Here’s looking at you, kid.

Here’s looking at you, kid.

Rick Blaine says gently to Ilsa Lund at the end of Casablanca. It’s one of the most tender, heartbreaking, and quoted lines from the classic film—and according to Den of Geek, “legend has it that this is something Bogart used to say to Bergman as he taught her to play poker in between takes on set. It was never in the original script at all.” Keep reading … (via utnereader)

Interesting piece on Utne on “breaking script” - both in movies and in real life. The better takeaway from that piece is actually from clinical hypnotist (?) Kristine Madera:

Once you pay attention to the social scripts, they become so obvious that you wonder how you participated without yawning or bursting out laughing. The most common one, which most people have toyed around with, is the ubiquitous, “How are you?”

It’s such a script that it’s actually a joke, and yet—it still flusters people to answer anything but a version of “fine,” “doing good,” or “okay.” Declaring yourself to be fabulous, or verbally vomiting your aches and pains all over the questioner, throws the whole dance into disarray.

Once you identify how much of the daily back-and-forth is prefabricated like a cheap house, you can start to strip it away. I refuse to talk about what day of the week it is (“Ugh, Monday”, “Wednesday - almost the weekend”, “Happy Friday”) in the context of constantly mourning/celebrating the ebb and flow of the workweek.

Or perhaps this just makes me a jerk.

Source: utnereader