Using Hammett's 1929 novel and Huston's 1941 film version of the Maltese Falcon and Chandler novel and Hawk's film of the Big sleep write a COMPARISON and CONTRASTING the two novels with the two films based on the novels

Using Hammett's 1929 novel and Huston's 1941 film version of the Maltese Falcon and Chandler novel and Hawk's film of the Big sleep write a COMPARISON and CONTRASTING the two novels with the two films based on the novels.

Introduction

Filmmakers develop films based on the novels and books written by writers and authors. Hammett wrote a novel consisting of many detective stories with the title of “Maltese Falcon” in the year 1929. This novel was filmed many times, but Huston created a film version of the novel in 1941 that was much similar to the story created by Hammett. Similarly, Chandler wrote a novel with the name, “The Big Sleep”, which was filmed by Hawk containing similar as well as contrasting elements in relation to the written novel. This essay compares and contrasts both the created films with the novels generated by the writers. The filmmakers adapted the novels as per their storylines but made necessary changes to match the content with the audiences' requirements.

Discussion

John Huston used the original novel and fastened it to the developed film. He not only used the story, but also its spirit. However, Huston made necessary changes as he restricted certain scenes of the movie. He modified the sequence of the scenes and opinions about the novel. Huston used reallocating action in a manner that was more film oriented than writing oriented. In addition, he made use of shortcuts for informing the viewers that the novelist could also shrink the situations to make the work more inspirational (Huston, 1980).

Huston's film is entirely transformed in terms of depiction of the detective genre as compared to Hammett's novel related to detective literature. The detectives that Huston used were represented differently than the portrayed detectives of Hammett. When Hammett started writing the novel, it was new to his time, but when Huston started developing the film based on the novel, the era was relatively transformed. The detectives portrayed before Hammett's work were bright minded along with the criminals. However, the society was created kind and supportive (Luhr, 1995).

Hammett's portrayed detectives who were proletarians while previously, the detectives were from the noble class while the committed crimes were lethal and pointless. Hammett's work ...