Free Essays - Analysis of the Maltese Falcon :: Movie Film Essays

Idont recall if Gutman said it in the movie some the Falcon beingness coated by lacquer to obfuscate that its really make of gold and jewels. I think it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I accept Dashiell Hammett was onerous to communicate through his novel, The Maltese Falcon. In this write up I will write about why I believe what is Hammett trying to convey through his cast of credits. These characters be unlike the chassis and stereotype cast upon their roles. Sam Spade isnt exactly the ordinary (stereotypical?) main character or rather a detective character (I think for any main character.) By his looks/appearance, He Spade looked rather agreeably like a blond satan (p. 3). Suggesting he is not angelic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isnt received to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un- attracting hero concept the novel guard and so do I as wholeness of my first font of the things-are-not- what-they-seemed-theory-for-Hammetts message. Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with microphone from The House of Games. wherefore I think mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid OShaughnessy gave Spade a talk/ oral communication about him using her pretty much the same thing Ford asked Mike in the airport. Brigids com workforcet (p. 211-212) Youve been playing with me? Only pretending you cared-to tar me like this? You didnt-care at all? You didnt-dont-I-love-me? Fords You used me... speech is strikingly similar to Brigids including the reaction from Mike/Spade. The two manpower both refused to show sympathy and they did both had sex with their respective victims ...er women withdraw Mike ends up dead and Brigid ends up in jail. Ford and Mike and Spade and Brigid share many similarities from the two women being used and the men conning these women. We know what Mike did already and Spade used his devilish charm to get Brigid to solve the case. He c onned her into giving him money, win his trust, and played with her feelings. The parity between Mike and Spade is to show that Spade is more of a con men than a detective which I hope are (usually) depicted as law-abiding, straight-arrow, gentlemen. Spade is a proto-badass character. I think Hammett is trying to convey that heroes arent always good. Brigid OShaughnessy (whom I will mean as Brigid because her last name is long) is a complex character in which that she appears to be a typical damsel-in-distress but suppose to be a beautiful and treacherous woman whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.