My personal guess is that since the Orient Express case is so famous that everyone knows who or who the killers are, the writers have given up on telling the story from the perspective of solving a case. After 2003, the screenwriters of the entire series are like chicken blood, and they engage in religious elements every season. Sometimes it's far-fetched.
Some people like this kind of fake deepness, maybe because they are embarrassed to admit that they watch detective reasoning for entertainment, so they have to come up with some theological explanation to feel that their hearts are full and their thoughts are sublimated.
Some places apparently draw directly from the '74 edition, such as the Swedish woman seeing Jesus, the plausible explanation of the relationship between the British colonel and the governess. There is a more natural feel to the details. When seeing the main clue "aisy arms", Pineapple didn't act like a human Google, and suddenly searched for the background of the case. And later, Pineapple was not very willing to take over the case, but still reluctantly agreed with the compliment of the bus company boss. This episode was very good (if the main character Suchet was not asked to put on a bitter face for the whole episode, otherwise it would definitely be OK It's funny); and for example, when interrogating passengers, there is no contrived cleverness of the 1974 version, and when calling up the family to tell the truth, it is not like Albert Finney shouting and dancing like a madman; the people involved Each has its own accent. The TV version is much better than the 1974 version in handling this detail. David Suchet's French accent can be said to have been tempered, while the 1974 version has no decent accent imitation; and the rhythm is also much faster than the 1974 version. (After all, there is only one and a half hours of storytelling and religious reflection). The wife of the Hungarian diplomat is very beautiful, and so is the shot of the Orient Express driving smoke on Eurasia.
As mentioned earlier, since he started to take the religious route, the starring David Suchet has not been as lively as before. I'm not saying how good the series was before, in fact, there are often dull and boring moments, but at least each episode has a little humor, a little bit of Christie's witty and lighthearted feeling in addition to solving the case. Murder on the Orient Express was a lighthearted read. But what happened to this movie? Looking at the bitter melon face of the old pineapple, it is difficult to end from the beginning. In the end, someone actually wanted to kill a pineapple. This bad deed has also happened before. Pineapple was punched in a certain episode. Beard is also a big problem. It is said that Agatha herself is most concerned about the beard of the live-action version of Pineapple. Now the beards of this series are getting less and less individual, and they are far less good-looking than before.
The first episode of this series was broadcast in 1989. More than 20 years later, the lead actor Suchet is indeed old, and he should behave like this. After all, ITV has started filming "The Curtain", and he should be very suitable to play the dying pineapple.
In addition, Pineapple is Catholic, which is true, Christie himself wrote it. In Chapter 2 of Taken at the Flood, Pineapple says to the rambunctious Mrs Clade: I am a good Catholic
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