In the film Out of the Past, the protagonist Jeff Bailey is a man that decided to start his life again at new beginnings, trying to run away from his past but there is only so much and so little that you can run away from. When a man comes to look for him in town Jeff is left with no choice but to go back to his past to face what he had run away from. The story of his past begins when he tells is girlfriend about how he was a private eye hired by a guy named Whit in in search of a woman who was Wilt’s mistress named Kathie, who not only shot Wilt but also ran away with his money. Jeff finds Kathie in Acapulco, Mexico to where she has fled to. While being there Kathie uses her Femme Fatal and falls in love with Jeff, in the other hand Jeff forgets about is mission from Wilt and decides that both should escape from Wilt. After they both escape the lived in a cabin only to be found by one of Jeff’s partner Fisher were Kathie kills him and runs away. Later Jeff finds Kathie’s bank book and sees a large deposit of the money that Wilt was missing, he then decides to run away from her for good. After he runs away Jeff goes on to meet Wilt, only to find Kathie there with Wilt, but Wilt had one last job for Jeff to do but after Jeff goes on to do the job he finds out that Wilt was trying to frame him. At this point Jeff ties to play a bit of the role of a hero and tries is best to get out of this mess but at the end he is left no choice to leave with Kathie after she had killed Wilt, but Jeff had plans of his own but as soon the cops came Kathie snapped and shot Jeff, leading the police to shot her and both died.

In the film Double Indemnity, was exactly about the topic we discussed in class, femme fatale. From the  notes we took it completely described one of the main characters who was  Phyllis Dietrichson. The femme fatale of this movie was a beautiful woman who had a plan, not only one who she planned with the main character but also another which was one of her own plans. Just like any femme fatale she lead the main character believing they will end up together happily but it only cost the main character into danger and finding out the real truth. After they both finished their plan of killing Mr. Dietrichson, the main character, Walter Neff was expecting a plan within him and Phyllis, but Phyllis had a different plan of her own which she betrayal Walter an her own stepdaughter. After Walter found out that Phyllis was seeing her stepdaughters boyfriend behind her back and he went to confront Phyllis explaining why she betrayal him and she said it was only to persuade Nino into killing her stepdaughter due to jealously. In this particular scene you can see Phyllis again pulling her femme fatale to get things her way. In the end the “Femme fatale” that Phyllis has been portraying did not work out for her because she did not get things her way and died.

In conclusion I find both the Maltese Falcon and Double Indemnity similar due to the femme fatale characters played in each movie but unfortunately they both did not get the things they wanted their way.

In the film “The Maltese Falcon” I would consider your typical mystery film but very different compared to the mystery films now these days. I felt that throughout the scenes it had played different genre conventions, whether it was between a character or a scene.

One of the main characters Sam Spade is a tough, know it all character, but also shows he has trouble trusting others than his secretary The detective Sam Spade is more like the aggressive type, one who is willing to go over and beyond his way to get what he wants. Along side with the female it shows how persuasive she is towards the detective by her ways to get what she wants and how’s things should get done. Within the law Sam Spade is also on the police radar due to the death of his partner detective Miles Archer, he is seen as a suspect.

Within all of the characters they all seem to play on both sides, where your ask yourself can they be trusted or who are they really trusting and who side are they really on. Throughout these scenes where you see characters running to one person and later running to the other is where you see the conventions occur. In conclusion when you are seeing these conventions occur you ask yourself what is going to happen or will the character make the right decision.