Analysis Of Rick Blain And His Internal Conflict

Casablanca, a movie directed by Michael Curtiz, according to many people, is one of the world's best movies ever produced. The movie had an all-star cast, which was considered legendary. The main stars of the film were Ingrid Berman as Ilsa Lund, Humphrey Bogart as Rick Blaine, and Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. The cast did a fantastic job of portraying their characters. Rick played the leading role as a man who ran a popular “saloon” in Casablanca. His true love, Ilsa, came with her spouse, Victor, to seek help to go to America. Upon encountering Rick, Ilsa became weak and desired to stay with him in Casablanca rather than go with her husband to America. Being the big-hearted person he is, Rick got them both their visas and helped them escape

Rick Blaine, one of the main characters, has a commitment issue which derives from his heart break from Ilsa. He decides to hide out in Casablanca to avoid committing to anything and anyone. In this film he works to remain neutral with everything including the war that is going on. He also is okay with doing everything on his own including, playing chess, drinking and running his club. There is a scene illustrating this behavior when he refuses to drink with his guest who requests him to. Rick does not show much emotion throughout the beginning of the film but all this is about to change when he sees Ilsa sitting at one of his tables in his club. Rick notices her when his pianist, Sam, begins to play their favorite song “As Time Goes By,” which he told him never to play again.

The film Casablanca attempts to promote the war in the sense of making Americans realize their responsibilities to honor America through patriotism and to uphold their reputation of the freedom country. A scene that perfectly shows patriotism is when the Germans start to sing their national anthem and then Rick has the band start up and the French start to sing their national anthem, overpowering the German group and stating their love and dedication for their country. This scene portrays Casablanca to begin as a pro-war movie. It shows the power and fight back of the French.

Casablanca a film by Michael Curtiz was a combination of both drama, and romance genre. It was made in the year of 1942, and won a academy award for the best picture. The film contained many great elements such as lighting, close up’s, and costume. Also the plot of this film is very interesting as well. Because it has good themes, and topics along with it. It is one of the best classic hollywood films to be made.

Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz and produced by Hal B. Wallis, tells the story of American café-owner, Rick Blaine, and his dilemma between choosing between his love and the greater good. The film takes place in Casablanca, Morocco amid the darkness and conflict of Nazi occupation. Rick Blaine’s drinking habits and his gradual increase in socialization with those around him serve to allude to America’s progressive participation in and support of the war against the Nazis.

The film, Casablanca, focuses on Rick, who faces lost love, honor and duty, self-sacrifice, and romance, all within a world currently filled with chaos. The bar scene, where Rick drinks alone after his club closes, represents the sadness he feels after encountering an old acquaintance – Ilsa Lund, his former lover. During the scene, Sam plays "As Time Goes by" again, the searchlight circles around the club, and Rick thinks about the past, just before Ilsa comes to see and talk to him. The mise-en-scène of the bar scene following Laszlo and Ilsa leaving Rick’s nightclub illustrates the shift of Rick’s former character to the man the audience currently sees.

The story featured in the film Casablanca involves Rick Blaine, who is a former American that owns a nightclub in town. His one-time love, Isla, arrives to town with her husband, Victor Laslo. Laslo is from Czechoslovakia and is desperately trying to get a visa to leave Casablanca. However, there has been an order to keep Laslo in Casablanca. Rick learns that Isla is in Casablanca, and is reminded of the time they spent together before Casablanca. When Laslo learns of the past between Isla and Rick, he is okay with it just because he wants the best for Isla, which is to leave Casablanca. However, this is just the love story in Casablanca.

Rick thinks that he might be gay since he liked his moment with Paul and that is what the Rainbow Room represents. However, Rick says that “he didn’t come here to be this” and his father has told him that he is “a fool” (91). The way that Guare sets up this scene portrays that Rick is mostly mad at himself because of what his dad has told him instead as to what he has done to Elizabeth. This is proven because the last thing that Rick says is that he cannot “have” his dad “be right. What [has he] done” leading to his suicide (91).

Discuss the diegetic music that occurs in Rick’s café: identify and discuss three moments, which you feel are, respectively, empathetic, anempathetic, and neutral with regard to the narrative.

This scene had four main characters who were Rick Blaine played by Humphrey Bogart, Ilsa Lund played by Ingrid Bergman, Victor Laszlo played by Paul Henreid, and Captain Louis Renault played by Claude Rains. Rick Blaine was the owner of Rick's Café Américain. He appears in the whole film to be a man who is not moved by anyone. After seeing Ilsa again

Rick is in Casablanca to overcome his heart brake from Ilsa. However, instead of confronting his feelings and memories, Rick suppresses them and lives an emotionally detached life; “I stick my neck out for nobody” (Casablanca).

Compared to the scenes before Ilsa shows up in his cafe, the low key lighting gives the audience an idea of how Ilsa’s presence can completely change Rick’s emotion. After Ilsa shows up by the door, it follows with a close up shot of Ilsa with a soft frontal light and a backlight, in which we are able to tell Ilsa’s face is filled with emotions, and making her look angelic and innocent. As she approaches Rick and stands in front of him, the medium shot of both characters give us the sense that these characters are going to have a intimate moment. The darkness in the room as well as the dimly lit Rick is shot with a low key lighting which reinforces Rick’s diminishing mood while Ilsa has noticeably more light on her front and back that makes

During the early years of World War II, Nazis are hunting down refugees from occupied-Europe in the Moroccan city of Casablanca. Rick is the owner of a café which houses all types of people from Nazis to resistance fighters, refugees, and (mostly) gamblers. While Rick once was an idealist he has now become more cynical and neutral as he doesn’t stick his neck out for anybody. We see this when a refugee asks Rick for help by hiding letters of transit but is soon later arrested by corrupt official Captain Renault while Rick refuses to help. Soon later a woman, Ilsa Lund, and her husband who is a resistance leader who escaped a concentration camp, Victor Laszlo, enter the café. It turns out that Rick knows Ilsa and she is the reason for his being

Largely, Casablanca emphasizes an explicit meaning into an implicit meaning through the story character’s functional role of the protagonist, Rick Blane. Editing of scenes using camera close-ups enhance the characters elaborate emotions and acts as a plot catalyst in Casablanca. One of the most important explicit meanings in Casablanca utilized close-ups and narration exposing the setting of the story in the 1940’s during the rise of a Nazi regime infiltration.

There are many myths portrayed in the movie Casablanca and love at first sight is one of the oldest myths there is. In reality most people fall in love, at least once, and it normally starts with a look. Or it appears to start with a look, or is it lust? In the movie Casablanca, Rick and Ilsa portray myth #2 with their giddiness while in Paris. Rick when he is around Ilsa is constantly joking, like he has no other care in the world. This is a far cry when we see Rick in the present where he always seems serious. Myth #3 is also depicted in the Paris scene when Rick proposes to Ilsa, only to be flabbergasted that Ilsa was not thinking the same thing. He even mentioned earlier in the scene that he knows nothing about her, which is how she wanted