You’ll lose all the women in your audience if Ilsa becomes a Muslim slave.
The original Casablanca was thrilling because Ilsa loved both men. She was going to get her heart broken — and her heart’s desire — no matter what.
Don’t throw any bones to the anti-American idiots. Let Victor have the longing to raise quarter horses in Wyoming on a ranch so gorgeous you burst into “America the Beautiful” just looking at it.
When our American Rick gives up Ilse, he gives the American dream to Victor — the ranch, the mountains, the beautiful wife. Heartbreaking. Yet isn’t that what our soldiers do, when they fight for us and die for us?





