Posted on 07/10/2011 5:58:26 PM PDT by techno
The movie Casablanca (1942) is considered by many movie critics and buffs as the greatest movie of all time.
I agree and I also believe the movie applies as well to the life, fate and destiny of Sarah Palin as well.
Here are 13 reasons why I believe so:
1)The main protagonist Rick Blaine has clearly "gone rogue" and has a certain elan. Although he is initially cynical and clearly not as patriotic as Sarah Palin, he will eventually by the end of the movie show his true colors and that is is as dedicated to the cause, patriotic and noble as Palin.
2)The relationship between the Nazis and the Vichy French regime in Casablanca (French territory)that I have often compared to the political relationship between the Obama regime and the GOP establishment and officeholders (Vichy Republicans), the latter doing he bidding of the former, collaborating with the enemy and "selling out" its own countrymen and patriots.
3)"We all try: you succeed. (Rick to resistance leader Victor Laszlo)
Palin expressing sincere admiration for many great leaders in history including Washington, MacArthur, Lincoln, Churchill, Thatcher, Reagan etc.
4)"I bet they're asleep in New York; I bet they're asleep all over America."
The need for a Great (political)Awakening in America led by Sarah Palin.
5)The setting of WWII, the takeover of Paris by the Germans and Nazi tyranny--symbolic of the current rise in tyranny, political and thug oppression and liberal Fascism in America--the need to escape from it and live in freedom
6)The love story between Rick Blaine and Ilsa Lund, symbolic of lost innocence and love of country that Americans know they lost with the election of Obama and his continued desire to transform America
7) Victor Laszlo, resistance leader vs the Nazis
"No one can take your place Mr. Laszlo if you are shot while trying to escape."
Sarah Palin is also just as indispensable to our side as well.
The Nazis, fear Laszlo, hold him in utter contempt, and want to destroy him as much as the Left fears Palin, the elites despise her and her enemies want to destroy her.
8)At the end of the movie, Rick Blaine traveling to Brazzaville in the Congo, thereby "quitting" his career as a night club proprietor and taking up the fight against the Nazis in a different venue vs. the Palin resignation and taking her political fight to the Lower 48.
9)Although on the run from the Nazis after escaping from the concentration camp, Laszlo never abandon his wife Ilsa even though he is in danger vs Sarah Palin after her resignation, unlike most Republicans who tend to abandon their colleagues on the political battlefield to be slaughtered by the enemy, as suggested by Whittaker Chambers,who defended Nikki Haley when she was charged with an extra-marital affair and did NOT abandon her on the battlefield even though she was always under constant attack herself.
10)The decision by Rick Blaine to sacrifice his love for Ilsa for the good of the cause ("The lives of 3 little people don't amount to a hill of beans")sending both Victor and Ilsa away on the plane flight to Lisbon and to freedom vs. the personal sacrifices of Sarah Palin she must make for the cause and to run for President in 2012 (the politics of personal destruction by Obama's MSM propaganda machine and personal character assassination).
11)"Isn't it strange that you often fight on the side of the underdog?" (Victor to Rick)
Sarah Palin, advancing commonsense conservatism on behalf of Tea Party supporters and ordinary Americans
12)Victor calls for the playing of the La Marsellaise that drowns out the Germans singing their own national anthem at Rick's night club
If you could all watch this one scene you will fully understand the charismatic power that Sarah Palin possesses and why her enemies don't want her to run or to shut her down.
Nazi general to this impromptu display of patriotism:
"If Laszlo could inspire that kind of public demonstration..."
He then orders the night club shut down.
13)"It's still a story without an ending."
Sarah Palin in her quest for the presidency.
You remind me of Mrs. Obama, although not quite as gracious.
If you could all watch this one scene you will fully understand the charismatic power that Sarah Palin possesses and why her enemies don't want her to run or to shut her down.
Nazi general to this impromptu display of patriotism:
"If Laszlo could inspire that kind of public demonstration..."
He then orders the night club shut down.
excellent analogy.....nazis=democrats....vichey french=republican party....lazlo=palin....it works for me.
>> “Oh my God.” <<
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Getting out in unknown territory are we?
I made a compliment. So if anyone is ungracious and using Obama tactics, that would be you.
IIRC, Ronald Reagan was supposed to play Rick in that movie. Anyone else know anything about that?
Supposedly true. How ironic.
I don’t remember comparing Ronald Reagan to anyone else. He was the person you compared other people to.
Take a look at the greats on that list. Do you remember seeing those greats compared to anyone else? I don’t.
If someone has stature, others are compared to them.
This is what I wrote over at conservatives4palin.com:
A couple of years a poster at C4P compared Sarah Palin to Francis Marion, the Swamp Fox, of the American Revolutionary War because of hit-and-run guerrilla activities.
In addition can be compared to the finest and bravest in the French Resistance, is as popular with the grassroots as Zapata was with the peasants and indigenous citizens of Mexico, and displays leadership ability and strategic brilliance of a James Doolittle who led a surprise airplane raid in 1942 on the city of Tokyo during WWI.
A quadruple threat par excellence without parallel.
Strasser= Pelosi
Ilsa= uncommited republican voter
Rick= uncommited independent voter
Captain Renaualt= Boehner
"No one can take your place Mr. Laszlo if you are shot while trying to escape."
Sarah Palin is also just as indispensable to our side as well.
I'm really going to lose my lunch if anyone compares her to Underdog!
I will never vote for the Rat bastard Romney!
Oh, my. You’re right. I was laughing too hard to finish reading. I must issue a correction.
Don’t forget Bruce Lee. I mentioned him earlier with the specific hope you’d pick it up. I confess I am somewhat disappointed. BTW, what do the inspirational character lists look like for your fave candidates? Just curious.
This is an ongoing list of historical, popular, and Biblical people; fictional characters, as well as animals that Sarah Palin (™) has been compared to on FR:
I’d note the most interesting character in the film was Captain Louis Renault. Claude Rains stole the movie.
Myself, I am drafting a screenplay of Sarah building railroads across the Old West. When she drives in the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit, it’s symbolic of how she unites east and west into a new age of prosperity. With some singing and dance interludes I think it will win the Oscar.
So why is it that you never added Obama to your list, when it was you ironically who compared Palin to Obama?
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