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Casablanca [Screenplay]
Découvrez le scénario du film Casablanca
Casablanca, 1941. Dans cette ville sous administration française que les nazis n'occupent pas encore, le propriétaire de cabaret Richard Blaine, Américain, récupère des documents volés aux Allemands. Ces papiers intéressent Victor Laszlo, chef de la résistance. Il débarque chez lui avec sa femme Ilsa, dont Richard fut jadis profondément amoureux...
Casablanca, 1941. Dans cette ville sous administration française que les nazis n'occupent pas encore, le propriétaire de cabaret Richard Blaine, Américain, récupère des documents volés aux Allemands. Ces papiers intéressent Victor Laszlo, chef de la résistance. Il débarque chez lui avec sa femme Ilsa, dont Richard fut jadis profondément amoureux...
127 pages, screenplay
First published January 1, 1942
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October 16, 2025[ Another imaginary screenplay, born by chance ]
- It 's cold.
- It's always cold at the end...
- I thought endings would feel cleaner.
- They never do.
- I wanted to fight for us...
- I wanted to let you.
- Then why....why didn't you ?
- Because I knew I'd lose.
- You never gave me the chance...
- You gave me Paris. That was enough.
- It wasn't...
- It has to be.
[..........]
- I'II look for you...
- Don't.
- Why ?
- Because I'II always be behind you.
- That sounds like goodbye....
- It is...
- Say it, then...
-Goodbye, kid.
- Say it again, like you mean it....
- I'II miss you every day I breathe.
-Then...breathe slowly...
- It 's cold.
- It's always cold at the end...
- I thought endings would feel cleaner.
- They never do.
- I wanted to fight for us...
- I wanted to let you.
- Then why....why didn't you ?
- Because I knew I'd lose.
- You never gave me the chance...
- You gave me Paris. That was enough.
- It wasn't...
- It has to be.
[..........]
- I'II look for you...
- Don't.
- Why ?
- Because I'II always be behind you.
- That sounds like goodbye....
- It is...
- Say it, then...
-Goodbye, kid.
- Say it again, like you mean it....
- I'II miss you every day I breathe.
-Then...breathe slowly...
February 7, 2017
I enjoyed reading this screenplay for two reasons: 1) it's better than the movie, and 2) there is a huge difference in reading a screenplay that has been made into a film vs. the millions of screenplays that never go anywhere: the screenplays that are filmed seem to break every single rule that is taught in the multibillion dollar industry of "teaching how to write a screenplay." In reading "Casablanca" we learn that Sam has blue pants (but you the author aren't the costume design person). There are many, many POV directions (but you the author aren't the director). There are many musical numbers here (but you aren't the one who will select the songs and the musicians). So congrats to the Epsteins and Koch for writing an interesting screenplay. And no matter what you see or hear anywhere, no one can teach you your unique voice that will render your screenplay into a film.
July 6, 2025
Casablanca by Julius Epstein, Philip Epstein, Howard Koch http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/04/c...
