Comments on: Oscar Night Hangover – Is a New ‘Casablanca’ Possible?

By: RT

RT — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:22:51 +0000

I think a new Stagecoach would be easier. It could be set in Iraq’s Anbar province, using a hummer being attacked by Al Qaeda. I would actually go to the theater to see it.

By: Jhn'1

Jhn'1 — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:13:55 +0000

Well, start with a different Rick.
Rick turned from his old life because he couldn’t take that anymore. Too easy to make the ex SF into turned away from standard US Mil evil.
How about he was an activist. Lawyer or news producer (not necessarily American) who passed messages that led to his family dying in one of the big 3 terror attacks (World Trade Center, London Subways, or Madrid trains)
His nationality is appropriate for plausibility at where the attack took place ie: ACLU or CNN for 9-11, English for 7-7 ect. When his pregnant wife, sister, and nieces and nephews died in the attacks that he passed the messages for he goes off to Casablanca (wherever it is now situated). Or if you want an older hero, have the terror attack be the Beirut barracks and the dead pregnant spouse had been one of the nurses there. And the new interest is the previous girlfriend who introduced them when Rick was too tied to the activist mindset to be serious about anything but the anti-America theology.
That makes the story also one of redemption.

By: paul a'barge

paul a'barge — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 15:43:34 +0000

The trick would be to turn the story on its head. Make Rick a woman and Ilsa a man. Victor thus would have to be a woman, perhaps someone like Bhutto.

By: BMoon

BMoon — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:05:04 +0000

…Reality has bit Maria real hard. Her old friend, the Gov. Rosie O’Donnell, has just made by decree and popular referendum, California the 16th state of the Republic of Mexico. There is a growing resistance movement to which Maria and Arnold secretly belong to, but Rosie has discovered their subterfuge.She has heard from ex-lib Dem sources that Robert holds some of the magic house vouchers (called the “Michelle Obama Orleans Outlays for Liberty And Housing ” or M.O.O.O.L.A.H. ) so that they can sell their mansions and get out of California before Gov. O’Donnell captures them and puts them to work in the newly formed “Cesar Chavez Brigades for Karmic Justice to Oppressed People” building free housing to the millions of Mexicans flooding into SoCal.

Shall we copyright this outline, Roger?

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:28:20 +0000

Lewin; blending all what you have there could make a real popcorn eating flic.
I’m thinking shuffling the pits and peace in from all the others. Than adding here the old beatle’s singing, “bits and pieces” as aliens on Tatooweine, in a local scum bar where the main event is interrupted, only briefly, by the incident between Hans and the bounty hunter leading to an all out bar fight, instead of him just tossing gold and walking out.
The main character flaunts his Jim Carrey teeth from “Mask” and start leveling all the new comers to find the young pilot that started it all; while…the regulars can get back to drinking in peace.
Of course Hans Solo still escapes disguised as a guy wearing an Indiana Jones fedora and funny clothes with whip and machete attached to his belt so no one recognizes him as the jerk that started it. (We wouldn’t want him flagging here or the Star Wars effort. Might lose points for the next generation surfing on their Cell phones. Otherwise his escape will become interesting so the noobs will want to open that can of Worm Hole travelers off of HD-DVD, Blu-ray, or whatever the lastest format is, so they search the archive and can watch the antiquated movies later in life. As they become misty eyed over the line, “Just puts your lips together and whistle,” or is it, “Blow”; while riding the high speed trains back and forth to work.)

Do the originators of this site here have the rights to yours and my ideas?

By: Lewin Wickes

Lewin Wickes — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 00:41:33 +0000

Yes, I like the whole idea of getting the feel of a movie like Casablanca into a modern context, but I can think of other fine movies that that could more easily make the jump to a modern context. How about Bad Day at Black Rock? Instead of a murdered Japanese American out there in the desert, you could have a murdered Muslim immigrant. Maudlin anti-American lefties would be weeping in their popcorn. Instead of Spencer Tracy coming home from WWII to deliver to the murdered immigrant the medal posthumously awarded to the immigrant’s son, killed in the war, you could have a Marine vet of the battle of Falujah on his way to deliver to that murdered Muslim a special award posthumously awarded to the Muslim’s son, an Iraqi translator horribly murdered during the battle. Us patriotic types would be cheering for the vet. Two other great movies that come to mind for updating are Watch on the Rhine and The Best Years of Our Lives, especially the latter.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:51:00 +0000

Oh!? You really want designs for writing a new version of the movie. Start with Peter Fonda to replace Humphrey Bogart, add Ophra Winfrey as his doll and mix the script with, “A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams” and “Farenhiet 451 by Ray Bradbury” or higher temperatures for burning books, tweak it with lines and spy modern tools suggested in “1984 by George Orwell”.

Get Madonna to play the bar maid secret wisher to be the side of the honky tonk piano singer, add Gun’s and Rose’s lead singer to play the part of the piano player. Is that the one where, “Play it again, Sam!” words were made famous.

I am guessing here soo…I am going to have to go out and rent the movie so I can find out what I missed, since I was only five or so, and fell asleep, almost all the time, when watching shows my parent’s tuned into after nine p.m..

Even though my “80 something” Dad is now a puritan for the nine-o-clock to bed scene I still like to channel surf, sometimes, til twelve on occasion.

Maybe I will get lucky and see it on TNT off the Directv Satellite soon.

By: Kerry

Kerry — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:29:45 +0000

I have not gone out to a movie in two years and promise I would go see that one Roger!

By: BMoon

BMoon — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:18:44 +0000

continuing the upcoming blockbuster…

Robert hides the New Orleans federal house purchase vouchers in his safe. It is his ticket out of California, which, by way of the new governor, Rosie O Donnell’s referendum 1,894, was voted to leave the Union and become the 16 state of the Republic of Mexico. But that night, the fugitive ex-gov., Arnold and Maria Shriver, show up at the club. Robert had had a fling with Maria in New York when she was a leftist activist, and that was why he moved to the west coast…..to be continued

By: heather

heather — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:50:36 +0000

sincerely, Roger, that story is a good story…
now, all you need is $$$…