text: [[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/casablanca.jpg]][[caption-width-right:300:Rick and Ilsa as they wish they were.]]->''"Here's looking at you, kid."''''Casablanca'' is a wartime romantic movie, considered by many to be one of the most romantic (and best) movies ever made.This 1942 Creator/WarnerBros film featured a screenplay by Howard Koch, based on an unproduced play, ''Everybody Comes to Rick's'', by Murray Burnett and Joan Alison; this screenplay was in turn enhanced by the brilliant dialogue of the brothers Julius and Philip Epstein. The film was handed over to ace director Creator/MichaelCurtiz, and the respected film composer Music/MaxSteiner provided the score. Early studio press releases had it that the film would star UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan and Ann Sheridan -- but this was just the studio's publicity department needing to put ''someone'' famous's name in the release, otherwise the announcement wouldn't get printed (they picked Reagan and Sheridan because it gave them an extra chance to remind audiences about ''Film/KingsRow''). George Raft also made a play for the lead role, but the studio had ''always'' planned the film as an A-list picture and had never considered ''anyone'' but Creator/HumphreyBogart for its starring role.The setting is Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941; the city is a melting-pot hotbed of [[WarRefugees refugees]] from Nazi oppression who are all desperately trying to make their way to the United States -- and freedom -- while trying to avoid the Vichy French authorities, their German masters, and opportunistic criminals. At the center of the story is protagonist Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), the bitter, cynical American owner of Rick's Café Americain -- which professes absolute neutrality to all, from the ruthless German commander Major Strasser (Creator/ConradVeidt) and the corrupt, cynical French police chief Louis Renault (Creator/ClaudeRains) to the desperate refugees and criminals who use his bar as a convenient place for dealings of all kinds.Rick's claims of neutrality are pushed to the limit by the arrival of Ilsa (Creator/IngridBergman) -- the woman who broke Rick's heart when the Germans entered Paris -- and her husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid), a Czech [[LaResistance resistance]] leader and Major Strasser's current favorite target. Ilsa had abandoned him upon learning that her husband, once thought dead, was still alive; now she and Victor need Rick's help in securing vital letters of transit that will allow them to leave the country and continue to fight the good fight against the Nazis. When it is gradually made clear that Ilsa -- despite being with her husband -- still loves Rick, Rick finds himself struggling with his heart, his anger, his gradually-revived sense of idealism, and the question of whether to sacrifice this new chance at happiness for the cause of something that is greater than all of them.As an interesting side note: in his World War II espionage history ''Literature/IstanbulIntrigues'', historian and political columnist Barry Rubin described the eponymous CityOfSpies as "a real-life Casablanca".Not to be confused with the poem {{Literature/Casabianca}}.-----!!I am shocked, SHOCKED! to find troping going on on this website!![[note]] [[HypocriticalHumor "Your tropes, sir." "Thank you."]][[/note]]* AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder: Turns out, Victor wasn't dead, causing much angst for Rick.* AccidentalAdultery: Rick and Ilsa have this sort of tryst after Ilsa's husband Victor is presumed dead. She leaves Rick after Victor turns up alive, but much of the film is concerned with her being torn between the two of them.* AffablyEvil: ** Seemingly Louis, at first, but ultimately subverted (the evil part that is, not the affable).** Even the [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]] are relatively affable at times.* AffectionatePickpocket: The guy who puts his arms around visitors and warns them about thieves while robbing them.* TheAlliance: The Allies. Which they go out of their way to demonstrate.* AnguishedDeclarationOfLove: Ilsa gets one right after failing to shoot Rick.* AntiHero: Rick is an anti-fascist who participated in the Spanish civil war, losing miserably to Franco on each occasion. This and various personal failures led to him being exiled, whether by choice or circumstance, in "neutral" France. He does the dirty work of killing Stasser and smuggling the couple out of Casablanca.* ArtisticLicenseGeography: "Waters? What waters? We're in the desert." Though not exactly rainy, the real Casablanca's mediterranean climate is not deserty, either. It is more like Los Angeles or San Diego (or Rome or Athens) than it is like Las Vegas or Phoenix (or Cairo or Mecca). * ArtisticLicenseHistory: "I was with them when they blundered into Berlin in 1918." No enemy soldiers entered Berlin in 1918. The Allies had just reached Germany's western border when the war ended.* AwesomeMcCoolname: Signor Ferrari has a nice ring.* BadGuyBar: "Rick's Cafe Americain". But then, everybody comes to Rick's.* BadSamaritan: The "vultures everywhere" guy.* BareYourMidriff: Yvonne, in her first scene.* BatmanGambit: The outcome of Rick's eventual scheme depends heavily on the characters of the people involved.* BerserkButton: Apparently, the song "As Time Goes By" has become this for Rick.-->'''Rick''' (storming halfway across the cafe): Sam, I thought I told you ''never'' to play that... (sees [[WhamShot Ilsa sitting there]]) * BettyAndVeronica: Victor and Rick.