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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 24, 2020 9:32:12 GMT
That dirgey Depeche Mode track they’re using in the trailer isn’t doing it any favours either!
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Post by TallPaul on Aug 24, 2020 11:11:48 GMT
"What's my motivation, Ken?" "Just stare straight down the camera, sweetheart, and look shocked."
Maybe the end product will be different, but it seems to me that the trailer is trying to make a film set in the 1930s appeal to people who wouldn't normally watch a film set in the 1930s.
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Post by confessor on Aug 24, 2020 16:07:52 GMT
I love Agatha Christie so will no doubt watch this at some point, not going to rush to it based on the trailer though. I sincerely doubt that it will surpass the '78 version. They better have kept in the "Hercules Porridge" line!
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Post by smallperson on Aug 24, 2020 20:25:49 GMT
That was a TV Episode in which not everyone, certainly not international audiences, would have seen or been interested to see. Very different from a major motion picture starring Hollywood actors. Oh dear! My bad! Sorry!
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Post by Rory on Aug 25, 2020 17:54:31 GMT
That was a TV Episode in which not everyone, certainly not international audiences, would have seen or been interested to see. Very different from a major motion picture starring Hollywood actors. Well it had just as interesting a cast as the Branagh, if not better, including (then less well known) Hollywood star Emily Blunt!
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Post by kathryn on Aug 28, 2020 13:58:36 GMT
Tom Bateman is close to Branagh - so Bouc was added. The joys of having friends in high places Be honest though, spotting Branagh’s luvvie mates in his casts is often the highlight of his films. Take a bingo card in with you.
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Post by crabtree on Sept 3, 2020 9:41:14 GMT
i watched 'The Mirror crack'd' on tv over the bank holiday, and it really is a pretty low rent film, with some truly terrible lighting and clumsy design and staging (Miss Marple's house with the unsubtle painted backdrop outside). It seems to be Miss Marple's relative, Edward Fox, who does most of the solving. she just springs into action at the very end. And Pierce Brosnan makes an early appearance for a few seconds. Anyone care to tie in the title and the Lady of Shallott to the plot? Is it because of shooting a film, and characters being reflections of themselves and exposed?
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Post by Jan on Sept 12, 2020 18:01:21 GMT
Oh. Lots of negativity about Kenny. I thought his direction of Henry V was very good, though it cribbed a lot from the Adrian Noble stage production of it that he was in, and Hamlet was well directed too. He’s directed some good things on stage too. I used to rather flippantly tell people that “He’s just like Olivier, just like him ....... except not such a good actor”. Now though I see his career arc as being more like Orson Welles.
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Post by adolphus on Sept 12, 2020 21:12:38 GMT
"What's my motivation, Ken?" "Just stare straight down the camera, sweetheart, and look shocked." Maybe the end product will be different, but it seems to me that the trailer is trying to make a film set in the 1930s appeal to people who wouldn't normally watch a film set in the 1930s. Indeed. Or people who haven't seen the 1978 film, and are wondering how he hopes to top it, given the not so starry cast and humourlessness of the trailer.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Sept 13, 2020 9:26:23 GMT
i watched 'The Mirror crack'd' on tv over the bank holiday, and it really is a pretty low rent film, with some truly terrible lighting and clumsy design and staging (Miss Marple's house with the unsubtle painted backdrop outside). It seems to be Miss Marple's relative, Edward Fox, who does most of the solving. she just springs into action at the very end. And Pierce Brosnan makes an early appearance for a few seconds. Anyone care to tie in the title and the Lady of Shallott to the plot? Is it because of shooting a film, and characters being reflections of themselves and exposed? “The mirror crack’d from side to side... ‘the curse has come upon me’ cried the lady of shallot”. {Spoiler - click to view} It’s the realisation by Marina that the random woman who was wittering on about meeting her years ago had been the person to give her measles (the curse) and this resulted in Marina her losing her baby and murdering the woman in revenge. It’s a bit far fetched even by Agatha’s standards, I seem to remember it working better in the novel because the film didn’t seem to know whether it was trying to be a comedy or not. I still enjoy re-watching it on occasion though.
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Post by vdcni on Sept 13, 2020 18:25:15 GMT
Though it was supposed to have happened, without the murder, to Gene Tierney.
