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I have chosen the 1943 film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz and adapted from a theatre production called "Everyone comes to Rick´s".
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I have chosen the 1943 film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz and adapted from a theatre production called "Everyone comes to Rick´s". I chose this particular film partly because it can accurately be described as a classic Hollywood narrative and also because the opening sequence is both interesting and sets the scene, tone and historical context of the film. The film opens with a style that would be more closely associated with a documentary style of filmmaking. The non-diagetic narrator informs the spectators that Casablanca has become a haven for refugees trying to escape from Europe to the Americas. He goes on to inform us that many of those who arrive in Casablanca find themselves stranded for a great deal of time, "Here the fortunate ones, through money or influence or luck, might obtain exit visas and scurry to Lisbon and from Lisbon to the new world. But the...
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