Учебно-методическое пособие по работе с видеофильмом "Casablanca". Дворжец О.С. - 34 стр.

             Lee, in 1941 for the sum of $ 20,000. In Hollywood, the script       Role Card F: You are the historian. For you Casablanca is about the deci-
             was adapted, reconceived, developed, and adjusted by no less                      sion of one particular American to forgo a particular personal
             than seven screenwriters, principally the twin-brother writing                    relationship for the good of humanity, to join the fight against
             team of Julius and Philip Epstein (who were responsible for                       Fascism. We have seen throughout, Rick's attempts to deny his
             most of the wisecracks); Howard Koch, who punched up the                          past, to convince himself that "the problems of the world are
             story's political significance; and Casey Robinson, who first                     not in my department" – though we have also been prepared
             suggested turning the character of Lois Meredith, the Ameri-                      (by the Annina/roulette subplot) for how Rick can preach cyni-
             can divorcee of easy virtue, into the lustrous Norwegian hero-                    cism and practice something quite different.
             ine, Ilsa Lund.                                                                   And Casablanca is, by extension, also about the decision of
Role Card C: You are the future filmmaker and Casablanca fan. You might                        Rick's native country, the United States, to join the fight
             be the first to speak about the film introducing it to the TV au-                 against Fascism. (At the time Everybody Comes to Rick's was
             dience. You consider the film to be full of romance, intrigue,                    written, the U.S. was not yet in the war; by the time the filming
             and suspense and well-filmed. For you Casablanca is a roman-                      of Casablanca was completed, official involvement was still
             tic masterpiece, the magic of the movie lies in Bogart's under-                   less than eight months old.) And Rick's new-found friendship
             stated performance, Bergman's depiction of a torn lover. Your                     with Louis has its parallel in the United State's alliance with
             favourite scene is ………The words you might need to de-                             France (and with Europe as a whole).
             scribe the film: amazing, charming, delightful, emotional, ex-                    These parallels are interesting and add a certain resonance to
             traordinary, fantastic, impressive, moving, powerful …                            the movie, but its heart is in the characters as individuals, their
Role Card D: You are the film critic who takes a look at what is considered                    private lives and the tension between those lives and public ob-
             to be "a film classic, probably the best loved of all motion pic-                 ligations.
             tures." You are the author of some lukewarm reviews of Casa-         Role Card G T 9: You are the one who collects movie songs and wants eve-
             blanca and share the view of those who think it's a movie that                    ryone to know how the song As time goes by became the cen-
             demonstrates how entertaining a bad movie can be. The words                       terpiece of Casablanca.
             you might need to describe the film: appalling, awkward, hor-                     July 22 was the last day of regular shooting. The movie was
             rible, slow, sentimental…                                                         turned over to veteran composer Max Steiner to do the music.
Role card E: You are the cinema–goer who saw the film as far back as in …                      He hated As Time Goes By and persuaded Wallis to allow him
             For you Casablanca is a letter from the past. It says that life is                to replace it with a love song of his own. But, lucky accident,
             extremely important. And that not only is love possible, it can                   Ingrid Bergman had already had her hair cut short for her part
             reach to the very deepest parts of our being. And how we live                     in For Whom the Bell Tolls and could not reshoot the neces-
             (in freedom and under the rule of just law) is so important that                  sary scenes. Since he was stuck with As Time Goes By, Steiner
             noble people will willingly sacrifice even deep love for it …                     did more than give in gracefully. He proceeded to make As
             In the darkest hours of World War II, on a Warner Bros.' Stu-                     Time Goes By the centerpiece of the score. The song was not
             dio backlot, a hundred people got together to act out and re-                     only Rick and Ilsa's love theme but Steiner's main connecting
             cord what promised to be a fairly standard entertainment of                       device. The song linked Rick and Ilsa, present and past, the
             love and intrigue. Somehow, what resulted was much more: a                        source music to the underscoring, and the audience to the char-
             rich, supremely life-affirming fable of duty and love.                            acters in the movie.

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