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I watched it and it was very dissapointing, I did question whether my familiarity with the story maybe impacted my viewing though the truth is the Ustinov version is far superior and far more charming. I also did not like a few things Brannagh did with Poirot, well Brannagh's character simply put is not Poirot. The film is available to watch on Disney +.
Also the excessive use of CGI fake environments is very off putting in the new film.
I highly recommend I watched the whole mini series in one sitting, there are some quite tense moments that had me gripped. The locations, costume designs and score were excellent.
Brannagh is capable of the best and the worst. And he tends to miscast himself now, I think.
I am happy that Brannagh has introduced Poirot/Christie to a more modern audience despite his films being average at best. Hopefully the younger generations will seek out far superior interpretations of Christies work. Suchet's Death on the Nile is far better. At times Branaghs Death on the Nile felt like a Marvel film, perhaps that was the intention.
The excessive use of CGI would see to that I suppose. I really must rewatch the Peter Ustinov version of that one where they actually filmed things for real on location, like they used to do. :)
The thing is... she's maybe THE most sold author in history. Not sure if modern audiences needed to be introduced to her work. However dated it can be.
Maybe the best Poirot. Although Albert Finney was great too.
Agreed on both counts.
I have all the Ustinov films, Death on the Nile is my favourite of the series and has the best cast. I agree you cannot beat real locations and practical stunts.
I am a few years off 50 I was thinking more of the younger generation that may not have been introduced to Agatha Christies work as yet, Brannaghs films are average though they serve to put Christie in the public consciousness. I personally never see Christies work or adaptions dated. Rene Clair's And Then There Were None is probably the filmed adaption I go back to the most from 1945. Christie was so ahead of her time IMO.
Evil Under the Sun [HD]* @ 13:20
Agatha Christie: Talking Pictures @ 15:15
Death on the Nile [HD]* @ 15:45
*Peter Ustinov.
Yes I enjoyed this a lot, although I must admit I got a little confused towards the end. Quite a lot of what has happened occurs offscreen.
I actually rewound a particular scene just to take in what was being revealed, I will defintely watch the mini series again there was a lot to like, in fact I will likely purchase the series.
Evil Under the Sun is always shoeing on the BBC, or so it seems to me. Great casting but gosh I can't stand Ustinov in it.
Yeah I had to read the wiki page! :D It does get explained in rather a rush, and to be honest I'm still not entirely sure I have a complete handle on it.
From the wiki it does seem that Laurie made some good changes when adapting it.
Yes he was very Bondy in that.
I always thought that Michael Feast in the BBC 'Caribbean Mystery' looked pretty much like how I imagined Fleming's Bond to be; he dressed like him too, and the setting was very Fleming.
He does mention Agatha Christie in OHMSS, and in a rather positive way.
I think it's really pressing the lemon. What's next, a whole adaptation of "The Murder of Gonzago" from Hamlet? A TV series based on the short story Quantum of Solace focusing on the disintegration of the marriage between Philip Masters and Rhoda Llewellyn? An adaptation of the TV series Murphy's son watches in Robocop?
Yes, I'd tend to agree. The link with Agatha Christie is rather tenuous of course but her name being attached to it will certainly help to sell the series around the world. Such is the age we live in, sadly. They squeeze the lemon until even the pips squeak. The only thing lost on the pig is its squeal etc.
They're using the name Agatha Christie for brand recognition, but nothing else.
Yes, and rather cynically so. I've not read any of the Poirot novels that Ariadne Oliver features in but I think she's maybe a kind of meta reference to Agatha Christie herself, also being a detective novelist. I'm surmising that her Swedish detective Hjerson isn't developed very much in the novels she writes and that this is all written by new writers instead trading on the famous Agatha Christie name while simultaneously riding on the wave of currently in vogue Scandi crime dramas.
Yes it's pretty much it: Ariadne Oliver was an author's avatar and her creation a way to take digs at Poirot, whom Christie often found cumbersome. Sven Hjerson was this implausible sleuth, Finnish while her creator knows nothing of Finland and vegetarian because... she thought it was a good idea at the time. He's a big meta joke and shouldn't be anything else than that.
On a side note, if the Belgians want to make a prequel series with Hercule Poirot as a young police officer, I'm all for it.
Ah, I see. I thought it was something like that. It kind reminds me (albeit it was on a much smaller scale) of Fleming's meta reference to a series of Bond-like novels that existed in Bond's world as well, that are mentioned in the Times Obit in YOLT.