I believe that every fan who has watched the movie "Casablanca" will remember this line. When Rick, the bar owner played by Humphrey Bogart, was wandering in a foreign country and met his old lover again, he was depressed and difficult to resolve. He drank his sorrows by drinking, accompanied by a song "As Time Goes By", Speak this sentence slowly. Under the black and white light and shadow, sitting alone at the bar looked so lonely and heartbreaking.
The old lover who made him dream about is Ilsa played by the legendary actress Ingrid Bergman. In this movie, Bergman's soft light close-ups, and his profile is as beautiful as a sculpture. Just as her first step into the bar began, she was like a shining star, attracting the attention of the audience.
Today, August 29 is the birth anniversary of this Hollywood and international film star, and it is also the anniversary of her death. Bergman was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1915, and died in London in 1982. He chose the same day in different years for his life and death.
In 2015, it was also the 100th anniversary of her birth. The official theme poster of the 68th Cannes Film Festival paid tribute to her. With a large poster with white as the main color, Bergman looked into the distance with a bright smile, white teeth and bright eyes, and a slightly curly short hair that still looks so beautiful to this day.
The film festival organizing committee praised Bergman in the communiqué as "the incarnation of a modern and free woman" and a "brave actor", both a Hollywood star and a representative of neorealism; she freely changed her identity between different roles, but she never lost it Passion, elegance and simplicity.
And the "Casablanca" starring him, this American love movie of 1942, is known as one of the most successful classic movies in the history of world cinema. The film won three Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1944. The roles, plots, and themes in the film have become a kind of cross-age cultural symbol. In 2007, the Screenwriters Association of America announced the list of the "101 Greatest Screenplays" in film history, and it won the championship.
The famous director Woody Allen has written and starred in a movie called "Play It Again, Sam", whose Chinese translation is "Stupid Goose" or "North African Phantom". The name comes from the use of a line in the movie "Casablanca". The movie tells the funny experience of a big fan who dreams of becoming Humphrey Bogart, and even the finale of the movie completely repeats the scenes of "Casablanca".
Just to mention, these two Chinese translations are more appropriate than the latter, "North African Phantom". Because the movie "Casablanca" is also translated as "Bourgge of North Africa", a slight comparison of the two names reveals the connection between the two movies and the meaning of tribute.
The background of the movie "Casablanca" is that France had fallen into German hands during World War II in 1941. In the war-torn Europe, many people hope to flee to the relatively stable United States. This made the Moroccan city of Casablanca, which was still part of France, an important transit point to the United States.
Therefore, at that time, Casablanca gathered people from all over the world, and the situation was mixed and changeable. And in the most popular local Rick Bar, when the sun goes down, people of all kinds drink, gamble, socialize, or even trade on the black market, just like a peaceful republic.
The owner, Rick, has always been a mysterious person with all kinds of strange and unknown rules and secrets. No one knows how he can keep people from all over the world drinking together in his shop without making trouble. It's like the Dragon Inn in Chinese martial arts novels. No matter the world is chaotic outside, I have to follow my rules here, and it has a lot of rivers and lakes.
The whole story revolves around two passes that can pass. All kinds of people, Nazi officers, anti-Nazi leaders, police soldiers, aristocratic civilians, and even hooligans are fighting for this. Because the pass issued by the government at that time was the only proof to go to the United States, all the people waiting in Casablanca tried to get a pass through various means-either stealing or robbing, or bribing high-ranking officials or black market transactions.
One day, the anti-Nazi leader Vic Dolaszlo and his beautiful wife Ilsa came to Rick’s bar, hoping to find a way to get a pass and leave Casablanca. At the same time, German Major Strass, wholeheartedly prevented them from leaving.
When Rick saw Ilsa, he found that she was the old lover he missed day and night. In front of everyone, two people knew each other but couldn't recognize each other. After a long time of repetition, there were countless things to say but they didn't know where to start. The two people could only socialize and laugh in the crowd, struggling inside.
It turns out that Rick and Ilsa were a pair of lovers when they were in Paris. Only when the German army entered Paris, the two agreed to leave together, but Rick waited for Ilsa at the train station, and finally had to leave Paris alone and came to Casablanca. Her disappearance changed him from a passionate anti-fascist fighter to a ruthless businessman.
But for Ilsa, the time she met and fell in love with him was after she learned that her husband had been killed in a concentration camp. But when they agreed to leave Paris together, she learned that her husband was spared, and she had to return to her husband to take care of him. Although she has always loved Rick, war, marriage, and husband made her have to choose to leave Rick.
Therefore, she said: This is a crazy world, and anything can happen. No matter where we are, we must know that we love each other.
When the old lover reappeared, but brought her young husband to pray for the two passes in Rick's hand, Rick struggled in his heart. In addition to the unforgettable old relationship, he finally decided to arrange for the couple to leave Casablanca together. At the airport, in order to make their plane take off smoothly, Rick shot and killed Major Strass who was on the phone. He watched the beloved woman and her husband leave
. It is so tangled and moving, and it is also so small and insignificant by the huge sense of justice.
For Rick, he waited hard for the lover of his life to finally arrive, but had to send him away, even at the risk of losing her life; for Ilsa, whether she chose to stay or leave, it was A kind of betrayal, under the dilemma of choice, she was at a loss.
For Ilsa's husband Vic, the aura of justice made him a fighter and a leader. Maybe he thinks more about war, country, and justice. So in the bar, he would stand up without hesitation and lead everyone to sing the "Marseillaise" to overwhelm the German chorus. How can you worry about love even if you don't care about life and death.
Love matters can always make people look forward to and envy. It may be exhilarating to get it, but the true love may be a measure of choice at a really critical juncture. Ilsa gave up Rick for the first time; in the end, Rick gave up Ilsa again. It seems that the two owe nothing to each other, but although the circumstances are different, the essence is the same.
Because the choices made by the two in different time and space are all out of tolerance and sacrifice, only in this way can we use this superb deed to echo the only love in our hearts. Maybe no one will ever know the reason for this, but why not? As the theme song "As Time Goes By" sings, everything will pass away at any time, and the only thing left is that permanent memory.
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