Casablanca

Refugee route= Paris, Marseilles, across the Mediterranean to Oran, Casablanca, Lisbon, America

Exit visas can help someone travel from Casablanca to Lisbon

Rick symbolizes America

supports the underdog: 1935 runs guns to Ethiopia, 1936 fights w/ Loyalists in Spanish Civil War, cynical at the beginning of war the war in Europe

Captain Renault- symbolizes the corrupted government of Vichy France (unoccupied France)

Women—teary eyed, weaker sex, unable to think for themselves

multinational cast, Europeans portrayed positively, unified

non-Europeans/Americans in Casablanca—Arabs, an insignificant role

Italian brushed aside

  • “We Germans must get used to all climates.”—Major Strasser
  • “You run your business and I’ll run mine.”—Rick (owner of Café Americain)
  • “My dear Rick, when will you realize that in this world, today, isolationism is no longer a practical policy.”—Ferrari (owner of the Blue Parrot café)
  • Germans boom boom boom—Sacha (bartender)

Yvonne, woman in bar, not allowed to think/act for herself

  • “If he gets a word in, it will be a major Italian victory.”—Renault (Préfet de Police)
  • “I stick my neck out for nobody.”—Rick
  • “Under your cynical shell, I suspect you are a sentimentalist.”—Renault to Rick
  • “I gave him the best, knowing he is German and would take it anyway.”—Carl (maitred)
  • “Can you imagine us in London?”—German general
  • “Rick is completely neutral about everything.”—Renault
  • “A precedent is being broken.”—Renault (Rick changes with Ilsa)
  • “Ricky, you’re becoming human.”
  • “I can understand the point of view of the fox and the hound.”—Rick
  • “I bet they’re asleep in New York…I bet their asleep all over America.”—Rick
  • “Another blundering American.”—Strasser
  • “You must not underestimate American blundering; I watched them blunder into Berlin in 1918.”—Renault
  • “Even Nazis can’t kill that fast.”—Laszlo
  • “Germans have outlawed miracles.”—Ferrari
  • “One never knows what he’ll do or why.”—Ferrari about Rick
  • “I told my men to be especially destructive; you know how that impresses Germans.”---Renault

Fight between Russian and German

  • toast “To America!”
  • “The devil has the people by their throats.”—young Bulgarian woman
  • “The geography maybe a little difficult to arrange.”—Rick
  • “You crazy Russian.”—Rick
  • “You’re a rank sentimentalist.”—Renault
  • “I’m not interested in politics, the problems of the world are not in my department.”—Rick
  • National anthem (Marseillaise) Viva la France!
  • “You may recall what German guarantees have been worth in the past.”—Ilsa
  • “I’m not fighting for anything anymore…I’m the only cause I’m interested in.”—Rick
  • “You are a coward, weak, You are our last hope.”—Ilsa to Rick
  • “Go ahead & shoot. You’ll be doing me a favor.”—Rick
  • “You’ll have to think for both of us, for all of us.”—Ilsa
  • “If we stop fighting our enemies, the world will die.”—Victor
  • “If you are trying to escape from yourself, you will never succeed.”—Victor
  • “fate/destiny”—Victor
  • slip of the tounge—Germany/Vichy
  • “Welcome back to the fight, this time I know our side will win.”—Victor
  • “You are not just a sentimentalist, you have become a patriot.”—Renault
  • Renault throws bottle of Vichy water in the trash, kicks it
  • “The beginning of a beautiful friendship.”--Renault