Episode 124: Casablanca

Beyond the Screenplay

Michael Tucker

Tv & Film

4.7 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2022

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

The BTS team discusses the film's place in history, the character design of the story's central love triangle, and what makes a classic continue to feel relevant as time goes by.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Michael and welcome to Beyond the Screenplay, the podcast where each week we do a conversational deep dive analysis into a film.
0:14.2	Today we are talking about Casablanca, the 1942 film directed by Michael Curtis, screenplay by Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch, based on the play by Maray Burnett and Joan Allison.
0:29.5	I'm joined by the Beyond the Screenplay team, Trisha Rand.
0:32.8	Hello, everyone.
0:33.9	Brian Bittner.
0:34.9	Hello, hello.
0:36.2	And Alex Cayetis.
0:38.1	Hi.
0:44.4	Okay, so we're talking about Casablanca, one of the greatest films of all time.
0:45.0	May.
0:49.7	Brian's just going to hate on it this whole episode.
0:50.2	Not at all.
0:51.8	I'd love to see him drag.
1:05.0	Yeah, so this film is wonderful and I remember being very resistant to seeing it throughout most of, you know, I think I saw it when I was like 20 something, 22. So earlier than I've had worse offenders probably.
1:08.0	But you know, growing up you, you see clips, you see the parodies, you know, you feel like you know so much about it.
1:14.7	And it's like, oh, it's that old movie and this thing and those quotes and blah, blah, blah.
1:19.3	And I remember being, yeah, forced to watch it and just loving it.
1:24.2	Like, just being, like, transported to this whole other place and just like, wow, this movie is so good. I think it, like just being like transported to this whole other place and just like, wow,
1:28.9	this movie is so good.
1:30.5	I think it was like a girl I was dating showed it to me.
1:33.5	And then like she went home and then I like watched it again because I was like, no, but like,
1:37.9	wait a minute.
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