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Post by crabtree on Mar 6, 2022 20:50:45 GMT
Does anyone know if the main cast, or even the Carnak itself, saw the actual Nile. I suspect much of the river scenes was second unit and the rest sophisticated cG/green screen, I rather enjoyed it but want to replay the last scene on the boat just to work things out again.
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Post by NorthernAlien on Mar 7, 2022 9:13:11 GMT
Apparently mostly Morocco, but I haven't looked into it closely enough to be 100% sure that there's no Egypt whatsoever in there - although I suspect you are right that, at best, some of the 2nd unit might have travelled that far, but no-one actually 'in it'...
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2022 9:18:24 GMT
Merged
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2022 9:26:04 GMT
I ended up h giving it a miss at the cinema. After that long wait for it to be released I’d rather gone off the boil and I still think it looks visually lush but a bit dreary. The trailer really put me off. I’ll wait for it to stream.
Do Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders play Van Shuyler and Bowers with any degree of comedy?
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Post by jojo on Mar 7, 2022 12:49:27 GMT
i watched 'The Mirror crack'd' on tv over the bank holiday, and it really is a pretty low rent film, with some truly terrible lighting and clumsy design and staging (Miss Marple's house with the unsubtle painted backdrop outside). It seems to be Miss Marple's relative, Edward Fox, who does most of the solving. she just springs into action at the very end. And Pierce Brosnan makes an early appearance for a few seconds. Anyone care to tie in the title and the Lady of Shallott to the plot? Is it because of shooting a film, and characters being reflections of themselves and exposed? “The mirror crack’d from side to side... ‘the curse has come upon me’ cried the lady of shallot”. {Spoiler - click to view} It’s the realisation by Marina that the random woman who was wittering on about meeting her years ago had been the person to give her measles (the curse) and this resulted in Marina her losing her baby and murdering the woman in revenge. It’s a bit far fetched even by Agatha’s standards, I seem to remember it working better in the novel because the film didn’t seem to know whether it was trying to be a comedy or not. I still enjoy re-watching it on occasion though. I like "The Mirror Crack'd" because it's the one where I actually predicted the the murderer, with correct motive, long before the official reveal. I often suspect the murderer before the reveal, but I usually suspect a load of other people too, so that's cheating.
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Post by mkb on Mar 7, 2022 13:27:50 GMT
Do Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders play Van Shuyler and Bowers with any degree of comedy? They play the roles seriously. I thought them rather good, and I got moist-eyed at one poignant moment between the characters.
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Post by Deal J on Mar 7, 2022 13:52:46 GMT
Do Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders play Van Shuyler and Bowers with any degree of comedy? They play the roles seriously. I thought them rather good, and I got moist-eyed at one poignant moment between the characters. Are they going to do the accent?
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Post by Jan on Mar 7, 2022 14:14:14 GMT
Does anyone know if the main cast, or even the Carnak itself, saw the actual Nile. I suspect much of the river scenes was second unit and the rest sophisticated cG/green screen, I rather enjoyed it but want to replay the last scene on the boat just to work things out again. Do you think the Nile was even in the film at all ? To me it looked way too narrow every time we saw it - even before they built the Aswan dam it must have been over 1km wide at Abu Simbel ? In the film it doesn’t look much wider than the Thames, you can always see both banks .
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Post by couldileaveyou on Mar 7, 2022 14:16:43 GMT
All the filming took place in England
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Post by poster J on Mar 7, 2022 14:33:25 GMT
Does anyone know if the main cast, or even the Carnak itself, saw the actual Nile. I suspect much of the river scenes was second unit and the rest sophisticated cG/green screen, I rather enjoyed it but want to replay the last scene on the boat just to work things out again. Do you think the Nile was even in the film at all ? To me it looked way too narrow every time we saw it - even before they built the Aswan dam it must have been over 1km wide at Abu Simbel ? In the film it doesn’t look much wider than the Thames, you can always see both banks . You can see both banks of the Nile around Luxor and Aswan, or at least between one bank and an island, for the most part. It isn't that wide in that sense around those settlements.
