The Maltese Falcon (1941) Blog by Fanny

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon is a film that directed by John Huston on October 3, 1941 in New York City base on the novel "The Maltese Falcon" which written by Dashiell Hammett in 1930. This film is categorized as a famous film noir which is a type of American film that invaded and irrupted by French cinemas after the World War II. In addition, it was nominated for three Academy Awards and included in Library of Congress's National Film Registry in 1989. Below are my reviews towards this beautiful and awesome noir film.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Film noir is a term that coined by French critics in 1946 for a type of American films that 'invaded' French cinemas after World War II. Double Indemnity by Billy Wilder, The Woman in the Window by Fritz Lang as well as The Maltese Falcon by John Huston are the great film of film noir. It features a world of criminals, negative, darkness and violence with characters' central motives are usually greed, lush, fear and ambition. This type of film usually made up with lots of shadow that formed up dark, low key high-contrast lighting and usually is lit for night. For the setting, it is always set at city-bound, comprising of rain-washed roads, dimly-lit interiors and has locations such as alleyways, cramped corridors and others. The theme for this movement is cynical, pessimism and dark with corrupted characters, fatalistic themes, hopeless tones, blurred morals and intellect. It is the hard-boiled antihero versus femme fatale film that content tales of criminal motives.

This film is talking about a private detective, Sam Spade who acted by Humphrey Bogart takes on a case that requested by a femme fatale client who acted by Mary Astor that involves him with a gorgeous liar, three eccentric criminals and quest for a priceless statuette.

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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941) is typically categorized as film noir that used lots of shadows. They use high-contrast lighting which use the light straight away shoot to the character and form the shadow on behind to show the contrast and suggest the dangerous feelings. This film also hit the theme of film noir which is hard-boiled antihero versus femme fatale that shown how the detective deal with the cunning femme fatale client. It fulfill the fatalistic themes when the main murderer is the client who found the detective to find out the truth. It is a dark film that content many murder criminals which is also one of the theme of film noir.

In conclusion, The Maltese Falcon (1941) is a mind-blown film that need lots of concentrates to realize the truth and the meaning behind the story. It use very nice mise-en scene and lighting skill that really enhance the feelings of character to audience.This film worth the Academy Awards with their film making skill.

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