09-20-2016, 02:33 PM
(09-19-2016, 06:29 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Play it, Sam!
Casablanca. One of the best movies ever; thrilling plot, great acting, and some of the best movie lines ever. And the #2 movie song ever, "As Time Goes By," according to critics. #1 is coming up!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Time_Goes_By_(song)
Originally from 1931, and from the movie of 1942.
My favorite movie, too. We're talking about music and not movies. If William Shakespeare had written a screenplay in modern English, this would be the screenplay. I also see an allusion to the Divine Comedy, in which Nazi Germany and its occupied and satellite countries are Hell, America and Britain are Paradise, and a place like Casablanca, a way-station to America is Purgatory. Well, before ISIS, Nazis were the closest things to demons in human form, right?
It's not so much an introduction of any song, but who can forget the stirring incident in which the Nazis start their rendition of Die Wacht am Rhein, only for the refugee patrons of Rick's American Bar to out-sing them in the Marseillaise.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.