simple hindsight

Mable 2022-03-21 09:02:11

I finished reading the original two days ago, so I quickly watched this version of the movie with the highest score. The movie attracted people from the very beginning, the atmosphere was very rich, the strange and powerful background music grabbed people's hearts, and the background was introduced when they were afraid and couldn't help but want to watch it.

As soon as the camera turned, it came to our lovely protagonist, Mr. Poirot, who briefly introduced Poirot and Bianchi, and then came to the scene before getting into the car. I like this whole scene very much, each character appears, and the whole background of the era is reflected through a small environment at the station, which is really immersive. It turned out that the conductors at that time needed to know the voices of so many countries, including English, French, Italian, Hungarian, and German. It turned out that the dealers at the station could swarm up and sell their products as soon as they saw customers coming. It was really an interception type of sales. Some stood directly in front of the customers, which directly reduced the speed of the customers entering the carriage. Of course, I will also watch people eat dishes, see more noble and rich people crowding around, and see weaker ones and directly surround them and sell them. The earl and the American women who appeared on the stage were just as beautiful as they were on the runway.

There are corresponding changes to the plot and characters, and some details are not as comprehensive as those in the book, but it may be due to personal reasons. I think watching movies is smoother than reading books, and it kind of helps me sort out the timeline in the book.

Poirot and Bianchi contracted a lot of laughs, and after seeing it, I felt that these two characters came out of the book.

The most wonderful "Poirot's Two Inferences", which tells the background crimes of twelve people in one breath, has to sigh at the high acting skills of Albert Finney, which firmly grasps the emotions of the audience and follows him. Up and down.

But in the final part of drinking champagne, is it from the perspective of 12 people, from the perspective of justice, I look a little weird, Poirot sees whether it is a mixed taste.

2020.7.21

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Extended Reading
  • Scot 2021-12-21 08:01:17

    I knew that the subtitles were so bad, it would be better to watch the Mandarin dubbing, they are too difficult to understand!

  • Demetris 2022-03-25 09:01:10

    Even with so many details cut out from Granny's book, the adapted movie still feels too complicated. But I think this level of adaptation is really successful. In addition to the old drama bones, the scene where the train starts and returns to the "civilized world" after the snow is finally cleared is also amazing.

Murder on the Orient Express quotes

  • Hercule Poirot: The obvious implication is that the murderer, disguised as a conductor, boarded the train at Belgrade, made his way by means of the convenient passkey to Ratchett's compartment, stabbed him to death, planted the dagger and the uniform, and then departed, since the train was now halted in a snowdrift. Who was he? I am inclined to agree with Mr Foscarelli, who believes that he was a rival member of the Mafia, exacting private vengeance for a vendetta whose precise nature the Yugoslav police will undoubtedly identify.

    Dr. Constantine: But... is that all?

    Hercule Poirot: No. No, no, no, no. No, it is not. I said, here is the simple answer. There is also a more... complex one. But remember my first solution when I... when you've heard my second.

  • Greta Ohlsson: I was born backwards. That is why I work in Africa as missionary, teaching little brown babies more backwards than myself.