Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, May 26

We competed in small groups to see who could come closest to guessing the six quotes from Casablanca (the highest number of any film) listed in the AFI's 2005 choice of 100 most famous movie lines.

We discussed briefly how over the years the political quotes have faded somewhat in popularity while the romantic quotes have not, and Mr. P stressed the equality of the two realms (or even the predominance of the political) in the film's emphasis.

We then worked in small groups again to come up with alternative endings for the movie.