SAM
Boss, let’s get out of here.
RICK
emphatically
No, sir. I’m waiting for a lady.
SAM
earnestly
Please, boss, let’s go. Ain’t nothing but trouble for you here.
RICK
She’s coming back. I know she’s coming back.
SAM
We’ll take the car and drive all night. We’ll get drunk. We’ll go fishing and stay away until she’s gone.
RICK
Shut up and go home, will you?
SAM
stubbornly
No, sir. I’m staying right here.
Sam sits down at the piano and starts to play softly, improvising.
RICK
They grab Ugarte and she walks in. Well, that’s the way it goes. One in, one out. Sam?
SAM
Yeah, boss?
RICK
Sam, if it’s December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?
SAM
Uh, my watch stopped.
RICK
I bet they’re asleep in New York. I’ll bet they’re asleep all over America.
Suddenly he pounds the table and buries his head in his arms. Then he raises his head, trying to regain control.
RICK
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine.
He holds his head in his hands.
RICK
What’s that you’re playing?
SAM
Just a little something of my own.
RICK
Well, stop it. You know what I want to hear.
SAM
No, I don’t.
RICK
You played it for her and you can play it for me.
SAM
Well, I don’t think I can remember it.
RICK
If she can stand it, I can. Play it!
SAM
Yes, boss.
Sam starts to play “As Time Goes By.”
Rick just stares ahead as orchestra MUSIC slowly joins Sam’s playing.
From Casablanca written by Julius J. Epstein, Phillip G. Epstein, and Howard Koch
I’ve kind of burned out a bit on song lyrics. So I’m going to move from love songs to quotes from great romantic movies. Until I’m burnt out on that too. A bit of screenplay out of context probably makes as little sense as song lyrics without the music.
If you’ve never seen the 1942 movie CASABLANCA starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman you are definitely missing out. One of the greatest movies ever written with one of the best screenplays every written. You better get on it!
But Thursdays are for flowers. This flowertography session was taken in my yard.
Next Thursday’s flowertography session will also take place in my yard.