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Post by Jan on Mar 7, 2022 15:11:26 GMT
Do you think the Nile was even in the film at all ? To me it looked way too narrow every time we saw it - even before they built the Aswan dam it must have been over 1km wide at Abu Simbel ? In the film it doesn’t look much wider than the Thames, you can always see both banks . You can see both banks of the Nile around Luxor and Aswan, or at least between one bank and an island, for the most part. It isn't that wide in that sense around those settlements. The average width now after Aswan is 2.8 km. The narrowest section is 350m. That’s after they built the dam though - not sure what it was before when this film was set. Looked less than that in the film mostly, especially at the fake Abu Simbel, in the early and later establishing shots maybe not.
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Post by interval99 on Mar 7, 2022 15:43:41 GMT
As ever now with Dame Agatha Christie productions a lot of liberties and free rein taken but her story are strong enough to take the so called improvements. Really was an amazing storyteller.
Film was enjoyable enough even while CGI to the hilt almost to superhero film standard. Just pity they didn't spend as much work on the characters half of whom get no real role.
Was reasonably full cinema possibly due to it being the only early evening slot all week. Seems now they show films all day from 9 to 5 and then from 8 onwards.
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Post by Jan on Mar 7, 2022 17:03:48 GMT
As ever now with Dame Agatha Christie productions a lot of liberties and free rein taken but her story are strong enough to take the so called improvements. Really was an amazing storyteller. Film was enjoyable enough even while CGI to the hilt almost to superhero film standard. Just pity they didn't spend as much work on the characters half of whom get no real role. Was reasonably full cinema possibly due to it being the only early evening slot all week. Seems now they show films all day from 9 to 5 and then from 8 onwards. I saw it at the Riverside Studios - quite nice small screen, no riff raff, could pretend it was an art house film. .
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Mar 7, 2022 18:19:51 GMT
For fans of Agatha Christie novels I can recommend a podcast called All About Agatha, a delightfully geeky affair where her books and short stories are analysed and rated in chronological order. Forays into film and tv are included. Lovely (American) presenters who take it all very seriously but are suitably humorous at the same time. Start at the beginning or choose your favourite stories to see if you agree with their rating. it’s on all the usual platforms, here’s the episode for Death on the Nile from Soundcloud soundcloud.com/user-269339596/and-then-there-were-45-death-on-the-nile-by-agatha-christieETA: they reveal the solution to the puzzle in the discussion in case that’s important to you!
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Post by justfran on Apr 1, 2022 12:24:28 GMT
Now showing on Disney+
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Apr 1, 2022 12:41:24 GMT
Ooh! Might resurrect my subscription for one month for this and West Side Story. That would be worth £7.99!
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Post by justfran on Apr 2, 2022 21:08:01 GMT
Ooh! Might resurrect my subscription for one month for this and West Side Story. That would be worth £7.99! I haven’t read the book so can’t compare it but I was a bit disappointed with this new film version of Death on the Nile and wouldn’t really rush to recommend it to anyone. However, there’s lots to enjoy on Disney+ so definitely worth a month’s subscription and getting your money’s worth - enjoy 😊
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Post by danb on Apr 3, 2022 9:29:05 GMT
SPOILERS:
We watched it last night. The wife enjoyed it for what it was. I sat there wincing every time it deviated from the book or the 70’s classic. I missed the smell of pear drops as a clue, I missed it being Angela Lansbury getting shot before revealing what she saw. I thought Dawn French’s devotion far too obvious. I loathed Branaghs need to bookend the film with even more scenes of him doing actoring. I absolutely loved Emma Mackie, Arm & Hammer and Gal Gadot as the central thruple. I loved Jen Saunders doing her understated Ellen Burstyn US accent and actual acting. I appreciated Russel Brands lack of screen time. Its a much better tale than ‘Murder on the Orient Express’, but felt longer and much less dramatic than Branaghs stab at that. I really don’t need to see any more of him as Poirot. Soz Ken.
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Post by craig on Apr 3, 2022 10:22:14 GMT
I’m glad it’s not just me who finds Branagh a bit tiresome as Poirot. Both films have been fun, overblown, star-filled romps, but the Poirot backstory stuff has left me eye rolling. His performance takes things a little too seriously for me, too. I can’t imagine David Suchet ever being bettered.
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