{"id":5112,"date":"2010-07-15T06:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/?p=5112"},"modified":"2010-07-15T06:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T12:00:28","slug":"comments-re-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express-with-david-suchet-as-poirot-pbs-masterpiece-mystery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cozy-mystery.com\/blog\/comments-re-agatha-christies-murder-on-the-orient-express-with-david-suchet-as-poirot-pbs-masterpiece-mystery\/","title":{"rendered":"Comments Re: Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express with David Suchet as Poirot -PBS Masterpiece Mystery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There were a few comments that were posted about the recent Murder on the Orient Express<\/em> television movie – starring the wonderful David Suchet (as Hercule Poirot), which\u00a0aired on Sunday, July 11, 2010. I enjoyed the comments so much,\u00a0that I decided to write a response in this entry. Here are some of the comments:<\/p>\n

Lisa – July 12, 2010 at 5:26 pm
\n“After seeing the special with David Suchet on the magnificent train I was quite excited about last night\u2019s broadcast. I must say I was disappointed. Very little character development for any of the suspects, Poirot didn\u2019t seem his regular self either. As a Catholic, I was confused by this infusion into Poirot\u2019s character. Suchet is and was marvelous, the production brilliant, but the screen play-script! Why make adjustments to Agatha\u2019s Christie\u2019s magnificent story? I recommend buying the dvd of Suchet\u2019s actual trip on the historic and romantic train. I hope the others in this series are better written.”<\/p>\n

Kim – July 12, 2010 at 9:03 pm
\n“I also was disappointed in the version on PBS, and I was so hopeful because I love David Suchet as Poirot. But I guess when you leave out a character, you have to make someone else one of the killers. Really?? And the 2 scenes showing us Poirot\u2019s thoughts on justice\u2026really not necessary. I have noticed tho, that the newer episodes don\u2019t adhere to the books, and that is what I am watching for. I love the books and want to see those dramatized.”<\/p>\n

So, here are my comments:<\/p>\n

I, too, was disappointed with this last Masterpiece Mystery! show… Murder on the Orient Express<\/em>. Don’t get me wrong,\u00a0I think that it was a good movie on its own merit… I simply don’t think that it belonged with ALL of the other episodes in the David Suchet Poirot series. This one was DARK>>> Much darker than all of the other episodes. And, much darker than the Agatha Christie mysteries<\/strong> I have read… including Murder on the Orient Express<\/em>!\u00a0I totally agree with Kim: “the newer episodes don\u2019t adhere to the books, and that is what I am watching for. I love the books and want to see those dramatized.”<\/p>\n

I know that budgets have been cut on a lot of television productions, and I am assuming this show has felt the cuts BECAUSE, after seeing the magnificently opulent train in the 1974 movie version of this same\u00a0mystery novel (Yes, yes, I realize that “real”<\/strong> movies spend millions of dollars on their sets!!!) – \u00a0I have to say, I do not think that I would clamor to take a trip on this particular train. There was absolutely nothing extraordinary about the inside scenes. I had expected some type of almost-majestic fabrics, wood paneling, light fixtures… something! Lisa, I agree, there was nothing about the train that portrayed it as an “historic and romantic train.”<\/p>\n

I was very surprised to see ANY reference to Poirot’s religion. Good grief! Where did that come from?!? I am pretty sure that I have never seen another Masterpiece Poirot show do that. Those scenes simply didn’t “belong” in this production. But, then again, almost all of the scenes didn’t belong! (Again, I think that the movie is good… it just isn’t anything\u00a0like the others in this particular series<\/strong>.) Why bill this as a type of Poirot-returns show if it isn’t at all like the Poirot most of us have been watching for the last (+\/-) 20 years?<\/p>\n

This episode brought to my mind the Sesame Street song my children grew up with:
\n“One of these things is not like the others,
\nOne of these things just doesn’t belong.
\nCan you tell which thing is not like the others,
\nBy the time I finish my song?”<\/p>\n

Well, in this case, it was this Agatha Christie Poirot episode!<\/p>\n

PS>>>> If you disagree, please\u00a0feel free to comment…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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