Casablanca gender

Question 1

How is ilsa presented in terms of camera lens?

Answer 1

Deliebraltey created with a gauze filter to amplify her beauty, had light on forehead to make her look thinner

Question 2

What does Lisa do with camera movement?

Answer 2

She looks at Clyde up and down a lot to try and get emotional satisfaction and stability (opposite of bonnie who is her now girl)

Question 3

How has Steiner got influence on Lisa?

Answer 3

She changed her hair so had to Sitka with as Time goes by, women are merely just for the male gaze to look beautiful

Question 4

Due to the difference in age how is Lisa represented?

Answer 4

She is presented by youth and innocence “I still had braces”

Question 5

How is rick presented with age?

Answer 5

Emotionless, older scarred from life

Question 6

hOW DID THE Hays code have an effect on the script?

Answer 6

Couldn’t use anything the implied sex for exams,e rick and Lisa sleeping with eachothe dressing gown

Question 7

how can lisa be presented as a binary opposite?

Answer 7

her gauze filter hides her powerlessness more objectified for the male gaze who are shot in a harsh lighting

Question 8

what can lisa be represented as?

Answer 8

a symbol of heroine

Question 9

how is lisa a narrative device?

Answer 9

she is the plot twist between victor and rick

Question 10

how do women contribute against the war effort?

Answer 10

singing marseilles but still at a time of social climate women are objectified

Question 11

what time of gender change was going on?

Answer 11

rosie and the rivett of world war 2

Question 12

what is the second sex?

Answer 12

women were inferior to men

Question 13

how is rick appears in the film?

Answer 13

in 3 ways;

a romantic innocent in paris, a jaded hearted capitalist a committed self realising individual

Question 14

how is rick presented?

Answer 14

as an idealist and a cynic, does it reject the life of romance or romance

Question 15

how is the lighting shown if rick?

Answer 15

half dark half light representing his split personality of cynical and idealist self

Question 16

how is the lighting shown with ilsa?

Answer 16

the light shows she is split between lvoe and duty with prison bats showing her entrapment

Question 17

how does the lines on both the characters faces show they’re trapped?

Answer 17

the prison bars reflect they are trapped by circumstance

Question 18

what does the soft lighting of ilsa represent?

Answer 18

her love and nsoralgia( her guilt and regret on her face making her skin look flawless

Question 19

what does the sharp lighting of lazlow represent?

Answer 19

lazlowscalling and faitb to work his commitment which is also shown on lisa’s face

Question 20

what is the effect on pearl havrour?

Answer 20

america remained neutral and the pearl harbour bombing lead to america to get involved . reflection of rick at the start he drinks on his own disregarding politics, towards the end he becomes an idealist to commemorate the anti nazi war wifi all done through ilsa
the meeting of ilsa hits ricknliie pearl harbour by the japanese- rewakened himself

Question 21

what relationship does the story tell us with louis?

Answer 21

he starts off in the vichy government. towards the end both become cynics reflects americas allies

Question 22

how do the characters represent the times they were made?

Answer 22

the nationalities represent their positions in war
lazlow a czech
bregar ilsa 
sacha hungary
italian -ally

Question 23

how is the shift of rick represented?

Answer 23

goes from neutrality to commitment through the disapproval of deutschmark banker

Question 24

how doesnilsa show in casablanca that war is unstainsble?

Answer 24

always have to pick sides it’s never neutral

Question 25

what is the power of lady luck?

Answer 25

mr and mrs brandal trying to get existe visas to america and louis knows this is a good time for him to take luck into his side and take advantage of the woman and seduce her through sexual pleasures

Question 26

how is the spotlight used within the course of the film?

Answer 26

reminds them they are always being watched, when ilsa has the spotlight on her encountering rick she’s in an angel light and shows hood for rick and his emotional dramatisation on her- also shows it’s fake
but the spotlight shows how it’s affected their relationship and the war. for her to escape the spotlight he has to let her go to america

Question 27

what does sams piano represent?

Answer 27

a lot of characters come and sit by it representing like a drug connotation or an opiate to forget their worries- he is the most untainted charscter

Question 28

how does the heart repeon ticks heart?

Answer 28

hearing the piano like an opiate reminds rick of his past with ilsa where he has a painful memory but makes him a better character where he will leave casablanca to brazille where there’s uncertainty to a better place

Question 29

what is lazlow a symbol of?

Answer 29

the resistance of war thhough his moral character

Question 30

what does the first scene represent in casablanca that for shadows the ending?

Answer 30

the scene of rick and louis sitting outside a cafe watching the plane reflects the end of the movie sequence

Question 31

how is rick shown as a political partisan?

Answer 31

even though rick may be presented as neutral his cynical nature arises and we learn he’s been involved from previous experiences- losing sides against fascists in slain and ethiopia

Question 32

how does ricks emotionlsss self show the stances of war?

Answer 32

during the stereotype of men it may not have been acceptable to show men as having emotions as they had to remain politically involved

Question 33

how does rick show that males need dignity through jan?

Answer 33

the way jan and aminda branda need visas to escape, jan lacks money and power and tries to gamble. amnina turns to rick (his power and dignity) and asks whether reno is trustworthy to sleep with - rick helps them out but by fixing the gambling table rather than giving money preserving disunity - a quality of males

Question 34

how does the tossing of females represent their roles?

Answer 34

rick and renaults have not met lazlows wife and renaults nature is exploration but renault suggests lazlow won’t want to leave her when he’s seen her. suggesting beauty is her leading asset the director wanting to constantly remind us of thsi

Question 35

how are women in casablanca shown as bad images of most alot?

Answer 35

women could not have marital affairs outside of wedlock reflected in the hats code where there had to be mainly pre planned dialogue script to conform with the hats code
men on the other hands like renault could exploit women for sexual favours - represented in rick and yvonne he tells sacha to take her home representjngbhis diapointment as he wanted to take advantage of her

Question 36

how are women presented in marriage?

Answer 36

as a safety device to their husbands, rick standards morals of women over what she wants. she loves ricks but purr her on the plane as “she is just part of his work”. society at the time would frown upon her at the time if she didn’t do anything else- not a symbol of heroine

Question 37

micheal curtis and narrative economy?

Answer 37

jan and amina brandal act as a narrative economy at the start through looking at the plane “perhaps tomorrow ell be on that plane” ricks right all along