Masterclass - Robert Mckee Dialogue Analysis for Casablanca

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Robert McKee breaks down a scene from the movie Casablanca (1942) into 11 beats.
00:00 intro
00:18 Beat 1
00:58 Beat 2
01:41 Beat 3
02:37 Beat 4
03:54 Beat 5
04:33 Beat 6
05:12 Beat 7
05:50 Beat 8
06:44 Beat 9
07:27 Beat 10
08:21 Beat 11 (Coup de grâce)
09:40 The scene
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@ynp1978 Жыл бұрын

So much of the dialogue in Casablanca is subtle and superb. I don't know how many times I have viewed it in my 60 years....but it still firmly holds the title of My Favorite Movie. And absolutely nothing that comes out of Hollywood today should even be mentioned in the same breath with this masterpiece.

@edwardcochran5060 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful film, I've only viewed it a million times! 🤗

@WilliamSilva-ml5nw 2 жыл бұрын

What dialogue!!! Most movies today are just special effects blowing up things. I hope someday movies go back to making viewers think and feel their emotions!!!

@SeaJay_Oceans Жыл бұрын

Casablanca is one of the most well written, and best performance ever created.

@ArtamStudio 3 жыл бұрын

Outstanding analysis. Like revealing layers of an onion.

@Ruylopez778 3 жыл бұрын

Hard to believe they were rewriting this movie during the shoot. Shame we don't get many movies like this anymore.

@Frisbieinstein Жыл бұрын

It never fails to amaze me that such a subtle and tightly written script -- the best ever, if you ask me -- could emerge from a disorganized group. Well no arguing with success. If it works it works.

@cowboynyc Жыл бұрын

@@Frisbieinstein I think the Epstein brothers and Howard Koch were very organized. Although shooting started before the script was finished, the 160-page, detailed treatment contained the whole movie. When the production team told Ingrid Bergman that they hadn't decided on the ending, they were fibbing, because they wanted indecision in her performance. Bogart would not have said yes to a disorganized group.

@Frisbieinstein Жыл бұрын

@@cowboynyc My source is Ingrid Bergman's autobiography. The cast found shooting highly disorganized and thought the film was going to bomb.

@beagle7622 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant film, definitely one of the greats.

@rocistone6570 Жыл бұрын

We don't get ANY movies like this anymore! That's the whole darn problem!

@gregorylightcatcher1058 Жыл бұрын

Interesting analysis. How I miss great writers of film dialogue that moved our emotions and drew us in. One of the very best films.

@veritas6335 11 ай бұрын

Lace "bedsheet?" No one makes bedsheets out of lace. Tablecloth most likely.

@veritas6335 Жыл бұрын

It's not a bedsheet, for heaven's sake. It's a tablecloth.

@garyspence2128 11 ай бұрын

Classic American consumer. Focusing on the product rather than the interaction. Did the merchant hit your price point at 100 franks? Still time to snag it if you hurry on down to the bazaar!!

@DonnySpielberg Жыл бұрын

The problem I have is my director brain is always trying to figure out WHERE scenes were filmed, rather than focus on the little story beats and catch all the subtle metaphors, etc. This is an INCREDIBLE analysis of this scene!!!

@perryglasser Жыл бұрын

incredibly obvious

@kelvincasing5265 Жыл бұрын

I read it a bit differently. I'd say Beat 8 is when she sticks the knife in by implying that their relationship in Paris was superficial.

@sampuatisamuel9785 3 жыл бұрын

Love it

@keithneale3055 2 жыл бұрын

Great!

@Sandra-hc4vo 5 жыл бұрын

this was great!

@FrenchingAround 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, glad you liked it

@SeaJay_Oceans Жыл бұрын

@@FrenchingAround Rick's a stand up guy. He's selfless, as he works to save her and her husband. That's what makes Casablanca a top Classic film: Even with everything going wrong all around them, Rick makes all the right choices. Lazlow sums Why we must always fight evil, the whole film in one line: ' We might as well question why we breathe '

@emilypearson5484 Ай бұрын

For anyone hung up on McKee’s language (“whore”), keep in mind that in this part of the film, Rick is in denial. Certainly Rick would never call Ilsa a whore, but he’s trying to imply it, and McKee is stripping back those layers of subtlety-how else do you explain this harping on Ilsa leaving Laszlo, inviting Ilsa to come upstairs, etc. Rick is fighting his Big Truth-the fact that he still loves Ilsa. If he can convince himself that she’s fickle, manipulative, and purely motivated by sex, he’s freed from having to confront the Big Truth. The story will break down that lie and force Rick to admit that his love for Ilsa was real, it still motivates him, and it still has a role to play in the characters’ lives. Note also the masterful way that setting underscores the psychology and themes. We’re in a bazar, where people are buying and selling. Even though there’s no suggestion Ilsa left Rick for money, the setting highlights themes of transaction and manipulation.

