The 2017 version of "Murder on the Orient Express" will be the most exquisite and retro and luxurious choreography and images so far, which is also the third time that the novel has been put on the big screen, taking the opportunity of the release of the new version of the movie "Murder on the Orient Express", let us walk into the same powerful super IP behind this big IP, follow the footsteps of Agatha and Detective Poirot, and enjoy the twin stars of the suspense classic and the unique charm of the most popular detective in history. Before watching the movie, let's talk about the things you must know behind this classic detective story.
(This article is from the first station of film and television life Time Network)
When you think of famous detectives in popular culture, who comes to mind first? sherlock holmes? PhilipPe Marlowe? Yukawa Gaku? Pack black charcoal? Or Conan? And if the answer doesn't include "Poirot the Great Detective," it's time to meet the Belgian foodie detective, who was born in 1921 and created by Agatha Christie, the "Queen of Reasoning."
The crime mystery story "Murder on the Orient Express" led by this great detective has landed in mainland theaters. The film is directed by kenneth Branagh, the most talented British director, and Jack Captain Johnny Depp, Catwoman Michelle Pfeiffer, Star Wars Female Number One Daisy Ridley, old drama bone Judy Dench, Spanish Wild Rose Penelope Cruz, Green Devil William Dafoe and other big names joined strongly.
The legendary classic of the detective film "Murder on the Orient Express"
Poster for the '74 edition of Murder on the Orient Express
Based on the tome of the same name by Agatha Christie, queen of reasoning, Murder on the Orient Express revolves around a murder on the "Orient Express", a luxury train in France, where Poirot, a great detective from Belgium, breaks through the fog on the murderous train and finally identifies the real culprit among the 12 suspects.
The reason why "Murder on the Orient Express" is regarded by later generations as Poirot's detective career and Agatha's most representative strange case is because of the shocking, subversive reversal ending, and the difficult choices That Poirot made in the face of jurisprudence and human feelings at the end of the film. Among the many film adaptations, it is the first "Murder on the Orient Express" in 1974 that is the most classic.
<h1>1974 film Murder on the Orient Express</h1>
The 1974 edition of Murder on the Orient Express, directed by legendary American director Sidney Lumet (Hot Day Afternoon, Twelve Angry Men), was the first feature film adaptation of the original Book of Orient (hereinafter referred to as Orient) since its release in 1934.
Poirot, the great detective played by Albert Finney, an old drama bone in Shakespeare's drama, accurately restored the clever detective in the book, and won himself a nomination for a movie emperor. From the current point of view, this classic version of "Orient" has at least opened two "luxuries" for later adaptations.
First, the luxurious choreography, from the actor's costumes, tableware craftsmanship to the box facilities, every detail must accurately restore the classical elegance of the 1930s, and strive to simulate the operation of the Oriental Express and the exquisite solemnity of the high society on the screen.
Second, the luxurious cast, the 1974 edition of "Orient" brought together the big names in the British, American and French film circles, Sean Connery, Richard Widmark, Ingrid Bergman, Lauren Whitecall, Anthony Boggins, John Gilgood, Jean-Pierre Cassel, these old fans listened to the momentary climax of the gods and goddesses gathered together to star-studded, but also let the already suspenseful detective stories full of visual enjoyment, just counting stars in the theater, watching the scenery is not worth it. Two "luxurious" production traditions were also carried forward in subsequent adaptations.
The 1974 version of "Orient" not only received praise from critics, but also paid more than $35 million at the box office for a cost of $1.4 million. Even Agatha herself, who has always disliked the adaptation of her work, is quite satisfied with the film. The film received 6 Oscar nominations, and Ingrid Bergman also won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for this film.
David Sucht played Detective Poirot in the 2010 TV version
<h1>2010 British drama</h1>
Another version of the more classic "Orient" adaptation is the TV version of Poirot-David Suchte's 2010 "Murder on the New Orient Express", which is still an elegant layout of the interior, with model sister Jessica Chastain, Hydra scientist Toby Jones, X-Men: Heavenly Gift" "Dream Girl" Elena Satin and "Governor" David Morriser in the Walking Dead.
"New Oriental" has more artistic treatment than the 1974 version, and the language of the tightly paced lens is more diverse, especially for Poirot's psychological portrayal is more human than the original and the 1974 version.
<h1>2001 TV Movie & 2015 Japanese Drama</h1>
In addition, in 2001, there was a modern version of the "Orient" TV movie, "Dr. Octopus" Alfred Molina played by Poirot actually used a laptop, and the sense of violation was gradually forgotten. Another mystery novel powerhouse, The Island Nation, remade the Showa-era "Orient" miniseries in 2015, the Oriental Express was renamed "Toyo Express", "Yin and Yang Division" Nomura Mansai played Poirot, and popular stars such as Kazuya Ninomiya, Naoko Matsushima, and Michiko Yoshise staged a reasoning show with a sudden style.
However, for new audiences who are new to the work "Orient" for the first time, the names of Agatha Christie and Detective Poirot are still relatively unfamiliar. Don't worry, we will take you to Queen Agatha and her great detective Poirot for you to feel the classical charm of Benguet's reasoning.
Agatha Christie, queen of the fictional world of trickery
Agatha christie
First, let's first look at the achievements of the Queen of Reasoning, known as "Grandma", a reasoning fan:
Her novels were translated into 103 languages to set a Guinness World Record;
Her works sell 2 billion worldwide, second only to the Bible and Shakespeare;
In half a century of writing, she has written 66 detective novels and 14 short story collections, and more than 30 novels have been adapted to the big screen;
A "No One Survives" has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, and its pioneering "Blizzard Mountain Villa Model" is a landmark in the history of speculative literature;
Her stage mystery play "Mousetrap" has been performed more than 25,000 times so far, setting new world records every night;
<h1>The art of poisoning by the "Queen of Crime Chemistry"</h1>
What Grandma talks about most is her amazing "poisoning art". As a female writer born in a rich middle-class family, the death scene described by Grandma is not as spectacular and bloody as that of male writers, for her, killing people is just a package of "one day to break off", why do you need to separate the body. Such a gentle way of killing is also related to her upbringing.
