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Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

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Re: Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

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gajjanag wrote: post #17

For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Poirot I find it fascinating that they did this series over a span of over 24 years, with the same lead actor (David Suchet, CBE) as Hercule Poirot throughout! There is a behind the scenes intervie…

To fans of this and other British crime shows - current and classic - I'd recommend BritBox. It's a collaboration between the BBC and ITV and has some real "mystery" gems [1]. I've no affiliation.

[1] https://www.britbox.com/us/genre/mystery

Re: Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

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briandear wrote: post #41

What a terribly written, yet interesting article. Have a look at this torture mascarading as a paragraph: “But derivative works and adaptations can't fully explain why Christie's work endures. A splendid biography by Laura Thompson, however, does. "Agatha Christie: A Mysterious Life" was published in Britain over a decade ago and took an inexplicable amount of time to cross the pond. Yet the timing is perfect because…

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lisper wrote: post #37
ghaff wrote: post #29

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The whole way that Poirot/Branagh acted around the reveal and afterwards differed quite a bit from the 70s film as well. It's the main thing that knocks this version down at least a notch for me.

No one will ever surpass David Suchet's Poirot. They may as well not even try.

Sadly not legally available without buying DVDs or getting Acorn add-on to Netflix.

Re: Agatha Christie’s life rivaled the mysteries she created

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Post by lisper »

ghaff wrote: post #53
lisper wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No one will ever surpass David Suchet's Poirot. They may as well not even try.

Sadly not legally available without buying DVDs or getting Acorn add-on to Netflix.

Yeah. They were all available on Netflix until a few months ago but then they went away :-(

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Post by js2 »

ddoran wrote: post #51
gajjanag wrote: post #17

For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Poirot I find it fascinating that they did this series over a span of over 24 years, with the same lead actor (David Suchet, CBE) as Hercule Poirot throughout! There is a behind the scenes intervie…

To fans of this and other British crime shows - current and classic - I'd recommend BritBox. It's a collaboration between the BBC and ITV and has some real "mystery" gems [1]. I've no affiliation. [1] https://www.britbox.com/us/genre/mystery

It looks like BritBox only has the first six seasons (series?) of Poirot. For the remaining seasons, you need to go to acorn.tv.

Let's see, can I get it from iTunes? Nope, Apple only sells 7-13 in the U.S. too.

(Still waiting for the video rights holders to learn the same lesson the music rights holders eventually did: if you don't want people to pirate, make it easier to buy it than to steal it.)

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Post by sg0 »

lobster_johnson wrote: post #21
gajjanag wrote: post #17

For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Poirot I find it fascinating that they did this series over a span of over 24 years, with the same lead actor (David Suchet, CBE) as Hercule Poirot throughout! There is a behind the scenes intervie…

I think the Poirot series is superb, but some of them suffer from stretching the runtime -- the best ones are about 51 minutes long, whereas the longer ones (which includes all of the last few seasons) click in at 1 hour and 29 minutes, some of which are based on short stories , not novels. As delightful as Poirot and his mysteries are, these are also admittedly somewhat shallow, implausible puzzles that rely on acti…

I was just seeing "The Falcon and the Snowman" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087231/?ref_=nv_sr_1) on Hulu, where David Suchet plays the wily Russian agent Alex (his father's side of family is originally from Russia, however in that movie his accent sounded quite British to me).

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Post by dang »

pvg wrote: post #49
dang wrote: post #12

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Also the best selling, proving that the mass market sometimes gets art right. It's Agatha at her most brilliant, ruthless not only in story but in style. The English is as hard and bare as possible. IIRC it's almost all dialog and minimal dialog at that. But you don't notice because the story is such a drug. It stands apart from her other books by having no familiar characters and being completely sealed. A perfect i…

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/creative/epub/harriman/2015/fall/...

Oh interesting! I'll take a look at it.

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Post by timthorn »

stevekemp wrote: post #40
gajjanag wrote: post #17

For fans of film, essentially all of Agatha Christie's mysteries featuring the Belgian detective character Hercule Poirot have been adapted by ITV into a fantastic TV series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Poirot I find it fascinating that they did this series over a span of over 24 years, with the same lead actor (David Suchet, CBE) as Hercule Poirot throughout! There is a behind the scenes intervie…

For some reason I've always personally preferred Miss Marple to Poirot, but again there have been a fine series of adaptations of the Marple books by the BBC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Marple_(TV_series) When it comes to Poirot I suspect I'm biased, because I love Inspector Morse, both the original books and the excellent ITV adaptation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inspector_Morse_(TV_series) For some reas…

Much like Suchet with Poirot, Joan Hickson made Miss Marple her own - Christie wrote to her years before the series was made, hoping that Hickson would one day play the part.

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Post by naeemtee »

BerislavLopac wrote: post #48
oldandtired wrote: post #31

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A personal question to you: Why and in what particular ways do you consider Peter Jackson's renditions of the The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit to be so awful, awful? I have enjoyed by stories since I first came across them 40 years ago. I thought that Peter Jackson did an excellent job on retelling the story. In point of fact, retelling it in a way that keeps the essence but is a new variation. When I first obtai…

Don't get me started... Ah, too late! The Fellowship of the Ring is an excellent film, pretty consistently following the story while removing confusing elements like Tom Bombadil (some scenes, like the Moria stone troll fight, could have been a bit shorter, but overall it was really amazing). The Two Towers started showing the early signs os Jackson's "interventionist" approach (which later culminated in the Hobbit f…

The return of the King is one of the best movies of the last 20+ years. Whine about the Hobbit all you want, but LOTR is the greatest trilogy ever made and Peter Jackson is a legend.
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