In message , Stan Brown
writes:
On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 04:32:07 +0000, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
Indeed. I recognised it as a reference, but have just had to think a bit
to remember where from, but I remembered eventually, which is
reassuring. ("Your winnings, sir.") I wonder - yes, found it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjbPi00k_ME
That movie is, IMHO, one of the major arguments against relying
exclusively on streaming. I have the DVD and have watched it probably
ten times in the last fifteen years. Every time I see something new.
It blows my mind that the people involved had no idea they were doing
something special -- to them it was just that week's product.
Weeell ... I think _some_ of them knew it was pro-war (oversimplifying -
but in favour of America getting involved, which I think it hadn't
decided to be at that point). But yes, some of them would indeed have
jut been doing this week's job. (And some of them - such as the lighting
cameraman - doing it excellently, to the extent of it not having been
bettered since.)
By the way, there's an excellent book, /Round up the Usual Suspects/,
about the making of the movie. Frex, Bergman didn't know when she
recorded her last big scene whether her character would end up with
Rick or Victor Laszlo; that's why she played it to allow either
ending.
And in case anyone doesn't know, the film is /Casablanca/. If you
haven't seen it, do so tonight. (I still remember seeing it for the
first time, on a double bill with /The Maltese Falcon/. It doesn't
get better than that.)
I saw, I think it was, a fiftieth anniversary showing, at the Empire,
Leicester Square. The projectionist let the film flap through to the
end; it (not because of that) got a standing ovation, which felt rather
surreal.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
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