― Jams Murphy (ystrickler), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Puddin'Head Miller (PJ Miller), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:39 (nineteen years ago) link
The Marseillaise scene always gets me too.
Somebody wrote a volume of short stories 10-15 years ago about the fates of Great Movie Characters after the films ended. Never read it, but reviews said his "Casablanca" sequel had Rick and Renault becoming lovers, and Ilsa dying in the plane crash with Dag Hammarskjold...
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 15:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 7 January 2005 16:38 (nineteen years ago) link
― Allyzay Needs Legs More (allyzay), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
why the quotes?
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Friday, 7 January 2005 19:29 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost:Pretty hard to be super-Borgesian, Miguel.
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Ha! I never imagined... Is it any less arbitrary and peculiar than his criticism?
― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― fauxhemian (fauxhemian), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:56 (nineteen years ago) link
xpost:By day, he is a mild blind librarian...
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 20:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 21:00 (nineteen years ago) link
Not a champion lepidopterist, eh?
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:21 (nineteen years ago) link
"Count Alexey Kirillovitch Vronsky, auteur of Showgirls"
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:53 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 22:56 (nineteen years ago) link
Casablanca is still great though!
― roit gaer, Friday, 7 January 2005 23:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― roit gar!, Friday, 7 January 2005 23:30 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― roit gere!, Friday, 7 January 2005 23:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:45 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― roit jar!, Friday, 7 January 2005 23:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 7 January 2005 23:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 00:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:20 (nineteen years ago) link
― Ken L (Ken L), Saturday, 8 January 2005 02:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 8 January 2005 03:04 (nineteen years ago) link
Dario Argento and Mario Bava are not so much 'avant-garde' as incapable of telling a story in 'classical Hollywood cinema'-style - this is both their strength and weakness, obv ('Suspiria ' is frightening at least partly because it so swiftly flees from narrative 'common-sense')
― oldlib, Saturday, 8 January 2005 22:46 (nineteen years ago) link
srsly haters, if you don't tear up at the Marseillaise scene, u probly like Joe Biden.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:46 (fifteen years ago) link
good job on the calum revive
― gabbneb, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
it's definitely a great movie tho
im sorry. i just hate ingrid bergman.
― ryan, Thursday, 28 August 2008 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
i've always imagined a great rick & louis witty action sequel, fucking shit up in algiers before operation torch.
― goole, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:04 (fifteen years ago) link
How long do you think their beautiful friendship lasted?
― Aimless, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:06 (fifteen years ago) link
as soon as Rick realized that vaseline was involved.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
they stay best friends for the rest of the war, and then agree to take a boat to Marseille together. Rick is waiting on the docks as the boat is just about to leave and he's handed a note from Louis that says he won't be coming with him after all and gives no explanation.
years later, Rick owns a bar on Fire Island. out of the blue one day Louis walks in and their passionate affair is commenced anew.
FIN
― Roberto Spiralli, Thursday, 28 August 2008 19:11 (fifteen years ago) link