Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с видеофильмом "Casablanca". Дворжец О.С. - 21 стр.

A police car, full of officers, with SIREN BLARING, screams through the              • What can you say about alterations in the film during its shooting?
street and stops in the market.                                                      • Can you answer the question about the reason of popularity of Casa-
Some try to escape but are caught by the police and loaded into a police                  blanca after you've read the passage?
wagon.
                                                                                     8 V While watching:
6 After watching:                                                                    Watch Sequence 2 and fill in the gaps in
Below is the beginning of the synopsis for Sequence 1. Could you complete it         the script by the following Rick's
by giving the context – things, the film makers didn't feel it was necessary or      words (1-10):
politic to mention in that spring and summer of 1942.                                A You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your
    Casablanca starts as a newsreel: a slowly-turning, a documentary-style               business is politics. Mine is running a
narrator. The events which follow are fictitious, but they take place in a real          saloon.
world where things like this really do happen…                                       B It's not particularly my beloved Paris.
    War-time Casablanca is a polyglot city of Moors, French, German offi-            C When you get there, ask me.
cials, and refugees from all over Europe, the latter trying to get to Lisbon and     D Make it official, if you like.
freedom. Tensions are high. We see police shoot a man who refuses to obey            E I'm a drunkard.
their order to stop. A second later, in a different place, a dark European warns     F I was born in New York City if that'll help you any.
an English couple of the 'scum of Europe', 'vultures', ─ as he deftly lifts the      G Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise
husband's wallet. Their conversation takes place at a normal, leisurely pace             you to try to invade.
but the instant it's done we are interrupted by the sound of a plane. Faces turn     H There seems to be no secret about that.
skyward: all nationalities and ages; not the faces of actors at all; humble, ordi-   I I haven't the slightest idea.
nary faces. We sense that it is not just this small crowd on a street in Casa-       J Are my eyes really brown?
blanca which is looking at the plane, yearning for freedom, but humanity as a
whole …                                                                              RICK'S CAFE – NIGHT
    A bit overwrought? Perhaps. But consider the context:                            The neon sign above the door is brightly lit. Customers arrive and go in
    – German forces, after a brief setback the previous winter, were once again      through the front door. From inside we hear sounds of music and laughter.
advancing in Russia; U-boats sank 900 Allied ships that spring and …………              The song is "It Had to Be You".
                                                                                     INSERT SIGN: "Rick's Cafe Americain".
Sequence 2                                                                           RICK'S CAFE – MAIN ROOM – NIGHT
7 Before watching:                                                                   Rick's is an expensive and chic nightclub which definitely possesses an air of
Read the following passage from the review of the film and answer the ques-          sophistication and intrigue.
tions after it.                                                                      SAM, a middle-aged Negro, sits on a stool before a small, salmon-colored
How has this film become probably the best-loved of all motion pictures?             piano on wheels, playing and singing while accompanied by a small orchestra.
The question has been asked many times, above all because the film was               All about him there is the hum of voices, chatter and laughter.
largely improvised. The scriptwriters were making alterations up to the last         Renault, Strasser, and Heinze sit calmly at their table after witnessing the ar-
minute, and it is said that Ingrid Bergman was not told until just before the        rest.
last scene whether Ilsa would end in the arms of Rick or her husband.
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