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

Idont recall if Gutman said it in the movie about the Falcon being coated by decorate to obfuscate that its really made of gold and jewels. I say it was implied that nothing is what they really seem to be. This is what I believe Dashiell Hammett was trying to communicate by his novel, The Maltese Falcon. In this paper I will write about why I believe what is Hammett trying to convey through his cast of characters. These characters be unlike the image and stereotype cast upon their roles. Sam Spade isnt exactly the typical (stereotypical?) main character or rather a police detective character (I think for any main character.) By his looks/appearance, He Spade looked rather pleasantly like a blond satan (p. 3). Suggesting he is not seraphic looking like lets say Humphrey Bogard (an indication that the movie isnt true to the novel). The film ruined the ironic un-charming hero concept the novel have and so do I as one of my first example of the things-are-not-what-they-seemed-theor y-for-Hammetts message. Spade is callous, avaricious, and shares a similarity with Mike from The House of Games. Why I think Mike and Spade are similar? For one thing Brigid OShaughnessy gave Spade a talk/speech about him using her pretty overmuch the same thing hybridisation asked Mike in the airport. Brigids comment (p. 211-212) Youve been playing with me? Only pretending you cared-to trap me like this? You didnt-care at all? You didnt-dont-I-love-me? Fords You utilise me... speech is strikingly similar to Brigids including the reaction from Mike/Spade. The two men both refused to show sympathy and they did both had ride with their respective victims ...er women except 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 conned her into giving him money, win his tru st, and played with her feelings. The compare between Mike and Spade is to show that Spade is more of a con men than a detective which I hope are (usually) render 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 refer as Brigid because her outlast 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 fair sex whose loyalties shift at the drop of a dime.