1. The original novel is
adapted from the best-selling novel "And Then There Were None" (And Then There Were None) by the famous British detective novelist Agatha Christie (grandmother), sold More than 100 million copies. The English name was originally Ten Little Niggers, and the nursery rhyme was also ten little black men; later it was changed to Indians; now it is changed to Soldier soldier, the island is also called Soldier Island, and the nursery rhyme became Ten Little Soldiers.
There are more than ten film and television works derived from the novel, but this drama is the first British version to follow the ending of the original. Many previous works used the endings of dramas written by grandma herself. The more famous one that follows the original is the 1987 Soviet film "Десять негритят".
"No Life" created the "Blizzard Villa-Island Model" in the reasoning world, which is a model in which people die constantly and the murderer hides it in an environment isolated from the outside. There are also some movies and animations related to novels, such as "Fatal ID" (Identity, 2003), Conan 219 episodes "The Called Detective", "When Umineko Cries", and Kanadaichi "The Murder on the Secret Treasure Island", etc.
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The difference between the adaptation of this play and the novel: The
butler did not directly kill the old wife of the employer, but did not give her medicine when she had a heart attack.
In General MacArthur's novel, he did not directly shoot his subordinates and his wife for having an affair, but dispatched him to a very dangerous mission, causing him to die.
Detective Blore did not personally torture and kill the young comrade, but gave perjury and sent him to prison; the latter was in poor health and died in prison.
In the novel it is the judge who takes the initiative to form an alliance with the doctor.
The murderer died in a different way. He used rubber bands and door handles to create a shooting mechanism, and he finally fell on the bed. This is because he was moved to the bed after his death, and someone recorded the sequence and process of his death in his diary, so he had to return to the bed when he died, so that there would be no flaws and a perfect crime would be formed.
Detective Blore and old lady Brent did not show homosexuality in the drama in the original work. In the film, both the police detective’s fear of going with him and the old lady sucking finger blood for the babysitter all have a certain degree of sexual orientation, which further explains the motive of the murder.
There is no drug orgy in the novel, nor is there any intimacy between male and female protagonists.
In the novel, the truth is revealed when a drifting bottle washes ashore. The murderer put the confession in the drift bottle.
At the end of the novel is a confession book, which introduces many details: the
murderer's motives: terminal illness, sadism since childhood and a strong sense of justice, hoping to vote before his death.
How the murderer identified the other nine people: obtained information by chatting with people. For example, a doctor told him about the housekeeper and his wife, a nurse told him about the doctor, a soldier told him about the past of the general, and colleagues told him about some cases. The hostess happened because the murderer happened to meet her ex-boyfriend Hugo. When playing each person's crimes on the record player, by observing the micro expressions, confirm that they are all guilty. Everyone has different crimes. "Let those with lesser sins die first, without experiencing later torture and fear."
3. Controversy
Since the show was broadcast by the BBC during Christmas, the violence, sex, drugs and swear words in the show caused controversy. The British Guardian has commented that Christmas is not suitable for such a dark and rude film, and it was not so open at the time (1930s). Hanging a towel naked like the male protagonist Shanhua is just an eye-catching gimmick.
Other comments think that these are nothing but the dark atmosphere created in the play is more reasonable, and the grandma herself likes to constantly try the limits of human nature in her works; in addition, the slogan of the grandma's novel was "A Christie for Christmas". (Christmas come to this grandma's novel), so for Ami, this is a very good Christmas gift.
The screenwriter Sarah Phelps believes that the era was not as conservative as people thought, and it was easy to get drugs in the UK at that time.
4. Filming location
: Train scene: South Devon Railway (South Devon Railway)
terminal scene: Mullion Cove (Mullion Cove)
Beach scene: Cornwall (Kynance Cove, Cornwall)
mansion scene: Hillingdon (Harefield House, Hillingdon)
5. titles list
the film is divided into three episodes out of the lunch actor name, will not be the next set of titles Reappear.
6. Aidan Turner
, the actor Aidan Turner, who played the actor Lombard, the actor Aidan Turner , who starred in the BBC TV series "Being Human" (Being Human), and the lonely flower in "The Hobbit" Little angel-Kili, the little dwarf who loves a female elf.
In 2015, he starred in the BBC's popular period drama "Poldark" (Poldark), and also played a soldier. The producer of this show is Poldark's Mammoth Screen.
Other actors: Judge actor Charles Dance is Tywin Lannister who was shot in the toilet by his son in "Game of Thrones"; Deep cabinet detective actor Burn Gorman also participated in Ice Fire, and also acted as a detective in this year's "Scarlet Peak"; General MacArthur actor Sam Neill was once the hero of Jurassic Park; Granny actor Miranda Richardson played Harry Potter's hated reporter Rita Skeeter, and this year's "An Inspector Call" played his wife; doctor actor Toby Stephens was born in acting Home, the mother is the old British drama McGonagall Professor Maggie Smith; butler actress Anna Maxwell Martin was a member of the "Bletchley Four".
7. Screenwriter Sarah Phelps
Sarah Phelps, the screenwriter of the show, has collaborated with the hero Aidan in "Being Human". She will write the script for the BBC's next "Witness for the Prosecution" (Witness for the Prosecution). She is also adapting JK Rowling's "The Casual Vacancy" (The Casual Vacancy) and "The Cuckoo's Calling" (The Cuckoo's Calling).
8. Grandma’s birthday
in September 2015, Twentieth Century Fox announced that it would start filming a new version of "No Life", directed by Morten Tyldum, director of "The Imitation Game". Fox also started shooting another grandma's novel "Murder on the Orient Express". Probably because 2015 is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Grandma (1890-1976).
This fall, the BBC also launched the TV series "Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime" (Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime) adapted from the novel by the grandmother.
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