{"id":31406,"date":"2012-11-17T11:02:27","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T18:02:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/casablanca-complexities.html"},"modified":"2014-11-06T09:42:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T16:42:37","slug":"casablanca-complexities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/17\/casablanca-complexities.html","title":{"rendered":""Casablanca" complexities"},"content":{"rendered":"

It's worth noting that the setup for this film — to contemporary audiences — is certainly no more complicated than the oft-derided "Phantom Menace" crawl that blathers on about trade disputes and Senatorial committees: \u00a0<\/p>\n

"You got your Nazis. But they don't have any control here. But they conquered France. Except that one part of it, that surrenders. \u00a0That's call Vichy, and it's run by Petain — you'll see those names later. So people are leaving France to come to North Africa. Oh, France owns that, too. Unoccupied France. \u00a0But people don't want to get stuck there, so they're trying to get to America. Well, yeah, maybe some other places, probably a lot to Argentina and S America, but we're only going to mention the United States. So they want to go there, but they can't go straight there, probably because of airline deregulation. So they need to go to Lisbon in Portugal. Yes, that's a really round-about way to get to Lisbon, but I guess Franco doesn't want them trudging through Spain, and they can't get a ship there. Anyhow so it's Unoccupied France, but there are still Germans there. Remember them, they conquered France, except for the Vichy guys. So they don't control stuff, but they kind of do, except for the criminals, except they're working with the police who are kinda in bed with the Nazis except when they want to save face. But the French still hate the Germans, except when they're working with them, but probably even then. So that's why those people are sneering and those people are shouting and those people are singing real loud. And don't even ask about that Italian officer guy, or why Louie's uniform keeps changing."<\/i><\/p>\n

The geopolitics of the background make the Rick-Ilsa-Victor triangle look like a piker.<\/p>\n

Now … wait until Kay learns that the next movie I'm going to inflict on her has three of the same actors …<\/p>\n

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It's worth noting that the setup for this film — to contemporary audiences — is certainly no more complicated than the oft-derided "Phantom Menace" crawl that blathers on about trade disputes and Senatorial committees: \u00a0 "You got your Nazis. But they don't have any control here. But they conquered France. 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