Home Dear Educator Letter Curriculum Connections Enroll Julius Caesar The Philadelphia Story Cat on a Hot Tin Roof CASABLANCA Behind the Scenes Before/During Viewing Activities After Viewing Activities Elements of Drama Aspects of Film Casablanca The Man Who Came to Dinner Brigadoon Ah, Wilderness! Gaslight Evaluation

Suggested AFTER Viewing Activities The film version of CASABLANCA far surpassed the stage version in terms of notoriety and fame. How do students account for this? How would the stage medium change the effect of the story. How would students produce this film for the stage? Have students imagine CASABLANCA being refilmed today. Who would they choose for the modern day cast? Why? Would they make any changes to the script? Cinematography? Would they shoot the film in color or black-and-white? If they had been the filmmaker of the original, why would they have made the stage version into a film? Why would they have wanted people to see this film at the time? How might an audience's reaction to a modern remake compare with the audience reaction at the time the film premiered? Consider the year it premiered, 1942, and the subject matter. Why do students think this film is still considered to be one of the classic films of all time? Have students write a letter from one character to another in the film. The goal is to capture the character's voice, actions, thoughts and personality by combining factual information from the film with the student's own analysis of the character. For example, a student may choose to have Rick write to Ilsa while leaving Paris on the train, or have Laszlo write a letter of thanks to Rick once he and Ilsa have reached America safely. Compare Casablanca with other movies having the same theme such as: WHERE EAGLES DATE (1968), ANNA KARENINA (1935), WUTHERING HEIGHTS (1939) and A FAREWELL TO ARMS (1932).