#realising hes playing the sap for some european bug eyed twink if i damn well please

[angelamontoo]

Why I came to the maltese falcon:

•Gifs and images of Cairo playing with his cane and other stuff that makes him look very pretty and cool

•"When you're slapped you take it and like it"

Why I stuck around:

•Cairo spending most of the film being very composed while he looks at Spade like he wants to bludgeon him to death

•Spade in turn, seeming rather amused by Cairo

•Wilmer being angry and sad and pathetic

•Cairo and o Shaughnessys whole dynamic

•O shaughnessys efforts with Spade just..not paying off at all

•Effie calling o Shaughnessy a knockout

•Cairos ragefit and more specifically, the way he ends it by calling Gutman a fathead, making a noise like a turkey in the throes of agony and crying. Ofc you'd probably know about Joels tantrum without having seen the film if you've seen enough videos with titles like "Film noir| a retrospective" or "10 things you didn't know about Ren and Stimpy", but a 2 second clip of him going "you eeedeeot!" without context Just doesn't do his fit justice

•That thing Spade does with the the bird when he says the " The stuff that dreams are made of" line

•Gutman being awful. Tbh I think Gutmans pretty underrated. I love how much I hate that fucker. He's so gross and effortlessly cold-blooded

•The fact that Cairo is never seen getting caught or killed and potentially got off Scott-free. Tbh I find it absolutely hilarious that Spade handed o shaughnessy straight to the police while Cairo got what was at the very least a head start.