Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Casablanca

Casablanca is one of the top movies of all time. Users of the Internet Movie DataBase have ranked it #5 in the top 250 movies of all time, anywhere in the world. There are so many goofs in the film, so much of it is so hokey, yet it works somehow. I don't know how it works, maybe it's the pace or the action or the humor or the romance or the way it all fits together somehow.

There are so many famous lines from the film. See if you can remember who said these:

"We hear very little and we understand even less."

"This is the customary roundup of refugees, liberals, and of course, a beautiful young girl for M'sieur Renault, the Prefect of Police."

A: "I don't buy and sell human beings."
B: "Too bad, that's Casablanca's leading commodity."

"In Casablanca, human life is cheap."

A: "I stick my neck out for nobody."
B: "My dear Rick, when will you learn that in today's world, Isolationism is no longer a practical policy."

A: "I stick my neck out for nobody."
C: "A wise foreign policy."

"Are my eyes really brown?" (In a black and white movie?)

A: "It's December, 1941 in Casablanca. What time is it in New York?"
D: "Huh? My watch stopped."

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."

"Is that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?"

"Kiss me. Kiss me as if it were the last time."

"Even Nazis can't kill that fast!"

E: "Another visa problem has come up."
C: "Show her in."

"As leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca I'm an influential and respected man."

"It would take a miracle to get you out of Casablanca and the Germans have outlawed miracles."

"Now you're beginning to live like a Frenchman."

C: "Have you got those letters?"
A: "Are you pro-Vichy or Free French?"
C: "Serves me right for asking a direct question. The subject is closed."

A: "So Yvonne's gone over to the enemy."
C: "Who knows, in her own way she may constitute an entire second front."

C: "I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here."
F: "Your winnings, sir."
C: "Oh, thank you very much."

A: "And remember, this gun is pointed right at your heart."
C: "That is my least vulnerable spot."

"I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that."

"We'll always have Paris."

"Here's looking at you kid."

"Major Strasser's been shot. [pause] Round up the usual suspects."

"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."

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