* BigBad: Major Heinrich Strasser, head of ThoseWackyNazis stationed in Casablanca.* BigDamnHeroes: ** Rick gets one immediately after (apparently) turning Victor Laszlo over to Renault.---> '''Rick:''' Stay where you are, Louis. I wouldn't like to shoot you, but I will if you take one more step.** Renault gets a subtle one himself, simply by uttering an immortal line at the opportune moment, just as it looks like Rick will be arrested for murder.---> '''Renault:''' Major Strasser has been shot. [{{Beat}}] Round up [[TropeNamers The Usual Suspects]].* BilledAboveTheTitle: Bogart and Bergman, obviously, but also Paul Henreid as Victor Laszlo. It was compensation for having to take such a [[RomanticFalseLead thankless role]].* BittersweetEnding: Rick lets Ilsa leave with Victor and is forced to leave Casablanca for his role in the pair's escape. On the bright side, Victor and Ilsa are able to get away from Casablanca to continue to lead the fight against the Nazis for the resistance, and Rick has his sense of idealism revived.* BlackBestFriend: Sam is a prototypical example. An interesting distinction, however, especially considering the context and culture of the time, is that Sam is never portrayed in a clownish or stereotypical way, nor is he a MagicalNegro type, or anything other than a concerned and loyal friend to Rick. Sure, he tends to defer to Rick and addresses him as "Boss," but Rick is, in fact, his Boss, and he doesn't seem to be treated unfairly by the other characters or portrayed as inferior in any way, except perhaps in the sense that he's treated as a human juke box at times -- but, again, that is his job.* BlatantLies: The elderly German (or, at least ''German speaking''--possibly Austrian or Swiss) couple headed for America is trying to make the transition to using English to become better acclimated to American life.-->'''Husband:''' What watch? (meaning ''What time is it?'')-->'''Wife:''' Ten watch.-->'''Husband''': Such much? (''It's that late?'')-->'''Karl:''' (''smiling'') You will get along beautifully in America.** Admittedly, the rest of their English is pretty good.** Sam keeps trying to lie, both to Ilsa and Rick, but he's not very good at it.* BootstrappedTheme: "As Time Goes By" is now the official VanityPlate jingle for Creator/WarnerBros.* {{Bowdlerise}}: ** The first German dub was so thoroughly denazified (by about 25 minutes) that it told a completely different story. It took them 23 years to make a faithful dub.** To this day, any reference to fascism or Italy is missing from the Italian version.** In the first Spanish dub, the reference to Rick's participation in the UsefulNotes/SpanishCivilWar on the Republican side is omitted.** In Ireland, all references to Rick and Ilsa's affair in Paris (including the flashback scene and a lot of dialogue in the farewell scene) were cut, because Ilsa was still married to Victor (although he was presumed dead). Needless to say, this re-cut made absolutely no sense. The uncut movie was first shown on TV in Ireland in the 1970s.* BrooklynRage: When Major Strasser hints at the Nazis eventually invading New York, Rick quips that there are parts of the city that it would not be a good idea for the Germans to invade.* ButtMonkey: Captain Dorelli, the Italian military attache - even his allies never let him finish a sentence.* CaliforniaDoubling: The film was shot on the Warner Bros. backlot and at the Van Nuys Airport, a general aviation airport near Los Angeles. A lot of StockFootage was used for Paris and other locales for [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII obvious reasons]].* CallForward:** "[[DramaticIrony It's December 1941 and all of America is asleep...]]". From the date on the marker Rick signs at the very beginning, the movie begins on December 2, 1941, and ends on December 5, 1941.** Likewise in Ferrari's first conversation with Rick: "My dear Rick, when will you realise that in this world today, isolationism is no longer a practical policy?"* CatchPhrase: ''Casablanca'' has six quotes on the AFI's 100 top film quotes list, more than any other movie. "Here's looking at you, kid.", "Play it, Sam.", and many others. It's so hard to pick a page quote.* ChandlerAmericanTime: Geography aside (the film doesn't take place in America, but Rick is debatably an AnthropomorphicPersonification of Neutral America), the film's timing (the first week of December, 1941) places it at the very tail chronological end of the setting.* CharacterDevelopment: ** Not just one, but two with Rick and Louis, who start the movie perfectly happy to drink or screw themselves to death without a care for what goes on outside Casablanca. Rick struggles to hold on to his shallow, cynical life even toward the end, when he claims he's no good at being noble while outdoing the nobility of even Laszlo (Laszlo, after all, has every reason to believe he can escape from the Nazis again; Rick was assuming he'd be summarily shot or turned over to the Nazis).** Louis' change of heart is more sudden but no less complete: Strasser's death was clearly caused by either him or Blaine, with Louis' lie obvious either way. His subordinates could have turned them both in for a promotion.* TheChessmaster: Rick is first seen playing chess. We never see him play against an opponent, but there is an opened letter next to the board, indicating he's playing some unknown foe [[PlayByPostGames by correspondence]].[[note]]In reality, Bogie really was playing chess by mail with an American soldier, as was his hobby at the time.