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"Re-watch the Roulette scene, where the Bulgarian girl was prepared to do the same thing (only Rick wouldn't let her), and tell that scene isn't a deliberate foreshadowing of the entire movie plot…"
No, it isn't. The point of that scene is to make Rick realize that a woman can do a "bad thing" (basically, be a whore, by the standards of the time) and yet not be "bad". Rick won't listen to Ilsa because he's so contemptuous of her, convinced that she's a slut. "Did you go directly to Lazlo after me, or were there [beat] others?"
The roulette scene is to demonstrate that despite Rick's cold-hearted exterior (he let Ugarte be captured in his club) he was really a sentimental man. That was obvious from teh earlier conversation with renault about his history and fighting teh fascists in Spain.
His early conversation with Ilse came after he remembered his time in Paris and was bitter about her leaving him. Once he understood Ilsa was already married while he was with Ilsa in Paris, he understood her position. While he continued to pretend to be difficult (telling Lazlo he wouldn't give him the letters of transit) in reality he set up a plan that seemed reasonable to Renault so that lazlo and Ilsa could excape from Casablanca despite Strasser's intent to keep them there until lazlo can be returned to a concentration camp. It confirms that Rick is a sentimentalist as Renault suspected, and hence the ending scene as the plane safely leaves Casablanca.
British ethnic foods? The only problem is that grocery store thinking that is what British people eat. Ha! Real ethnic British food is Chicken Madras.
"Re-watch the Roulette scene, where the Bulgarian girl was prepared to do the same thing (only Rick wouldn't let her), and tell that scene isn't a deliberate foreshadowing of the entire movie plot…"
No, it isn't. The point of that scene is to make Rick realize that a woman can do a "bad thing" (basically, be a whore, by the standards of the time) and yet not be "bad". Rick won't listen to Ilsa because he's so contemptuous of her, convinced that she's a slut. "Did you go directly to Lazlo after me, or were there [beat] others?"
The roulette scene is to demonstrate that despite Rick's cold-hearted exterior (he let Ugarte be captured in his club) he was really a sentimental man. That was obvious from teh earlier conversation with renault about his history and fighting teh fascists in Spain.
His early conversation with Ilse came after he remembered his time in Paris and was bitter about her leaving him. Once he understood Ilsa was already married while he was with Ilsa in Paris, he understood her position. While he continued to pretend to be difficult (telling Lazlo he wouldn't give him the letters of transit) in reality he set up a plan that seemed reasonable to Renault so that lazlo and Ilsa could excape from Casablanca despite Strasser's intent to keep them there until lazlo can be returned to a concentration camp. It confirms that Rick is a sentimentalist as Renault suspected, and hence the ending scene as the plane safely leaves Casablanca.
I didn’t realize Tesla makes that much profit. If they want to help their stock price and rid the short sellers, they should pay a dividend.