An Interesting Alternative Interpretation
Apr. 13th, 2010 04:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99I was watching Casablanca with two of my housemates, O and P.
This is an interesting enough experience, given that they're not used to black and white films, and those particularly studio symbols/signifiers that are sometimes used as narrative short cuts.
But, and this is the thing I really don't get, they hate Lazlo. Out and out loathe him.
They totally don't get why Rick didn't take the girl and run, because, and this is more or less their reasoning:
1) He loves her.
2) She loves him. Probably more than she loves Lazlo.
3) It's not like Lazlo can do anything from America. [NB: I didn't brain them or make up a reading list of why having an attractive man leading the pro-war push would be useful to the Allies.]
So yes, um, I'm deeply confused by them. But then again, they also didn't like the Marsailles scene, or rather, they thought that it was an empty statement that accomplished nothing except for bad things for the good guys.
This is an interesting enough experience, given that they're not used to black and white films, and those particularly studio symbols/signifiers that are sometimes used as narrative short cuts.
But, and this is the thing I really don't get, they hate Lazlo. Out and out loathe him.
They totally don't get why Rick didn't take the girl and run, because, and this is more or less their reasoning:
1) He loves her.
2) She loves him. Probably more than she loves Lazlo.
3) It's not like Lazlo can do anything from America. [NB: I didn't brain them or make up a reading list of why having an attractive man leading the pro-war push would be useful to the Allies.]
So yes, um, I'm deeply confused by them. But then again, they also didn't like the Marsailles scene, or rather, they thought that it was an empty statement that accomplished nothing except for bad things for the good guys.
