Runtime of Casablanca

You know how in my last post I said, that the difference in the time between this post and that one will be the runtime of the movie Casablanca. I think I should have picked a shorter movie. The movie was not the type of genre that I was into. It was a romantic movie. I hate love movies, but I love the evil characters. Casablanca takes place in French Morocco in 1942, and people are trying to get exit visas to go to America. There is one part in the beginning where a French officer and an Italian officer are talking and they walk by the prefect. The French guy salutes and the Italian guy hiels the prefect. It was just an interesting little conflict that happens in a brief instant and is over with just as fast. Rick is a bar owner in Casablanca. He is friends with the local prefect, lets people trade forged exit visas, never late mailing his bribes, an American and just an all around good guy. I love the way Rick talks with the German major in one conversation. “Now when you invade New York there are some neighborhoods that will give you some trouble,” he says as though he wants to help plan the invasion of the US. (It is impossible to do that because there are more guns than people in the US.) Rick does acts like he does not really care about anything throughout the entire movie. Rick’s character comes off as being so indifferent that you think he is serious about his plan that will land some he knows in a concentration camp. People also mention that Rick used to believe in more than just the fun and excitement of exploiting people for as much as you can by selling them black market goods. In the end Rick starts to believe in “noble causes” again and turns into a total woos. I still idolize the heartlessness that he had. I hope someday I can gain the cold hearted will to backstab anyone of my closest loved ones for personal gain the way Rick would have, but I still have a fragment of something that resembles a shred of a moral. The prefect is another example of a good citizen. He might be a Vichy French dog but he does good things. He sucks up to the Nazi major who is visiting. He tries to impress the guy like he was some parent that ignores him. To take the attention wanting ignored child simile even further, it is hard to get your fathers approval when you spend your nights in a bar. This bar is a classy establishment though. It is lively with a warm atmosphere that makes you feel comfortable and safe taking a bribe or buying an exit visa. Even though the prefect overlooks people illegally helping war refugees flee the Gestapo he still supports the Nazis. He is like a Packer fan. That’s right I just compared Brett Farvre to Hitler, but before the blog Gestapo bans my blog from your class forever let me explain. The prefect is a fair weather fan of the Nazis. He is a committed follower because the Germans just got the French to surrender. It is hard to get the French to surrender. (Think about it, there have been hundreds of wars in France and how many times have they surrendered. NO! That second one you are thinking of actually surrendered TO France and then became part of the country.) The Nazis were on a good winning streak, so you can see why you would want to bet on that horse back then. The Germans even took over Norway meaning the Vikings were loosing back then too! PACKER SUPERBOWL 08!!! WHO HOO!!! Before you lynch me, I want to see the Vikings win some games first.