Use Of Camera Angles In Spade

With its low-key lighting and angles, this makes the film a great thing to watch. Unusual camera angles sometimes low to the ground, revealing the ceilings of rooms are used to emphasize the nature of the characters and their actions. Some of the most technically striking scenes involve Gutman, especially the scene where he explains the history of the Falcon to Spade, which purposely draws out his story so that the knockout drops he has slipped into Spade's drink will take effect. However, while the scene may have been built around a complicated master shot, in fact no long takes are used in any part of the finished film. Ebert does accurately review Huston's innovative choices during the scene in which Spade is drugged: “ Greenstreet chatters about the falcon while waiting for a …show more content…
He still doesn't drink. Greenstreet watches him narrowly. They discuss the value of the missing black bird. Finally, Bogart drinks, and passes out. The timing is everything; Huston doesn't give us closeups of the glass to underline the possibility that it's drugged. He depends on the situation to show the suspicion in our minds. Very nearly as visually are the scenes involving Astor, almost all of which suggest prison. In one scene she wears striped pajamas, the furniture in the room is striped, and the slivers of light coming through the Venetian blinds suggest cell bars, as do the bars on the elevator cage at the end of the film when she takes her slow ride downward with the police, apparently on her way to prison and possible execution. Huston and Edeson crafted each scene to make sure the images, action and dialog blended effectively, sometimes shooting closeups of characters with other cast members acting with them off camera. In economically depressed post-war Italy, an out of work man, Antonio, is offered a job requiring a bicycle. Not having one, his wife Maria pawns some household items in order to acquire the needed

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