>3. "Dreams are made on" Someone asked about this
quotation. I'll stick
>my neck out and say it must be Shax. (Prospero in The
Tempest maybe?)
Correct. From "...revels now are ended speech" in Iv,
i.
4. The observation that Spade's cigarette rolling comes as a
reaction to
Miles' death is a good one. Really grief-stricken, right? It
makes the
Widow Archer question seem less absurd, when she asks Spade
whether he
killed Miles. And Spade runs the line by his loyal secretary,
who has
learned how to roll his cigarettes too.
The film underscores Spade's coolness to Miles' death by
emphasizing the
change of names on the glass door, which prompts me to bring
up the
possible Nazi allusion again: When Archer is killed, the S
(&) A on the
door is replaced by SS. Do we have a funny play on Nazi
history,
specificially when the leadership of the SA was executed
(1934), whereupon
the SS became the elite group? I just toss that out without
drawing any
further conclusions.
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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