Casablanca back Here's looking at you, kid.

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FADE IN
EXT. OLD MOORISH SECTION OF THE CITY - DAY
INT. POLICE STATION - DAY
EXT. A STREET IN THE OLD MOORISH SECTION - DAY
EXT. PALAIS DE JUSTICE - DAY
EXT. SIDEWALK CAFE - DAY
EXT. OVERHEAD SHOT - DAY
EXT. PALAIS DE JUSTICE - DAY
EXT. AIRFIELD - DAY
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - GAMBLING ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - OFFICE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - GAMBLING ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
MONTAGE - PARIS IN THE SPRING
INT. RICK'S PARIS APARTMENT - DAY
INT. PARIS CAFE - NIGHT
INT. ILSA'S PARIS APARTMENT - DAY
MONTAGE - NEWSREEL FOOTAGE OF THE GERMAN OCCUPATION OF FRANCE
EXT. PARIS CAFE - DAY
INT. LA BELLE AURORE - AFTERNOON
INT. GARE DE LYON - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RENAULT'S OFFICE - MORNING
INT. PREFACTURE LOBBY - MORNING
INT. RENAULT'S OFFICE - MORNING
EXT. BLACK MARKET - DAY
EXT. THE BLUE PARROT - DAY
INT. THE BLUE PARROT- DAY
EXT. THE BLUE PARROT - DAY
EXT. BLACK MARKET - DAY
INT. THE BLUE PARROT - DAY
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - GAMBLING ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - OFFICE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - BALCONY - NIGHT
INT. HOTEL HALLWAY - NIGHT
INT. HOTEL ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - APARTMENT - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - APARTMENT - LATER
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. EXT. RICK'S CAFE - APARTMENT - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - BALCONY/MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - APARTMENT - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RENAULT'S OFFICE - MORNING
INT. THE BLUE PARROT - DAY
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
EXT. RICK'S CAFE - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - OFFICE - NIMGHT
INT. RICK'S CAFE - MAIN ROOM - NIGHT
INT. GERMAN CONSULATE - NIGHT
EXT. AIRPORT - NIGHT
INT./EXT. AIRPORT HANGAR - NIGHT
EXT. ROAD - NIGHT
INT./EXT. AIRPORT HANGAR - NIGHT
scene
See the globe with voiceover about the refugees streaming across Europe.
Various scenes of street-level confusion as a man tries to flee the police, is shot.
A man tells a foreign couple what's happening, then picks their pockets.

We first see Jan and Annina.
People look up at the plane, wish they could be on board.
Louis meets Major Strasser at the airport.
Our first view of Rick's.
We get our first view of the interior of Rick's and the desperate people there.
We meet Rick. Ugarte gives him the letters of transit.
We meet Ferrari and Yvonne.
Rick sends Yvonne home, talks with Louis.
Louis warns Rick about the arrest.
Louis tells Rick that Strasser is coming. Also tells him about Laszlo coming.
Strasser arrives.
Ugarte's arrest. Rick won't help him. Rick meets Strasser.

Laszlo and Ilsa arrive. Louis meets Laszlo. Strasser meets Laszlo.

Laszlo goes off, sees Berger.

Ilsa sees Sam.

Rick and Ilsa meet.
Ilsa and Laszlo leave Rick's.
Rick is drunk and alone with Sam in the bar.
Paris flashback, Rick and Ilsa in love.
The Germans are coming to Paris.
Rick makes plans with Ilsa to leave Paris, not knowing that she won't be coming.
Rick gets on the train having learned that Ilsa won't be coming.
Ilsa comes into the bar. Has a hard confrontation with Rick.
Strasser visits Louis.
Victor and Ilsa arrive as Jan and Annina are told they can't be helped.
Laszlo and Ilsa arrive. Strasser threatens them.
We learn something of Ferrari.
Ferrari sends Jan and Annina on their way. Rick comes in, talks with Ferrari.
Laszlo arrives, see Rick coming out.
Rick and Ilsa talk. Ilsa tells Rick she's married to Laszlo.
Ferrari tells Laszlo he can't help them escape, but he could help Ilsa. Ilsa won't leave without Victor.

Ferrari tells them that Rick has the letters of transit.
Another night at Rick's. Rick is downcast. Yvonne has another boyfriend. There's stress between Germans and French.

Annina comes and asks Rick if Louis can be trusted.

Victor and Ilsa arrive.
Rick finds a way to give money to Jan and Annina.
Rumor spreads among the staff of Rick's good deed.
Victor asks to buy the letters of transit from Rick. Rick refuses and hints at his affair with Ilsa.
Germans sing a German song. Laszlo has the band play the Marseillaise.

Strasser orders Rick's be shut down. Louis does so because there's gambling.

Strasser threatens Laszlo.
Victor and Ilsa talk. Victor leaves for a resistance meeting.
Rick and Carl do bookkeeping.
Ilsa comes to Rick in his apartment. She threatens to shoot him for the letters of transit. He refuses. They kiss. Fade to black.
Ilsa explains what happened in Paris to Rick.
Victor arrives.
Rick sends Carl to take Ilsa home.
Rick and Laszlo talk. Laszlo is inspiring (it's what he does). Laszlo is arrested.
Rick sees Louis, arranges to get Laszlo released in exchange for an offer to entrap him with the letters of transit. Rick will use them to leave Casablanca with Ilsa.
Rick sells Rick's to Ferrari.
Louis arrives to arrest Laszlo.
Victor and Ilsa arrive. Ilsa thinks she's staying with Rick.
Rick gives the letters to Laszlo. Louis tries to arrest Laszlo. Rick pulls a gun on him.

