The Maltese Falcon is a film noir directed by John Huston. It released in 1941 in New York. This film is a dark film noir in the early 1940s in Hollywood. This film received three nominations at the 14th Academy Awards which is the Best Picture, Sydney Greenstreet for Best Supporting Actor and John Huston for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Film noir is a type of American films that 'invaded' French cinemas after World War II. The term film noir is about the "dark film" also "black film", the first film that applied to Hollywood films by French critic Nino Frank in 1946. Film noir also features a world of criminals of darkness and violence with characters' central motives are usually greed, lust and ambition, drenched in fear, there don't have a perfect people in this world. In film noir, the audiences can see a lot of shadows in the film, which is caused by the dark. The lighting is usually used the high-contrast lighting, also knows ad the low key lighting, the scene usually lit for night. About the setting, the characters always appeared in the alleyways, cramped corridors and others of the specific places, and these setting in city-bound, comprising of the rain-washed road and dimly-lit interiors. The theme for this movement is cynical, pessimism and dark. It corrupted characters, fatalistic themes, hopeless tones, blurred morals and intellect. About the character, it is the hard-boiled antihero versus femme fatale film that shows the tales of criminal motives.
About the story of this film is talking about a private detective, who named is Sam Spade, and his partner named Miles Archer. However, Sam not really like Miles. One day, a woman named Miss Wonderly appears in front of them, and everything has been change by that day. Miles has been killed. Miss Wonderly is surrounded by some dangerous men. And the story of the film starts, which shows the true side of mankind in this story.
The Maltese Falcon was used lots of the shadow that to present the meaning of the scene to audiences. They use the high contrast lighting to shoot to the character and create the shadow to show the feeling of the character, like depressed, dangerous and others. The main character in the film is a hard-boiled antihero, the personality of the main character should be very selfish or others of the negative personality, it can have a strong contrast with others main character that from the different type of film. Also, there have two different kinds of female character in film noir, it can show the contrast between each other. The femme fatale, which is the female that take some advantages from the man to achieve the goal or something that she wants, usually these kinds of character will get the punishment in the last of the film. Other than, the pure or good female character will always help, care or support others character. However, each of these characters is not pure of good.
In conclusion, The Maltese Falcon is a film that can have a representative about the real, which is our daily life. There are don't have the pure of a good person in this world, actually, the one who is going to help you will have some motivation, maybe he or she wants to be closer than you, or others of the reason. The only difference in motivation is good or bad.
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