Built out of words, it is the engine that drives the plot of his book and also the movie, in which another object is created: a prop that has to represent the thing that Hammett created out of words, inspired by the Kniphausen Hawk, and this represents the falcon in the movie.
Detta är motorn, skapad ur ord, som driver handlingen i hans bok och även filmen, i vilket ett annat objekt är skapat: ett stycke rekvisita som representerar det som Hammett skapade ur ord, inspirerad av Kniphauserhöken, och denna representerar falken i filmen.