[[/note]] When finally called into action, Rick is seen manipulating other characters--even Ilsa--into setting up the final move.* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: ** Louis, who admits as much, saying that he "blows with the wind."** Rick betrays most of the cast at some point or another, although he usually does it for a good reason.* CityOfSpies: Technically, city full of refugees and smugglers. And also spies, and vultures, vultures everywhere!* LesCollaborateurs: The police, particularly Louis -- unusually, he redeems himself. Louis is in fact all cool with his normally extremely controversial behavior of opportunism. He, for instance, at one point nonchalantly informs Rick that he will go to his Nazi superior to lick ass for his own sake.-->'''Renault''': I blow with the wind, and right now, the prevailing wind blows from Vichy. * TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch: "We haven't decided whether he committed suicide or was shot trying to escape."* CrapsackWorld: The movie is more lighthearted about it than most, but it's there. Casablanca is filled with refugees fleeing from war zones or fascist police states, who are now targeted by all sorts of people seeking to exploit them. Leaving for a better place isn't ''impossible,'' but involves either a prohibitive cost that most refugees can't afford (and they often impoverish themselves further by trying to win the money through gambling), or, if you're a woman, sleeping with the local DirtyCop. Organized crime thrives and the authorities are openly corrupt, with even the protagonist having to pay bribes to keep operating. The police shoots people in broad daylight and routinely rounds up large numbers of designated suspects simply for the pretense of efficiency. And all this is ''before'' the Nazis show up and start breathing down everyone's neck. * CrowdSong: The French NationalAnthem scene.* DeadpanSnarker: Several, most notably Capt. Renault and Rick, who engage in glorious SnarkToSnarkCombat, resulting in a movie with some of the snappiest dialogue in film history.-->'''Captain Renault''': I've often speculated why you didn't go back to America. Did you abscond with the church funds? Did you run off with a senator's wife? I'd like to think that you killed a man. It's the romantic in me.\\'''Rick''': It was a combination of all three.\\'''Captain Renault''': And what in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?\\'''Rick''': My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters.\\'''Captain Renault''': The waters? What waters? We're in the desert.\\'''Rick''': I was misinformed.* DefaultToGood: Rick, and then Captain Renault.* DespairSpeech: Rick's dialogue in his famous "All the Gin Joints" scene once Ilsa shows up smacks of this, despite not technically being a speech.* DidNotGetTheGirl: Rick does a heroic sacrifice and lets Ilsa go.-->'''Rick:''' We'll always have Paris.* DigitalDestruction: The 2008 Blu-Ray had contrast boosting and digital noise reduction, which were fortunately corrected in 2012 for the movie's 70th anniversary.* TheDon: Signor Ferrari, though a less sinister version than most. He is "the head of all illegal activities in Casablanca," but is never seen harming anyone (he'd like to hire Sam away from Rick and he'd like to take over Rick's cafe, but he doesn't try to threaten or coerce them, only making offers that would be expected from any interested businessman). He's even the one who gives Ilsa and Victor the suggestion that leads to their leaving with the letters of transit (though he ''may'' have had an ulterior motive, see XanatosSpeedChess below). * DrowningMySorrows: When Rick learns of Ilsa, he has his famous, "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine" scene, drinking rather heavily while his pianist tries to snap him out of it.* DVDCommentary: Creator/RogerEbert makes one awesome commentary track. He breaks down things such as shot design, subtle character motivations, the "La Marseillaise" awesomeness and the MacGuffin disaster.* EarnYourHappyEnding: Pretty much everyone.* TheEmpire: [[ThoseWackyNazis The Nazis]], of course.* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Early on, Rick lets Ugarte get dragged away by the authorities to his death, asserting that "he sticks his neck out for no one". However, Rick's face clearly shows a moment of sympathy for Ugarte before the tough veneer reasserts itself. His line that he sticks his neck out for no one, which comes as Ugarte is being dragged away, comes across as more of an effort to convince himself and justify his seeming coldness.** Allowing the young couple to win at his rigged roulette table so they could afford to pay Louis for an exit visa, rather than the young wife having to use an alternative method of payment.* EstablishingSeriesMoment: We see a guy shot in broad daylight and no one does a thing. Enter Rick's Cafe and we see people conducting shady business.* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Rick. According to Louis, anyway, who describes him as the second most desirable man in Casablanca ([[{{Pride}} after himself, of course]]).-->"If I were a woman, and ''I'' were not around... I should be in love with Rick."* EvilCounterpart:** Played with in the case of Renault, though he's far from evil. Both he and Rick once fought on the side of the angels, with Rick running guns in Spain and Renault fighting alongside the Allies in World War I. Both drifted to Casablanca and adopted a stance of bemused neutrality. Both go through women faster than cigarettes. However, whereas Rick gruffly offers aid to a lovestruck couple here, a freedom fighter there, Renault embraced the corruption and vice that came with his police uniform. ** Strasser is this to Laszlo. Both men are paragons of their factions. Curiously, both seriously underestimate Rick, albeit in different ways.