maltese falcon
Maltese Falcon By: The Portrayal of the Characters in the Maltese Falcon suffers from transition to the Huston film. Spade is portrayed to have much more power in the Huston film than in the book. He seems to have more control over Brigid and the whole on going situation. First we see this when we enter the apartment of Spade. In the book we have the feeling that Spade's apartment was small, "In his bedroom that was his living-room now the wall bed was up,"(Pg. 61), this tells us that Spade was living in a bachelor room. Spades room seemed to have an image of simplicity for example no pictures no designs etc. As one of the main images, I got the impression that his room was rented. As we see here, Spade was represented in a small rented room because it some ways it shows instability but this is balanced with the coldness and the plainness of the room, which shows strength. This in ways gives us a distrusting side of Spade because it seems he has a duo personality. While in the! movie, Spade room seemed warmer with drapes and lanterns. He had many expensive couches. It seemed bigger than what I expected and they represented his place as a permanent resistance because he had pictures of horses on the wall. Overall, Spade seemed to
ncerned or she seems to have a motive and she needs to know who is going to be there or maybe the person that would follow her has to know how she looks like. But in the movie, we loose this whole situation, because Miles offers to take care of it himself. We loose Brigid power and suspicion and concern so then this gives us no proceeding that Brigid has anything to do with her sly position. When we get the shot of the newspaper, in the movie, it zoom in on "Thursby's and Archers murders linked, Private Detective was shadowing Thursby" This in a way eliminates suspicion off Brigid. In the book, in Brigid room, Brigid makes a long speech on Pg. 35; this shows that she is very well prepared which shows a sense of motive. Also she was on her knees while saying this she was kneeling, so she was trying to portray herself as being innocent but we get another impression. In the movie, she does not say a long speech, so this takes away are suspicions of being prepared and she is sitti! Again this is a demonstration of power and how he has control over the whole situation. In the book, Brigid says to Spade, " Can I buy you with my body?"(Pg. 57). This shows that she is playing her game or that she just wants Spade to trust her and actually have feeling for her so she can use him to her advantage. While in the movie, Brigid did not have to say a thing because Spade just grabs her and kisses her. This shows his manly power and his control over Brigid. In conclusion, Spade in the movie seems to have all the power and control, especially on Brigid. This was done to hide any guilty feeling or the fact that Brigid killed Miles. Brigid is portrayed to be more innocent in the Huston film than in the book of The Maltese Falcon. Innocents is portrayed of having less power than Spade, also it eliminates suspicion toward Brigid character of any wrongdoing. In the book, from the beginning Brigid makes an entrance to spade's office. "She advanced slowly, with tentative ste! m Spade. In the book, when Brigid, Spade and Cairo were talking together for the first time Cairo tells Brigid "Yes, I went back to him" (Pg. 67) Then we know that he is dealing with something. While in the movie, he says "Fat Man" Cairo seemed surprised to hear that name and that he had nothing to do with him. But as I mentioned in the beginning of this paragraph we always see Cairo leaving Gutman (Fat Man's) apartment. This creates a suspici
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