There is a "grandma" who is super awesome.
Looking at the world, in addition to the "Bible" and Shakespeare series, it is her works that sell the most, with a total sales of more than 2 billion.
In 2015, the BBC remade her work into a TV series in honor of her.
Even the CCTV movie channel recently broadcast her classic masterpieces——
Massacre on the Nile (1978)
This "grandma" is one of the three masters of the world's mystery novels, the famous British female detective writer Agatha Christie .
When it comes to detective novels, the first thing most people think of is probably The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.
If Arthur Conan Doyle is the "King of Detective Fiction", then "Grandma" is the well-deserved "Queen of Detective Fiction".
Her "Murder on the Orient Express" has been popular for nearly a hundred years and has been remakes many times by several countries.
Just last year, 20th Century Fox just dedicated a super-luxurious version of the All-Stars ☟
Her "No One Survives" has sold over 100 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into many films, plays, comics, and games.
The plot is still being imitated to this day.
For example, in the popular variety show "Star Detective" in the past two years, there is a period of "Terrorist Nursery Rhymes", a mysterious nursery rhyme, which predicts the direction of the case like a prophecy.
One, two and three children, four, five and six children, and seven and eight lovely children, play snowball hand in hand, play snowball hand in hand, see page 8 of a book, and finish singing a song In the fourth sentence, a candy has only been bitten in half, there are five children left, a pair of slippers has been lost, the second volume of a code has been recited, a shotgun has been loaded, and two children are left.
This weird setting is adapted from "Grandma"'s "No One Survives":
"On an island, ten people, ten small porcelain statues, people die every day according to the way described in the children's song."
This "Tragedy on the Nile" is a novel written by her in 1937. It was put on the big screen twice in 1978 and 2004.
Next year, it will be remade for a third time, starring Wonder Woman Gal Gadot and "Call Me By Your Name" actor Armie Hammer .
What we are talking about today is the most classic 1978 version. The cast of this film is really rare, and at least five of them are Oscar winners.
It was a rare blockbuster, both then and now.
After being introduced into China, the Shanghai Film Studio has dispatched almost all the big-name dubbing actors to dub the film.
Therefore, some netizens said that this is a classic that "listening is more flavorful than watching" .
Lynette , a woman who inherited a huge fortune, is young and beautiful.
Best friend Jacqueline turns to her for help, hoping to help her fiancé Simon find an errand at her estate.
As a result, this request for help unexpectedly made Simon and Lynette fall in love at first sight, and the two quickly entered the palace of marriage.
The news of the marriage also made the headlines of the local newspaper.
My boyfriend is married, but the bride is not me, how can Jacqueline swallow this breath?
During the honeymoon trip, she followed the two of them all the way, from Italy to Egypt, suddenly appearing anytime and anywhere, disturbing the two of them.
Simon throws Jacqueline away with a plan, and Linnett boarded the yacht "Karnak", and continued their honeymoon journey accompanied by the charming scenery of the Nile.
Unexpectedly, this move not only did not get rid of Jacqueline, but also unexpectedly attracted a group of people with their own ill-conceived ideas to their side.
One morning, Lynette, who was shot and killed, was found dead in her bed.
The small-caliber pistol was killed in one hit, a capital "J" was left at the scene, and the deceased's £50,000 pearl necklace was missing.
Belgian detective Poirot and his friend Colonel Reiss, who were on vacation on the boat , immediately launched an investigation into the case after receiving the news.
The works of "Grandma" have always had their own style.
She pioneered the "country house school" of detective fiction, in which murders take place in a specific closed environment and the murderer is one of several specific people.
In many later detective works, traces of this pattern can be seen more or less.
The key to solving the case was the small-caliber pistol that killed Linnett in one hit.
The night before the crime, Lynette, Simon, and Jacqueline met again on the boat, and Lynette got angry and left first.
Jacqueline, who had been drinking, became emotional and argued with Simon, and shot him in the knee with a gun.
After the situation was brought under control, someone remembered the gun that was left at the scene, but it disappeared.
And the murderer shot Lynette to death at that midnight.
Detective Poirot insists that everyone could be the murderer, and investigates the passengers on board one by one until the results of the case are revealed.
Simon's leg was injured and he couldn't even walk.
Jacqueline is the most suspected, but after hitting Simon that night, she was too nervous, and she was drunk, and was injected with tranquilizers .
Miss Bowers , the nurse who injected Jacqueline tranquilizers , was also a young lady from a noble family.
"For this alone, I wish I could kill her."
The wealthy wife who hired Bowers, after seeing the news of the deceased's marriage in the newspaper, set her sights on her pearl necklace early.
Even going all the way to Egypt for this, will she commit a crime to get this necklace?
The deceased's maid wanted to marry an Egyptian, hoping to get the money as a dowry sooner, and pleaded many times, but the deceased did not let go.
——Before I quit you, you have to keep doing it
- mean devil
The lawyer who has been secretly embezzling the property of the deceased, the doctor whose signboard was destroyed by the deceased...
Everyone seems to be suspect, and everyone has a good motive for committing the crime, as Detective Poirot said , "This man is hated everywhere" .
The real murderer was on this cruise ship, between these few people, but the murderer did not stop, and the second and third deceased appeared on the ship soon after...
The case became more and more complicated, and Poirot could only rely on reasoning, evidence left at the scene, and playing psychological cards to deduce the truth of the incident step by step.
In addition, the film not only promotes the plot, but also aggravates the shaping of the characters.
Like the meanness of the deceased Lynette, and her imagination reflecting the uneven distribution of wealth in the society at that time, laying the groundwork for the crime.
Then there's Detective Poirot, with humor and humanity in addition to fairness and rationality.
Including props, costumes and many other details, it also paved the way for the case, and also played a role in setting off the character of the characters.
Even after all these years, this film is still an unforgettable classic.
In addition to being good at laying out cases in daily life scenes, "grandma" also likes to integrate her own experiences into novels.
In 1926, when the famous work "The Mysterious Case of Roger" was a hit, her mother died suddenly of illness. Not only did her husband not give her timely comfort, he also cheated on her and left her.
The successive blows made her unbearable. "Grandma" drove away from the house alone and disappeared. This disappearance incident caused a sensation in the whole country at the time.
It was not until 12 days later that she was found sheltering at the Hydra Hotel in Harrogate, Yorkshire, under the pseudonym Theresa Nelley.
In order to treat emotional wounds, "grandma" wrote a novel about her own experience. Also after the divorce, she obeyed the advice of her friends and boarded the Orient Express, and subsequently created "The Massacre on the Nile" and "The Orient Express" Murder".
It was also during that Middle East journey that she met her future husband.
It can be said that, whether it is a series of suspicious detective novels written by "Grandma" herself, or her own extraordinary experiences, they have already been called legends.
And her story doesn't really end with her death.
Because the books are still there, the movies are still there, and the classics will always be talked about.
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