The Maltese Falcon Film Analysis

The first time I noticed Jack’s idea of femininity and masculinity is when he describes the only three girls who are in the league. Jack is an umpire for the game, but instead of watching the players to make sure they were following the

The vision Christopher Nolan had for The Prestige (2006) was to add to the outbreak of street magician film, whilst playing a large dramatic subplot equal in grandeur to the magical performances within the film. In the final sequence of the film, I will analyse how the cinematography and sound resolves the plot so that it summarises the themes present in the film, whilst also invoking a response from the audience. Nolan predominantly uses close up shots, non-diegetic sound (music) and dialogue collaboratively to convey the dramatic, personal subplot of the characters and their relationships, whilst appealing to the audience bringing forth an emotional response from the audience. The heavy, slow, dramatic atmosphere of the ending sequence uses various techniques to summarise and uncover the underlying mysteries of the events throughout the film and consolidate themes introduced during the exposition.

By all accounts, this movie reflects and highlights this interplay that exists between film and American Culture. As the world was riddled with battles and darkness, the movies of this time period reflected this sinister reality. Death was a major reality during this time period in America and it was no less a reality in The Maltese Falcon. The audience watches as the main character, Sam Spade, becomes involved in a grand scheme surrounding a priceless statue. Same Spade and his partner Miles Archer, both private investigators, meet a seductive and secretive woman named Ruth Wonderly who claims she is looking for her missing sister who is mixed up with a man named Floyd Thursby. As the movie continues, Spade receives news that Archer was murdered and is later accosted by a man who demands that he locate an irreplaceable statue (the Maltese Falcon). The story unfolds as Spade finds himself entangled in a dark and dangerous web of crime in which his only option is to find the Maltese Falcon, which is one thing they all seem to want. A dark and realistic outlook and mise-en-scene is not the only thing that linked this movie to the respective time period however. Also reflective of the time period is film noir’s dark, sexual, and seductive portrayal of

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 Australian cinema in the 1960’s failed to communicate with the audience due to their lack of promotional messages that weren’t disseminated. Media is formed by cultural, political, economic and social conditions. These influenced or even directed its characteristics and its intended meaning. After a devastating blow to the film industry in the 1960’s, filmmakers of Australia had stopped creating and making quality Australian films. However, the Australian New Wave brought a revival of the Australian film industry during the 70's, 80's and 90’s. It introduced Australian qualities into film, including larrikinism, mateship and a classless social hierarchy. The Castle and Gallipoli confirm, promote and explore features of Australian identity

The 2016 film Lion, which was first a book called “A Long Way Home”, is a film where a boy named Saroo was separated from his brother in the train station, which leads to Saroo getting on a train taking him thousands of miles away from his family and his home. Saroo, who was only five-years-old when he got lost, had to learn to survive alone in Kolkata, West Bengal. Days after arriving to Kolkata, the city the train left him at, he got admitted into an orphanage, which later turned out to him getting adopted by an Australian couple. But twenty-five years later, he starts to wonder where his first home and family are at the moment. With only his memories, determination, and Google Earth he starts looking and searching where his small

     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.?

The film, the Untouchables, was directed by Brian De Palma. It was set in the prohibition era, which was right at the start of the 1920’s. Prohibition can be described as a law that made selling and manufacturing alcohol illegal. By putting this law into effect, it actually increased the amount of crime and violence throughout cities in the US. This was ultimately due to the rise in organized crime, also known as gangs. In the movie specifically, it was centered around the rise of the Mafia in Chicago. By looking at the production of the movie, we can see how during prohibition, the Mafia controls everything and the violence ultimately it leads to.

In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, masculinity is important in giving the plot impetus. The feminine characters in the play are trampled by a world in which machoism is rewarded, the story is furthered by Blanche and Mitch’s guilt revolving around masculinity, and manliness creates conflict through a Karpman Drama Triangle. Action in the play builds around the depicted masculine behavior.

The Maltese Falcon is partly a product of its time. Coming out of the free and wild 1920s into the conservative 1930s, Dashiell Hammett’s novel and its theme of sexuality can be viewed through multiple lenses—one can either see it as revolutionary for its time due to its exploration of gender, or harmful as it aids in cementing gender stereotypes for years to come. Regardless, sexuality plays a large role throughout the story. The reader already knows how Spade comes on top- through his hypermasculinity, he can dominate any situation by manipulating his actions to match the current situation. However, the novel also introduces characters who lack hypermasculine traits. Through queer-coded characters like

The film is about a group of 5 people fighting to find and keep the

Moreover, it is of upmost importance that the evolution of masculinity on stage be stringently dissected. Beginning with the forefathers of American Drama such as O’Neil and Miller and extending into current contemporary works, the idea of acceptable masculinity has both devolved and evolved into a cornucopia of veiled misogyny coupled with compassionate confusion towards itself, femininity, and society as a whole. Ultimately, this study will focus on the battling male identities in Shepard’s True West and his depiction of male/female dynamics in Fool for Love. Additionally, the rise to manhood in Mamet’s Sexual Perversity in Chicago as well as the theme of competition that is seemingly inherent in men in Glengarry Glen Ross. Furthermore, I will address the concept of violence as it relates to the male identity in McDonagh’s Pillowman as well as the different societal roles men and women play in everyday life in LaBute’s Fat Pig. Overall, this examination hopes to provide insight into the challenges these playwrights have faced in the scope of portraying

The business world is known for being stressful and the epitome of masculine characteristics and behavior. In David Mamet’s play Glengerry Glen Ross, relative absence of feminine characters highlights the idea that women are unwelcome in the workplace because they are seen as inferior. Therefore, men in the company fight to prove themselves because effeminate men are immensely looked down upon. The four salesmen in the play regard the business world as a “man’s place” and, therefore, believe they must prove their masculinity by winning the company’s competition. The company’s bosses, Mitch and Murray, decide this month that the salesman who sells the most will win a Cadillac, the second best salesman will win a pair of steak knives, and the bottom two men will be fired. In an attempt to win this competition, the men resort to manipulation and deceit due to the stress and high pressure placed on them. From this we see that these men, Aaranow, Moss, Roma, and Levene, are willing to gain success at the expense of someone else. Mamet’s lack of feminine characters and his use of dramatic, exaggerated language are used as tools to support the idea that these men believe the word “man” signifies more than just gender. Rather to them, this three letter word means having control over one’s own fate and fortune. They, therefore, believe to have a successful life, one must work hard even if it is unscrupulous and in this case illegal.

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder that is associated with reoccurring thoughts (obsessions) and uncontrollable thoughts that drives the patients to repeat something over and over again. The Aviator movie is trying to depict this disorder through the character Howard Hughes. The story captures the real-life experience of Hughes who was a successful filmmaker and aeronautic engineer in Hollywood between 1920s and 1940s. He was both rich, talented and notoriously eccentric. Hughes showed symptoms of OCD which were very severe and incapacitating at some points. His conditions deteriorated progressively from bad to worst throughout his lifetime, though in most parts of the film he is depicted as functioning relatively normally. This paper will focus on Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and how it has been depicted in The Aviator movie through the character Howard Hughes.