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Sarah Jilani

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
485 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

You can have that line.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Frank, for your thoughts, I'm happy to have Casey Robinson get the credit for those things.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And here's the true story.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Julian Filler riding down Sunset Boulevard, and they come to the red light at Beverly Glen in Sunset.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And their top is down in their car, and they're sitting at the red light, and they look at each other.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

They knew that Strasser had a gun and that Bogart was going to shoot him.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And they simultaneously say to each other, round up the usual suspects.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And by the time they went through the tunnel and got to Burbank, they had the ending.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

The movie ends with the triumph of social consciousness, duty.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

She'll go off to a man she doesn't love, but that duty and patriotism means that she has to.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

It's the triumph of the studio system, the factory system.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

The lighting guy was no genius.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Bogart is no genius.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

But the level of sheer competence came together in a way that I think exemplified this wonderful period in Hollywood where they didn't take themselves so seriously.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

And then every now and then it would spell out something that would last.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Although Del Toro has said the faun in this story isn't meant to be that mythical deity.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

Ivana Baccaro played Ophelia when she was just 11 years old.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

I had to travel to Madrid for it.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

I was from Barcelona.

The History Hour
Movie history: Seven Samurai and Casablanca

So that was already in and of itself kind of an adventure, having to go to a different city to audition in person with the casting director.