The Maltese Falcon Analysis

Film Noir was extremely trendy during the 1940’s. People were captivated by the way it expresses a mood of disillusionment and indistinctness between good and evil. Film Noir have key elements; crime, mystery, an anti-hero, femme fatale, and chiaroscuro lighting and camera angles. The Maltese Falcon is an example of film noir because of the usage of camera angles, lighting and ominous settings, as well as sinister characters as Samuel Spade, the anti-hero on a quest for meaning, who encounters the death of his partner but does not show any signs of remorse but instead for his greed for riches.

To sum up, Dashiell Hammett’s story “The Maltese Falcon”, clearly and successfully depicted the negativity of masculinity as problematic toward men through the conduct, the reputation and the manliness of the main character. The main character had many trouble and difficulties because of masculinity. Sam Spade might have avoided those problems and difficulty if he did not try to be so masculine. Although, socially a man is made to act masculine, the most important are the benefits and the consequences of acting that

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini was a touching book that revolved around loyalty within a friendship. The friendship between Hassan and Amir had some difficulties. A true friendship can be hard to find(,) but can be one of the most vital things to being truly happy. Both Hassan and Amir had proven their loyalty to each other by the end of The Kite Runner. Loyalty was a crucial part in Hassan and Amir’s friendship.

The American films The Godfather I and II directed by Francis Ford Coppola, included mise-en-scene to emphasize certain characteristics and themes during both films. In this essay I will discuss how mise-en-scene was used to portray the lives of the Mafia families in the 1940s and 50s.

     Many time in our lives, we have seen the transformation of novels into movies. Some of them are equal to the novel, few are superior, and most are inferior. Why is this? Why is it that a story that was surely to be one of the best written stories ever, could turn out to be Hollywood flops? One reason is that in many transformations, the main characters are changed, some the way they look, others the way they act. On top of this, scenes are cut out and plot is even changed. In this essay, I will discuss some of the changes made to the characters of the Maltese Falcon as they make their transformation to the ?big screen.?

Film Noir, a term coined by the French to describe a style of film characterized by dark themes, storylines, and visuals, has been influencing cinematic industries since the 1940’s. With roots in German expressionistic films and Italian postwar documentaries, film noir has made its way into American film as well, particularly identified in mob and crime pictures. However, such settings are not exclusive to American film noir. One noteworthy example is Billy Wilder’s film Sunset Boulevard, which follows the foreboding tale of Joe Gillis, the desperate-for-success protagonist, who finds himself in the fatal grips of the disillusioned femme fatale Norma Desmond. Not only does the storyline’s heavy subject matter and typical character

Two of the first film noir pieces, The Maltese Falcon and Citizen Kane, share many structural and stylistic similarities. Their biggest similarities are use of the plant and payoff technique, and sending characters on meaningless quests. The Maltese Falcon opens with a description of a golden falcon statue, given as a gift from the people of Malta for their independence, lost en route. After these opening statements, the film jumps to a detective, Sam Spade, tasked with finding someone by Brigid O’Shaunessy, ignoring the falcon completely.

Dashiell Hammett is well known for his writing of the Maltese Falcon, with his original fiction character Sam Spade. Many people would think all authors brainstorm their stories, but this case is different. Dashiell Hammett’s life experiences, mainly as a Pinkerton detective, have influenced his inspiration for writing fiction detective stories. His father, an alcoholic and a womanizer, worked as a watchman, a salesman, and many other short-end jobs. At age 14, Hammett dropped out of Baltimore's Polytechnic High School to help support his family because of their current situation. He took up odd jobs that were not well paying. They all needed help with the house and financial costs. He worked as a messenger for the B&O railroad, which was the first and oldest common carrier railroad in the United States. While on the job, he began to have a taste for gambling and alcohol. Later, he established a job as a clerk with the Pinkerton National Detective

The Maltese Falcon (John Huston 1941) based on Dashiell Hammett's novel of the same name is a classic film known for its genre. As a first time viewer of the genre, film noir, I was not sure what to expect but was startled by the surprises entwined throughout the entire film. The femme fatale lures Miles Archer to his death and brings nothing but trouble for Sam Spade. But with any film there will always be monotonous scenes, Spade perpetrated that he knew everything from knowing a lie to knowing when someone was carrying a weapon even with a thick coat covering it. I did not believe that someone could know that much and had a hard time buying his character because of this. The film is in linear structure beginning with Brigid O’Shaughnessy

