"Death On The Nile"
Director: John Graming
Original: Agatha Christie
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Royce Chiles
Produced by: British Amy Films, 1978
In 1976, the famous British female writer Agatha Christie died in the literary world at the age of 87. She wrote more than 80 novels, more than 100 short stories, and 17 plays in her lifetime, and her words have been translated into 103 languages all over the world. The total sales of her writing is only inferior to that of the Bible. Among Agatha Christie's too many works, mystery novels should be considered more eye-catching, such as "Murder on the Orient Express", "Sin under the Sun", "Murder on the Nile", etc. are all super popular.
Agatha Christie's first novel, The Curious Case at Stiles Manor, was written at the end of World War I, when she served as a volunteer ambulance officer. In this novel, she portrayed a cute little Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who became the most popular detective image in detective novels after Sherlock Holmes.
In 1926, Agatha Christie wrote her famous work "The Roger Mystery" (also translated as "The Murder of Roger Aykroyd"). In 1952, her most famous play "The Mousetrap" was put on the stage, and since then it has been performed continuously for a long time, setting an unprecedented record in the history of world theater.
In 1971, Agatha Christie was made a Dame by the Queen of England[3]. In 1975, Ingrid Bergman won her third Oscar for her film adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel of the same name, Murder on the Orient Express. Among Agatha Christie's hundreds of millions of admirers are notable figures, including Queen Elizabeth II of England and President Charles de Gaulle of France.
"The Nile Massacre" reveals the increasingly serious crime problem in Western society. Miss Lynette, who is in her youth, has actually fallen into a perilous situation since inheriting her father's huge fortune. A sinister environment where life can be plotted at any time. Money , The reason why it became a crime is because people live in a world where people fight for money. The unscrupulous pursuit of wealth in a capitalist society and the social contradictions caused by it are the reason why Miss Lynette died, and it is also the reason why this film is about to die. reflect the harsh social reality.
The film lays the groundwork for the later storyline at the very beginning, telling the audience that the heroine Lynette is a rich girl. After that, in a short period of time, the heroine and her good friend's boyfriend got married. The process did not show how they got together. It was only published in a newspaper that they were married and going to Egypt for their honeymoon. It also attracted many people to go, his enemies, his lawyers and so on.
The marriage of Linnett and Simon Dole gave the audience an astonishing span, and the use of this montage might have been a bold attempt for films of that era.
If the previous scene was a confession and foreshadowing, in the restaurant, Jackie shot her former lover. Now Linnett's husband slammed a shot to carry out "love revenge", the scene began to turn sharply, and then, late at night, again There was a gunshot, and Linnett was shot to death. Then, Linnett's female supporter was cut to death in a strange and cruel way. From injuring one person to the death of three people, the case immediately became complicated. A dam is built in the river, the water potential is intercepted, and the dam may be washed away at any time. This artistic technique captures the audience's psychology and makes the audience wonder who is the murderer! Finally, under the final analysis of the detective, let the audience unexpectedly! This ending is the same as the general detective film. It is based on the analysis of the detectives, and finally, under the expectations of the audience, the audience unexpected results.
The film uses tricks such as questioning and assumptions to strengthen the sense of urgency of the plot before reasoning, so as to raise the audience's desire to know "who is the murderer", and also attract the audience in the following points.
First: Put the great detective Poirot in the development of the story. Poirot is not a simple reasoner after the event, but is among the participants of the event from beginning to end. This idea has a great influence on mobilizing the audience. Awareness of participation is important. Poirot represents what the audience thinks and sees in the film. This greatly mobilized the participation of the audience.
Second: Unexpected and reasonable suspense reasoning. When more and more people die, but the audience is still wondering who is the real murderer, the murderer at this time is more suspenseful. The development of the storyline, which is full of questions and anticipation, keeps the audience watching with great interest. At this point, the audience, under the detective's reasoning, suspects that anyone on the boat may be the murderer, but they just don't know who it is. It wasn't until the end that the detective put the sorted thoughts in a logical and orderly manner in front of the crowd and the audience, and the audience suddenly realized.
Breaking the rules is a common tool for detective stories, and the success of "Nee" is that it does not break the ordinary "routine", but the "routine" of all detective stories. When audiences watch detective movies, they will generally exclude two kinds of people from the murderer: one is those who have a great hatred for the dead and can't wait to eat their flesh and sleep their skin, Jackie is also; the other is Audiences can't find their motives, and it's almost impossible to kill people, neither does Simon. For the former, the audience will think that it was used by the director and screenwriter to deceive the audience, while for the latter, although many people will insist that "the more impossible is the more likely", the actual psychological plan will not accept it. Christie is hitting on our soft underbelly. The murderer is Simon, who loves Lynette so much, and the accomplice is Jackie. It's amazing, and the same wonderful design also appeared in Christie's other work, "Murder on the Orient Express."
Third: The film's clever use of the narrative method of "addition" and "subtraction" on the editing narrative line is also the highlight of this film. For example, when the truth of the case is involved, "subtraction" is used. , creating suspense, attracting the audience, and when it reaches the climax, it "makes up" the part "minus" at the beginning. In addition, in many landscapes and places of historical interest, the characters and pictures are well combined, which renders the atmosphere of the film and makes the film also have vigor and vitality.
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