* ExoticBackdropSetting: Native Moroccans only appear as extras in street scenes.* FilmNoir: Heavy shadows, morally conflicted and deeply wounded cynical protagonist, BittersweetEnding, Creator/HumphreyBogart... yeah, it counts.* {{Flashback}}: Of Rick and Ilsa's time together in pre-occupation Paris, and how exactly Ilsa left Rick.* FlippantForgiveness:-->'''Ugarte''': You are a very cynical person, Rick, if you'll forgive me for saying so. \\'''Rick''': I forgive you.* FollowTheLeader: After the success of this movie, Hollywood decided they should try and get Humphrey Bogart to make it again. And again. Annnnd again. ''Film/ToHaveAndHaveNot'' is pretty similar (and very good), but could possibly claim plausible deniability. ''Tokyo Joe'' and ''Sirocco'', on the other hand, are just ''Casablanca'' again in other countries with crappier supporting casts, writers, and directors.* ForcedPerspective: That plane, with the maintenance crew working on it? A scale model, and midgets. A cheap cardboard scale model, at that. The scene's fog, in addition to being atmospheric, was used to hide how fake the plane looked.* {{Foreshadowing}}:** During the Paris flashback, Rick and Ilsa dance to ... ''Perfidia''.** Yvonne gets in bed (literally) with the Germans, before revealing she's still a proud French patriot... just like Louis in the finale.** The young Bulgarian couple. They appear throughout the movie going through the "stages" of trying to escape the city just like Laszlo and Ilsa, the young woman is in a similar emotional situation to Ilsa in Paris and Rick at the moment, and if ''that'' weren't enough, their plight is what pushes Rick over the edge and into sticking his neck out for somebody.** Louis' theory about what crime Rick committed corresponds more or less exactly with his major plot points throughout the movie.** Louis and Rick both comment about Rick's dead idealism. Strasser is unconvinced.** During the first night of Ilsa's return into his life, Rick asks Sam about the time and day as though to commemorate the moment. The conversation reveals the film is happening on the weekend of the Pearl Harbor attack, making Rick's drunken comments about "America being asleep" potent.* FreudianTrio: Rick (Id), Sam (ego), Ilsa (superego).* FourPhilosophyEnsemble: Rick as the Cynic, Ilsa as the Conflicted, Victor as the Optimist, and Louis as the Apathetic. All four start off as textbook examples of their respective philosophies, and their CharacterDevelopment largely entails these philosophies being challenged by [[{{plot}} the events of the film]].* FunnyForeigner: ** "What watch?" "Ten watch." "Such much?" It's a literal translation from German to English.[[note]] The reverse transliteration, "Wie viel Uhr?" "Zehn Uhr." "Wie viel?", would be more smoothly translated as "What time [is it]?" "Ten o'clock." "''[surprised]'' Really?"[[/note]] Doesn't rise to the level of a BlindIdiotTranslation.** The "vultures everywhere" guy (Curt Bois) uses this as [[ObfuscatingStupidity a cover]] for his pickpocketing.* GaussianGirl: Creator/IngridBergman is not shown in focus at any point in the film.* GenreRoulette: It's a film noir/war movie/comedy/drama/caper/romance with a side order of adventure (and [[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped propaganda]]).* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:** "Captain Renault must be getting broad-minded." A gay joke in ''1942''. Immediately followed with an implication that Renault extorts sex from women for exit visas, no less. As Annina has said "My husband is with me too," this is probably intended as ThreesomeSubtext and/or to imply that Renault's women are usually not married.** When Ilsa meets a drunken Rick after the bar is closed, his line about a "tinny piano" is subtly referencing a brothel, implying she is a prostitute.** A more serious one, with the revelation that Rick was having an affair ''with a married woman''. [[UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode The Hays office]] would have had a conniption, but the BackStory helped excuse it by making it believable Ilsa would think Laszlo was dead at the time.** Yvonne counts as well, in addition to foreshadowing Rick's behavior. She's had sex with, at the very least, Rick and Louis.* GoodGuyBar: ''Rick's Cafe Americain''.* GuileHero: Rick.* HeelFaceTurn: Louis and Rick. A tad different and late in the latter's case.* HelloNurse: Ilsa, according to Rick, Victor, and Louis.-->'''Louis''': Ms. Lund, I was told you were the most beautiful woman who had ever come to Casablanca. That was a gross understatement.* HeroicBSOD: Rick gets two. First when Ilsa leaves him in Paris, and again when she reappears in Casablanca.* HollywoodKiss: Rick and Ilsa* HypocriticalHumor: ** "I'm shocked -- ''shocked!'' -- to find that gambling is going on in here." "Your winnings, sir." "Oh, thank you very much."*** In this case the juxtaposition is used to illustrate how flimsy a justification there is for shutting down Rick's Cafe. Compounding the hypocrisy is it's demonstrated the roulette wheel can be rigged, and briefly stated the 'winnings' he earns are a form of indirect bribery for turning a blind-eye to the illegal gambling in the first place. ** A more subtle example is Rick's repeated claim that he "sticks his neck out for nobody," and then spends pretty much the entire movie sticking his neck out for one person or another.