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by YouWhy 793 days ago
A different way of putting the above is that Casablanca's aesthetic was so influential that it guided decades of subsequent work.

My 2ยข: this could be a consequence of both the movie's strengths as much as of the trade-offs taken that did not overshadow the strengths. For example, the movie's wartime moral dichotomy is carefully offset with reminders about the limitations of moralism.