A suspenseful comedy

Mossie 2022-03-24 09:02:51

Undoubtedly, Strange Banquet is a movie with a very high production cost. Many British, American, and French film and television stars have appeared on the camera (Harry Potter's McGonagall Professor Maggie Smith, the prosecution witness's lawyer nanny.... ...), and the sets and special effects in the film were expensive in those days.
But in my opinion the value of the movie itself is not as high as imagined.
The theme of the movie is not obvious. Many people enjoy this movie with the theme of suspense and horror, but in the end, they find that it is a movie with a chaotic theme mixed with horror, wretchedness, and blood.
The terrifying scene and gloomy atmosphere created at the beginning were all broken up by the nonsensical lines of several couples (Zhensu was defeated by your innocence), and the gloomy atmosphere of the barren mountain castle was completely gone ( In vain I spent the middle of the night hiding under the covers to watch). The miserable doorbell, the falling boulder, and the weird room finally brought out the emotions, but the idiot detective laughed outright when he came on the scene (Can the Chinese King's Inspector be more bloody about the Japanese adopted son, the French-Belgian detective obviously It's a 2B version of Her Majesty's Detective Polo, Agatha Christina, and the driver-secretary and part of the plot, the unabashedly gay or misogynistic San Francisco Attorney Dimont, and the honest Detective Marble and her feisty senior nurse …).
Of course, if this movie is regarded as a nonsense and funny movie similar to Stephen Chow, it is remarkable. It is not difficult to taste the lines of each character and find the distinctive characters with their own characteristics.

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Extended Reading
  • Jayde 2022-03-27 09:01:14

    The style of "Strange Banquet" is very close to Hitchcock's "The Case of the Corpse". The story is compact, tortuous, and the rhythm is very cheerful. The humorous passages make the momentary sense of crisis be passed over by nervousness and nonsense one by one. Lively, this small-scale secret room suspense movie is a lot more interesting all at once.

  • Jermaine 2022-03-16 09:01:05

    Detective Wang in a Chinese mandarin jacket. . . Good village

Murder by Death quotes

  • [Hearing a knock at the door]

    Dora Charleston: Oh, that's probably the cook. Come in!

    Dick Charleston: Darling, the poor woman is stone deaf.

    Dora Charleston: I'm sorry, I forgot. COME IN!

  • Dora Charleston: Is he dead?

    Sam Diamond: With a thing like that in his back, in the long run, he's better off.