffin, just a driver of the plot.

[@alanmacification]

" Signed by General De Gaulle . . " He was a self-appointed leader of Free French force. He would have been arrested if he showed up in unoccupied Vichy France. He was a large pain in the ass for the Allies, but they were forced to deal with him. But he had no authority in Casablanca. The movie was rushed into release to coincide with the American landing in North Africa in November 1942.

[@wiggion]

One of the most famous and important historical scenes in movie history. France was occupied and this was in middle of WW2, well before D-Day and result of war not guaranteed. The singing back the French anthem at the Germans is considered intentional and "good propaganda". And the best movie break up line ever "We'll always have Paris".

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

It's a complete fabrication of a movie. Vichy France was a puppet of Nazi Germany, not independent. Lazlo would not have avoided arrest in Casablanca.

[@sobrevalorado]

"I think is tbe national anthem of France..." It's the international anthem of freedom and democracy

[@thomastimlin1724]

Madeline Lebeau as Yvonne, the Frecnh girl, was a well known French actress who fleed Occupied France with her actor/director husband, the tears were real during the filming of the French National Anthem scene. Almost every extra in the room had fled from the Nazis...this was a powerful moment,more powerful moment then than is recognized now. it was symbolic if that moment in time. It was "in your face" you assh*les moment. It gives chills up and down my spine everytime. Madeline was the last actress to pass away whowas a cast memebr of Casablanca, in 2016 at age 92. I have a crush on her, she's gorgeous, forget about Ingrid Bergman lol.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Madeline Le Beau's husband was the actor Marcel Dalio who played the croupier running the roulette wheel (great line: "Your winnings sir")

[@jollyrodgers7272]

A lot of Hollywood actors faked their Mid-Atlantic accents, like Vincent Price who grew up in St. Louis. But Katherine Hepburn's seemed real, being from New England. Cary Grant was from Bristol, England and had a hybrid Brit/American style. Mid-Atlantic basically went from the Hudson River Valley to Baltimore - and sounded like FDR.

[@bobsylvester88]

A lot of people don’t know that Claude Rains also learned to speak more upper class. He was British and originally had a much more Cockney-like dialect.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

My parents were both college educated from the metro New York area, so I grew up familiar with a "non-accented" background. My mom, especially, had to try to find work as a secretary in the 1930's and 40's when businesses didn't want a trace of any local or ethnic-sounding accent in their offices. It wasn't unusual to have adults around who spoke with a form of the Mid-Atlantic accent, even if they weren't wealthy.

[@HuntingViolets]

"If I were a woman and I were not around, I would be in love with him." Narcissistic and bi. But whom does Rick walk off with at the end of the movie? I ask you that.

[@thomastimlin1724]

🤣i guess everything now can be twisted into something else. Although I do wonder what interest Sam had in Rick too lol. i mean where's Sam's girl?

[@HuntingViolets]

@@thomastimlin1724Well, that's a new theory. (Mine wasn't at all, or, strictly speaking, mine.) Sam may have a girl. We never really get to see one way or the other, as he is generally playing the piano when we see him.

[@Hondo0101]

Bogart spoke like that because a pipe hit his mouth. It was his greatest gift.

[@auapplemac2441]

He had a slight scar on his mouth.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

It's been the subject of much conjecture, from a childhood beating by his strict father, getting hit by a handcuffed prisoner during his years in the Navy to shrapnel when his ship was hit in WWI.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

14:46 Tabacco was a hard item to get in WWII for the Axis powers. Turkey (Turkish Tabacco) would have been the only country willing to trade with them.

[@jnagarya519]

This film won Best Picture, Best Screenplay, and Best Director. Another by the same director from the same year is the great "Yankee Doodle Dandy," with the great James Cagney -- who won Best Actor. 4 Oscars to two films made during the same year by the same director.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

14:46 That's Claude Rains.

[@lukebarton5075]

You should now watch the film “Play It Again Sam” It’s essentially a comedic tribute to Casablanca. Very funny film.

[@tomwillcutts2918]

You assumed Lazlo is Jewish? That's the first I ever heard of that. It's always interesting to see young people react to this movie - it's like those common KZbin videos where someone interviews students and asks basic history Qs. "I think that's the French national anthem." - ya think? lol "So Rick's thing is running bars - that's his thing." No, no, no - Rick's thing is he's an arms dealer. He delivered arms in Ethiopia and in the Spanish Civil War - both preceded WWII. "Where I am going and what I have to do - you cannot be a apart of." He's sold his Cafe and he's returning to what he does - he's getting back into the fight. It's definitely easier to watch and appreciate this great Film if you know something about the historical setting of the movie .....