** And, once again, the "vultures everywhere" guy, who is, himself, one of the vultures he is warning you about.** Early in the movie, Renault tells Rick, "In Casablanca, I am the master of my fate." He is then immediately summoned to kowtow to Major Strasser. The realization that he is not truly the master of his fate, at least as long as the Nazis have anything to say about it, may be part of what motivates his HeelFaceTurn at the end of the movie.* IconicSongRequest: "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'."* ImplausibleDeniability: Insisting that the roulette game isn't rigged. After Rick blatantly gives instructions to the spinner and the same number comes up twice in a row.* InsistentTerminology: Renault emphasizes '''Third''' Reich every time he says it. Lampshaded by Strasser.* InstantlyProvenWrong: When the gambling activities are exposed at Rick's Café:-->'''Rick:''' How can you close me up? On what grounds? -->'''Louis:''' I am shocked, ''shocked'', to find that gambling is going on in here! -->'''Emile:''' ''[handing him a stack of bills]'' Your winnings, sir. -->'''Louis:''' Oh thank you very much. ''[shouting to casino patrons]'' Everybody out at once!* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Referenced but not played straight as there's no coincidence; everybody involved has a [[RunForTheBorder good reason for being in Casablanca]], and in Casablanca, everybody comes to Rick's. -->'''Rick:''' Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: A defining theme of the movie. Although this is justified more than the trope typically is. "If that plane takes off and you're not on it, you'll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life." Also, he was talking about the work Laszlo was doing more than just being with him. Both men care more about her safety and happiness than which of them "wins".* JerkWithAHeartOfGold** Rick Blaine: "I stick my neck out for nobody." Sure you don't, Rick. Sure you don't.** Signore Ferrari, much lesser extent: "I am moved to make one more suggestion; why, I do not know, because it cannot possibly profit me, but, have you heard about Signor Ugarte and the letters of transit...?"* KnightInSourArmor: Rick is a jaded and weary man who projects a selfish façade, but he's also a romantic with noble goals.* LadyOfWar: Creator/IngridBergman seems to be a DamselInDistress trying to be a LadyOfWar. More important, what she really is, is every soldier's favorite princess. Which might make this a successful attempt at inspiring the World War II version of CourtlyLove from fans.* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: ** Rick asking "Are my eyes really brown?" It is a black and white film, after all. [[note]]They are.[[/note]]** When a drunken Rick asks Isla "Does it (the story about why she left him) have a wow finish?" the script itself was still undergoing massive rewrites. At the time the scene was filmed, ''nobody'' knew what the finish would be...* {{Leitmotif}}: Three:** Most famously, "As Time Goes By", which symbolizes the romance between Rick and Ilsa.** "La Marseillaise", which, [[StandardSnippet in addition to representing Paris and France]], also symbolizes LaResistance, and the Allied cause as a whole.** The opening of the ''Deutschlandlied'' (the German national anthem, here played in a minor key to make it sound more sinister) represents [[ThoseWackyNazis Nazi Germany]], and Major Strasser in particular.* MacGuffin: The letters of transit are never used in the context of the movie, since before the plane leaves, Strasser is dead and Renault is sympathetic.* ManlyTears:** It's perfectly okay to tear up when Rick gets that letter at the train station.** It's also perfectly okay when Rick performs his noble speech at the end telling Ilsa to go with Laszlo. * MayDecemberRomance: Ilsa is noticeably younger than Victor and significantly younger than Rick. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Rick�s repeated line to Ilsa (�Here�s looking at you, ''kid''�) and when Ilsa and Rick discuss in the {{Flashback}} what they were doing 10 years beforehand--Ilsa was getting her braces, Rick was looking for a job.* MeaningfulName: "Victor" means "Winner". See Messianic Archetype just below.* MessianicArchetype: Victor Laszlo, the one man who will single-handedly save the resistance.* MookLieutenant: Captain Heinz, who is Strasser's Aide.* MusicForCourage: The French national anthem scene "La Marseillaise" is played as a beautiful answer to "Die Wacht am Rhein". A Nazi at the back in the shot where Maj. Strasser is conducting accidentally sings a bar of the Marseillaise, then looks embarrassed. Part of the reason that scene is so powerful is that many of the extras were actually European refugees. That woman you see crying during the song? She was French, hearing her country's anthem for the first time in years - not the character, the ''actress.''* MyDeathIsJustTheBeginning: Laszlo tries to use this to scare the Nazis, but Strasser doesn't buy it.* NeutralNoLonger: Rick in the finale, which Strasser had suspected might happen. Also Renault, which [[WildCard he didn't.]]* NiceHat: Ferrari's [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal fez]].** Rick is wearing Bogie's iconic Fedora during the final scenes.