I guess my main issue with this one is the liberty they took with the relationship between Oliver and Hercule. I was truly taken aback by it and maybe I read into it too much but for the accusation to be made of one using the other for their own celebrity was…well…not right. That just isn’t their relationship. At least, not in any of the Suchet versions that have Oliver featured prominently. True, that Poirot doesn’t necessarily take her seriously but he knows her to be a smart woman who isn’t prone to imaginations and runs to her aid whenever she calls him. They are meant to be close friends. But the scenes with them throughout and at the end were jarring. I would have to reread the books but I doubt the Branagh versions are at all accurate. I wonder if he were to choose another that features Oliver, how he would play off this dynamic.
Yes, Branagh and especially Green took a ton of liberties with everything, especially that. The script wasn’t true to her stories at all, but the cinematography was, thankfully.
I found one of these murders to be quite disconcerting. Quite.
I very much enjoyed this one!
I guess my main issue with this one is the liberty they took with the relationship between Oliver and Hercule. I was truly taken aback by it and maybe I read into it too much but for the accusation to be made of one using the other for their own celebrity was…well…not right. That just isn’t their relationship. At least, not in any of the Suchet versions that have Oliver featured prominently. True, that Poirot doesn’t necessarily take her seriously but he knows her to be a smart woman who isn’t prone to imaginations and runs to her aid whenever she calls him. They are meant to be close friends. But the scenes with them throughout and at the end were jarring. I would have to reread the books but I doubt the Branagh versions are at all accurate. I wonder if he were to choose another that features Oliver, how he would play off this dynamic.
Yes, Branagh and especially Green took a ton of liberties with everything, especially that. The script wasn’t true to her stories at all, but the cinematography was, thankfully.