[@TwoScoopsXD]

You sound real sassy

[@thomastimlin1724]

@@TwoScoopsXD Yes he didn't have say it that way. Stick to mere factual correction, using phrases like' "you were mistaken here", or "Actually it is"...

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

Micheal Curtiz directed this movie, and he makes the fantasy real. Curtiz was an auteur.

[@thomastimlin1724]

not without Max Steiner's music, the John Williams of his time, who also wrote may other film scores, like the frst King Kong, and Gone With the Wind. Max would collaborate with the directors, not just throw something unrelated to the mood into a scene...note the simple but effective musical chord of concern when Bogart's eyes meet Bergman's for the first time in the Cafe. And the same type chord when she opens the door to talk to him in the bar. It iasnot overly dramatic but subtly theeatic.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

@@thomastimlin1724 I like Steiner.

[@manueldeabreu1980]

The one thing about this movie is you meet a lot of characters that are minor but are critical to the story. My favorite is the Hungarian couple at the beginning. You think they are a throw away until it shows Rick isn't as hard as he is when the young girl has to give up her virtue.

[@phila3884]

7:57 He's eating caviar on a cracker. C'mon, guys!

[@papercup2517]

Or blini, perhaps...

[@phila3884]

@@papercup2517 Caviar. Responding to to a question the reactors seemed to have earlier, if you remember.

[@papercup2517]

@@phila3884 I do remember, and I just meant, he may be eating his caviar on a blini (rather than a cracker)... 🙂

[@auapplemac2441]

​@@papercup2517Or toast points with a sprinkle of lemon and/or chopped onions.

[@HuntingViolets]

Ingrid Bergman has a Swedish accent. Peter Lorre's is German. I'm not sure who has a midatlantic accent in this movie.

[@rabbitandcrow]

Claude Raines is British but plays a French man … with a British accent.

[@commieRob]

The mid-Atlantic had become standard in both America and England at this time. Both Bogart and Rains we're speaking with accents that could be described as mid-Atlantic or transatlantic.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@commieRob Bogart always sounds a little more "tough guy" to me and Rains sounds English. The narrator about the map at the beginning sounded kind of midatlantic. I may be off, though. I always am surprised when people put Katarine Hepburn in this category when she sounds like New England to me (and is from New England).

[@jnagarya519]

Lorre was from Hungary (as was Curtiz) via Germany.

[@scarlettredding]

Clicked on this one so fast 💚

[@thomastimlin1724]

My hats off to the young who discover this classic film, even those who say "oh no, it's in black and white" and then get roped in and forget all about their phobia, and come away educated. Rick's repeated line "I stick my neck out for nobody" and others are a metephors for the USA staying out of the war, pressure from one group to do so. President Franklin D. Roosevelt needed a good excuse to win them over to get involved, and it came Dec 7, 1941, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, and Congress declared war on Japan, Germany, and Italy. The Casablanca story takes place just a day or so before Pearl Harbor.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Germany and Italy declared war on the US, not the other way around. The US Congress rightfully regarded the Japanese attack on Pearl as an act of war, and the next day, Germany and Italy joined Japan.

[@matthewcostello3530]

you should watch Peter Lorre in Arsenic and Old Lace

[@auapplemac2441]

Watch everybody in Arsenic and Old Lace. A semi-dark comedy with Cary Grant.

[@garryhall9519]

When this movie was released, WWII was going on AND how it would end was still in question. The Germans held the upper hand at that point.

[@handsomestik]

War is still going on at the making of this

[@TwoScoopsXD]

War never changes

[@HuntingViolets]

@@TwoScoopsXD World War II was still going on. This movie is at least partially propaganda to get the U.S. into the war.

[@kenle2]

​​@@HuntingViolets No. By the time the movie was released, the U.S. had been in the war for a year.

[@auapplemac2441]

The film was released in 1942. The war in Europe started around 1937 or 38. Pearl Harbor bombing was 12/7/41 when we entered the war although; we had been helping England (Lend Lease Program) with supplies because all of Europe was controlled by the Nazis. England hung on by their bleeding finger nails until we finally entered. Their cities were bombed and it was probably only a matter of time before the Hitler would invade. Actually, Hitler blundered by attacking Russia first. It was too big a bite for him and he finally began to suffer loses. He fired Generals because they wanted to retreat after some battle loses, but Hitler was really a mad man and would not let them. He blamed the final end days of the war on the German people not living up to the "Master Race" his insane mind visualized them to be.

