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* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Of the novel, as well as two previous film adaptations. |
* [[Adaptation Displacement]]: Of the novel, as well as two previous film adaptations. |
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** The Bogart film is an exceptional adaptation. Virtually the sole difference between novel and movie is that the sex (hetero- and homosexual) is ''slightly'' more explicit in the book. |
** The Bogart film is an exceptional adaptation. Virtually the sole difference between novel and movie is that the sex (hetero- and homosexual) is ''slightly'' more explicit in the book. |
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* [[Award Snub]]: Its failure to win Best Picture for 1941 ''would'' be understandable, as it was up against no less a cinematic classic than ''[[ |
* [[Award Snub]]: Its failure to win Best Picture for 1941 ''would'' be understandable, as it was up against no less a cinematic classic than ''[[Citizen Kane]]''... Except that one [[How Green Was My Valley|didn't win]] either. |
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* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: The characters rave about what a beauty Mary Astor's character was. Judge for yourself. |
* [[Informed Attractiveness]]: The characters rave about what a beauty Mary Astor's character was. Judge for yourself. |
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* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|The Falcon is a fake.}} |
* [[It Was His Sled]]: {{spoiler|The Falcon is a fake.}} |
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* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Joel Cairo, whose effeminate actions were supposed to creep out a 1940s audience but these days it just labels him as an outsider. |
* [[Unintentionally Sympathetic]]: Joel Cairo, whose effeminate actions were supposed to creep out a 1940s audience but these days it just labels him as an outsider. |
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** The fact that the 1941 film is set during a time when homosexuals were being murdered by the Nazis, and Cairo is clearly a foreigner with an Eastern European accent, makes him even more sympathetic. |
** The fact that the 1941 film is set during a time when homosexuals were being murdered by the Nazis, and Cairo is clearly a foreigner with an Eastern European accent, makes him even more sympathetic. |
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* [[Vindicated by History]] |
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Latest revision as of 07:02, 9 April 2014
- Adaptation Displacement: Of the novel, as well as two previous film adaptations.
- The Bogart film is an exceptional adaptation. Virtually the sole difference between novel and movie is that the sex (hetero- and homosexual) is slightly more explicit in the book.
- Award Snub: Its failure to win Best Picture for 1941 would be understandable, as it was up against no less a cinematic classic than Citizen Kane... Except that one didn't win either.
- Informed Attractiveness: The characters rave about what a beauty Mary Astor's character was. Judge for yourself.
- It Was His Sled: The Falcon is a fake.
- Moment of Awesome: Spade's one upping of the villains. The guy always keeps his cool.
- Also, when Spade quickly and easily disarms the hotheaded gunman, Wilmer, taking his pistols. He later ridicules Wilmer about it, claiming that "A crippled newsie took them from him. I made him give them back."
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Joel Cairo, whose effeminate actions were supposed to creep out a 1940s audience but these days it just labels him as an outsider.
- The fact that the 1941 film is set during a time when homosexuals were being murdered by the Nazis, and Cairo is clearly a foreigner with an Eastern European accent, makes him even more sympathetic.
- Vindicated by History