Similarites between Sunset Blvd. and Casablanca

I think the movies Casablanca and Sunset Blvd. had many similarities on what the movie's perspective on what love is.

In Casablanca, the setting is in Paris, France, which is known as a very romantic town in itself, during World War II. The part we watched was showing an American man charming a French woman (that spoke very good English), in many ways. In the excerpt, the Germans are getting closer to taking over the town and the people are worried, but the man and woman are still decently calm about it and its revealed by the way they act. As it rained, they drank champagne, listened to the piano and talked about how much they were in love and how little they knew about each other. The man says that he wants to runaway with the woman and get married to her as soon as possible. She responds to all of that with a happy face and says that she will. She also says that it will be hard for her to leave her home, but because she's in love with him she will. Also in that scene, the woman mentions that because of the war going on, it was a bad time for them to fall in love. But I think the main thing being shown during the clip we watched is that there is no "bad time" to fall in love...it just happens.

In Sunset Blvd. the clip we watched was about New Year's Eve. The man apparently was being treated very well by a rich woman who seemed to be trying to buy his love from him. He expected a large a party thrown for the holiday, but instead the woman just threw a giant party with champagne and a band for him and herself. Appalled that the lady thought she could take him for granted, he abruptly left the party. He then went to another New Year's party where he talked with a friend's girlfriend. He began talking with her, and eventually started to fall in love with her. It seemed like he really didn't care about how his friend would take it. He might be showing the same quality as the characters in Casablanca...there is no "bad time" to fall in love, it just happens.