the backstory of Rick, for those of you who don't know the movie, is that he smuggled guns to and fought for the losing side in the Spanish civil war, and in Morocco was an enabler of those trying to get out of Europe to go to the USA. And at the end, he encourages his love to stay with her husband, and ends up joining a group that is fighting the Nazis.
Rick Blaine is a winner because he knows how to handle defeat. The Nazis overrun Paris? OK, fine. Au revoir, Paris! Off to Morocco. The woman he loves is married to another man? “Here’s looking at you, kid.”No complaining. Expect no pity in life. No one is obliged to acknowledge your personal suffering, and only a fool could ever expect “social justice” in this world full of corruption, cowardice, violence and cruelty.
This is how a man must look at life, if he is to have any hope of surviving hardship and misfortune, and yet this kind of heroic masculinity is now constantly mocked and maligned by our decadent intelligentsia.
who despite his cynicism always did the right thing.
All of which
Dustbury comments:
which might be why the Marvel universe exists....
Now I appreciate a interesting antihero as much as the next guy, but it’s the hero, the one who does the right thing because it’s the right thing, who’s going to save the world, or the part of it that’s worth saving anyway.
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related item: The rumors are that the Disney company is going to make Elsa of the movie Frozen as a lesbian.
Are they nuts? If I were a lesbian, I'd be upset: or am I the only one in the world who noticed that Elsa is not exactly a nice lady...
This is the selfish sister who froze her country and killed (or tried to) her loving sister, while singing a "self empowerment" song to justify her actions....
and this was after Disney manipulated the original story to make her evil actions more sympathetic:
Earlier manuscripts included more antagonistic actions by Elsa, such as intentionally cursing Arendelle with an eternal winter. ...Within two months, however, scripts were altered to give emphasis to her lack of control over her powers.[8] ...
Del Vecho added, "There are times when Elsa does villainous things but because you understand where it comes from, from this desire to defend herself, you can always relate to her."[10]
oh, so it's okay to cause a frost that probably resulted in the deaths of thousands of her people, and then try to kill her loving sister. In the film "you can relate to her". Sympathy for the devil, you know.
Sheesh. Where is Xena when we need her?
Now I appreciate a interesting antihero as much as the next guy, but it’s the hero, the one who does the right thing because it’s the right thing, who’s going to save the world, or the part of it that’s worth saving anyway.
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