It’s Ingrid Bergman month on Turner Classic Movies. (thanks Ted) And tonight I finally got to see one of the classics tonight, Casablanca.
It’s not my favorite movie, but I really enjoyed it. To me nothing was spectacular, though the sets seemed pretty nice for 1943. Even though ol’ Humphrey Bogart is in it, along with his 5 or so very famous lines, I didn’t think that the acting was anything great. And I suppose that some of the characters seemed a little familiar because so many movies and stories have copied this very movie in the last 60 years. But it all went together well and it just worked. There were some funny parts and the pacing was pretty good for being so old, the movie never felt like it was dragging. Most of the effects aged even better than a few I had seen in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom the day before.
Oh, and no one ever says “Play it again, Sam.” The main characters each ask Sam to play their song a couple of times, but never with those exact words.
I was glad I finally got to see it.
