The movie Casablanca was a hit for its time, and is still referenced heavily to this day and often pictures form it still shown. the cinemetogrophy they used in filming this movie were great for their time and still hold up very well to this day.
If you take for example, probly the most iconic scenes of the movie are of Ingrid Bergman. In practically every scene she is put in, the has an almost..glow around her, the background is filtered to emphasize her alone and the lighting projected onto her to make her radiant. There are also many interesting camera techniques applied to the film besides this, such as panning shots of the camera rotating into connected but different scenes, such as an earlier part in the film where the protagonist walks over to the side of the room to have a conversation with someone, and then walks through to the the other, the camera on him the entire time in one sweep.
If you try and compare the film Bicycle thief to Casablanca, you'll notice that they are filmed rather differently overall. Casablanca keeps rather closed shots in small sets, even when it goes outside. If you look at bicycle thief, they do quite the opposite, instead going for much larger, open scenes to emphasize the size of the city they are in.
The beginning and end of Bicycle their are very much paralleled. In the beginning, the protagonist gets a job and is able to get his prized bike, only to have it taken away, leaving him jobless and frantic to find it. In the end, he tries to resort to doing the same thing that had happened to him, only instead of getting the bike, he nearly ends up in jail instead.
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