@samuelbungo4339 Жыл бұрын

I don't get it. This is such an important scene in the movie. The whole love backstory of Rick turns to something negative for a moment, that it wasn't real. But there is no kind of emphasis at the end, no musical sting, no nothing. They just move along with a swipe...

@leegrabelsky2696 Жыл бұрын

Straight No Pause Dialogue: Stand on your marks and just fly by the seat...Not to take away from the subsequent brilliance of Brando, Dean with their more deliberation methodology...But this way of delivering; tougher, and perhaps more true to realness

@natomblin Жыл бұрын

This must have been a scene where Bogie was wearing the 5" lifts.

@FrenchingAround Жыл бұрын

😂

@SeaJay_Oceans Жыл бұрын

700 cheat the tourists price. / 200 regular retail price / 100 is near his wholesale price. He can't drop it any lower, offering cheaper wears.

@CyberpunkCircaCybercrimeFierce Жыл бұрын

Master Dante of The Deep Forest

@jaycjay5392 9 ай бұрын

Hey man where did you get those masterclass ? I want more even if i have to pay cause i have a hard time with " beats " ?

@FrenchingAround 9 ай бұрын

I'm preparing more videos, hopefully before years' end

@jaycjay5392 9 ай бұрын

@@FrenchingAround mais tu es français ? Puis-je te poser une autre question related to story ?

@FrenchingAround 9 ай бұрын

@@jaycjay5392 oui

@jaycjay5392 9 ай бұрын

@@FrenchingAround merci beaucoup. So i was wondering, peut-il y avoir plusieurs scènes dans une seule scène ? Cause i know that scenes only change when there is a change in pov or location but can we have multiples beginning middle and end in a single location with the same characters ? Je suis désolé si ce n'est pas clair, je ne sais pas comment exprimer ma question autrement.

@FrenchingAround 8 ай бұрын

@@jaycjay5392 "can we have multiples beginning middle and end in a single location with the same characters?" that's not advised. Unless it's two very different scenes, with two very different objectives, I would say it's better to mix it up with a different location or different character. Otherwise one of those scenes might feel stale or redundant.

@SalamiNugget Жыл бұрын

Instead of this we have "quips" now

@veritas6335 Жыл бұрын

This is silly and not perceptive. Rick is not calling her a "slut" or a "whore," that's obscene, would not be true to Ilsa's character or the way Rick perceives her. He loves her. What a typically male thing for McKee to say. Dumb. Rick loves her, he is simply angry at being stood up at the train station. Rick is simply confident that Ilsa loves him and knows that the strength of their love and their relationship will overpower her in the end and she will come back to him. He believes that and says so.

@jedkeenan00 2 жыл бұрын

What is needed is Casablanca 2: Letters of Transit.

@Music--ng8cd 2 жыл бұрын

Casablanca 3: Drunk Again

@rickbruner5525 2 жыл бұрын

@@Music--ng8cd Such why not. There is no originality anymore so let's just butcher one of the best movies ever made.

@jesustovar2549 Жыл бұрын

Back in it's day, they were actually going to make a sequel called "Brassaville" which was the place Captain Renault mentioned to Rick at the end, but the idea was rejected.

@alansimpson7886 Жыл бұрын

Yeah...with Madonna and Dwain Doberman in the lead roles.

@KR-ll4dj 11 ай бұрын

One was planned, to be titled "Brazzaville". But it was never filmed.

@marcoderosa5341 2 жыл бұрын

Well babe

@zhubajie6940 Жыл бұрын

Ilsa's outfit is Spielberg's favorite.

@robertomohundro7850 11 ай бұрын

And Ronald McDonald 😁

@veritas6335 Жыл бұрын

What in the hell are beats? I don't know anyone who understands what people are talking about when they say" beats," Makes no sense.

@cowboynyc Жыл бұрын

A beat is a part of a scene when a character has an intention. When the intention changes, that's a new beat.

@davidc4983 Жыл бұрын

Writers, movie makers,and those who study the craft know. That's who this is made for.

@FreshLounger Ай бұрын

Beats are units of action and reaction that characters make through dialogue and acting. The concept is known to writers of novels and screenplays.

@tempebill Жыл бұрын

This kind analysis is absurd. You could do this with any interaction in any movie, but alas, I take away the deep connections that many have with this classic film. I apologize....

@alfredroberthogan5426 Ай бұрын

The sordid aspects of this analysis have zero basis in fact. They kissed in Paris--nothing more.

@FrenchingAround Ай бұрын

You have to think about cognitive resonance. The fact that such an analysis is possible shows that the scene is ripe with interpretability. There should always be something more in a movie so that your unconscious can activate and reach some form of catharsis. Otherwise you're just watching a distraction.