actually I am halfway blogging about
《Legend of Fist》
this word “Casablanca”
realized I went off topic so much
that I decided to open a new post
and anyway
this post has to be in English
came across it a couple of times
first from the movie
《Hiroshima Mon Amour》
oh damn
I thought I have blogged about this movie
but the search result returned nil
how come??
it is one of my all-time favorite
the café the protagonists and the French lady
hanged out till morning
it was called….. too
and bumped into the word last Friday
during my walk
I should go back and take a photo
that time there were too many cars
I wouldn’t wanna take the risk
of die for Casablanca
house for sales
one of the model is named
Casablanca
what a grand name,
for a semi-detached house
and lastly the Youtube user who uploaded
Eason Chan singing YogaLin’s 說謊
her name is Casablanca too.. lol
I think it’s a she
because half way through the video
when the music of the song started
she was saying,
“hey he is singing Yoga Lin”
maybe I should just PM her
and ask, why Casablanca
at first I thought it means some secret heaven
you know Utopia, sort of like that
and what’s that place in Alaska, Arcadia
erm.. hint if you can’t remember Arcadia
did google the word before
Casablanca
it' is an Arabic word
the largest city in Morocco
woot.. it gives me that
Empire State of Mind feeling again
when am I going here, seriously?
similarly
just like after watching
《Legend of The Fist》
and a documentary about Yang-tze river
I really feel like going to see the
the old HSBC HQ at Shanghai…
arrgh
the building of Pudong Development Bank
was constructed in 1923
formerly known as the HSBC Building.
in classic style with the stone arched gate
and a Greek dome in the top.
The ceiling of the octagonal lobby
with 8 mural paintings
made of thousands of small colorful mosaics
and the paintings demonstrate
the typical 20th century architecture styles of
8 cities of
Shanghai, Hong Kong, London, Paris,
New York, Tokyo, Bangkok, Calcutta.
I guess well the greater motivation
for these movies naming their café and nightclub
as Casablanca
is this…
a movie about war, love, identity
just like 《Legend of Fist》
and 《Hiroshima Mon Amour》
here’s some synopsis from IMDB
In the early years of World War II,
the Moroccan city of Casablanca attracts people from all over.
Many are transients trying to get out of Europe;
a few are just trying to make a buck.
Most of them -- gamblers and refugees,
Nazis, resistance fighters, and plain old crooks --
find their way to Rick's Café Américain,
a swank nightclub owned by American expatriate Rick Blaine
Though we learn later that Rick once
harbored enough idealism to put himself
at risk to fight fascism,
he's now embittered and cynical,
professing to be neutral and detached
: "I stick my neck out for nobody."
wow
it really attracted me
to go look for the movie
I am really attracted by war movie based on these themes
to die with pride or to live with shame
to love your enemy or to hate his(her) identity
to discover places or to reminiscent the place called home
(I spelt reminiscent without spell-check!!)
don’t you think these posters are great
one of these days I gonna go dig
if ever I can find
the posters and OSTs
those vinyl discs
at flee markets or curio stores
tsk…tsk..tsk
《Hiroshima Mon Amour》
《Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence》
and hurray new on the list
《Casablanca》
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and after all
back to the main topic of the day
《Legend of the First》 to a certain extend
share the themes too
so that’s why we got Casablanca dancehall
do you love your enemy?
or maybe I was wrong after all
Casablanca did exist in Shanghai
it has nothing to do with
all the Casablanca as above
Once upon a time in Shanghai
hey, this sounds familiar
Hoi-man-keong & Teng-lek
1980’s TVB classic
Once upon a time in China
Huang-fei-Hong, isn’t it..
off topic, again… and again
conclusion of the day
I have marked down Casablanca and Shanghai
on my ESOM, Empire State of Map
you hear me,
are you going with me?
yeah, I mean YOU!!
not look around…
there’s no one else beside you..