* NoodleIncident: The reason Rick [[PersonaNonGrata can't return to America]] is never disclosed in the film. The Neutrality Acts of the 1930s were in play and the writers apparently attempted to come up with the exact reason numerous times, but eventually decided to leave it to our imaginations, and [[LampshadeHanging hung a lampshade]] on it by having Renault bring up various theories (see DeadpanSnarker above) of either stealing money, seducing a Senator's wife, or killing a man. By the end of the movie, [[IronicEcho Rick does all three]]: cheats on his bet with Louis about Victor's escape, rekindles the love affair with Ilsa (even as she leaves with Victor), and shoots Major Strasser.* NotSoAboveItAll: Rick tells Ilsa that he'd rather see the world burn, but the glibness subsides when he meets Lazlow in person.* NotableOriginalMusic: The catchy little call-and-response ditty "Knock on Wood" was the only song written expressly for the film.* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: Several, but perhaps most noticeably Claude Rains as a Frenchman.* OldFlame: Ilsa and and Rick.* OopsIForgotIWasMarried: Ilsa in the {{Backstory}} doesn't so much forget she is married as think her husband is dead.* PersonaNonGrata: Rick is an unwilling ex-pat from the United States, and just about everybody there is also displaced from their homeland for one reason or another providing several examples of TheExile and YouCantGoHomeAgain.* ThePlace: ''Casablanca'' is set in Casablanca.* ProperlyParanoid: Karl, after the slightest contact with the "vultures everywhere" pickpocket, checks himself thoroughly for his valuables.* PunchClockHero: Rick tries to paint himself this way when discussing his previous anti-fascist activities, but Renault punctures this by pointing out the other side would have paid better.* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Ilsa gives Rick one when she�s in his office and refuses to give her the letter, calling him out on his choice to screw over the Resistance just for being snubbed. She quickly apologises, though.%% * ReliableTraitor: Capt. Renault. He openly admits that he "blow[s] with the wind", collaborating with the Germans because they (along with Vichy) are in charge. He clearly loathes Strasser, setting up his HeelFaceTurn.* LaResistance: Lazlo is a key player in European Resistance movements. By the end of the film, it's implied that Rick and Louis Renault join the French Resistance. * RomanticFalseLead: An unusual twist: Either Victor ''or Rick'' could be considered a False Lead once you know the {{Backstory}}. In the DVD commentary, Creator/RogerEbert points out that no matter with whom Ilsa leaves at the end, she's leaving with the wrong man. Creator/IngridBergman claims that she consciously attempted to avoid this trope by presenting Ilsa as having to decide between two men she genuinely loves, each in his own way. In addition, the outcome wasn't written in the script while they were filming it and UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode wouldn't have allowed the showing of a movie in which she left her husband for another man in that fashion.* RousseauWasRight: See SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism.* RunningGag: ** Ferrari swatting flies in his rathole club.** Vultures. Vultures everywhere.* ScarpiaUltimatum: The scene with a young Bulgarian couple trying to buy passage to Lisbon from Captain Renault. He wants either a very large sum of money or sex with the wife. In the end, Rick helps them raise the money cheating to let them win at roulette. In contrast to most examples of this trope, Captain Renault apparently always does keep his word and is willing to take the money if they do happen to have it. It's what lets him keep the 'Affable' in AffablyEvil.-->'''Renault:''' I'll forgive you this time. But I'll be in tomorrow night with a breathtaking blonde, and it will make me very happy if she loses.* ScrewTheWarWerePartying:** Until Victor's arrival, the majority of Rick's clients.** If you presume that Rick is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the United States, it applies to him too. He tries to stay out of the conflict of the plot, despite his personal history with Ilsa, and run his business. Now consider that the film takes place in the first week of December, 1941.* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When Rick and Ilsa start talking, Sam immediately packs up the piano and slips away. In fact he flees the scene like the club has caught fire.* {{Sequel}}: After a fashion; it's the novel ''As Time Goes By'', by Michael Walsh. It picks up exactly where the movie left off, [[spoiler:sends Rick & co. off on a mission for British Intelligence]], and delves more deeply into Rick's backstory. A clear-cut case of FirstInstallmentWins.* SignatureLine: Almost everyone knows the classic line, "Play it again, Sam." ...[[BeamMeUpScotty except the line never appears]]. It's simply "Play it, Sam." With the "again" later on. Hence the title of Creator/WoodyAllen's film ''Film/PlayItAgainSam'', which has Allen's neurotic Jew being given advice on how to pick up ladies from the ghost of Bogart. HilarityEnsues.* SillyRabbitIdealismIsForKids: Rick starts out nursing this view. It doesn't last, though.* SkunkStripe: Laszlo sports a small one.* SlasherSmile: Conrad Veidt ([[http://forbiddenplanet.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/Conrad%20Veidt,%20from%20The%20Man%20Who%20Laughs.jpg whose face was the original model for]] ComicBook/TheJoker) has still got it.* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Pretty much the point of the movie. "I suspect that under that cynical shell you are at heart a sentimentalist." Of course, Louis is right when he says that of Rick. And because RousseauWasRight, it turns out to be true of everyone, even the local crime lord and corrupt, lecherous Louis himself. Except [[ThoseWackyNazis Strasser]], of course.