10 out of 10
‘I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship’ is one of the best lines and most popular – indeed, I am a junior partner in accompany that provides materials for the ad business, and it decorates cars, banners, shirts and I have five in the workshop, and the first message on the front of one is the aforementioned declaration of a close connection, inviting the one who reads it for a tacla, taifas…
Casablanca is for a good number of experts and cinephiles one of the best five motion pictures, for many it is actually the best ever made – I wonder what the British Film Institute says about it, they have published a list of the magic 100, and it has some very outré (for yours truly) entries, I have not even heard of the number one, and understand that it is a narrative where we watch the protagonist doing menial tasks, bathing, preparing food, if we decide to see it, which we somehow must – and surprisingly so
Looking at the way it was made, it is an extraordinary achievement, in that it had had the worst possible start, they had changed writers many times – albeit we find from histories of cinema http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/t... that in the old days, the studios abused employees, they kept stars under contract, have not allowed them to have anything but the image the executives wanted to project, never mind some of them being gay, that was illegal and never came out…
Apart from the fantastic acting, the film has everything, the lead actors are the legendary Humphrey Bogart http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/t... and Ingrid Bergman, two stars that benefit from the script, a powerful story – Rick Blaine aka Humphrey Bogart is an unlikely hero, he has a very popular (perhaps the most frequented) café in Casablanca, during World War II
The Germans had occupied France, and then the Vichy regime decided to collaborate, which is the situation we have in the Moroccan city, where the head of police is Captain Louis Renault portrayed by the wonderful Claude Rains…the French play a complex game, a balancing act between working with, and under the German patronage, and expressing their wish for liberty, they show their (remaining) pride in a scene where the invaders start singing Teutonic fare, and the French respond with La Marseillase
Rick is complicated enough to show us a gentle, king, magnanimous side, but at the same time, the exterior is hard, after all, he also has a casino and we see that they cheat, it is not just the rule of ‘the house always wins’, but the croupier can and does decide which numbers win, and if the owner shows charity, it is still worse than immoral that they have these means of stealing from customers, granted, selected ones
When a young woman comes to see him, she is desperate because she has left Bulgaria (our neighbors) with her husband to escape destitution, but they have no money left to buy from the black market the tickets for America (everybody wants to sail to the US and survive the Nazis, Vichy, the WWII) the spouse if at the roulette, betting all they have left, while she had had a discussion with Captain Renault
The latter is clearly after having sex with the exquisite young woman, and hence he will use his position to let them out of Casablanca, on a ship, that is if he keeps his promise, the woman is asking for advice from Rick, will the captain keeps his promise (the café owner says that he always does) and she wants to keep this a secret from her innocent, fresh husband, he must never know of the sacrifice she would have done so that they are saved, launched into the free world by her giving in to abuse
With his immobile face, apparent chagrin (we will learn about his own tragedy) rick goes to the roulette table and tells the spouse to put all the money on Twenty (if it was not another number, it does not matter, does it) and then when he wins (because the croupier has seen the boss and his maneuvers) he insists that he must place the winnings on the same number, which is again brining fortune…
Now you have to go and take all this out of here, thus he has just saved a couple of people…however, the big test is when Ilsa Lund aka Ingrid Bergman walks into his café – ‘Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine’ – and his own tragedy is revealed, for they had been lovers in Paris, they were meant to flee together, only at the last moment, she disappeared and the man was uncounseled.
We now see why he is so blasé, without enthusiasm for anything, indifferent, cynical, because he had given his all, heart, love, admiration to Ilsa, who had done the same, only to abandon him, when he thought he is in heaven and will be there for the foreseeable future…there is an explanation for that and complicated twists in the narrative, she had been married to a leader of the Resistance, Victor Laszlo, the one ‘known by half the world’, and had to be with him because of duty, and his position was so important for multitudes, how can you put your own feelings, happiness above others…Bentham would disagree, and it is immoral, and selfish, albeit a narcissist like Trump or Putin would not get it…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
10 out of 10
‘I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship’ is one of the best lines and most popular – indeed, I am a junior partner in accompany that provides materials for the ad business, and it decorates cars, banners, shirts and I have five in the workshop, and the first message on the front of one is the aforementioned declaration of a close connection, inviting the one who reads it for a tacla, taifas…
Casablanca is for a good number of experts and cinephiles one of the best five motion pictures, for many it is actually the best ever made – I wonder what the British Film Institute says about it, they have published a list of the magic 100, and it has some very outré (for yours truly) entries, I have not even heard of the number one, and understand that it is a narrative where we watch the protagonist doing menial tasks, bathing, preparing food, if we decide to see it, which we somehow must – and surprisingly so
