Yes, great, Mark. You are right about the possibility of a quicky during that cut-away (something I did not have in view when I wrote of Tyler's "sleep with her" claim), and nice job on sleuthing out how we do not know how long the in-between time was. But with all that, I think it is pretty preposterous to think they made love then. Bes…
Yes, great, Mark. You are right about the possibility of a quicky during that cut-away (something I did not have in view when I wrote of Tyler's "sleep with her" claim), and nice job on sleuthing out how we do not know how long the in-between time was. But with all that, I think it is pretty preposterous to think they made love then. Besides being dressed to the nines, as you remark, it would be rather absurd, implausible, character-wise and situation-wise. Mind you, it is hard to believe that the things that Ilsa tells Rick after the cut-away, both (still? again?) dressed to nines, would have been deferred to after a quicky. What she said is the core explanation for the most important conduct in her entire history of her Paris affair with Rick; it is urgent. With Rick, after the kiss, making up, it is the very first thing she would want to explain to Rick, and that Rick would be keen to learn. I don't mind that the film allowed for the ambiguity about it, however.
Yes, great, Mark. You are right about the possibility of a quicky during that cut-away (something I did not have in view when I wrote of Tyler's "sleep with her" claim), and nice job on sleuthing out how we do not know how long the in-between time was. But with all that, I think it is pretty preposterous to think they made love then. Besides being dressed to the nines, as you remark, it would be rather absurd, implausible, character-wise and situation-wise. Mind you, it is hard to believe that the things that Ilsa tells Rick after the cut-away, both (still? again?) dressed to nines, would have been deferred to after a quicky. What she said is the core explanation for the most important conduct in her entire history of her Paris affair with Rick; it is urgent. With Rick, after the kiss, making up, it is the very first thing she would want to explain to Rick, and that Rick would be keen to learn. I don't mind that the film allowed for the ambiguity about it, however.