Michael Curtiz

In the film Casablanca dir. Michael Curtiz, an American named Richard “Rick” Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) runs a popular cafe in Casablanca. During World War II, Casablanca is a common place to go to try to get letters of transit to America. Victor Lazlo (Paul Henreid) - an anti-Nazi that has escaped a concentration camp and wants to inspire a rebellion against the Nazi party - and his wife Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) - an ex-lover of Rick - end up in Casablanca on their way to America. Rick, formerly unaffiliated with politics, develops a stance on politics that heavily influences the plot. The theme of the movie is that selflessness will always prevail over selfishness, and that love inspires selflessness, which is shown through the film techniques…

Point of view, as Dr. Casper simply put it, is “who is telling the story.” Although Dr. Casper’s definition indicates that point of view is an unsophisticated literary element, it actually plays a complex and significant role in the development of, in the case of Mildred Pierce, a film or novel. In both film and literature, the writer provides us with point of view. James M. Cain, author of the novel, and Ranald MacDougall, screenwriter of the Michael Curtiz film, take tremendously different…

I Think This is The Beginning of A Beautiful Paper The movie Casablanca is directed by Michael Curtiz and written by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch. Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman play Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund respectively, two main characters of the film. They are supported by Claude Rains, who was cast as Captain Jean Renault, and Paul Henreid, who played the French revolutionary Victor Laszlo. Casablanca appears to fit the film noir genre at the beginning because…

Casablanca is a movie that sets place in 1941. This is a significance date during World War 2. During this period Casablanca in Morocco that was French ruled. In 1940, France had surrendered and signed a peace treaty with Germany. In this treaty, Germany would occupy northern regions of France, including Paris and the French territories of North Africa. During this time in World War 2; many people wanted to Europe and seek refuge elsewhere. Casablanca, which is located in Morocco, was under the…

When Satan set’s his eyes upon Adam and Eve, it is doubtful they he knew how easy it would be to corrupt their minds. Eve, in my opinion was probably the easiest to manipulate and that is why Satan was delighted to come upon her first rather than Adam. Eve, is just like any other woman, so it is quite easy to distinguish what one needs to do to get on her good graces. Due to it being Eve, Satan tempted her with his evil offer by using flattery on her. Apparently flattery will get you anywhere.…

But when the door to the hall, into which no sound from the noisy Metropolis could penetrate, closed behind her, the ore voice of the angel of the cathedral struck at her breast like a steel fist, and she stood still, stunned, raising her hands to her head. Why was Saint Michael crying out so angrily and wildly? Why was the roar of Azrael, the angel of Death joining in so alarmingly? She stepped into the street. Darkness, like a thick layer of soot, lay over the town, and only the cathedral…

In order for a novel to be considered Gothic literature it has to have certain elements. Milton’s Paradise Lost exudes gothic characteristics. The first is Pandemonium. When Satan and his followers are banished to Hell, together they create Pandemonium. Gothic literature is really all about intense emotion and the confusion between good and evil. Powerful emotion is clearly evident in Paradise Lost as there is a constant grasping or pushing and pulling with good and evil, God and Satan. The…

"But how..?" It was a reasonable question, although one Amaimon had not intended to let slip from him, but the words had tumbled out long before he could stop them. Samael had been so strong, so powerful....who or what could have killed him. Lucifer? The two always argued and sure every now and then they had exchanged a few blows, but those were small scuffles and verbal fights....how could it have gotten to the point of murder? And if it had, wouldn't there have been evidence, or even just…

The devil, Satan, Iblis, is known by many names. In the Christian faith he is called Satan, while in Islam he is referred to in various places as Iblis, or Shaytaan in other places. Satan/Iblis, is mainly first introduced to us in the story of Adam and Eve in both the Christian faith and Islam. He is the first disobeyer to God and thus represents the rebellion against God and the path of the wrongdoers. In Islam, it was mentioned that Iblis is a member of a type of God’s creatures called “Jinn”.…

Free will is an extremely important concept in John Milton’s Paradise Lost that greatly impacts the fateful decision made by Adam and Eve. Many questions are raised in the face of a notion such as free will, which prompt the reader and Milton to understand God’s logic and Adam and Eve’s reasoning for turning their backs on it. God makes his new creations “just and right / sufficient to have stood, though free to fall,” and, therefore, obtain the explicitly stated ability to turn against…