Sacrifice In Casablanca

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There, people will try to work hard or get money to pay their way to acquire exit visas to make their way out. The film Casablanca directed by Michael Curtiz portrays the theme of love and sacrifice.
In the 1940s there was the second world war so all the people in Europe were trying any means to get to America because that was the haven during that decade. The police in Casablanca were corrupt and that the refugees had to always bribe them so that they will be able to get their visas so that they can depart Casablanca to America. At that time u had to wealthy or know someone to be able to get out of Casablanca and make it to the Americas to have a better life. This act of bribery and corruption plays an important …show more content…

Laszlo is a known to be opposer to the Germans, so the Germans were looking for him. Lisa knows Rick can find them a way to get out of the country. The film started with the owner of a famous night club, Rick Blaine, receiving two important visa letters. These letters are so important because these letters are coming straight from above so one will go straight to America without any issue with the people that will check it. When a Czech underground leader, Victor Lazlo, came in town with Rick’s old love flame the plot gets thick. Now Rick Blaine has to make a decision whether not to help Lazlo escape the Germans and get back together with his long-time love Lisa or to help Lazlo run to the Americas to assist in a revolution against the Nazi’s. This clearly shows how the problems of war and love become very complex in the film. Casablanca is a great piece of movie history because not only did it do a great deal to show how people were affected by the war, but also because …show more content…

One night, Laszlo, thinking that Rick has the transit pass, spoke with him privately about getting them. They're disturbed when a group of Nazi officers, led by Major Strasser, commandeer Sam's piano and began to sing "Die Wacht am Rhein" (The Watch on the Rhine), a German patriotic song. Brave and controversial, Laszlo orders the club band to play "La Marseillaise" in respect of Occupied France. The one in charge of the band looks to Rick for instruction on whether to do what laslo told him; rick instructed him to go ahead and play it. Laszlo starts singing, alone at the beginning, then long-suppressed patriotic fervor touched the crowd, and they all joins in, drowning out the Germans. In retaliation, Strasser orders Renault to shut down the club because he felt humiliated. Later that night, Ilsa met Rick in an abandoned cafe. He didn’t want to release her the documents, even when she pulled out a gun on him to frighten him to give her the transit pass with a gun.

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