Rick Cracking: A Short Story

At the beginning, Rick is very confused. He doesn’t know what’s going on, and is horrified when he discovers the truth of what happened to the world. His immediate thought is to run home to see if his family is okay, in which he discovers that they’re not there. Up till then, he’s been so confused

She and Rick exchanged a look as Hershel ambled toward the house. “I like him.”

     Rick is the morally ambiguous night club owner, who hides a sentimentality behind a neutral facade.

Both Rick Grimes and his actions are moral and unselfish. Rather than being self-centered, Rick puts his life on the line to protect the group and his family with the best of his ability. The well-intentioned actions and selfless motives of Rick is evident in these three examples. In the early events of

The bullets nearly hitting him missing by less than an inch, Rick cut straight right leading himself to an abandoned shack. The shack reminded him of the old house where the old man who every kid on the block thought was evil. This brought back the fearful memories of his older brother dragging him to the front of the old houses porch and him crying, fearing for his life. He opened the door to the old house, the creaking of the door sounded just like the door to

Captain Renault's intonations during the scene reveal suspicions concerning Rick and Ilsa. His suggestive voice which raises questions about their relationship cultivates an awkward tension between Rick and Laszlow. Two words in particular, "extremely jealous," are delivered with high intonations and connote suspicion. While the other characters politely try to address each other, Renault bluntly confronts the mysterious situation between Rick and Ilsa.

After that scene occurred, we see Rick and Jean at home discussing what had just occurred in the previous scene with the holdup and theft of their car. They are filing a police report. Rick is running for an election and is trying figure out a way with his advisors to avoid gaining bad publicity. He wants the African Americans vote and does not want to lose those that are on his side. By filing this police report after the incident that just occurred, he feels he put himself in a bad position in the election. Him and his advisors are trying to figure out what he should with the interview with the news reporters. As he's trying to figure out the right wording for the situation that occurred, Jean is watching the locksmith named Daniel played by Michael Pena, he is

From the audience’s perspective, Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) is a romantic drama. The scene where Rick Blaine, the lead male, is at the bar after seeing Ilsa Lund, his former lover, is the most dramatic moment in the film. The audience first sees Rick alone at the bar drinking. Sam walks in the bar and has a powerful conversation with Rick. The moment that these two characters share is dramatic because the audience is getting to see a side of Rick that hasn’t been seen yet. The audience is used to seeing Rick as the perfect man. After he sees Ilsa, he breaks down, which is indicated by his heavy drinking, showing that he has a weakness. The cinematography helps show the dynamic change in Rick. The shot distance allows the audience to see Rick’s facial expressions. Although Rick is seen as strong and independent, when he is reunited with Ilsa, he is drawn into a darkness that he is struggling with in the scene; it is easy to see the struggle of man vs. himself and the concept of masculinity.

Rick, throughout the movie used the bar and drinking as a way to avoid pain from the past. In the movie he often would say “I stick my neck out for nobody”. When Ilsa showed up in Casablanca for the first time, she ran into Rick. When Rick saw her he was shocked and couldn't believe it. That night he sat in the bar, drank, and started thinking about the past when he was happy and in love with Ilsa. At that moment we see why he doesn't want to go home to his girlfriend and why he doesn't stick his neck out for anyone, because he is afraid of being hurt, again. The bar he owned was a way to avoid all of the pain Ilsa caused him and how mad she made him. Even Ilsa was running with Victor to avoid pain from the past, and what she did to Rick. She knew that she loved Rick more than Victor, after seeing Rick again she didn't know what to do. She never planned on seeing him again, and she never wanted to, seeing Rick would bring back memories that she was trying to escape and avoid dealing

"Look who finally decided to show up for work." The boss announces as she steps into the cafe.

Ilsa asks Sam, a black pianist and friend of Rick who works at the cafe with whom she is familiar, to play the song “As Time Goes By.” Rick demands that Sam stop playing that song and is surprised to see Ilsa sitting at his bar, with tense conversation occurring between the two of them. Later that night, Rick is shown cradling a bottle and reminiscing about his past with Ilsa Lund in Paris, recalling how they fell in love and how she ultimately left him waiting alone at a train station.

his mother was underneath rick, her nose bloody and her hands shaking. her eye was swollen shut, and rick was spitting at her. she was whimpering quietly every time he raised his hand, but when she turned to face calum, rick got up, kicked her in the side of her stomach and walked towards calum.

“We have to go! We have to go! We have to go!” Ricks voice can be heard off to her right.