“Every day, I come by your house and I pick you up.

[Eric Cartman]

Watched Casablanca, a massive hole in my cinema vocabulary. It was amazing. Nazis get a lot softer treatment than any other movie I've seen; they behaved generally honorably but entitled. In every other movie I've seen, they would have just snapped up Lazlo and Ilsa, or even just trumped up a charge, arrested and abused Ilsa until Lazlo caved and gave the Nazis all the details. 

Also, isn't being an escaped prisoner enough reason to arrest Lazlo at any time? I guess that gets down to Germany operating in Unoccupied French Morocco rather than Occupied France… which they even bring up at one point. 

It's a lovely film. I want to know how they get everything to look like it has bloom except Ingrid Berman's eyes, which look like pools of stars. Just gorgeously shot. 

Also curious about the airport shots: several very clearly model planes on strings, while a few look legitimate. Why not use legitimate shots throughout?

I wonder if the fact it was filmed during the war rather than afterwards accounts for being a little more lenient towards the nazis (as a few, you know, bigger discoveries hadn't been made at that point) as well as not being able to source a plane too easily