There is a difference between being lucky and being good.People often mistake "Casablanca" as one of the greatest films of all time
because director Michael Curtiz stumbled upon an ending he didn't have
when he began the film.
Humphrey Bogart plays Rick, the owner of Casablanca's most popular
café; a guy who "sticks his neck out for nobody." Rick looks
like a wizened old prune, yet he seems to bed the cute French chickies
faster than a mattress company. What exactly does Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) see
in old Rick? He expresses affection with a smirk, has all the emotional range of a lobotomized
jackrabbit and seems to kiss like an inflatable
doll.
The funniest thing about "Casablanca" is the premise that the
letters of transit that Rick holds would actually get Ilsa and her
underground leader husband, Victor (Paul Henreid) out of Morocco. Those
Nazis may not be squeamish when it comes to killing Jews, but try to get
them to rip up a couple of letters of transit at the border and apparently they develop
ethics.
Certainly, "Casablanca" has some of the most memorable lines in
film history, but again, here is where greatness needs to be distinguished
from luck. The lines, like everything else, were changed at the last
minute. Unearthed for the first time, here are the original lines as they
were meant to be spoken.
LINE:
"I stick my neck out for nobody."
ORIG:
"I'm apolitical with a capital A."
LINE:
"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the
world...she walks into mine."
ORIG:
(Bogart belches like a Rhino).
LINE:
"Here's looking at you, kid."
ORIG:
"Honey, you put the 'lust' in 'luster.'"
LINE:
"I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."
ORIG:
"You know, Renault? For a fat guy, you got a nice booty."