In "The Maltese Falcon" - perhaps the best novel of Hammett - Sam Spade succumbing to the deceptive allure of the red-haired beauty Bridzhid O'Shaughnessy and took a seemingly mild case, but which can blacken his reputation. The first blow not late - his partner Miles Archer was killed while working on the investigation commissioned by Bridzhid. Spade cops accused of murder. The situation is complicated by the emergence of hardened crooks who pressed in an attempt to get to the notoriously expensive golden statuette depicting Maltese Falcon. Who owns it now? How far would come a man to get to her? Spade task is complicated by the motives of those involved, and the outcome could be icy ... uweuy7sf iioerjuh jhsdjhu fguuhduy aygyhayhgy ufhj on

In chapter three of The Maltese Falcon Mr. Spade arrived to his office and found Mrs. Iva there; Mrs. Iva was Mr. Miles wife but she was also having an affair with Spade. Spade was bother to know that Iva was in his office waiting on him; he told Effie “I asked you to keep her away.” He had no other option that to see Iva and speak with her since she was there already. Iva was crying to Spade about her husband death but also was to physical close to him “her arms were around him…[and] they had a kissed.” While Spade tried to calm her down she had questioned him about her husband death and accused him. When Iva left the office Spade and Effie had a conversation about the whole situation with Iva and Mr. Miles death. Effie had mentioned that

Between the two books, Farewell, My Lovely and The Maltese Falcon, we find many similarities from the purpose of the plot to the characters within. Both books are a fan of the hardboiled detective and are set within the state of California. The main characters of both books share many different traits that define them as hardboiled detectives. To be a hardboiled detective one must have the utmost attention to detail, be independent of personal ties, must live within the hustle and bustle of city life, and must be a strong man always willing to be physical if needed. Within both of these novels we see Spade and Marlowe match up with many of these characteristics, while also being developed under different circumstances to result in different personalities and stories. I believe that both Spade and Marlowe, in their own unique ways, embody what it means to be a hardboiled detective.

The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammet, revolves around the deceptions told by various characters. Samuel Spade is a detective who encounters multiple characters offering him money to find the Maltese Falcon. Throughout his search, most of the characters lie to Spade to get what they want. The Maltese Falcon’s plot develops through a sequences of deceptions told by specific characters to achieve their goals.

The Maltese Falcon is definitely one of the most critically acclaimed books from the Pulp Era. This book is full of both mystery and scandal, this book screams Pulp Era. In the book there are two men who work at a detective agency called Spade and Archer Detective Agency. The agency is named after Sam Spade and Miles Archer. A woman who goes by the name of Miss Wonderly, walks into the two men's office and is in search of her missing sister, by the time the night is finished with Miles Archer one of the detectives is killed along with another man. Spade takes a very strong interest in this woman and the men that she surrounds herself with. Spade develops a very strong need to constantly be in everything that she does. He even says that “she is a

Cairo’s queerness allows Hammett to both present what strengths and weaknesses a homosexual man may have in the capitalist world of The Maltese Falcon, as well as juxtapose the hypermasculinity of Spade and the homosexual femininity of Cairo. While Spade is seemingly swayed by O'Shaughnessy’s advances, he acknowledges that Cairo is "out of [O’Shaughnessy’s] reach.’ ‘And you aren't?’ ‘Not that way,’ he said and grinned.” (Ch. 9) Cairo, unlike all the other men in the book, is not interested in Brigid—or any female for that matter—the same way they are. Now, this could mean many things, but since Brigid is the femme fatale, this most likely refers to her submissive femininity that she uses throughout the novel as leverage against the male characters. Cairo himself is confident and cunning, but is described as less stoic than Spade. When Cairo threatens Spade, his eyes are described as “humid and bashful and very earnest,” while “Spade's voice was as empty of expression as his face.” (Ch. 5) In showing emotion, Cairo often loses control of situations as others use his emotions against him. He is very much a foil to Spade’s hyper-masculine traits, and most of his weaknesses come from being un-masculine. While Spade relies on his fists, Cairo must have a gun to get the upper hand; even then,