User blog:Atidanx215079/PG Removal: Rick Blaine

Rick Blaine is the main protagonist of the 1943 film, Casablanca.

Who is He?
Rick was a illicit arms dealer for the underdog, running weapons to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side of the Spanish Civil War. Then he met a woman named Ilsa Lund and fell in love with her in Paris. But just as their love was blooming, Ilsa left him with the letter states she can never see him again on the day both were supposed to escape together from advancing German military. Profoundly embittered by her vanishing, Rick became a cynical businessman, being completely neutral about everything (ie: True Neutral alignment) and would stick his neck for no one, a vow he is not shy of demonstrating.

Then Ilsa Lund re-entered Rick's life with Viktor Laszlo, Ilsa's true husband and an elusive Czech resistance leader, who escaped from a concentration camp. When Ilsa and Rick were befriending each other, she believed her husband had been killed attempting to escape from a concentration camp. While preparing to flee with Rick from the oncoming German army, she learned Laszlo was alive and in hiding. She left Rick in a haste to nurse her sickly husband.

In overall, underneath his cynical and self-centered nature was still a good man and after reuniting with Ilsa and learning more about her (why she had to leave Rick in such a manner), regains his humanity and heroic side, sending away Ilsa and Viktor to safety, this time departing with her forever.

Why He Cannot be Qualified as PG

 * At the beginning of the movie Rick meets Ugarte, a criminal on the run sympathetic to Resistance's cause. Ugarte just murdered wo German couriers and took letters of transit, special passes that will let anyone fly around german-controlled Europe and to neutral Portugal. Rick agrees to hold onto the letters of transit for him while Ugarte hides from the Nazis. But Rick reneges on his promise, selling Ugarte out to Germans: Rick never really liked Ugarte in the first place and here he made it very clear that he is looking out for no one. Ugarte later loses his life after being arrested by the police after a skirmish.


 * He had also uses women for a good time and then coldly shuns them afterward, likely to fill the void in his heart left by Ilsa.


 * Rick is no qualms about exploiting and hanging around with Louis Renault, an openly corrupt official with whom he has sort of on and off business relationship.

Verdict
If he should keep his PG status, state reasons why. Otherwise it won't count.