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Maltese Falcon John Huston
1,628 wordsThe 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 Spades 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 ...
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World War Ii D W Griffith
2,022 wordsIn the final years of the twentieth century, rare is the documentary that attracts mass audiences or attention. At a time when people get to declare their desire for entertainment in a multitude of media, the fate of the non-fiction film that attempts to tell a true story is not a happy one. But there are documentaries that succeed at the box office and even achieve status as popular fare, mostly either by appealing to a specialized audience of sufficient size, or taking a point of view that mas...
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World War Ii Humphrey Bogart
2,898 wordsFilm noir is one of the most beloved and popular 34; period 34; film genres of the late twentieth century, although at the time that the movies comprising the genre were made, the term film noir was unknown. Essentially, it mean 34; black film 34; a variation on the nineteenth-century French critical term roman noir, or 34; black novel 34; referring to any number of doom-laden, deeply psychological crime dramas of the 1940 s and 1950 s. At the time they were made, the movies were ...
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Avant Garde Alfred Hitchcock
4,284 wordsHistorians have traced homosexual imagery to the very start of American cinema, with the Thomas Edison film The Gay Brothers (1895), directed by William Dickson, in which two men dance together. Female impersonators and women playing male roles, both fixtures in late- 19 th-century vaudeville and theater, began appearing in split- and one-reel films of the 1900 s. Today this work can seem more overtly gay or lesbian than it did in its time, when the notion of homosexual desire was more strictly ...
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Humphrey Bogart Maltese Falcon
1,137 wordsThe mysterious legend of the Maltese Falcon unfolds as the opening scene reveals the origin of the jewel-encrusted black statue. Its history dates back ages, and it is said to have disappeared after a struggle at sea, with its whereabouts unknown. The black and white screen slowly provides a transition into the office, and intricate life of private eye Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart). As the dialogue starts fast and furiously, a story involving murder, greed and betrayal unfolds on screen. This movi...
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