After watching the movie "Massacre on the Nile" today, after watching it, these words "form is greater than content" came to mind.
After the introduction of this film, it is a bit unsatisfactory, originally Maoyan predicted that the domestic box office would be 200 million, and later changed to 100 million, and now it seems that 70 million may not be able to get it.
Agatha Christie's detective novels have taken the world by storm, and three of the best works are currently recognized as Murder on the Orient Express, No One Survives, and The Roger Mystery.
American director Kenneth Branagh, who began to remake Agatha's detective novel in 2017, directed and acted himself, playing the big detective Polo, and the first work of the remake was "Murder on the Orient Express". In the 21st century, art must also be innovative, there are several versions of "Murder on the Orient Express", the story is reversed, Kenneth Branagh took the old wine for the new bottle, weakened the reasoning process, and focused on the storyline. Ask the big stars to help, starting with a dazzling group portrait scene, and then bringing everyone together and spending 15 minutes reasoning to find the murderer. This routine is a bit like Detective Conan, except that Conan is a child, Poirot is a grandfather, Conan uses football, and Poirot uses a cane.
This "Massacre on the Nile" also has many stars, and the two female stars who are more familiar in China are two. Gail Gadot plays the heroine Lynette, the Israeli beauty starring Wonder Woman, who plays the rich woman this time, young, beautiful and rich.
Rose Leslie is a fire kiss in Game of Thrones and has a relationship with Snow, but Rose Leslie's role in the movie is not flattering, playing a greedy maid.
"Murder on the Orient Express", everyone is fresh, the box office is good, the world won 300 million US dollars at the box office, so there is a second "Massacre on the Nile". After watching it, everyone complained that although it was a detective film, it was more like a love film, and the director was too narcissistic and forced himself to add two love scenes. But who let him be the director, add drama to himself, there is nothing wrong with it.
At the beginning, the origin of Poirot's beard is introduced, and during World War I, Poirot used his wisdom to save himself, but failed to save the lives of his comrades, and he was also injured and disfigured. She meets her lover Jenny at a war hospital, and after Jeanne heals Poirot's injuries, she grows a beard to cover up her scars. Later, Jenny was killed by an air raid, and Poirot missed her for the rest of her life.
The director let Poirot and the black female singer have an ambiguous relationship, although the two have no fate, but in the next play, the director makes a breakthrough and lets Poirot talk about a real love, it is not impossible.
But the question is, will the director still make the next one, I think this director can no longer bring freshness to everyone, I hope he will not ruin my favorite "No One Survives" and "Roger's Doubt".