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I just finished Casablanca, and the thing is so fucking derivative, I can't understand why anyone considers it a classic (beehaw.org)

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Seriously, that whole thing is a pastiche of things I've seen in other movies.

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[–] volore@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I, too, would be interested in hearing the pre-1942 movies Casablanca is supposedly a "derived pastiche" of