Posted on 03/03/2020 2:09:02 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
I would have chosen Lazlo ever since I saw him in Now Voyager!.....with Bette Davis
Answer:
“I don’t know what to think anymore. You’ll have to do the thinking for both of us.”
~~ Ilsa Lund.
The premise of the film, center around the letters of transit—
But there was no such things during the war.
“I’d love to see a “sequel”, either as a book or film, on what happened to Victor,Lund and Rick.”
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Nope. Even setting aside that you really couldn’t replace the amazing actors who made the roles iconic classics, some stories are just meant to have an end. The same with most the classics - you get the one shot at perfection and hit it. Anything that tries to come after it just isn’t the same.
I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world.
Especially that ahole Romney.
I’m shocked, shocked to find that such a debate is going on in here!
Theres's a book called "Suspects" by David Thomson that sort of expands and knits together the lives of a bunch of movie characters. In that, Victor Laszlo gets caught up in the HUAC investigations of the late 1940s, is blacklisted as a communist, and ends up returning to Europe where he dies of emphysema a few years later. Ilsa goes to work for the UN and dies in the plane crash with Dag Hammarskjold.
Her husband.
“Cannot be rescinded. Cannot be questioned.” Yeah, right.
I would take Rick personally....”
He would abandon you to go fight for some underdog somewhere...so forget it.
Agree.
-PJ
Laszlo was the coolest, smoothest, suavist dude who ever lived.”
Yep! I noticed that too. Very Continental.
Ilsa also loved Victor. When she met Rick and fell in love with him, she mistakenly thought Victor was dead at the hands of the Germans, making Rick a rebound relationship. When Ilsa learns of Victor’s survival and that he desperately needs her help, it was good bye Rick, not “Victor, I’ve moved on. Call Travellers Aid.” When Ilsa meets Rick in Casablanca, she has to chose between two men she genuinely loves.
She “desired” Rick but she was still married to Victor and felt obligated to stay with him. That’s why when she learned he was still alive she left Rick in Paris.
Sam.
Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I’ve done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you’re getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you’ve got to listen to me! You have any idea what you’d have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we’d both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn’t that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I’m afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You’re saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I’m saying it because it’s true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You’re part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you’re not with him, you’ll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We’ll always have Paris. We didn’t have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I’ve got a job to do, too. Where I’m going, you can’t follow. What I’ve got to do, you can’t be any part of. Ilsa, I’m no good at being noble, but it doesn’t take much to see that the problems of three little people don’t amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you’ll understand that.
[Ilsa lowers her head and begins to cry]
Rick: Now, now...
[Rick gently places his hand under her chin and raises it so their eyes meet]
Rick: Here’s looking at you kid.
You have to remember, there was a war going on and personal feelings were put on the back burner for more important things..................
Rick comes back to the US in 1945 at the end of the war, finds that Victor has been run over by a drunk driver, so he and Ilsa live happily ever after.
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