--- "Kerry J. Schooley" <
gsp.schoo@murderoutthere.com> wrote:
> Definitely a hard boiled egg, and heroically
so.
> So much so that we want to forget that list
of
> reasons he has for
> throwing Brigid over. The list is a repudiation
of
> all the human
> qualities required for romantic and Christian
love
> to flourish, but
> Spade relies on logic and represses his
romantic
> inclinations. He has
> no faith that love and passion can transcend
the
> problems of the
> world as he experiences them.
*************************************** I think you're
missing the whole point here. Spade was always playing
Brigid. He was never in love with her. He knew by the time he
put her and Joel together, that it was she who killed Miles
AND Thrusby. That whole speech at the end is said
sarcastically as Bogart does it. "I hope they don't hang you
by that pretty neck"
"I'll be waiting for you." He's kidding her and it dawns on
her, as Mary Astor shows, that it's she who's been played
this time. Bridgid is a sociopath, just as crazy as the rest
of them; maybe a little worse. And Sam Spade is under no
illusion. He knew she was lying when she first came into his
office but she overpaid him enough so it didn't matter.
Patrick King
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