Movie Analysis: The Maltese Falcon

C) I found this in paragraph 16, sentence 9,which states, " My father has lots of money" to me this quote means that he is telling bill and Sam that his father has lots of money, so that his dad has lots of money that he would pay them to bring the boy back home. E) To conclude my answer , my dog went missing and the people who took her wanted money, so we paid him to get my fur baby back. but we didn't have a lot of money so we gave him what we could.

The hardboiled-detective genre shares almost the same characters and crime setting. This type of genre typically has a protagonist, whom seems to always be the detective himself. Despite dealing with the legal system and daily crime, it isn’t uncommon for them to get wrapped up in a romantic and sexual relationship with the commonly seen, femme fatale. The detectives in the film Maltese Falcon and Chinatown have similar attitudes, they fall in love with the femme fatale, and end up being a hero in some way.

African Americans have been oppressed in America for a number of years, that’s not a surprise to anyone. But people don’t really understand what such oppression really is and what it looks like, and anyone who isn’t African American couldn’t no matter how hard they try, because they don’t experience it. The closest that anyone outside of the group can get is a snapshot, a quick look from a couple of two hour movies here and there, allowing them to see the a hidden world through the eyes of someone who lives it, a glimpse at oppression and how these people deal with such a world different from the life around them.

In 1982, the film Blade Runner amazed audiences and elevated the status quo of visual aesthetics in film. Even decades later, the movie’s impact on the majority of modern cinema is clearly visible. Blade Runner used classic lighting reminiscent of noir films from the 1940s with an addition feel of style and freshness which made it unique in the often predictable dystopian film genre. Blade Runner set a new standard of excellence for all dystopian movies to come by creating bold color palettes and paying such painstakingly close attention to detail.

As a film noir, The Maltese Falcon displays characteristics of a time that commanded a type of film that captured the essence of obscurity. It’s a film that is vivid with failed romance and cynicism between two main characters, who are ideas of American masculinity and femininity, yet, the film suggests that each is the others downfall.

Americans pride themselves with their war efforts during World War II. Americans pride ourselves so much on their ability to keep fighting, even though we were faced with many obstacles that countless Hollywood directors have been led to make movies about the era and American perseverance. Steven Spielberg was no exception. Saving Private Ryan, directed by Spielberg in 1998, is a two hour and forty five minute film about a group of eight soldiers during World War II who trek deep into German territory in France to find Private James Ryan, whose three brothers have been killed in combat, in order to tell him that he is being sent home. Throughout the movie, the viewer is exposed to the many gruesome scenes between two enemies, America and Germany,

Degenerate (adj.): having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable. The terms impurity, contamination, and virus come to mind. Social discipline of “degenerate” citizens include the denial of basic human rights, libelous propaganda perpetuating negative stereotypes, and becoming pariahs in their communities.

While the first film projection took place in Iraq in 1909, it was not really seen the film a cultural activity or hobby until the 1920s. The role of the first film, such as the famous film Zora in Baghdad's bustling Rasheed street, I played mostly silent movies of American citizens to the British.

The camera descends from a picture-perfect blue sky to a bed of red roses before a white picket fence, opening with the lush colors of America. A fire engine rolls down an idyllic suburban street as the firemen wave in slow-motion, a crossing guard directs schoolchildren, and a man waters his front lawn, all to the tune of chirping birds and Bobby Vinton’s romantic “Blue Velvet” song. This could be the opening sequence to a convincing infomercial inviting American families to suburbia, until something bizarre occurs. We close in on the man’s hose mysteriously gargling and tangling, and we witness him collapse from a brutal stroke. The camera then penetrates the slick grass and reveals the teeming and voracious insects chewing away at a saturated version of small-town America.

A Beautiful Mind (Grazer, Howard, & Howard, 2001) is a film about the life of John Nash Jr. John Nash was a mathematician studying at Princeton University on a Carnegie Scholarship in 1947. The film portrays Nash’s academic journey, career, and personal life. As an adult, John Nash was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is classified as an emotional or behavioral low-incidence disorder disorder (Smith & Tyler, 2010, p. 234). According to Smith and Tyler, about 1% of the general population is diagnosed with schizophrenia by 18 years old (2010). According to Mental Health America, “someone with schizophrenia may have difficulty distinguishing between what is real and what is imaginary; may be unresponsive or withdrawn; and may have

Romero (the movie) is a biopic movie released in 1989 American biopic which depicts the life and death of the Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero, who led peaceful protests against a violent military regime and made sure the people knew the truth, even though this ended up costing him his life. He is portrayed in the movie by Raul Julia.

A film that I think relates to this class is “A Beautiful Mind.” This movie follows John Nash who goes to graduate school at Princeton University on a prestigious math scholarship. Nash later goes on to work for the government and help with cracking encrypted enemy communications. Throughout this process he becomes hooked on finding the patterns and it begins infringing on his life and becomes worried he is being followed. Matters become worse when he witnesses a shooting between Soviet military and John Nash’s supervisor and he becomes even more paranoid. When John Nash was giving a lecture, he feels as if he is being pursued by foreign agents and needs to escape. The people he was running from was really Dr. Rosen and this caused him to fight

I believe the film version went above and beyond in its adaptation of the novel ‘The Maltese Falcon’. Both versions maintained similar word choice and overall atmosphere, though the two differed in how they provided the plot information and how scenes transitioned. The novel was well polished, but the film was able to narrow in on the unspoken qualities of the story pertaining to the characters’ reactions and the underlying emotion that had been limited in the novel. Two advantages the novel had were its length, which allowed for more developed characters and backstories, and its ability to use chapters, which broke the plot into more digestible portions. However, I feel the film overall possessed more advantages and ultimately provided a better portrayal of the story of the Maltese Falcon. The film adaptation used a mixture of written word, added emphasis, and audio to establish a more intense and engaging experience. Because of this visual and audio advantage the film adaptation maintained, deeper comprehension was possible without risking completely changing the feel and style of the story.

The following list is a great start for those who want to read the classic hard-boiled stories that have defined what is meant by a hard boiled fiction. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett. The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M Cain. It caused a scandal with its explosive mix of violence and sex. The torrid story of Frank Chambers, the amoral drifter, Cora, the sullen and brooding wife, and Nick Papadakis, the amiable but inconvenient husband, has become a classic of its kind, and established Cain as a major novelist with a spare and vital prose style and a bleak vision of America. Cain’s another work Double Identity. Here, Walter Huff is an insurance investigator like any other until the day he meets the beautiful and dangerous Phyllis Nirdlinger and falls under her spell. Together they plot to kill her husband and split the insurance.

Several years ago, “Inglourious Basterds” marked my first Quentin Tarantino movie. I knew little about Tarantino, other than that he was beloved by cinephiles and had a penchant for dialogue and violence. So it seemed like a WWII movie from such a director would be spectacular. I was disappointed, as I also was with the other Tarantino film I’ve seen, “Pulp Fiction.” I simply wasn’t expecting the conversation heavy, relatively action-free idiosyncratic movie that is “Inglourious Basterds” But as my film knowledge has increased, I’ve found myself wanting to rewatch this movie and give Tarantino some more chances. I’m glad I did because I was certainly wrong about this movie after I first saw it.