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Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

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Gorgeous and mediocre.

This is the "Massacre on the Nile" by Gayle Gadot as the heroine, which gives people the impression.

It will inevitably be compared to the previous two adaptations, especially the classic version of 1978. The 1978 version of Massacre on the Nile, co-produced by Britain, France and Germany, lasted 140 minutes and included three Oscar winners, two Oscar queens, and a Golden Globe queen.

But the reason why the 1978 version is classic is not only because of its luxurious cast, but also because it pays attention to digging deep into everyone around the victim, stripping away the cocoon under the premise that almost everyone has a murderous motive, and including the complex ambiguity and darkness of human nature in the reasoning process of Detective Poirot.

It is both suspenseful reasoning and digging deep into human nature, and it is full of awe.

In contrast, the 2022 version of "Massacre on the Nile", in addition to the gorgeous exotic scenery and the beauty of Gail Gadot, its reasoning process, and its portrayal of the characters, with mediocrity or even bad to describe, is not exaggerated.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?
2022 edition of Massacre on the Nile

Politically correct character confusion

Massacre on the Nile, original author Agatha Christie.

According to the Statistics of The New Yorker magazine, the sales volume of her works is second only to Shakespeare and the Bible in the history of book distribution, and "The Massacre on the Nile" is her most important representative work, and it is also the culmination of her writing characteristics, that is—

There is a twist of major events at the beginning, followed by a cloud of doubts and strange things that the detective has to appear, he uses the idle day to reason, associates irrelevant gossip and actions with deliberate murder, and superimposes fleeting details to uncover the secrets hidden in everyone's heart.

Taking down the real culprit is not the point.

Uncovering the secrets that everyone doesn't know is key.

The same is true of Massacre on the Nile.

Linnett, who inherited the family inheritance, not only was bitter and mean to the people around him, but even snatched simon, the fiancé of his girlfriend Jackie;

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Just as the two are on their honeymoon in Egypt, Jackie follows; on the way they board a Nile cruise ship, and the great detective Poirot happens to be sightseeing on this boat;

Poirot noticed that everyone on the ship seemed to be around Linnett—

For example, the pornographer Salome, the widow With unclean hands and feet, Mrs. Farnskeller, the maid Louis, Dr. Bessner, the lawyer Andrew, the nurse Miss Bowers, and so on.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Maid Louise

They are all unhappy with Lynnette, especially their girlfriend Jackie, who is tailing with a pistol.

Sure enough, after a fortuitous conflict, Lynette was found dead in bed...

The synopsis of this story is based on the 1978 edition.

It eliminates the more complex character clues in the original work, and only retains these key characters in the movie, allowing the audience to focus more on the case itself.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

1978 edition of Massacre on the Nile

The 2022 version of "Massacre on the Nile" is too much pursuit of political correctness and seems to have lost its original flavor.

Rather than focusing on suspenseful reasoning and human nature, it is better to say that it is putting together a Hollywood family bucket, racial issues and same-sex elements can not be less, and it does not care whether they are suitable for being placed here.

For example, in the original work, the two masters and servants who fight daily to have endless fun are changed here to a harmonious and loving middle-aged and elderly same-sex partner;

For example, in the original work, salome, a horse-grabbing erotic writer who can't move at every turn, changed to a black singer who is deeply troubled by racial discrimination here, and also engaged in an emotional line with the great detective Poirot, which belongs to the politically correct "black and white match".

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

This is not to say that this kind of adaptation for the pursuit of political correctness must have an uncomfortable perception.

Rather, since this is to be changed, it should be portrayed well, giving the audience a time and space to become familiar with the new characters, rather than relying on the inertial cognition related to political correctness in reality, and it is natural to assume that they should be such a relationship.

Any director who relies on inertial cognition to resolve dramatic conflicts is a hooligan.

But that's not the fatal flaw of the 2022 edition of Massacre on the Nile.

Its biggest problem is that it is not able to handle the relationship between people, even as simple as the order of the characters, it has not been clear.

One of the characteristics of Agatha Christie's novels is the large number of characters. But their appearances are gradual, and you can define the relationship and estrangement between each character in the dialogue they appear in the first time they appear.

The 1978 edition was adapted to this advantage very well.

For example, in the first 8 minutes of the movie, around Lynnett, you can see her relationship with the housekeeper, maid and girlfriend, and you can also see her condescending attitude and harsh and hateful words.

The housekeeper told her that the gardener had not yet come, and she was arrogant and asked him to find someone now.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

The servant fell in love with an Egyptian who said she did not agree to the marriage and did not give her a dowry.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Her girlfriend wants her to help her fiancé arrange work, but she complains that her shoes are too small.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

None of its details are superfluous, and the definition of each character is clear.

