Stereotypes In The Maltese Falcon

A mystery only few can solve, but are women really as dangerous as they say they are? It’s hard to say “no” to beautiful and mysterious women, but it’s even harder to trust them. Why would such a young, innocent woman be mistrustful? In the movie, “The Maltese Falcon”, the question is who killed who? Why would they kill and when did they do it? A man named Sam Spade is looking for who killed his partner, Miles Archer, and Floyd. Bridget Shaughrassey was helping Sam look for who did it. The police think it’s Sam who killed Miles and Floyd, so they question him. On the search for the who killed them, Spade comes to find the Maltese falcon. The fat man Kasper opens it up and comes to realize it is fake. We then learn that Bridget Shaughrassey is the murderer. The Maltese Falcon is a classic movie characterized as film noir. A film noir is “a style or genre of cinematographic film marked by a mood of pessimism, fatalism, and menace, a type of movie that is full of mysteries.” (Maltese Falcon) I think that film noir is a movie in what women try to seduce men into thinking things whether they are true or not, using their power of beauty to trick men and make them go down for something women did. I believe “The Maltese Falcon” is film noir, l the
They were trying to figure out who did and why did they do it. In a film noir, there is supposed to be dangerous women which there was, Bridget didn’t seem dangerous until you realize how she manipulated Sam and used her beauty to trick people. You wouldn’t think that she was dangerous until you figured out that she was the killer and not someone else. They filmed this movie in San Francisco and I think they did that because according to critics, “it was a growing city in the 1940’s – 1950’s.” (Film Noir). I think the director wanted it in a city that was growing and becoming popular to