Hollywood Vs Casablanca

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Classic Hollywood is known for overly positive and unrealistic endings. Those cliché endings are linked to Hollywood so much that they are often referred to as “Hollywood endings”. These endings often provide the deepest societal wants which are a sense of closer and love. Those types of endings are so prevalent that they can be found in nearly every genre from comedies to westerns to dramas. Casablanca (1:33:31-1:36:07) and Stagecoach (1:37:53-1:39:50) both feature a variant of the classic Hollywood endings. Naturally these films differ a lot due to their genres, Stagecoach being a western and Casablanca being a drama. However, they both follow the formulaic structure associated with Hollywood endings; a romantic couple rides off to an uncertain …show more content…
The ending was a lot happier and provided closure than Casablanca. While Casablanca was very much a wartime movie and that was shown throughout the film, but especially in the ending scene. When the film came out it in 1942 it was right in the middle of World War II. People were still uncertain about how the war would end, this was reflected in the film. While the last scene was reasonably happy and fit with the overall mood of the film it left the viewer with a feeling of optimistic uncertainty. In the last scene a romantic couple escapes but the couple that escapes isn’t the one the audience is made to root for. However this seems okay because the romance plot is tied up before the final shot. This shot is sort of a play on the typical Hollywood ending where a romantic couple walks off into the distance, instead it is replaced by two platonic men. The final scene does take place during the night, though, which by definition means that they don’t walk off into the sunset like a typical Hollywood ending. However while the night and the fog in this scene makes the view feel uncertain it also has a slight romantic feeling in the last shot. In Stagecoach rather than the nighttime setting making the scene feel uncertain like it does in Casablanca, the nighttime setting in Stagecoach adds to the romantic subplot. The lighting in both films is low key, typically low key light is used to create more scary and tense atmosphere, however in Casablanca the lighting isn’t scary. Sure the lighting is dramatic and tense but it is also romantic. In Stagecoach the lighting doesn’t make the film feel dramatic or scary because it is used to romanticize the film. The music in the final scenes both idealize the situation. Both scenes end with swelling music making the viewer feel good about the endings. In Stagecoach the music actually fits the vibe of the ending but in Casablanca as the ending is more
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