Summary and Overview on the Movie Crash Essay

Ricks American Café is a hotspot for people to get exit visas to Lisbon and then to America. At the beginning of the film Rick proves to us that he will not pick sides on the issues going on in Casablanca. Captain Louis Renault plans a shakedown at Ricks bar. Renault plans to arrest the Ugarte who murdered 2 Germans to get exit visas and then sell them at Ricks bar. Ugarte notices the Germans in the Bar and asks Rick to hide him until the Germans leave. Rick knows that Ugarte is trying to do good but Rick still stays neutral and doesn’t help Ugarte. After the Germans arrest Ugarte Renault asks Rick why he didn’t help Ugarte. Rick then responds with his signature line, “ I stick my neck out for nobody.” This again proves that Rick doesn’t want to side with the patriots or the

Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) follows Rick’s internal struggle and his eventual decisive action on whether or not to help his former lover. This story, while seemingly innocent enough on the surface, mirrors another, much darker tale; one that takes place on a much grander scale. This is especially evident in the final sequence of the film where Rick helps Victor and Ilsa escape on a plane to America, before he shoots and kills Major Strasser in order to ensure their escape. When analyzed through the formal elements of film, this sequence becomes about much more than just a man doing whatever he has to in order 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.

The relationship between Rick Blaine and Captain Louis Renault was my topic for the project we are starting in class and I learned that Renault was very sexual and sometimes took advantage of couples wanting to leave the country. So, in order for them to get signed Letters of Transit, the women would have to do a sexual act with Renault. I think this is very disturbing and selfish of Renault. He was risking couples happiness just for his own pleasure. Another character we were introduced to is Ilsa Lund, who has a recent history with Rick while she visited Paris, is visiting Casablanca with her husband Victor Laszlo. Laszlo knows that Rick has the Letters of Transit and he makes an offer. At the end of this film, even though there's romantic tension between Rick and Ilsa, Rick sends Ilsa and her husband off to America. At this point in the film, I got very emotional because even though Rick still loved Ilsa, he sent her off to America because he felt as if she deserved to better her life with her husband. Even though he seemed very tough and acted as if he did not care about Ilsa, he cared for her enough to let her go. I felt as if that was very brave of him to

Rick agrees to get Laszlo out of the country with the letters, but Ilsa says she can’t bear to leave Rick. Rick agrees to have her stay with him when Laszlo leaves, without letting him know. Victor is soon after arrested for a minor charge, primarily to avoid him finding a way out of Casablanca. Rick convinces the city’s Captain of Police, Renault, to release the man so that he can set Laszlo up trying to obtain the letters, a much larger crime. Renault agrees, seeing this as an opportunity to increase his political position with the German officer in Casablanca. It is set up so that only Renault will bust Laszlo as part of the deal. After the bust has begun, Rick puts Renault at gunpoint and gives Laszlo the letters. He insists that Ilsa go with him, stating that he would be lost without her assistance. She complies, and the Germans arrive as the plane begins to take off. Rick shoots the German officer before the rest of the Germans arrive, which allows him to pin the death on Laszlo’s escape.

When she comes to Casablanca with Victor Laszlo, running away from the German police after escaping a concentration camp, Rick’s hopes of living a normal life again are shattered. They loved each other while they were in Paris, while she assumed Laszlo was dead. Seeing her with another man after she abruptly left him, he seethes with rage. This is even visible on his face every time he sees her. This is part of his complexity as a character. He is showing relatable emotions and deep character thoughts. This emotion does such an ordeal to him that in one scene, we simply see him choking down alcohol to stifle his depression. This is yet another example of a human character really, with faults that are normal, unlike the pure good and evil characters that we sometimes see in movies. Later in the movie, we realize that Rick in the owner of the two visas that will eventually get people out of Casablanca, into Lisbon, and then the U.S. And who else would need them but Ilsa and Victor. The whole movie, Rick has been a law-obeying, neutral restaurant owner. In this portion of the movie, we see his seething rage get the better of him as he denies Laszlo the visas. When Laszlo asks him why, Rick responds, “Ask Ilsa, she’ll tell you.” We can tell that rage and bitter jealousy have overcome a once good character. The only future Rick can see the visas having is with him and Ilsa in America. But late

