This film is not very friendly to the original party.
If you haven't read Grandma's book and read it directly, you may feel that the filming is good, the actors' acting skills are online, the costumes can be adapted, there are climax action scenes, and at the end, there is a little touch, it is a detective film worth watching.
But for grandma fans, they can only be viewed as fans, and they are still the kind of fans with serious OOC.
First of all, Grandma's book is originally a group portrait, depicting the appearance of all living beings. We followed the detective to get to know each and everyone fresh people (although often because I can't remember foreign names, it takes several chapters to distinguish who is who). Maybe because of the length of time in the movie, there is no such feeling, especially when the case is halfway through, and the Count and his wife enter the case, it always feels a bit rushed.
Secondly, in the movie, Pineapple gets the wrong conclusion again and again. Every time it confirms with the murderer, it is overturned by this or that kind of thing. Finally, the correct answer is found. It seems that the dramatic effect of the reversal is there. But the pineapple in the book is not led by the nose all the way. He confirms the facts step by step through the mutual confirmation and contradiction of testimony and clues. Pineapple does not immediately identify who is the murderer every time there is a clue like in the movie and directly say that it is you. In fact, Pineapple never accuses someone at will. He will have doubts, but he cannot be 100% sure. When he never said it, when it came out of his mouth who was the murderer, that was the end.
And the adaptation at the end, how should I put it, the film is more to describe Poirot's entanglement. As a detective, he believes that crimes should be judged by the law, but these twelve people murdered in order to uphold their justice, and finally he chose to conceal , the change he got through this case. This choice in the book was not made by Poirot. He handed over the choice, more like an outsider's perspective, and Poirot in the film has been completely moved and involved.
The most important thing is that the pineapple in the book is really not like this. Granny's detective likes to follow the human nature, not the detailed clues like lying on her stomach to find footprints. To make an inappropriate analogy, if Holmes is a science detective, a pineapple is a liberal arts detective. And Detective Pineapple is a very gentleman, chatting friendly with ladies of all ages, a kind and social detective with a little formality, not the kind of eccentric genius detective who looks impersonal and ignores his demeanor when he investigates a case. And it's a bit wrong to put the fighting scene on the pineapple detective.
All in all, aside from the original, this detective movie is not bad. But I don't think the detective in the movie is Poirot, he's someone else.
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