Comments by "justgivemethetruth" (@justgivemethetruth) on "What's So Great About Casablanca? Ask a Film Professor." video.

Amazing story, thanks for risking being trolled by idiots like Nader to mention that.
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The interesting thing about Casablanca is that it operates on a lot of different levels. I have come to think that Rick was a diversion for Ilsa, a rebound, someone to take care of her, that women of that day in a harsh world needed. Their romance was a kind of farce. The conflict is in Rick seeing that for what it meant, and in that was his growth as a patriot and a human being. When you contemplate this movie it is really amazing. There are so many good scenes and how brilliant it is. I'm thinking someday we might find out that there was much more behind this than just a silly cheap movie that they churned out by the dozens back then.
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Hard to know if all that morality in movies made any difference. Now our movies are horrible and immoral. Not a single movie that meets Casablanca's genius or story in years, sometimes decades. Who won WWII anyway?
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This is a completely weak explanation of Casablanca. Rick a broken man because a woman left him? What a weak man to begin with. No, Rick at that time was a self-centered egotistical ladies man playing around at life. His woman left him, and he fell apart - because he was to an idealist as is claimed here ... it is because he was immature and selfish. You got it all wrong.
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@Cutesy_Time_is_Over I have watched Casablanca more times than I can count. You know nothing Keep your ignorance and naivete off the internet please.
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@Cutesy_Time_is_Over And here am I over on the side of the room that considers someone who would twice insult another person because they had an opinion that dared disagree with them. Just like Signor Ferrari in Casablanca, someone like you everyone can hate.
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It annoys me every time I hear about Rick and Elsa's love affair. It was nothing. Elsa's true love was gone. She was dejected and depressed and forced to live in a dog-eat-dog world of Nazi and predatory men, and Rick, like it or not, was a predatory man looking for a sexy beautiful girlfriends - for himself. Rick at this time had no idea that there was a different world or people like Victor and Elsa, and when Elsa shows up all the can think of is to be furious at her and want revenge. Then he sees the heroic Victor standing up the Nazi's and as someone who cares more about Elsa than he does about himself. He realizes what a cad he has been, and the credit to Rick is that resolves to change his life to be something that Elsa could love, even though she is gone. The great thing about this movie is the unusual take on a love affair where the true love affair is Victor Laslo and Elsa. It says so much about the ideal women, represented by Ingrid Bergman, and the ideal man represented by Paul Henreid, NOT Humphrey Bogart. The flipping of the character of Rick from a selfish regular old guy to a activated freedom fighter, as well as the fulfillment of Elsa as the "inspiration" to Victor is what truly makes this movie one of the leading classic movies of all time.
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