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Eleanora 2022-03-25 09:01:14

Strange Banquet is a very good movie. If it is a spoiler in one sentence, it is a spoof or satire of a detective film or a classic in a detective novel or a comedy film with a bad cliché. The film tells the story of five world-renowned detectives who are invited to a mysterious banquet in an ancient castle at the same time, but the host of the banquet did not appear, but a series of murders occurred. I checked the wiki, and with the help of the bullet screen, I think that the prototype of Wang Jicha in the movie is the Chinese detective Charlie Chen, a character created by the American writer Earl Del Biggs; the prototype of Pierre is written by Grandma The very famous detective Poirot; Dick and Dora are alluding to Nick and Nora in the movie "Skinny"; Miss Marble and her nurse are based on Miss Marple, and Marple and Poirot are still good friends 2333; Sam Diamond should be referring to Detective Sam Spader.
And, as a deduction detective movie, Strange Banquet is really funny and ironic. Just to give a funny example, Wang (to his Japanese adopted son): You go and clean up this corpse. Adopted son: Why am I doing these rough jobs? Wang: Because your mother is not here, your mother is working when your mother is there. There are really too many jokes, and every one is fresh and refined.
There are also many satires. For example, the murderer is the housekeeper, the murderer is the deceased himself, everyone who is invited has a relationship with the inviter, and all the irrelevant characters at the end of the story will appear, and so on. Many tributes to detective novels . In the end, the murderer also satirized the detectives who failed to solve the case, "You have been so smart for a long time, you have forgotten to be low-key and humble. , and you even let a new character who has never started to play in the last five pages of the book. As for you, you always hide clues and conceal information, so that you can't guess the murderer at all, now it's alright, the table is turned over , millions of angry mystery novel readers, finally got a sigh of anger, when they learned that you were tricked by me, they would give you 1 yuan 9 cents a book, 1 cent 2 cents, and transfer it to others , you can check out and leave, ladies and gentlemen!"

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Extended Reading
  • Ruthie 2022-01-09 08:01:35

    As an anti-genre film, it uses a narrative full of black humor to mock the detective culture that prevailed at the time.

  • Mireille 2022-03-21 09:02:39

    Unmissable suspenseful reasoning

Murder by Death quotes

  • Willie Wang: Who do you think is the murderer?

    Sidney Wang: Must sleep on it. Will know in morning when wake up.

    Willie Wang: But what if you don't wake up?

    Sidney Wang: Then YOU did it.

  • Miss Withers: Murderpoo?

    Jessica Marbles: Yes, dear, we're going to have a lovely murderpoo.