Looking at the way it was made, it is an extraordinary achievement, in that it had had the worst possible start, they had changed writers many times – albeit we find from histories of cinema http://realini.blogspot.com/2020/04/t... that in the old days, the studios abused employees, they kept stars under contract, have not allowed them to have anything but the image the executives wanted to project, never mind some of them being gay, that was illegal and never came out…
Apart from the fantastic acting, the film has everything, the lead actors are the legendary Humphrey Bogart http://realini.blogspot.com/2017/07/t... and Ingrid Bergman, two stars that benefit from the script, a powerful story – Rick Blaine aka Humphrey Bogart is an unlikely hero, he has a very popular (perhaps the most frequented) café in Casablanca, during World War II
The Germans had occupied France, and then the Vichy regime decided to collaborate, which is the situation we have in the Moroccan city, where the head of police is Captain Louis Renault portrayed by the wonderful Claude Rains…the French play a complex game, a balancing act between working with, and under the German patronage, and expressing their wish for liberty, they show their (remaining) pride in a scene where the invaders start singing Teutonic fare, and the French respond with La Marseillase
Rick is complicated enough to show us a gentle, king, magnanimous side, but at the same time, the exterior is hard, after all, he also has a casino and we see that they cheat, it is not just the rule of ‘the house always wins’, but the croupier can and does decide which numbers win, and if the owner shows charity, it is still worse than immoral that they have these means of stealing from customers, granted, selected ones
When a young woman comes to see him, she is desperate because she has left Bulgaria (our neighbors) with her husband to escape destitution, but they have no money left to buy from the black market the tickets for America (everybody wants to sail to the US and survive the Nazis, Vichy, the WWII) the spouse if at the roulette, betting all they have left, while she had had a discussion with Captain Renault
The latter is clearly after having sex with the exquisite young woman, and hence he will use his position to let them out of Casablanca, on a ship, that is if he keeps his promise, the woman is asking for advice from Rick, will the captain keeps his promise (the café owner says that he always does) and she wants to keep this a secret from her innocent, fresh husband, he must never know of the sacrifice she would have done so that they are saved, launched into the free world by her giving in to abuse
With his immobile face, apparent chagrin (we will learn about his own tragedy) rick goes to the roulette table and tells the spouse to put all the money on Twenty (if it was not another number, it does not matter, does it) and then when he wins (because the croupier has seen the boss and his maneuvers) he insists that he must place the winnings on the same number, which is again brining fortune…
Now you have to go and take all this out of here, thus he has just saved a couple of people…however, the big test is when Ilsa Lund aka Ingrid Bergman walks into his café – ‘Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine’ – and his own tragedy is revealed, for they had been lovers in Paris, they were meant to flee together, only at the last moment, she disappeared and the man was uncounseled.
We now see why he is so blasé, without enthusiasm for anything, indifferent, cynical, because he had given his all, heart, love, admiration to Ilsa, who had done the same, only to abandon him, when he thought he is in heaven and will be there for the foreseeable future…there is an explanation for that and complicated twists in the narrative, she had been married to a leader of the Resistance, Victor Laszlo, the one ‘known by half the world’, and had to be with him because of duty, and his position was so important for multitudes, how can you put your own feelings, happiness above others…Bentham would disagree, and it is immoral, and selfish, albeit a narcissist like Trump or Putin would not get it…
Now for a question, and invitation – maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/02/u... – as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is http://realini.blogspot.com/2022/03/r...
January 5, 2018
One of the few screenplays that's as good in writing.
May 24, 2020
Brilliant!!!
December 27, 2023
🎥 1942 movie version with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Sidney Greenstreet, and Claude Rains.
🖊 Movie review: While the story in play format is good, the film is meh because the girl in the picture seems out of place, the plot seems disjointed, and as much as the song, "As Time Goes By," is a good one, it was played to the point of distraction and illogicalness in the movie. Stop, already! I kept thinking. Also, the quotes from the movie is overplayed, so that they are meaningless now. Overrated story; not a favorite of mine because it's too sappy.
📙The play was published in 1940 as "Everybody Comes to Rick's."
🖊 Script review: Well, there you go – this script was made in the 1942 movie, "Casablanca." The play script is easier to follow than the movie.
🔵 The e-book version of the play can be found on Internet Archive.
📽 ●▬● 🎥 ●▬● 📽
🖊 Movie review: While the story in play format is good, the film is meh because the girl in the picture seems out of place, the plot seems disjointed, and as much as the song, "As Time Goes By," is a good one, it was played to the point of distraction and illogicalness in the movie. Stop, already! I kept thinking. Also, the quotes from the movie is overplayed, so that they are meaningless now. Overrated story; not a favorite of mine because it's too sappy.
📙The play was published in 1940 as "Everybody Comes to Rick's."
🖊 Script review: Well, there you go – this script was made in the 1942 movie, "Casablanca." The play script is easier to follow than the movie.
🔵 The e-book version of the play can be found on Internet Archive.
📽 ●▬● 🎥 ●▬● 📽
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