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Retracing old steps
May. 23rd, 2010 08:35 pmDay 19 - Best movie cast
There is simply no way I could forgive myself if I said anything but the guys and gal in The Maltese Falcon. No way. I can't think of another movie where I've thought to myself that if a single actor was replaced it would mar the whole movie.
Also it has a cast of a bird! Get it? Get it?
Sure it has been pointed out by some that Mary Astor was too old and frumpy to be called upon to play the femme fatale, but I think she's good in the role. I'm one of those viewers who can accept that the macho protagonist falls in love with someone I don't personally find attractive anyway. The Maltese Falcon is broadly considered the first proper noir film too, so I don't see why it should be negatively judged by the tropes of a genre it helped invent.
And here's the part I geek some more about Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. I just can't adore them more than I already do. Their final scene together is one of my favourites ("You--you imbecile! You bloated idiot! You stupid fathead you!").
There is simply no way I could forgive myself if I said anything but the guys and gal in The Maltese Falcon. No way. I can't think of another movie where I've thought to myself that if a single actor was replaced it would mar the whole movie.
Also it has a cast of a bird! Get it? Get it?
Sure it has been pointed out by some that Mary Astor was too old and frumpy to be called upon to play the femme fatale, but I think she's good in the role. I'm one of those viewers who can accept that the macho protagonist falls in love with someone I don't personally find attractive anyway. The Maltese Falcon is broadly considered the first proper noir film too, so I don't see why it should be negatively judged by the tropes of a genre it helped invent.
And here's the part I geek some more about Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet. I just can't adore them more than I already do. Their final scene together is one of my favourites ("You--you imbecile! You bloated idiot! You stupid fathead you!").