* SpiritualAntithesis: ''Film/TheThirdMan'' uses similar characters and story elements to invert that sentiment right back into cynicism.* StealthInsult: A beautiful one by Renault: "Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today."* StoodUp: Rick at the train station at the end of the flashback.* TakeThat: When Colonel Heinz asks Rick if he could imagine Nazis being in London, Rick replies, "When you get there, ask me." At this time, both in universe and real life, Germany had already abandoned any plans to invade Britain. * ThoseWackyNazis: Not insane or out-and-out evil like modern views, but not good, obviously.* ThresholdGuardians: Rick, who has the [[MacGuffin letters of transit]] that Victor and Ilsa need to leave Casablanca. Rick is perhaps one of the few ThresholdGuardians in fiction to be TheProtagonist.* TitleDrop: Here of the (unproduced) play it was adapted from. Captain Renault's "Everybody comes to Rick's". The word "Casablanca" is spoken many times, too. {{Justified|Trope}}, being the city in which the story is set.* TrainStationGoodbye: ** The film that made this scene famous. Ironically, no one is there to say goodbye to Rick - just a note.** The movie then ends on an Airport Goodbye, the other famous scene.* TravelMontage: Right at the beginning, where it is used to show the refugee trail from Paris to Casablanca. It even starts with a shot of the globe and then zooms in.* TriangRelations: Number seven, initially.* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: The band contest. There was an actual BarBrawl in a neutral Balkan establishment between a visiting American adventurer and some German visitors over whether German or Allied themed music would be played. It caused a political incident, but was well known enough for President Roosevelt(who thought the whole thing rather funny) to hear of it.* WarRefugees: Most of the characters.* WeaponsUnderstudies: Major Strasser arrives in Casablanca in a Fokker Super Universal instead of a Junkers Ju 52, which was the preferred transport aircraft of the ''Luftwaffe'' but obviously only available in Germany during the war.* WhatTheHellHero: One of the other refugees has a very pointed reaction to Rick's callousness over letting Ugarte get dragged away.-->'''Refugee:''' When they come for me, I hope you'll be more of a help.\\'''Rick:''' [[ShutUpKirk I stick my neck out for nobody.]]* WhatYouAreInTheDark: When it comes time to make a stand, Louis effectively condemns himself to death to do the right thing.* WildCard: Renault agrees to do whatever will help maintain his cushy position. He leaks word of Laszlo's escape to Strasser, but once the Major is shot dead, Renault figures that his law enforcement career is up in smoke, too -- and there's no point to turning Rick in.* WomanScorned: Rick is a male example, refusing to give Ilsa and Victor the letter out of a grudge he holds for Ilsa for leaving him. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech She calls him out on it]].* WretchedHive: The city of Casablanca itself.-->"This place is full of vultures, vultures everywhere."* XanatosSpeedChess: Possibly Ferrari, behind the scenes. We know he wants Rick's Cafe and all of the talent Rick has running it. So, when Ilsa and Victor approach him, he offers: "I am moved to make one more suggestion; why, I do not know, because it cannot possibly profit me, but, have you heard about Signor Ugarte and the letters of transit...?" In the end, [[spoiler: he gains Rick's Cafe and most of the talent running it]], so it ''did'' profit him. He also has little to gain from the Nazis closely watching the black market.----->''"Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."''----


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The Rev. Terry Traylor was said to have the physique of Superman and the heart of God.
With those gifts, Traylor lifted up everyone around him, from southern Texas to his church in Montgomery County.
That was the way family members and friends remembered Traylor at the Keswick Theatre in Glenside on Monday, four days after the church leader died from a massive heart attack.
Traylor, 64, was the senior pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church in Glenside and a leader in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA).
"Terry's ministry touched the lives of hundreds, maybe thousands, of people," Todd Traylor said of his older brother as he spoke to hundreds of mourners in the theater, about 1,000 feet from the church where the pastor preached. "I think we're all shocked by Terry's sudden departure."

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Notre Dame, McBride meet Arizona State today
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Notre Dame's women's basketball team will look to continue its dominating ways when it takes on Arizona State at 6:30 p.m. in a second-round game today.
The top-seeded Irish, winners in all 33 of their games this season, will be hard-pressed to top their 93-42 first-round rout of Robert Morris Saturday.
Villa Maria graduate and ACC player of the year Kayla McBride ranks second on the team with 17.2 points per game, behind Jewell Loyd, who averages 18.4 ppg. The Irish average 86.8 points per game as a team.
Arizona State (23-9), a ninth seed, advanced to the round of 32 with a 69-61 win over eighth-seeded Vanderbilt Saturday. The winner will face the Oklahoma State-Purdue winner in the Sweet 16.


