Casablanca Rick Blaine Essay

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Rick Blaine in Casablanca

Casablanca is the 1942 film that explores how people behave when confronted with the choice to help others regardless of personal attachments. In the film, Rick Blaine runs a cafe, aptly called Rick's Cafe, which serves as a front for an illegal casino in addition to being a safe haven for people that are attempting to flee Morocco and the Nazis that have slowly taken over the city. While some people, like Rick, give the impression that they are trying to stay out of the rising conflict that is arising between French Resistance fighters and Nazis, others' alliances and loyalties will be dictated by the people they work for. In Casablanca, Captain Louis Renault is, at first, indifferent to Rick's businesses, but is pressured into choosing between what is right and what his job requires. While Renault accuses Rick of being a "sentimentalist" and "a man of conscience and justice," Renault himself undergoes a personal that in the end mirror Rick's.

At the beginning of the film, Rick is the unimpressionable and emotionally and politically detached owner of Rick's Cafe. It is often hinted at that there is a reason for Rick's behavior and that he once was a very different person; soon thereafter it is revealed that his attitude changed after he lost the love of his life, Ilsa Lund; Ilsa and Rick carried on an amorous affair while they were both in Paris, but when Ilsa found out that her husband, Victor Lazlo was still alive, she broke off the affair.

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Before leaving Paris and relocating to Morocco, Rick was outspoken and politically active, but transformed into a very different man when Ilsa left him. The Rick that Ilsa ran into in Casablanca was a very different man than the one that she knew in Paris, however, the reunion between the two former lovers appears to have ignited a spark within Rick that motivates him to help those trying to flee the Germans; for example, he allows Jan Brandel to win enough money while playing roulette to pay for the proper (and falsified) documents that will get him safely out of Morocco. Renault's accusation against (or for) Rick that he is a "man of conscience and justice" is further exemplified at the end of the film. Though Rick clearly is still in love with Ilsa and has the opportunity to….....

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