[@im-gi2pg]

Peter Lorre was a bad guy in “Arsenic and old lace.” Cary Grant.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

3:42 I play Chess against myself. It's the only was a bad chess player can win a match.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

How about Woody Allen in "Play it Again, Sam." 1972. A comedy.

[@joepowell7025]

Yes the were REAL superstars .. Unlike today's lot.

[@meyerhave]

TwoScoopsXD: What "combover" at 3min.30sec. "is extreme"? If you're referring to the hair of the actor handing that which gets the "OK Rick" signature from Bogart's character, then that is what has ALWAYS been known as a "healthy & full head of hair", and NOT a "combover".

[@HuntingViolets]

Why is Louis jealous that Ilsa was asking about Rick? Hmm.

[@meyerhave]

TwoScoopsXD at 8min. 04 sec.: The film NEVER indirectly or explicitly mentions "Victor Laszlo" - who in this film is otherwise portrayed as a revered and widely known Czech freedom resistance fighter - as being Jewish. Where'd you come up with that "fact" Cleveland?

[@TwoScoopsXD]

You're a real intense guy

[@jefferyshute6641]

"Play It Again, Sam." It's a comedy based on the Bogart character in "Casablanca." Stars Woody Allen, Diane Keaton.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Although THAT was NEVER said in the film...thanks Woody, for perpetuating that stupid myth. now we have the uninformed masses believing that...precurser to all news channels now I guess....

[@auapplemac2441]

And yet that line was never said in Casablanca.

[@danielemlet7885]

Watch where no Angels bogart film makes you feel good at the end

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

20:19 The most blatant problem this movie is that "The Resistance," in Europe was at the most ineffectual and at the least a lie.

[@auapplemac2441]

Don't think it was a lie, just outnumbered and out gunned. They could only do so much to harm the Nazis advances and control. The Nazis did not take kindly to people who fought them. You know, concentration camps, torture and ovens (not just Jews were treated that way). Being caught was no picnic.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

Nonsense. The resistance was effective in Greece, France, Italy, Yugoslavia and other places in conjunction with the Allied armies.

[@jackasswhiskyandpintobeans9344]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 I don't know where you are reading your history. I would give you Yugoslavia as those commie partisans were tough SOB's. The resistance in France was a joke.

[@HuntingViolets]

Weird sudden shift to talk of an unsimulated sex scene in another movie? I'm sure it makes sense in the uncut reaction, but . . . strange edit.

[@TwoScoopsXD]

Yeah that's why I put on screen "discussing what to watch next." It makes sense because we usually watch wild movies with Cam and something like Casablanca is out of character.

[@HuntingViolets]

@@TwoScoopsXD Oops, I must have blinked at that point. Yeah, I haven't seen Cam on here before. I think I've mostly watched your older films. I'm old, though.

[@TwoScoopsXD]

​@@HuntingVioletsWe've seen 2 fifty shades movies, The Idol HBO show etc. That's why at the end we were like "I'm not used to feeling happy after watching a movie with you"

[@HuntingViolets]

@@TwoScoopsXD Well, Louis gets to go away with Rick, which is probably what he wanted all along, so happy ending. It's funny how the main couple breaks up, but it's fine. Although I have seen some reactors cry at that. But, yeah, you should watch some movies that make you happy too. :)

[@CameronBaba]

lmaooo it really does make me look like a fiend in the middle of an emotional scene

[@filmonthemic860]

An amazing sad movie with a lot of fuckin I would recommend is Y Tu Mama Tambien since y’all are apparently looking for movies with a bunch of fuckin

[@TwoScoopsXD]

That's not the goal

[@holdencaulfield8429]

Nice dumbnail.

[@jnagarya519]

She kicked his guts out, owes him an explanation, but instead avoids the issue and continues the emotional abuse. I challenge anyone as victimized to be polite about it.

[@macroman52]

Once Rick had one more night with her, he realised she was more trouble than she was worth - that he had built her up in his memory to be more than she was.

[@meyerhave]

" TwoScoopsXD for TRUMP 2024". Pathetic.

[@TwoScoopsXD]

Man what are you talking about

[@andrewdavid9412]

The younger generation doesn't know shit about history.

[@johannesvalterdivizzini1523]

As a life long teacher I prefer to educate people, not demean them.

[@andrewdavid9412]

@@johannesvalterdivizzini1523 A teacher in the US school system? And you're bragging this? You and your worthless teachers union have turned America's youth into know-nothing whiners and lazy layabout losers.