Louis manages to warn Strasser that something is going on.
Rick, Louis, Victor, and Ilsa arrive at the airport. Rick tells Ilsa he's sending her off. Their big beautiful farewell.
Strasser is on his way!
Victor comes back in. Rick sends him off in the plane with Ilsa. Victor is decent and inspiring. It's what he does.

After they are off, Strasser arrives. Rick shoots him. Louis covers for Rick.

Rick and Louis walk off into the sunset.
Rick's character arc
Introduction to Rick. He's hard-bitten, doesn't care for anyone.
Rick treats Yvonne as disposable, something to be used and cast aside.
Rick's line: "I stick my neck out for nobody." It's a sign of his self-absorption and how little he cares for anyone.
Rick repeats his line: "I stick my neck out for nobody."

Rick isn't impressed by Strasser. But not openly defiant either, in the way that Laszlo is.
Rick's dark night of the soul.
We see Rick as he was before he was broken: happy and heroic.
The moment when Rick is shattered.
Rick is an utter jerk to Ilsa. Calls her a whore.
Rick finds out that the worst thing that ever happened to him had nothing to do with him. Ilsa didn't leave him because of anything Rick did: she left him because Laszlo was alive. Rick is only a supporting character in his own story. It shatters him.
Rick tries to find his way in this new world where he is a side character. He is inspired by Annina's devotion to Jan.
Rick does something for someone else.
Rick tacitly agrees to the Marseillaise, thus taking a stand. But it's a small and secretive stand. Still, it has costs: the cafe is closed down.
Rick and Ilsa!!!
Somewhere in here Rick makes his decision and plan. But we the audience don't know it yet.
Rick appears to be a scheming scumbag, selling out Victor so he can get Ilsa.
Things get weird: Rick pulls a gun on Louis, but isn't he still going to just steal Ilsa from Laszlo?
Rick makes his choice.
Rick really makes his choice.
Joe sequences
Setup and introduction of the world starts big and gradually narrows in. We go from the World to Casablanca to Rick's to Rick himself. At some point we meet Louis and Strasser.
Meeting Rick and Ilsa.
Rick's drunken dark night of the soul, interrupted by the Paris flashback.
The Paris flashback.
Back to the dark night of the soul.
Complications ensue. Laszlo tries to find a way out of Casablanca, fails. Finds out that Rick controls the only way out.
Rick has to find a new path. He starts down that new path - a step into decency.
The pivot: Rick reconciles with Ilsa, makes his decision.
Rick sets his scheme in motion.
Rick finally chooses.
Joe structure markers
Act one: introductions.
Inciting incident: Rick gets the letters of transit.
Act two: Rick responds to Ilsa's presence selfishly.
The midpoint.
Act three: Rick comes to a decision.
Act Four: the resolution.
Yvonne
We meet Yvonne.
Yvonne is drunk and available and carries a torch for Rick. To him she's disposable.
Side characters
Man fleeing police.
Pickpocket dude and his victims.

Jan and Annina are introduced.
Lots of desperate people in the crowd. Man who says "I'll never get out of here. I'll die in Casablanca." Woman trying to sell her jewelry. Men paying smugglers to get out of Casablanca.
The man who ran the second largest banking house in Amsterdam.
Things look hopeless for Jan and Annina.
The pressure mounts of Jan and Annina.
Pickpocket dude collides with Carl.

Yvonne with a German soldier.
Yvonne's character arc terminates.
Nutshell Comedy
Set-up want

Rick just wants to be alone.
Point of No Return plus Catch

Rick is alone - but now he wants to be with Ilsa.
Crisis

Opposite of set-up want.

Rick says, "It seems that as long as I have those letters I'll never be lonely."
Climactic Choice

By pulling a gun on Louis, Rick is moving away from his self-centeredness.
Final Step

When Rick sends Ilsa on the plane, it's his final move away from his flaw. He has now become selfless: "It doesn't take much to see that the problems of three little people don't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy world."
Hero's Journey
The ordinary world.

Establishment of the hero's status quo.

The Departure begins.
The call to adventure.

The hero is called on to do something.
Refusal of the call.

The hero doesn't want adventure.

Meeting the Mentor.

The Hero needs help from someone. Laszlo is the mentor.
Crossing the First Threshold.

The Hero goes on the adventure.

Start the Adventure.
Tests, Allies, Enemies.

The Hero faces challenges, meets allies.
Approach to the Inmost Cave.

The Hero gets closer to his goal.
The Road of Trials
Ordeal.

The Hero faces his biggest test of all.
Reward.

The Hero sees the light at the end of the tunnel.
The Road Back.

The challenge to get back is harder than it seems.

Resurrection.

The Hero meets the final test.

The Return.

The Hero returns with the prize.
Save the Cat Beats
Opening Image (p1) - the entire globe, establishes stakes. We're fighting for the world here, with the lives of all the refugees.

That also sets the theme: this is important!
Begin Set-Up (p1).
B Story (p30). Maybe Jan and Annina?
End Set-Up (p10)
Catalyst (p12)
Maybe B story - Laszlo's fate is B story.
Break into Two (p25)

Dark Night of the Soul (p75-85)
Fun and Games (p30-55). All the stuff, seeing the rest of Casablanca, seeing the love story, is fun and games.
Midpoint (p55)
Bad Guys Close In (p55-75). Things get complicated and the confrontation with the Nazis heats up.
Break into Three (85)
All is Lost (p75).

Morally, at leat.
Finale (p85-110)
Final Image (p110). Rick and Louis walk off into the sunset.
3-act structure
Inciting incident
Plot Point 1: Commence Act Two
Midpoint
Plot Point 2: Commence Act Three
Climax