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Great movie. With some great lines that I also missed the other times I've seen it.
Rick: I stick my neck out for nobody.
Renault: A wise foreign policy.
I have a couple of concerns and it would be interesting to see what everyone else thinks.
Why did Ilsa have to go on the plane with Laslo? I know they were sacrificing their love for the greater cause but was it really necessary? To me, she obviously loved Rick more, she could have stayed behind and Laslo still could have gone to Lisbon to continue his work without her. Do you think censorship had a minor hand in this ending? In the DVD booklet it mentions "The Production Code" and it stipulates "The sanctity of the institution of marriage and the home shall be upheld.", also, "impure love must not be presented as attractive and beautiful". A married woman choosing to stay with her lover and not her husband would be in conflict with these statements.
The other concern is Claude Rains character 'Captain Renault'. Is it me or does anyone else think that some of Renault's comments makes his sexuality appear more ambiguous? Sure, he utters a few compliments for ladies, but what about these lines:
Renault: Mademoiselle, he's the kind of man, if I were a woman and I weren't around, I should be in love with Rick.
Renault: She was asking about you earlier, Rick, in a way that made me extremely jealous.
So do you think the writers may have been trying to imply something more about Renault's sexual orientation given the censorship of the day?
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