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BREAKING: No TV Blackouts for Bucs in 2013
Fans of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers may have endured a rough patch losing eight of the last nine games dating back to last season, but they won't have to suffer through another season of local television blackouts.
In fact, the Bucs won't have a blackout at all in 2013. The organization announced Thursday afternoon that all remaining games will be broadcast on local TV.
?In appreciation for the loyal support of our fans throughout the Tampa Bay area, we have committed to televise the remaining seven home games of the 2013 season,? said Buccaneers Co-Chairman Bryan Glazer in a statement on the team website.
Last season the Bucs adopted the league's new 85-percent ticket threshold, meaning games would no longer require a sellout to be broadcast on local television. The team was still unable to broadcast all home games due to lack of sales.
The Bucs did reach the 85-percent requirement for the home opener against the New Orleans Saints two weeks ago, a game that drew a fair amount of attendance from Saints fans, but for games that don't meet the sales requirement, the Bucs will be purchasing those tickets.
This news comes just a day after the Bucs announced that starting quarterback Josh Freeman would be benched in favor of rookie Mike Glennon, who will make his first NFL start Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals.
?I?m thrilled for our fans, that our fans will get to see us every week, at home, whether they?re there in person [or not]. That?s what we?re trying to do is create that home field advantage. We?ve got to win ? I?m not na?ve to that," said head coach Greg Schiano in his Thursday afternoon press conference.
"[If] we win, that'll come back. But it?s a tremendous commitment from the organization to our fans and to the Tampa Bay area.?


text: Hey Ben, I don't know if you are still watching this thread, but you never answered gagan98971759664's question, which I have also. How did you control current flow by hooking up TWO UPS's to a SINGLE battery??? IOW, during charging, current from one UPS would try to flow directly to the OTHER UPS, wouldn't it? Did you use some kind of rectifier? Thanks man, -GDog


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If the public were polled on a simple question - Would you like to have your taxes reduced? - the vast majority of people, I believe, would say yes.
Since our elected officials are supposed to do what the public wants, why would they then not reduce spending so we could reduce taxes?
I believe the answer is in our process itself. Officials get elected by promising the people they represent different things that normally require spending money, or they may say they are for reducing spending but rarely say how, as it would offend some voters they need to get elected.
To help find what our citizens really want, and to help our elected officials know specifically what to do, and holding them to the task that our people really want, why don't we poll our people if they want to reduce spending? If they say they do want to cut spending, why don't we ask about the various types of spending the government does and ask the public to choose which areas of spending should be cut?
Phillip Nussbaum


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Classical Concert Series 2016:
July 9: "The Booze Traveler"
Emceed by local TV personality, Eric Gardner.
The Dahl Arts Center, 7 PM,
July 16: "Madness equals Genius-Vincent
Van Gogh and the music of his time"
Rapid City Performing Arts Center, 7 PM; New Venue!!!
July 22 (Friday): "Vivaldi Four Seasons"
Featuring Tamas Kocsis, concertmaster of the Ulster Orchestra in Belfast: Rapid City's favorite Hungarian Irishman.
The Dahl Arts Center, July 22, 7 PM; CHANGE: FRIDAY
The Chamber Music Festival of the Black Hills is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, donations to which are tax deductible.
For your convenience, we now have online donations.


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On 6/1/07, Benjamin Lewis <ben lewis benl co uk> wrote:
I kind of like this as an idea! My only concern is that people will use this to do ftp installs off the mirrors - which is a bad as yum really.
Anyone who is going to prefer an ftp install from a public mirror already has the ability to pull the modest sized boot.iso or the rescuecd and go to town. The smart monkeys, like me, will make sure they have a local mirror to pull from (nfs installs rock!). All this does is make it easier for people who do not have a dvd writer to do something useful with as minimum of effort as necessary without resorting to attempting a live upgrade via yum. With additional options in the grub entry vnc can be enabled and this could even be a viable upgrade/re-install path for people with headless or remote installs... the people who currently reach for yum when they shouldn't. -jef"Never ever does a network install/upgrade from a mirror across the public network due to concerns over network reliability for the length of the install time"spaleta


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Watch this Issue: October
Take a look inside the October issue with the editors
Take a look inside the October issue with the editors
Scenes from the 1981 Captain Powder Comics (Volume 10, Issue 1)
Andy Mahre discusses changes at K2, including why he and Seth Morrison are no longer on the team
"Monumental: Skiing Our National Parks," POWDER's 142-page hardcover photo book, is on sale now
Founder of Sun Valley's Big Wood Skis lived larger than life
A POWDER Magazine Original, presented by REI
This week on the "Sponsored" podcast, host Mike Powell interviews Wayne Wong
The October 2016 issue is on newsstands now. Pick it up or subscribe now for stories celebrating the future of skiing.
The joy and solitude of night skiing in the upper midwest
Inaugural event brings music, gear, and ski films to Utah
The former World Champ is on the ropes with his old ski sponsor