{"id":347,"date":"2007-01-18T07:32:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-18T13:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2007\/01\/18\/bogart\/"},"modified":"2007-01-21T11:09:58","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T17:09:58","slug":"bogart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=347","title":{"rendered":"Bogart"},"content":{"rendered":"

Richard Schickel<\/a> notes the fiftieth anniversary of Humphrey Bogart’s death:<\/p>\n

[Director Raoul] Walsh observed the melancholy beneath his grousing bluster and cast him — in 1941, when Bogart was over 40 — in his first truly memorable role, Roy “Mad Dog” Earle in “High Sierra.” He played an escaped con “rushing toward his doom,” as another character describes him. Something almost soulful emerged in this performance.<\/p>\n

In “The Maltese Falcon” (released the same year), everyone thinks Bogart is a shady private eye. But he cautions people not to understand him too quickly. The man has a code, which he refuses to articulate until the very end. And why bother? It is sufficient that he knows what it is and acts out of its principles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As the years have gone on and I’ve learned more about Bogart, I’ve only gotten to like him more.<\/p>\n

The whole thing is worth a read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Richard Schickel notes the fiftieth anniversary of Humphrey Bogart’s death: [Director Raoul] Walsh observed the melancholy beneath his grousing bluster and cast him — in 1941, when Bogart was over 40 — in his first truly memorable role, Roy “Mad Dog” Earle in “High Sierra.” He played an escaped con “rushing toward his doom,” as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-n-e"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}