Sigmund Freud, pop psychologists, and even Mel Gibson have pondered: What do women want? This post explores a different but equally important question: What do men want?
Conventional wisdom holds that men want sex — and plenty of it. Also wealth. And fame. And power. And then more sex, please.
Of course, men want those things. But there is something else they want even more. Something less physical, less palpable, but prized all the more for its ethereal value. Every man wants to see reflected upon his beloved’s face a look of pure adoration. Men want to see what we may call the “Ilsa Face.”
This is the face that Ingrid Bergman, as Ilsa Lund, casts upon Paul Heinreid, as Victor Laszlo, in Casablanca.
To discover the Ilsa Face, one must turn to the 40-second “La Marseillaise” scene. Here is a link to it. Readers may wish to take the time to watch before we move on to explore what men want.
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