Classic Beauty: Ingrid Bergman

Classic Beauty

What more can I say about Ingrid Bergman that hasn’t been said already?  Nothing, is what.  So just enjoy the view, but be aware there will be a quiz at the end.

Okay, here’s the quiz.

Imagine that you’re Rick Blaine, and Ingrid Bergman is looking at you like this:

Do you:

  1. shoot her Commie husband dead, get on the plane with her and go live in Portugal and make babies together;
  2. force her Commie husband onto the plane at gunpoint, then take her back to Rick’s Café and live out the war getting rich and making babies;
  3. choose some other scenario that I haven’t thought of, but still includes making babies with Ingrid Bergman;  or
  4. do anything else except what Rick actually did.

9 comments

  1. Whatever direction we headed after “that look,” whether back to the cafe or off to Portugal, it would definitely include making all the babies she wanted and defending her from the rest of the world.

  2. I won’t pretend to be objective in this, but I honestly can’t think of any circumstances where “shoot the commie” isn’t the right answer.

  3. I really thought the plan Louie and I came up with to have Lazio frighten Strasser into letting them go by having Lazio burst into German HQ with a replica Thompson gun would work!
    Honest!

  4. I too fell in love with Ingrid. But then I saw her portrayal of Israel PM Golda Meir. Yikes….

  5. Beautiful women inspire romantic fanatasies. That’s what the beauty is for. It’s so rare the fantasy leads to happiness. That’s what makes it a fantasy. As they say, show me a beautiful women …

  6. A quick, anonymous phone call to the police and then consolation sex, lots of consolation sex.

  7. Yes, you need to engineer it such that someone else ships him off / shoots him / whatever. You need deniability.

  8. First make sure to take Lazlo’s 100,000 francs. Tell Ilsa (in private) which bar you’ll meet her at in Lisbon (or London) in 6 months. Tell Louie he still owes you the 10,000 francs. Make the side trip to Brazzaville. Heart of Darkness stories add to the tale of your heroic work with the resistance. Given his track record Lazlo’s luck is bound to run out. Six months ought to be plenty of time.

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