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The Maltese Falcon (1941)
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"What's the AFI Project, you ask? For more information, or if you just enjoy my bemused ramblings, read here: http://www.spout.com/blogs/pip pin06/archive/2008/3/1/25756.a spx The Maltese Falcon is on the following AFI lists: The Original Top 100 (#23)100 Most Heart-Pounding Movies (#26)100 Movie Quotes (#14 - Sam Spade: "The stuff that dreams are made of.")The Revised Top 100 (#31)10 Top 10's (#6 Mystery) I borrowed The Maltese Falcon again from my parents' ever-burgeoning film collection, which is beginning to rival my own in terms of quantity and eclecticism, though I had seen this film before. Back in my college days, when I tried watching the entire AFI Original list (never made it, obviously), the University of Michigan had several summer movie series that they screened all over campus. One movie series featured some classic and foreign films, including this one. I think I saw it first in the conservatory or some such building on the Diag. Truth be told, I only vaguely re ... "
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"The mystery list is another one that seems poorly conceived. Unlike animation, “mystery” may be a genre, but the way it is defined and applied in the AFI list leads to a muddled selection of films.The AFI defines mystery as “a genre that revolves around the solution of a crime”. I'm not convinced that that adequately describes the films on the list, or, even if it does, it is absurdly reductive. Most ironically, the definition seems least appropriate when applied to the list's top selection, Vertigo (1958), which does not actually revolve around the solution of a crime at all, but a domestic mystery, and is really about Scottie's (Jimmy Stewart) inner-demons and obsessions in any event. Similar questions can be raised about other movies on this Top 10. For example, the second film on the list, Chinatown (1974), certainly starts with a mysterious murder, but part of the point of the film is that some “crimes” aren't illegal at all, and may even be facilitated by laws. The plot of T ... "
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"Released: October 18, 1941Director: John Huston*****Perhaps the best known example of the film noir genre, The Maltese Falcon stars Humphrey Bograt as PI Sam Spade, hired by a woman to find her sister and a less-than-scrupulous man to find an object of immense wealth. Of course, they both have their own agendas in coming to San Francisco and to Spade. He can't help but get involved when his partner is murdered, explaining near the end why a man has to see this kind of thing to the end.If there is one thing the film-and perhaps the novel source material-does wrong is confine the main characters to one room for an extended period at the end of the film. Up until that point, Spade, his femme fatale Brigid O'Shaughnessey, the adversary The Fat Man and his cronies are in a kinetic race to find the falcon. This one gets shot, that one spies on the others, dead bodies turn up. To take full advantage of the film medium these people need to do something other than sit around and wait f ... "
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"The dialogue in this movie is so terrific. Especially that line. Sam Spade is a badass officially. He is so clever. I also thought that this movie was kind of funny in parts and I kinda laughed at it. The black bird itself is symbolic of an unattainable materialistic dream. "
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