Post by drystyx on May 1, 2017 17:02:21 GMT
What really makes Bogie so great is the diverse characters he has played. He's run the gamut probably more than any of the big name stars.
Safe to say he's the "antagonist" in all of these, in which he played bad guys with some humanity and sense of insecurity somewhere, as opposed to the "bubble boy" villain who is a demi god.: BLACK LEGION, TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE, THE CAINE MUTINY, DEAD END, PETRIFIED FOREST, HIGH SIERRA, just to name a few.
BLACK LEGION is one that I really like. There is a fallacy thinking today of ignorance in which many people think none of the golden era movies depicted such exposes of the Ku Klux Klan, but even then, it was the rule, not the exception, to put racism in its place. BLACK LEGION is a great example of Bogie playing a human antagonist with vulnerabilities and insecurities. Of course he played to a much more mature audience than we have today, one with some sense of reality and desire for credibility.
It was very hard for me to limit my picks to 8. Very hard.