Post by london777 on Sept 11, 2021 17:46:12 GMT
Salzmank is the expert here.
Not my field, but has class something to do with it? I believe most classic crime mysteries were in middle-class settings. Before WWII the mass cinema-going public were working-class and enjoyed a peek into middle-class lives, both envying them and enjoying a frisson at watching posh people in deep trouble.
Difficult to either envy or sympathize with Agatha Christie characters these days. They all seem like fancy-dress puppets, not real people.
Knives Out (2019) dir: Rian Johnson was a deliberate attempt to revive the genre, and massively hyped as such with slogans like 'When did you last have fun at the movies?'. I would take one of the 1930s originals every time (not that I like them much either).
Not my field, but has class something to do with it? I believe most classic crime mysteries were in middle-class settings. Before WWII the mass cinema-going public were working-class and enjoyed a peek into middle-class lives, both envying them and enjoying a frisson at watching posh people in deep trouble.
Difficult to either envy or sympathize with Agatha Christie characters these days. They all seem like fancy-dress puppets, not real people.
Knives Out (2019) dir: Rian Johnson was a deliberate attempt to revive the genre, and massively hyped as such with slogans like 'When did you last have fun at the movies?'. I would take one of the 1930s originals every time (not that I like them much either).