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Re: HI Patti (Reply to this comment)
by AliventiAsylum,  in Movies
Thank you Paul, glad to see you are back in form.
I had never seen this movie before I rented it. Don't know why. It was just somethign I missed through the years. I am so glad I've seen it now though.
Patti
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Nov 23 '06
2:49 am PST
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Re: Re: good job!!! (Reply to this comment)
by AliventiAsylum, in Movies
I would think so, although after the War they might have felt a bit intimidated as our Western culture virtually bull-dozed the landscape for so long.
But this is a pivotal film, an important film, and should be given it's due.
Patti
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Nov 23 '06
2:48 am PST
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Re: good job!!! (Reply to this comment)
by AliventiAsylum, in Movies
Like I said to Stephen, when I viewed this it was like a missing link of a puzzle - it just made a lot of themes which I've seen copied over the years really come together. I've never had a movie do that for me before.
Patti
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Nov 23 '06
2:47 am PST
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Re: hey there Patti... (Reply to this comment)
by AliventiAsylum, in Movies
Isn't it so? I now understand Bugs Bunny more completely ;-)
Patti
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Nov 23 '06
2:46 am PST
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Re: If (Reply to this comment)
by AliventiAsylum, in Movies
It might have. I just know when I saw this for the first time a short while ago, it struck me that it was a huge film - so many great films (as well as spoofs, cartoons, and more) can trace their origins and inspiration to this one.
Thanks for the comment!
Patti
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Nov 23 '06
2:46 am PST
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HI Patti (Reply to this comment)
by colonialpara
I watched this film this past Staurday night on TCM after NOT having seen it in years. Then, I find your review and realized that the review really captured the quintessential aspects of the movie to the Nth degree.
Well done, I doubt I'll see a more concise or better review of one of Huston's and Bogey's best efforts!
Cheers,
Paul
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Nov 20 '06
2:58 pm PST
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Re: good job!!! (Reply to this comment)
by macresarf1
Superb film.
Superb review.
The invention of various camera lenses, and the restrictions on electricity, a new infusion of refugee European talent to that already in Hollywood, may all have added to the coming of Film Noir, around 1941.
Not enough of us have seen some of those early French films to judge their proximity to Noir. The French themselves certainly seemed to think Hollywood had invented the genre when they saw the Hollywood pictures of the 1940's after the War. They would have known, and said so, had they thought different. Would you not think so?
Regards.
Alex
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Nov 16 '06
6:35 pm PST
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good job!!! (Reply to this comment)
by ChrisJarmick
You may have over-stated that film noir began here--but you've done a good job reviewing a great film and encouraging more people to see it.
It was the third time Maltese Falcon was filmed by the way.
1931 Maltese Falcon with Ricardo Cortez, Bebe Daniels, Una Merkel directed by Roy Del Ruth. Very good film by the way
and it was remade in 1936 as Satan met a Lady A so-so movie with Bette Davis and Warren William.
German Expressionism was a huge influence on the genre.
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Nov 16 '06
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hey there Patti... (Reply to this comment)
by sleeper54, in Movies
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Wow.
You capture the tone of the film very aptly.
you said...
"If you’ve never seen The Maltese Falcon, I guarantee you have seen take-offs of this character (Joel Cairo) in movies, television, and cartoons."
Exactly. That 'character' is a fixture in American film and TV.
Very nicely done.
...tom...
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Nov 15 '06
2:46 pm PST
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If (Reply to this comment)
by Stephen_Murray, in Movies
film noir began with "The Maltese Falcon" (as many say), I'm certain that it would have emerged anyway. "Citizen Kane" from the same year is quite noirish, and in many ways "M" from ten years earlier is, not to mention late-1930s French films. For that matter, Hammett's novel had already been filmed.
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Nov 15 '06
9:19 am PST
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