Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2017 23:22:27 GMT
Mar 27, 2017 3:33:23 GMT @eriknight said:
Murder on the Orient Express (1934)The movie with Albert Finney is almost as frustrating as the 'Big Sleep' have been meaning to read the novel and sort this thing out for awhile.
I too cannot wait to see Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation; Branagh is one of my favorite (modern) directors, and if he puts the same craftsmanship into it that he put into Shakespeare, Cinderella, and Jack Ryder: Shadow Recruit...
Do you mean that the movie is difficult to figure out?
Yes, the movie especially the ending, I tend to remember Hercule Poirot's explanation of the crime at the end, leaves you wondering if you might of missed a part of the plot, as no matter how hard you try to follow the film the conclusions that are drawn from them seem
to be a little unfair and made up on the spot.
This is not something that the average mystery reader has not encountered before, the classic ending conclusion "The Butler did it, he was actually the third cousin of the murdered wife twice removed who once had a secret romance going behind her husband's back and their love-child was raised as the daughter of Lord Hemsley and when she found out about it, she was so mad that she hired a thug to........