Old will always be remained golden. I love classics. Today i happened to bump on Casablanca, out of my sheer curiosity. Let me tell you, i haven't watched anything of this movie of a magnitude of love, romance, friendship, to tell you the least, so far until this one. It delivered exceedingly surpassing on most counts more than I had expected about this classic 1942 movie,Casablanca. It defeated all my presumptions after watching this movie. In fact, it's no wonder why it stands tall and undefeated in the IMDB top 250 list.
Set in the backdrop of sometime during Second World War, the movie starts with the African port city called Casablanca. An American ex-pat by the name Rick Blaine [Humphrey Bogart] runs a 'cafe' -- Rick's Cafe Americaine -- which happens to be a delightful destination for everybody, the Nazis, thieves, spies and refugees trying their every luck to escape from the world of misery to the New World, that's America, via Lisbon.
In the whole movie, the kind of friendship between Rick and Captain Renault stands out. I find this as much intriguing as the enigmatic relationship between Rick and Ilsa, a woman who adores and worship her husband [Victor Laszlo played by Paul Henreid] but somehow can't ever bring herself to the point to say she loves him. A mysterious thing about women any guy would have a hard time to think of.
And another thing about this movie, it's got the an awesome dialog. The writer did the fantastic job.
There's so much to say about this movie. But I will leave it here with the last scene dialog at the airport.
[Courtesy: Imdb Qoutes]
"Rick: Last night we said a great many things. You said I was to do the thinking for both of us. Well, I've done a lot of it since then, and it all adds up to one thing: you're getting on that plane with Victor where you belong.
Ilsa: But, Richard, no, I... I...
Rick: Now, you've got to listen to me! You have any idea what you'd have to look forward to if you stayed here? Nine chances out of ten, we'd both wind up in a concentration camp. Isn't that true, Louie?
Captain Renault: I'm afraid Major Strasser would insist.
Ilsa: You're saying this only to make me go.
Rick: I'm saying it because it's true. Inside of us, we both know you belong with Victor. You're part of his work, the thing that keeps him going. If that plane leaves the ground and you're not with him, you'll regret it. Maybe not today. Maybe not tomorrow, but soon and for the rest of your life.
Ilsa: But what about us?
Rick: We'll always have Paris. We didn't have, we, we lost it until you came to Casablanca. We got it back last night.
Ilsa: When I said I would never leave you.
Rick: And you never will. But I've got a job to do, too. Where I'm going, you can't follow. What I've got to do, you can't be any part of. Ilsa, I'm no good at being noble, but it doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world. Someday you'll understand that. Now, now... Here's looking at you kid."
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