Casablanca

I. Identify and describe the following:
Refugee Trail:
Casablanca:
Lisbon, Spain:
Exit visa:
Letters of Transit:
Black Market:
Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart):
Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman):
Victor Laslow (Paul Henreid):
Captain Louie Renault (Claude Rains):
Sam (Dooley Wilson):
Major Strousa (Conrad Veidt):
Seņor Ugarti (Peter Lorre):
Ferrari (Sydney Greenstreet):

  II. What happened between Rick and Ilsa in Paris? Why?
III. While Rick appears hard and cynical, what evidence is there that shows he is a sentimentalist?

IV.Conflicts
What conflict(s) does Rick face?
What conflict(s) does Ilsa face?
How are these conflicts resolved?
V. Take notes and/or explain the significance behind the following CLASSIC LINES and SCENES from Casablanca:
"I stick my neck out for nobody..."
"Play it, Sam ..."
After hours scene in the cafe:
"...of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world she walks into mine..."
"Here's looking at you, kid."
The symbolic "battle" in the cafe between the Nazis and the French:
Ilsa's meeting upstairs with Rick
The final parting
"We'll always have Paris."
"...the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in ths crazy world."
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
Some great quotes and links at Say it Again, Sam
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