The movie crash is a phenomenal movie, which reflects our society in an uncomfortable way. Although, we have come a long way from the era of slave trade and open racism, we are not where we want to be yet, with regards to these issues, but we have made huge progress. The movie reflects a number of silent issues plaguing our society, such as mistrust, stereotyping, profiling, racism, and clash of cultures. The plot of this movie causes us to reflect deeply about our societal and personal values, it raises questions of if we are guilty of the same, and if we are doing enough to address these issues. In a brief review, Goyette (2011) of Boston colleges reported that the movie promotes racial awareness, thrusts race under the magnifying glass and

Later in the movie, he even meets a couple desperate to leave Casablanca--whom he helps by assisting them in cheating one of the games in his own bar to win money. It was as if his love for Ilsa and the realization of the bigger picture that lies beyond them, cracked open his thick, cynical exterior. Timothy Corrigan and Patricia White note in a passage of The Film Experience: An Introduction that "we can understand Casablanca as a drama of character by following Rick's transformation from a singular to a collective character ready to sacrifice his

The next day, Isla bumps into Rick and gives an explanation about how she has had a husband even while her and Rick were together. Later that night, Lazlow speaks with Rick, trying to buy the letters of transit but Rick firmly states he won’t ever plan to sell them. The band of Germans start singing their national anthem, so Lazlow walks over to the other band and tells them to play the anthem of France. Soon, the whole cafe was singing the French National Anthem, and the Germans stopped. At the hotel afterwards, Lazlow asks Ilsa if she had anything to say, to which she answers, “no,” and he leaves. Ilsa goes to Rick, begging for the transit papers, but he continuously says no. She then pulls a gun out, trying to force him but has no guts to do it because she was still in love with him. Ilsa then explains to Rick what truly happened in Paris. Lazlow finds out that Rick still loves Isla and askes or the papers, but gets arrested by the German police. Rick begs Louis, the chief of police, to let Lazlow go and comes up with a plan to use the transit papers. Rick hands the papers to Lazlow, and Louis steps out attempting to arrest Lazlow again. At the airport, Ilsa and Lazlow flee and Rick shoots Strasser, one of the policemen who came to the scene. In the end, Rick and Louis start a friendship

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).

When Rick Montoya comes back to the city to clear his name he finds out that someone else is living in his house. Before he find out the ID of the person his apartment burst into flames. So he sets his sights on was the fire meant to kill him or was it just a coincidence and who exactly was the person in his house that was killed and why. Also what was his landlady doing home so early in the afternoon the day of the fire.

The movie shows examples of how some black people think of what white people think of them. Also, how people who are emigrant in the United States think of what Americans think of them. This movie explains stories of blacks, whites, Asians, Iranians, and Latinos and how they experience some of these concepts. It also shows how people in general would think of a person by their assumptions without even having a chance to get to know them. They just go with what stereotypes that have been said to a particular group.

Anthony and Peter are the two African American youth who are portrayed as typical reckless youth. They are shown stealing cars, joyriding, and running the streets with guns. Walker, Spohn, DeLone, 2011, state that the “data reveals that the overall violent victimization rate, which in years past was higher for African Americans than for whites”. (pg 446) “For example, in 2000 the violent victimization rates for youth ages 12 to 15 were 66.7 for African Americans and 58.7 for whites; in 2007 the rates were 46.1 for African Americans and 42.1 for whites.” (Walker, Spohn, DeLone, 2011, pg.

Later, Laszlo figures out that Rick has the letters of transit that he needs to escape the Nazis but Rick doesn’t give them up. Major Strasser closes the café because Laszlo has the band play a French patriotic song. Ilsa holds Rick at gunpoint for the letters but he refuses and she admits to still loving him. Laszlo is jailed but Rick convinces Renault to release him because he’ll betray Laszlo. AT THE END, Rick decides to give Laszlo the letters and betrays Renault into assisting in the escape and convinces Ilsa to reluctantly leave with Laszlo on a plane; Major Strasser attempts to stop the escape but is shot by Rick; Rick and Renault decide to leave Casablanca together and Renault suggests joining the

During the early years of World War II in Casablanca two German couriers are killed and two letters of transit are taken from them. Everybody is trying to escape to America and are willing to pay a lot of money to get out of Casablanca. A man comes into Rick’s Café American looking for Rick and gives Rick the letters of transit that he was planning to sell to the highest bidder. But then the man is arrested by Major Henrich Strasser for killing the two German couriers. The two highest bidders come to the café but when Rick sees them he realizes that it is his old love Ilsa and her husband Victor Laszlo who escaped a German concentration camp and is a Czech Resistance leader and he need to get to America to continue his work. Rick and Ilsa