Rick Bliane In Casablanca

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Rick Bliane, the protagonist of the movie, is a very mysterious and complicated man at the beginning of the movie. In many occasions, he says “I stick my neck out for nobody” and isn’t impressed very easily. Although he seems like the person who only cares about himself, his true nature can be seen as the movie progresses. One example is when he doesn’t allow a member of the Deutsche Bank into the back room of his café. In his past, he was fighting against Franco in the Spanish Civil war and was a antifascist, but he met Ilsa in Paris, Spain and fell in love with her. But when Axis power invaded Paris and she didn’t run away with him, he was heartbroken and became a cynical person. When he meets Ilsa in Casablanca he slowly forgets about his cynical side and become the person that he once used to be. Towards the end of the movie, he has a chance to run way with Ilsa, but he chooses to let Ilsa and her husband escape Casablanca in order to help fight against the Nazis. …show more content…

She was very supportive of her husband and very loyal to her husband. She is a very hard person to understand because she loves Rick at the same time she is also very loyal to her husband. She fell in love with Rick in Paris because she thought her husband was dead, but when she find out that her husband is not dead, she chooses Victor over Rick. Similarly when she goes to get the transit paper from Rick in Casablanca, she realizes that she still loves Rick and decides go with Rick rather than Victor. She had the most tragic ending of all the main

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