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I don’t actually care who plays Poirot (though Suchet is the only one I want to read the audiobooks) but DO NOT mess with the plot of Agatha Christie books. She knew exactly what she was doing. It doesn’t need fascism and sex to add interest.JUST TELL THE DAMN STORY.
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Director: "Can you do a Belgian accent?" John Malkovich: "Probably!" Director: [First day of filming] "Ah, shit..."
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I can't find anyone playing Captain Hasting in the cast list. Also a lack of Inspector Japp. Is there a reason why Sally Phelps has dispensed with them? Not happy
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None of this is in this book. Calling this an adaptation would be like saying Gordon Ramsay cooking vension was an adaptation of Bambi.
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Maybe Sarah Phelps should write her own murder mystery rather than do a hatchet job on Agatha Christie’s work
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So there was a murder and the victim was Agatha Christie’s book
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I've stuck with
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Very much hope Chris Grayling is watching
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So.. Style of dancing that wouldn't have been popular here in 1933. Trains that weren't in operation at that time. A phone displaying 999 when it was yet to be in operation. Language that seemed out of place for the time. Hmm not great
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#ABCMurders John Malkovich great, no problem with goatee or reimagining Agatha Christie but this adaptation is unnecessarily sleazy and race stuff is subtle as a sledgehammer. Particularly rubbish that the lower classes appear to all be alcoholics, perverts or prostitutes
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Very disappointed with John Malkovitch version of
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I’m not convinced that Sarah Phelps should be allowed anywhere near Agatha Christie’s work. Her adaptations remove all the light from a story and they drag.
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I’m just hoping we find out what happens to the boil on the big chaps neck... a spin off series of its own, surely
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#poirot#abcmurders Trying my hardest to like ABC murders but all we are saying is it's not right. Poirot should have a moustache not a grey beard. David Suchet will take some beating. Don't remember inspector Japp dying either , gutted xShow this thread -
Think the problem is I’ve been lucky to live in era of definitive characterisations of some famous detectives: poirot = suchet, Marple = hickson, Holmes = Brett nobody else quite matches up & like
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David Suchet is Hercule Poirot; Joan Hickson is Miss Marple Sorry but that’s just the way it is....
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What have you done....I don’t understand why you keep adapting Agatha Christie novels when you seem to dislike them so much.
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