Happy Bastille Day!

[Fenian_Bastard]

And, as a present, my favorite movie scene of all time.

 

[Columbo]

And, as a present, my favorite movie scene of all time.

Amen.

Watched it again. Always brings the tears. Paul Henreid's seminal moment.

Quatorze Juillet indeed.

 

[Huggy]

Great song by Rush too (/ducking)

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Damn, and I had Double J in the Who'll Mention Rush First? pool

 

[buckweaver]

Grr ... **** the Azzurri.

 

[poindexter]

Okay, I'm an idiot - I've never seen Casablanca.

What's happening there? A group of people (Italian/German) singing their song in a french bar - then the French rising up to outsing them?

 

[MU_was_not_so_hard]

Okay, I'm an idiot - I've never seen Casablanca.

What's happening there?  A group of people (Italian/German) singing their song in a french bar - then the French rising up to outsing them?

Germans start singing...French guy has band play French anthem. Everyone goes crazy and drowns out Germans.
German officer then shuts down Rick's place for illegal gambling because he's pissed off.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Okay, I'm an idiot - I've never seen Casablanca.

What's happening there?  A group of people (Italian/German) singing their song in a french bar - then the French rising up to outsing them?

Bunch of Nazis signing what I am assuming is the German anthem.

French shout them down. Basically a "**** you" to the Nazis who had invaded their country.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Germans are singing "Die watch am Rhein," which I think is an old WWI rouser, but not the anthem.
According to lore, Bogart was completely hammered during this scene, BTW.

 

[Ralph Waldo Henderson]

Fenian, you freedom-hating Francophile.

 

[buckweaver]

From Wiki:

La Marseillaise was part of a famous scene in the film Casablanca in which French resistance sympathisers used the song to drown out the Nazi soldiers who were singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". These two songs were juxtaposed in exactly the same way five years earlier, in Jean Renoir's 1937 film Grand Illusion. Renoir traced the history of the song in the film he made the following year, "La Marseillaise".

And as long as we're talking about Francocinema ... let me give a shoutout to Renoir's "Le Grande Illusion" ... another outstanding classic of that era.

 

[Huggy]

From Wiki:

La Marseillaise was part of a famous scene in the film Casablanca in which French resistance sympathisers used the song to drown out the Nazi soldiers who were singing "Die Wacht am Rhein". These two songs were juxtaposed in exactly the same way five years earlier, in Jean Renoir's 1937 film Grand Illusion. Renoir traced the history of the song in the film he made the following year, "La Marseillaise".

And as long as we're talking about Francocinema ... let me give a shoutout to Renoir's "Le Grande Illusion" ... another outstanding classic of that era.

Not to be confused with Styx's "Grand Illusion", a piece of **** in any era.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

There is nothing in the SportsJournalists.com universe that cannot be connected to either Rush, or really crappy 1970's pop tunes, or both.

 

[heyabbott]

Okay, I'm an idiot - I've never seen Casablanca.

What's happening there? A group of people (Italian/German) singing their song in a french bar - then the French rising up to outsing them?

Germany kicks France's ass in a fighting war, France out sings Germany in a bar.