In terms of editing, Rick's bar sequence does a great job of portraying Casablanca as a sleazy place. The film makers could have taken the route of showing Casablanca and Ricks' bar to be a bad place by giving us 10 minutes of story and dialogue before. However through one shot of the outside of Rick's bar, the audience already begins to get a picture of Casablanca's environment. A search light shines on Rick's, whilst a door closes so no light shines inside. This symbolises the crime and distrust in the city, but also tells us that Ricks is a place where criminals go, as the search light shines across it, looking for them, but they are safe in Rick's.

There isn't much editing in Casablanca's bar scene, just slow moving shots that follow the pattern of moving left right left right. The camera also zooms in at characters who are talking and main characters.

The mise-en-scene of the sequence is vital to the scenes atmosphere. The background characters are all dancing in the bar, with colourful vibrant clothes. In one scene the un-caring nature of casablanca shows itself through this. One man explains to another how he is going to die in Casablanca and that he can't take it anymore. The other man has a nonchalant look on his face as if to say why are you telling me. The guy who he is telling has a lightly coloured suit, whereas the man talking about his situation wears a dark suit, and is also shrouded in shadows, which lets us know what kind of position he's in.


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