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Post by hi224 on Jan 13, 2019 5:01:58 GMT
I never liked Finney as Peirot at all.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 13, 2019 22:13:33 GMT
Yeah that mustache was really something else.
I really liked that movie though. I remembered thinking there's a direct connection between liberating the train from the snow, and Poirot's progress on the case. As if dislodging the train from the snow was a kind of countdown to the mystery being solved.
I liked the backstory too. Sean Connery and Ingrid Bergman are the cast I remember best.
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Post by mikef6 on Jan 13, 2019 22:43:02 GMT
Finney and everyone else in the cast was perfect. Every portrayal of Poirot (correct spelling) is a different mustache. None of them have ever seemed right to me.
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Post by marianne48 on Jan 13, 2019 23:50:42 GMT
Great cast, great look to the film. Although I have to agree that Albert Finney's Poirot is not quite right (when my mother saw the film, she wanted to know why Poirot had an Italian accent), up to that time, he was by far the best portrayal of the character
(since just about the only one to compare it to was Tony Randall's performance in The Alphabet Murders, which was execrable). Although I've always preferred David Suchet's Poirot, I still think the 1974 film version is superior to Suchet's TV version of the novel.
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Post by marshamae on Jan 14, 2019 0:28:43 GMT
Just once I’d like to see Poirot with an actual Belgian, or even a French actor. Suchet did Poirot’s snarky self satisfaction perfectly . Both Finney and Branagh were disappointing. I loved The rest of Finney’ s cast with Tony Perkins the weak link and John Gielgud above and beyond . His quiet passion when he spoke of “ my master” , that’s film acting. I enjoyed the difference between Lauren Bacall Playing a ditsy American and her quiet firmness as the brains behind this show. Loved the costumes though Tony Walton’s 70’s disco Art Deco was a rare false note. A lovely light moment when Poirot goes to TGE hotel lounge in Istanbul, there’s a string trio playing a swing version of On The Good Ship Lollipop. Sweet.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2019 1:01:56 GMT
Finney and everyone else in the cast was perfect. Every portrayal of Poirot (correct spelling) is a different mustache. None of them have ever seemed right to me. Sorry i was sick and it was light my bad. |
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Post by politicidal on Jan 14, 2019 1:02:22 GMT
He's more quirky than I'd prefer but it's grown on me. The '74 version is one of my favorite mystery movies. Not so much for the actual mystery anymore but I love how Lumet captured the glamour of that period and the ol' genteel interbellum manner of conduct always fascinated me. I generally enjoy stuff like this, Gosford Park, The Grand Budapest Hotel, etc. anyway.
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2019 1:03:33 GMT
Just once I’d like to see Poirot with an actual Belgian, or even a French actor. Suchet did Poirot’s snarky self satisfaction perfectly . Both Finney and Branagh were disappointing. I loved The rest of Finney’ s cast with Tony Perkins the weak link and John Gielgud above and beyond . His quiet passion when he spoke of “ my master” , that’s film acting. I enjoyed the difference between Lauren Bacall Playing a ditsy American and her quiet firmness as the brains behind this show. Loved the costumes though Tony Walton’s 70’s disco Art Deco was a rare false note. A lovely light moment when Poirot goes to TGE hotel lounge in Istanbul, there’s a string trio playing a swing version of On The Good Ship Lollipop. Sweet. Jean Dujardin i keep saying should as well. |
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Post by jervistetch on Jan 14, 2019 1:21:21 GMT
And Then There Was MALKOVICH!
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2019 1:29:33 GMT
And Then There Was MALKOVICH! Looks interreting. |
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Post by hi224 on Jan 14, 2019 1:42:21 GMT
And Then There Was MALKOVICH! You forgot to say Malkovich! Malkovich! Malkovich! Malkovich! |
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Post by Nalkarj on Jan 14, 2019 2:09:04 GMT
And Then There Was MALKOVICH! Lord, somehow I’d completely forgotten about this. Heh. Malkovich would, um, not have been my first choice as Poirot, to put it lightly. I’m not really a fan of his. Imagine if Branagh decides to adapt The ABC Murders after Death on the Nile? As for MotOE, hi224 , I wish I liked it more. I like the cast, those beautiful sets, the opulence of the production, that fantastic music… I love Lumet’s little directorial niceties in the beginning and end (Daisy’s kidnapping and the murder itself). I even like Finney, who’s probably the most criticized part of this movie post-Suchet. But I’ve never been able to warm up to the movie; I find the witness questioning dreadfully dull, and it goes on forever. And (except for Finney and Bacall) no one’s allowed to create a character in all that questioning, especially Perkins, who’s burdened with playing Norman for the umpteenth time. I far prefer the less well-filmed, less opulent, and less star-studded but infinitely more entertaining Ustinov Death on the Nile. |
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