What did Isla ever see in him?
“Here’s looking at you, kid”
My favorite simple part of the movie, so telling, is the old couple
“what watch? Such much!!”
you didnt understand the movie....
I was born and raised in Jimmy Stewart's hometown of Indiana, PA. When I was a little kid back in the '70s, there were two older movie theaters in town. When "the mall," opened on the outskirts of town around 1980 or 1981 with its 4-plex, it was just a matter of time before the downtown theaters folded. One of them burnt down, but the other was on the ground floor of a multi-floor office building, so it was basically mothballed with the old ticket booth and marquis sign and lights staying in place.
Probably around 1985 or 1986, somebody recognized the nostalgic value of the old-school theater and leased it out for a showing of Casablanca on a big screen. I was a healthy teen male with pretensions of sophistication and took a date. Every male was dressed in suits or dinner jackets and the ladies in dresses and fancy gowns to watch "Casablanca," as it was meant to be seen, on a big screen in a classic old theater that still had a stage below the screen, theater seats with cast iron art deco aisle end caps, and a recessed orchestra pit.
If you're familiar with the movie you know there is some time taken at the beginning to set the atmosphere in Casablanca, and establish the notoriety of Rick's Café. The first time Bogart appears on screen, he's seated confidently behind his desk in his inner sanctum at the club, and the camera turns to reveal him in his immaculate white dinner jacket.
At that moment in the film, EVERY woman in that theater, my date included, let out a brief, almost imperceptible gasp, however, due to the collective and simultaneous nature of all those gasps in near perfect unison, it was quite noticeable.
It made quite the impression on me as a 16 year old male with aspirations of someday having that kind of effect on women, but to answer your question as to, "what Ilsa ever saw in Rick," I would simply answer:
"The same thing every other woman did."
Rick is such a grumpy, grouchy loser. What did Isla ever see in him?
The flashback shows him very much otherwise...and why Ilsa was with him...
“Rick is such a grumpy, grouchy loser.”
I hate those guys. Grumpy, grouchy, dark and brooding. Like narcissistic two-year-olds. Grow up already, man.
I never saw Casablanca as I don’t like war movies overall. I did see The Best Years Of Our Lives, though, and loved it. It’s been a while — may have to watch it again.
“Rick is such a grumpy, grouchy loser. What did Isla ever see in him? “
Why do girls go for outlaw biker bad boys? Same thing.
“Rick is such a grumpy, grouchy loser. What did Isla ever see in him? Her husband was a much better catch.”
Maybe she had a yen for the bad boys?
That really is a thing. Bad boys be banging boundless booty!