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much. In fact, she is the only one that he does trust. I believe that the movie and the novel are very close in their portrayals of Effie Perine. The one thing that was not good about her portrayal in the movie was her appearance. In the book, Effie is portrayed as a small, petite, mousy, kind of tomboyish woman. This helps to make her be the kind of woman that Sam could never fall for. Yet in the movie, she in a tall, blond, voluptuous, sexy woman that is in no way the Effie Perine that we have in our minds eye. Then there is Wilmer, the boy, the ?gunsul.? He is Gutman’s right hand man and handles all of his dirty work for him. The movie and the novel are quite equal in their portrayal of Wilmer. He looks, talks, walks, and acts like he did in the book. They did a good job

making Wilmer come to the ?big screen.? Now that brings us to Casper Gutman. The mastermind (or shall we just say mind) behind this escapade. His name is a rather comical play on words as Mr. Gutman is a large man with a very large gut. The movie did a very good job in making Casper Gutman into a movie villain. Everything that he is in the book, he is in the movie. The director uses camera very well to accentuates the size of Gutman?s belly which is quite amusing. Casper Gutman in the movie is exactly how I pictured him to be in the book. I was very pleased and I don?t think that the movie audience will miss a thing about him. I must say that The Maltese Falcon is one of the best books i have ever read. I also must say that the movie was nothing special, although I enjoyed it.

The Maltese Falcon in no way strays from the stereotype that movies which are made from novels are not of the same quality as the novel. The movies usually do the books a disservice as characters are changed and often scenes are left out. I think that it is terrible how Hollywood changes the plot and characters from what the author originally intended. The result is missing plot, and absence of necessary theme. When t