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I plan on reading The Mysterious Affair at Styles soon, for the first time.
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12577566/
A contemporary adaptation of the world's best-selling detective story. Ten people, five women and five men, are invited to a luxury hotel on a desert island, and they quickly realize that they have been cut off from the rest of the world. Why were they drawn into this trap? Everyone has committed murder; today, under the hot island sun, they will pay for their crimes.
This just appeared on my suggestion feed, its a French adaption of And Then There Were None from 2020. I was not aware of this adaption until now, its available on the ALL4 app for UK viewers. Going to watch it now, its one of my favorite novels.
Matilda Anna Ingrid Lutz star's I am a big fan of the actress I think Matilda would make a great Bond girl.
It's my favorite also, I watch Rene Clair's film at least once year its incredibly atmospheric with a great cast. I was watching the Oliver Reed version earlier I sometimes struggle with that adaption despite many familiar faces.
Morse is an interesting series. Which of course leads on to Lewis and Endeavour.
As I approach the end of the Poirot series, I am struck by the tonal shift of the episodes. The early one hour episodes have a much lighter aspect. The ninety minutes episodes no longer featuring Hastings, Lemon, and Japp are much more serious. Poirot has packed on the pounds and is less tolerant. He frequently makes us aware of the loneliness of his life, something also to be noted in the Morse series. Suchet's development of the character is a master class in acting. It's especially interesting to note when his normal walking stride becomes mini-steps.
This must have been an expensive series to produce. The number and variety of vintage autos continually impresses me, as well as the locations.
Thank you for the information. I do own a physical copy of it. I’m just trying to find the right time to read it.
I remember watching the early episodes and thinking Suchet's Poirot was sometimes almost parodic.
I agree. Watching the first episode and then watching one of the last episodes would prove most revealing, n'est-ce-pas?
For me one of the most important features of film actor is the eyes, which was one of SC's strongest features in the Bond series. Same with Suchet. Those later, longer episodes focus quite a bit on his facial reactions, particularly his eyes.
I don't think he was parodic at The Mysterious Affair at Style's though. Even though the source material was rather weak, I thought Suchet's performance was solid in it. He pretty much sold me Poirot then and there. The following episodes came off as quite jarring as if I was watching a more serious version of the Pink Panther.
I need to rewatch that first episode. But there is certainly a difference between the 60 minute Poirot and the 90 minute Poirot.
I've read it years ago. I wonder what Christie thought of Fleming's Bond.
Sadly I don't think she approved from what I can remember, even though Fleming mentioned her in OHMSS. I remember @Revelator shared Dame Agatha's thoughts on the Fleming Bond novels a while back.
From a Sunday Times profile of Christie (Nov. 10, 1963):
As for Fleming, he disliked detective stories in general: “I think they’re frightfully dull. What I like is some amusing background and that sort of thing—not a lot of nice English bobbies sitting around drinking tea.” (Evening Standard, June 16, 1960):
He mentioned Christie in his Sunday Times interview with Simenon (arriving soon in the Fleming interviews thread):
And Fleming via Bond seemed to think rather kindly of Dame Agatha. But as writers, they could be more apart. Christie's villains looked like everybody, Bond's like monsters. Christie's stories had no sex or very little abd vety subdued, Bond plenty. The violence is very different in both works.
I think that Fleming is a much more literary writer than Christie. Whereas Christie is primarily interested in the plot machinations and red herrings requisite in a good detective novel Fleming is a much more sensual and descriptive writer. His paragraphs are denser. Of course I've only read a few of Christie's novels but that was the impression that I was left with.
I can see what you mean (I hope). I do love Agatha Christie, but Fleming's writing does draw me more into the story than Christie's. Of course Fleming doesn't have to worry about whodunit and so is free to disregard goings-on...he doesn't have to keep a secret but can freely dispense his action stories without the need to hide some final disclosure.
My current ranking of Ustinov's film are as follows, they could change after the rewatch...
1. Death on the Nile (1978)
2. Evil Under the Sun (1982)
3. Dead Man’s Folly (1986)
4. Murder in Three Acts (1986)
5. Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
6. Appointment with Death (1988)
https://www.hachette-collections.com/fr-fr/collection-agathachristie/?gclid=Cj0KCQiAwJWdBhCYARIsAJc4idBNUYxYY83ldUcyWVRkTOWDTkdtlfgbRNnnNUzLM8XiUCDznjG_yhsaAgRSEALw_wcB
https://www.theatre-saint-georges.com/lady-agatha/
The pitch : during the Blitz, Agatha Christie postpones the writing of her latest mystery novel, and starts writing an autobiography. So, we see her life, in her own words. The play started in october, and is still playing.
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