gandydancer
Familiar Face
- Messages
- 95
- Location
- Blue Ridge Mountains of NC
"Play it again, Sam" is probably the second most famous line from movie history. Last week I watched the DVD of Casablanca I borrowed from the Library. It did not seem to have the impact I remembered.
Laying awake last night it suddenly came to me, they had edited that line out in the DVD version. It was there in the old VCR version. It was in innumerable late night TV versions. But not on that DVD version. That line made Rick seem like a self-centered jerk wallowing in self pity which is probably why they decided to edit it out. But without it in the end Rick acts like we would expect him to. With it there it makes what he does in the end show him as a man rising above himself in an almost unbelievable act of nobility. Far from being inconsequential that one line is the most important line in the movie, and they edited it out…
Four thumbs down on the DVD version, can we shoot the editor?
Laying awake last night it suddenly came to me, they had edited that line out in the DVD version. It was there in the old VCR version. It was in innumerable late night TV versions. But not on that DVD version. That line made Rick seem like a self-centered jerk wallowing in self pity which is probably why they decided to edit it out. But without it in the end Rick acts like we would expect him to. With it there it makes what he does in the end show him as a man rising above himself in an almost unbelievable act of nobility. Far from being inconsequential that one line is the most important line in the movie, and they edited it out…
Four thumbs down on the DVD version, can we shoot the editor?