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Why is Casablanca so emotional?

Casablanca’s style and emotional feel has its roots in the black and white, high-contrast styleof the German Expressionist filmmakers. In Expressionism, the filmmaker tends to distort or bendreality for an emotional effect. This unique style might have been lost, had World War II not changedthe course of events.

Do we have a legal right to go to Casablanca?

We have a legal right to go, that's true. But people have been held in Casablanca in spite of their legal rights. Renault retrieves a fresh cigarette from a box on his desk. RENAULT What makes you think we want to hold you? Renault chain-lights his new cigarette with the old one. RICK Ilsa is Laszlo's wife.

What to say to welcome a visitor to Casablanca?

RENAULT (amiably) Merely to welcome you to Casablanca and wish you a pleasant stay. It is not often we have so distinguished a visitor. LASZLO Thank you. I hope you'll forgive me, Captain, but the present French administration has not always been so cordial. May I present Miss Ilsa Lund?

Is there a script for Casablanca?

It is therefore accurate to say that no complete production script for Casablanca exists. The script that follows is therefore a synthesis of extant versions of the shooting script, the continuity script, and a close analysis of the finished film.