Hello,
I have to write a paper for school in which to describe the major change that occurred in Casablanca and its effects, and I'm really having a hard time thinking about what to write. If anyone has ANY idea, please be willing to share it.
Thank you!
Rick becomes the man he used to be.
Laszlo: Welcome back to the fight.
Rick is at first angry with Ilsa then he just wants her back then he realizes that sending her to the U.S. is the best thing for her. So what Rick wants changes. He at first just wants to be depressed and angry. Then he wants to get her back. Then he decides that he just wants her to be safe and happy because he loves her.
Not sure if this really helps. I guess I'm not entirely sure what your paper is about, but I hope you were able to take something from this. Good luck!
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watch the scene where the bulgarian girl explains her situation to rick - that's where it happens.
shareThat's a good point. Right when that happens Rick decides to do the right thing for the rest of the movie.
shareyep, that's what starts to bring him back
i think at this point he realises that Ilsa would likely try the same sort of thing for Laszlo and he couldn't bear to think that she could be that desperate.
when rick says "nobody ever loved me that much" - you can tell by the look on his face that he realizes he's wrong about that. amazing bit of acting by bogart.
shareThank you all! Your answers came in really useful.
sharealextb, REALLY?!! If you couldn't figure out the answer to this question, you either have not watched the film (and are just trying to get others to do your homework for you) or you are seriously clueless. One of the main points of education is not to accumulate lots of info, but to learn how to process info so as to develop you capacity to THINK. Did you try thinking before you actually asked this question. If you had, you might have actually come up with the answer. Of course, I shouldn't be so hard on you. I think one of the biggest problems of our education system is that it trains people to believe that they don't know anything and have no innate intelligence and all valuable thoughts and ideas must be found elsewhere.
shareWhilst I generally agree with Mark I think he could have put it a little better and been a bit more sympathetic. I expect education varies depending on which establishment one goes to but often it seems a lot of emphasis is put on accessing and acquiring information and not enough on analysing and interpreting the information to properly understand it and being able to correctly deduce its meaning. Particularly how several bits of information are related and forms the whole picture.
It's probably too late for your paper but the change in Rick was that he became less cynical and self centred as the movie developed due to the influence of the various other characters but mainly Ilsa.
I hope your paper was okay.
It's hard to teach people how to analyze. It's sadly a lot easier to just tell students, "Here, go read this!"
What bothers me is, did the OP just copy and paste the responses here? Or did he actually make the effort to put it in his own words?
"The good guys always win...even in the 80s!"
What bothers me is, did the OP just copy and paste the responses here? Or did he actually make the effort to put it in his own words?
I'm afraid that my contribution is a bit too late for your school exercise. But you get it anyway. Simply because it has a beautiful morale. Today and then
Remember that the film's 'today' is the first days of December 1941 This is December 1941, what's time in America, Sam? - I dunno, my watch has stopped - I bet they are all asleep - just before Pearl Harbor and the time of release was just after the Allied landings in North Africa and the Churchil-Roosevelt Conference in - Casablanca! It was the time when the Allied started to hit back seriosly against the Axis Powers - Stalingrad in Soviet Union, elAlamain and Morocco/Algeria, and in the summer of '42 the Battle of Midway.
Before then - throughout the thirties - the democratic countries had given way to the Fascist Powers. They would stick their neck out for nobody - especially not for the Soviet Union. Just like Rick they kept their head down ('Wise foreign Policy' as captain Renault puts it!). In the view of many people 'they were all alseep'.
The great change - for Rick and the world - is the experience that some day you will have to stick your neck out - that you cannot run any farther. Co's that what Rick does - he risks his Club, his money, his life - to save some people that he would have sent to Hell, or at least into Purgatory, a few days before.
Remember that the film's 'today' is the first days of December 1941 This is December 1941, what's time in America, Sam? - I dunno, my watch has stopped - I bet they are all asleep - just before Pearl Harbor and the time of release was just after the Allied landings in North Africa and the Churchil-Roosevelt Conference in - Casablanca! It was the time when the Allied started to hit back seriosly against the Axis Powers - Stalingrad in Soviet Union, elAlamain and Morocco/Algeria, and in the summer of '42 the Battle of Midway.Great post and point, including that we know it was the first week in Dec, 1941.
Absolutely Rick stands in the shoes of America.....right down to why did you get involved before but not now, looks out for himself while insisting on staying out, and then wakes up and joins the righteous cause.
Maybe in another generation - with the 'children of war' (those whose parents had lived through the war) also fading away - the film will fade in popularity. But I think they'll still see it as a great film,It will fade even if still a big name, but think it will have less with the message being lost than simply it becoming old. Think the political message is already an afterthought and now is just appreciated as a "must see" for cinematic purposes.