Watching the Maltese Falcon and pausing in the first second to explain to my husband how the actual prop used in the Maltese Falcon has become in real life like how the Falcon is used in the movie
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Also that Truman capote wrote a burlesque in the Maltese Falcon which starred the two leads years later
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Also the eventual playing against type of Mary Astor, Hollywood innocent, icon of virtue, one of the heartless schemers
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Always noticed that in Hammett people can just be gay (and criminal) but in Chandler it’s a big weird psychosexual thing, possibly cause Hammet was actually a Pinkerton and Chandler was a massive weirdo
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Replying to @LeavittAlone
Some interesting thoughts on that here:https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v39/n01/james-meek/refugees-from-the-past …
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