As it is, I prefer the Arvada Tavern, where the characters are more complex than you can imagine, and also much bigger fuckups. He is not an evil man, but he is slowly and elegantly corrupted by his own suspicions. Bogart doesn't trust the others because he doesn't trust himself. He can't imagine that the others would be any more moral than he is. It's an incredible portrayal, and Bogart has the balls to make himself ugly and disappear into the character.
Nothing happens naturally and none of the piss disguised as dialog pours easily from their mouths.
Throughout, the three men blurt out shit like confused homosexuals trying too hard to prove they're straight. They insist they love women, and yet they spend most of their time mentally jerking each other off with violent and vicious stories about hurting women. I swear to God, these guys are shallow stereotypes without any redeeming qualities. In fact, the stereotypes are so simple that Cohen must think the whole world is populated by men from the college fraternities that will accept anyone. We never once see him doing anything artistic because that would require Cohen to be able to understand art.