On defence of Casablanca

[Thanh Dang Nguyen <nguyet1@Eng.Auburn.EDU>]

Hai,

> There is a great Woody Allen film called "Play it again, Sam", which
> parodizes much of Casablanca ideas.

You get it all wrong, my friend! Allen's movie did *not* parodize the
movie itself, but simply used its setting and historical background
to parodize the man himself. It makes fun of a funny little man
(just like us indeed) when he is struggling all of his life with
such an idol of men like the character played by Bogart in "Casablanca",
with such romantic and dramatic love affair as portrayed in the movie.
But "Casablanca" is a masterpiece, no matter people believe it or not.
Don't look over a movie simply because it has a simple, maybe banal story.
I think the love triangle in "Casablanca" is more realistic than any
recent Hollywood plot!

Later,

-Thanh