The Maltese Falcon Book And Movie Differences
682 words3 pages solon bowden 2 9 08 paul k.
The maltese falcon book and movie differences. In bogart s movie rendition spade s enigma is never explained. The first version released in 1931 and stars ricardo cortez thelma todd and bebe daniels does a pretty good job of sticking to the source material. The stuff that dreams are made of. The biggest differences between the book and movie our favorite scenes from the movie.
After a cop asks spade as to what exactly the maltese falcon is he replies. He stays ambiguous to the end. By contrast in the book dashiell hammett makes a point of departing from the tight storyline by offering one key window into spade s psyche and motivation. In the novel she is portrayed as a young voluptuous beautiful woman.
The one major final difference between the book and movie lies in the film s famous last line. Sam spade finds out who miss wonderly really is and he is skeptical. Although she is somewhat beautiful in the movie she does not reach the standards that are set for her in the novel. The movie does not do miss o shaughnessey justice as the novel very well does.
Some of them are equal to the novel few are superior and most are inferior. 1 gutman was killed by wilmer and 2 the last quotable line of dialogue with a shakespearean reference was thought up by bogart on. Book vs movie the maltese falcon. When you have more than one screen adaptation of a novel usually one is more faithful to the novel than the other.
However in the case of the maltese falcon it has two pretty accurate adaptations. The book was written a good decade before that version of the movie was produced and in a much more casual time period. In the maltese falcon by dashiell hammett the murder of spade s partner miles archer is not depicted. Movie many time in our lives we have seen the transformation of novels into movies.
The maltese falcon comparison samuel spade of the maltese falcon novel by dashiell hammett is quite different from samuel spade of the maltese falcon motion picture. The maltese falcon trailer the stuff dreams are made of sam spade detective polhaus sam spade gets his confession from brigid o shaughnessy. Dashiell hammett s 1930 dark novel vs the 1941 bogart film noir classic.