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I personally love reading mystery novels and inference-related film and television dramas, and this hobby originated from the classic "Massacre on the Nile" when I was a child. The movie, by the way, was completely fascinated by a Belgian detective named Poirot. This humorous, tongue-tied, short and chubby detective really has a higher status in my heart than Sherlock Holmes.
That is, out of my love for this detective, I gradually came into contact with Agatha's novels, from "No One Survives", "Roger Mystery" to "ABC Murder", "Sin under the Sun", etc., Queen of Reasoning His novels can almost be said to be wonderful, even now they are still shocking, and Poirot is the most well-known of them. But it's a pity that apart from the British drama series that have been filming the great detective Poirot, you really rarely find a film about this character in the past 20 years.
However, even so, when the news of Murder on the Orient Express came out, I wasn't very excited because it was probably the hardest work of fiction for Granny to shoot other than Roger Mystery. There are many characters, intricate character relationships, and a lot of reasoning about the train room and time, which inevitably creates a huge pressure for a theater audience to watch the movie.
In 1974, the remake of Sidney Lumet was actually not my favorite. Although it was still loyal to the original work, it did not complete the conversion from literature to video well, and the passages that revealed the secrets at the end were far less than that of "On the Nile". Tragedy" and "Crimes in the Sun" are very enjoyable.
On the contrary, the 90-minute version of the British drama in 2010 gave me a full emotional experience. The explosion of acting skills at the end and the original parts other than the original are very pleasant surprises. paragraph impressed. And in a way, David Suchet's Poirot is the perfect Poirot.
What do you say about the new version of "Murder on the Orient Express", that is, if you think the Japanese version written by Koki Mitani in 2015 is a farce, the new version is definitely an epic farce, you don't seem to be reading a master-level mystery novel The adapted movie, but a "Star Detective" without character sparks.
The new version of "Murder on the Orient Express" is a remake that has absolutely no need for existence. It is like last year's "Ben-Hur". The respect of the original, let alone the viewing quality that a movie should carry.
Director Kenneth Branagh was so narcissistic and conceited that he threw a good deck of cards down the gutter, leading to serious doubts about whether this person particularly hated Agatha's novels and Poirot.
The new version of "Murder on the Orient Express" is an adaptation of a film that fails very well in terms of play, presentation, visual style, and character creation, and the culprit is the director and star Kenneth Branagh who keeps adding drama to himself. In almost all novels about Poirot, although Poirot has the most roles in the story, he is not the real protagonist, he is the eyes of our readers, he is the clue character of the story, and his appearance is not to rob other people. The character's limelight, at this point, both the 1974 and 2010 versions honored that well.
But our great Kenneth Branagh didn't want to respect that at all. He wanted the clues, the most dramatic characters, and the protagonist of the whole story to be himself. He gave himself a long and meaningless foreplay. In the process, the scenes of other people are constantly compressed, and the plots that show a lot of their obsessive-compulsive side in the film have no effect on the story itself.
In fact, for Kenneth Branagh, this is his personal show, and even Sherlock Holmes would not dare to be so playful.
But most infuriatingly, the character he played wasn't Poirot at all, it could be Conan the Elder, it could be the British version of Mitsuyasu, it could be the bearded hilarious version of Sherlock Holmes, but definitely not our great Belgian detective Poirot.
Kenneth's interpretation of Poirot can be said to be ridiculous, from the super long nose hair posing beard to the featureless performance details, there is absolutely no shadow of Poirot, not even as much as the Japanese version. Mansai Nomura poses. Poirot is a little old Belgian who is often mistaken for French, and Kenneth's performance is all about showing a middle-aged Virgo British man who is addicted to pretending.
You can't even play the role well, but you still have the face to say in the interview how well you know the original work, the ghosts believe it, okay?
Then, another rather ridiculous aspect of the film is that it is neither a stage play nor a movie. Every time the character's emotions are shown, the movement of the camera always leaves a scene as if the actor is waiting for the director to say action. The breath of the air, it feels like a stage actor is waiting for the chasing light on the stage to appear. Such "please start your show" paragraphs fill the entire film and seem utterly stupid.
As if the director did not understand how to schedule the train's shots, he put on a large section of overhead shots, so that the audience could watch a group of people perform with their heads without even remembering the supporting roles clearly. Er didn't dare to play like this in "Dog Town"!
The most ridiculous thing is that the director is narcissistic at the same time and shows a lot of unconfidence, so we see that there are no necessary CG shots from beginning to end, no need to deal with necessary avalanche scenes, inexplicable chase scenes and recurring sweetness. The greasy sensational soundtrack, all this does not add any extra points to the entertainment, but makes the film more fragmented and confused.
Of course, none of the above is a disappointment, because I didn't expect too much. The real disappointment of the film is the group scenes that were not shot by the director at all. In the previous promotion of this film, it was mentioned that this is a team of actors who have accumulated dozens of important film awards. Everyone who is singled out is a powerful group who can fight alone, but the film finally shows only the relationship between them. It's just embarrassing. It's possible to waste such a good top-level cast in a movie, except for George Clooney's "Monuments Defender".
Oh, by the way, the Johnny Depp you expected was as bad as ever. I didn't expect that this time he appeared for less than 10 minutes and still contributed to such a yin and yang performance with no emotion at all. It seems that the lowered head has not been removed. , do you want to go to "The Birth of an Actor" and learn from Liu Ye?
In a word, this film is an adaptation that you do not need to watch at all. If you like the previous "Murder on the Orient Express" film and television works, the novels of grandma, and the characters of the great detective Poirot, please treat this film as well. does not exist, thanks!
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