How does this film depend on the values and traditions of its genre?
2007-01-29 13:55:40 · 2 answers · asked by Ben J 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Movies
Rick is honorable in spite of running a gambling joint with fixed games. We know this for certain when we see that he worked with the French Resistance and hates Nazis. But there's the distraught woman who reclaims the money her doofus husband lost gambling, and he sends the love of his life safely to the states with her husband. The genre held that the protagonist, however rakish, had to have a code of honor to follow. See also "African Queen," "Strange Cargo" (really weird, great movie), and even "Gone With The Wind." Oh, and "We're No Angels."
2007-01-29 14:15:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Rick never would have split up Ilsa and Victor back in those days...there were production codes that wouldn't have allowed it.
So while the romantics like to think that Rick and Ilsa could have ended up together, back in those days it never would have made it to the screen.
2007-01-29 22:12:54 · answer #2 · answered by Sweet Jane 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