But in the 2022 edition of Massacre on the Nile, the first act appears at the ball, and everyone who could kill Linnett appears.

All literary-based narrative art is trying to avoid scenes such as grand gatherings.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Because it is too much of a test of the creator's skill, not only to let everyone on the scene have a sense of existence, but also to make them completely different from each other, but also to expose interpersonal relationships and deduce the direction of the story between words and deeds.

However, the new version of the adaptation is too confident, and so many key characters are explained at one time, so that it is difficult for the audience to find the key information of each character in the effective time. Not to mention the relationship between the characters, even who they are, the audience is difficult to distinguish.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

The last thing everyone remembers may be those two erotic dances. Especially the scene where Gayle Gadot rides on Amy Hammer, unscrupulously showing off her posture and stirring up lust.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Reasoning mediocre Realm is low

Everyone has a motive for committing a crime.

As mentioned earlier, this is characteristic of Agatha Christie, and even more so in Massacre on the Nile.

So the brilliance of this story is that the audience will follow the reasoning of the great detective Poirot and constantly change the suspect. In the process, you can see the intricate network of relationships between the many characters, and the dark areas hidden in each person's heart.

That is to say, under a lump of harmony is an undercurrent surging underneath.

The characters in the play are all at risk, and the audience outside the play also enjoys the pleasure of reasoning.

However, the 2022 version of the adaptation always carries a sense of superiority that "I have seen through everything long ago". It brought Poirot up front, allowing him to watch Linette and everyone around her from the start, and to see the sinister intentions of each of them.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

This kind of setting makes Poirot have a strong sense of purpose from the moment he appears.

But the truth is, why did Poirot appear in Egypt?

He was tired, tired, tired, he just wanted to simply travel, enjoy the comfort of life and Shan Shan, and did not want to investigate the case at all - this inconspicuous setting, both in line with his identity as a great detective who constantly investigated the case, but also brought out that he also had a normal human side.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

So in 1978, Poirot had a lot of vitriol and cynicism, and he just wanted to enjoy the wine, food, and beauty.

While he also noticed that everyone had ill intentions towards Lynnette, he didn't really care.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

Compared with the cold and blunt version of The 2022 version of Poirot, the 1978 version of Poirot's bit of annoying funny and sensitive is more affinity.

This setting, which can bring him closer to the relationship with ordinary people, makes him seem less rigid when reasoning about the case, but when he touches everyone's gray space, he shows a sad and compassionate coolness.

But the 2022 version of Poirot, who was cold and stiff at the beginning, was quite emotional in the process of reasoning.

And not only excited, it actually turned on the double speed, just like the cross-talk actor reported the name of the dish, not to hurry up and finish the mouth.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

So that people can't help but wonder if the director has some "suspense intolerance", and when it comes to those key details, he chooses to brush it over. As a result, the important details of the case are missing more than half, so that the reasoning process is like a marquee, and the task is completed in a process.

In Agatha Christie's pen, Poirot is indeed the one who deciphers the reasoning.

But she did not let Poirot just stay in the function of deciphering reasoning, but also let him bring out his own personality characteristics in the process of detective reasoning, especially his basic attitude towards human nature after seeing so many fierce and dark human nature.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

If Poirot in 1978 was miserable, the 2022 version of Poirot was cynical. This subtle difference can well explain the difference in the aesthetic tendencies of the main creators:

The background of compassion is cool and thin--he has seen too much of the beauty and darkness of human nature, so he neither looks up to nor demeans people, but is a sense of detachment that he thinks he is proud of. So in the 1978 version, when the murderer committed suicide in front of Poirot, Poirot was annoyed, remorseful and regretful, he thought he knew human nature well, but he did not expect to know enough.

Otherwise he wouldn't have lamented that "it's too miserable."

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?
Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

And the cynical background is disgust - after seeing so much darkness and cruelty, he has long lost hope in human nature, and all that remains is to confirm human nature again and again. So in the 2022 version, when the murderer commits suicide in front of Poirot, Poirot's performance is like everything has been expected by him, and the so-called human nature is just that.

He is presenting himself as a judge, so when the people disembark, he will question and confess to everyone.

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

In the 1978 version of Poirot, he did not have to judge anyone, but showed more regret and sentimentality.

After all, no one can judge human nature.

So at the end of the 1978 edition, when the couple told Poirot that they were engaged, Poirot would be so excited and blessed that after watching them hug each other and leave, he borrowed Molière's famous words and sighed meaningfully: "A woman's greatest wish is to make people love her." ”

Gayle Gadot: The "angelababy" of the West?

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