Born in 1890 and raised in the seaside town of Torquay in Devon, Grandma has been an avid fan of William Collins and Conan Doyle, two masters of reasoning, since childhood. After the outbreak of World War I, Agatha, who was guarding the rear, became a white angel in the volunteer ambulance team in 1914, and by the end of the war in 1918, Agatha had qualified as a pharmacist. It is the clinical experience of tens of thousands of hours of treating wounds and rescuing the wounded in these four years that has laid a solid theoretical foundation and provided an inexhaustible reserve of materials for Agatha to become the "queen of criminal chemistry" in the future.
After the outbreak of World War II, Grandma was again involved in volunteer work in the hospital, and during this period she mastered a wealth of toxicology, so that Grandma's post-war detective novels became a murder textbook that even pharmacology experts could not fault. Grandma uses rigorous pharmacological knowledge and murder tricks to transform poisoning into a romantic crime art.
<h1>Solve cases while traveling and exhibit exotic styles</h1>
In 1920, Grandma's first detective novel, The Strange Case of Stiles Manor, was finally published after being rejected many times, marking the birth of a generation of detectives - Poirot. Bucket is a playful beard with a mouth full of complaints, this is Grandma's well-known legendary detective - Hercule Poirot, who combined her experience with Belgian soldiers in World War I and the lives of Belgian refugees in exile in Torquay to create a well-known detective literature ICON.
Stills from the 1978 film Massacre on the Nile
Later, "Golf Course Murder" and a series of short stories touted the golden CP of Poirot and Hastings. The famous grandmother and husband Archie traveled the world as members of the advance tour group of the British Empire Exposition, traveling to South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii.
In addition, Grandma, who had dreamed of traveling the world since childhood, also began a walk-and-go trip in 1928, first to Istanbul, and then to Baghdad on the famous "Orient Express", "Murder on the Orient Express" and "Massacre on the Nile" were both written by Grandma in this trip to the Middle East.
Grandma's travels provide a convincing environmental description for Poirot's travels around the world to solve crimes, and inject a fascinating exotic atmosphere into the novel, which is also one of the literary charms of Poirot's novels.
<h1>Adultery and Greed - The Mystery of the Disappearance of the 11th</h1>
In addition to the "art of poisoning" and "exoticism" mentioned above, in the Poirot case, adultery and greed are often the main causes of crime. And this kind of criminal motive around Lun and lust is related to Grandma's well-known broken marriage.
In 1926, Grandma's famous work "Roger's Doubt" became famous in the British literary world, and the "narrator is the murderer" genre model he pioneered had a profound impact on future generations. But then came the bad news of her mother's death and her husband's infidelity, and her grandmother, who had experienced a double whammy, ran away from home on December 3, 1926.
The news of Grandma's disappearance immediately became a sensation in britain, the Home Secretary constantly pressured the police to dispatch thousands of police officers, more than 15,000 volunteers joined the search for Grandma, and even Sir Conan Doyle asked the godmother for help in hopes of finding the Queen of Reasoning, which is the mystery of the 11-day disappearance of Agatha's legendary life that has not yet been conclusive.
Cover of the original novel in The Mystery of Roger
In Grandma's autobiography, Grandma herself never mentioned this incident, and the truth is still unknown, but Grandma, who has experienced this change, has undoubtedly vented her disappointment in love and humanity on the typewriter.
<h1>Unique "country house pie" reasoning</h1>
In fact, it is not difficult to see that the reason why Grandma's reasoning works can impress readers is that the environmental background, criminal tricks, and character psychology she depicts are not based on fiction and speculation.
For example, "No One Survives" takes place in the torquay area of Grandma's hometown, where she married Marlowe, an archaeologist 14 years younger than herself, and Margwin also provided a lot of archaeological knowledge for her story. For example, "Murder in Mesopotamia", "Journey to Baghdad" and "Massacre on the Nile".
In addition, the two often spent summer together in the ancestral house of Grandma's brother-in-law's family, Ebene Hall, and Grandma combined her own growth experience in the middle-class family to form a unique "country house school" genre, that is, the closed environment and the scope of crime, the fetters between the characters, and the distortion and collapse of ethical human nature.
And Ebene Hall, the "country house" in Cheshire, has become the birthplace of Grandma's "Country House School" mystery novels; like the typical "Female Corpse in the Snow" and "After the Funeral", Grandma conceived it in Ebeny Hall.
Detective Poirot, the hot foodie of the detective world
Poirot, the great detective played by Kenneth Branagh, director kenneth Branagh in "Murder on the Orient Express"
In fact, the origin story of Poirot is often a brush stroke, but we can still find some key information in the original book. In "The Four Devils", we learn that Poirot was born in the Belgian town of SPA, and moved to Brussels as an adult to become a police officer, meeting two good friends, Japp and Hastings.
In order to escape the first world war, Poirot fled Belgium and came to England to become a private detective, and after solving the "Ball Mystery Case", he became a high society.
He traveled all over Europe, Africa, Asia and South America, using his "little gray cells" to successfully solve "Impossible Crimes" such as "Golf Course Murder", "Massacre on the Nile", "Murder in Mesopotamia", "Death Date" and so on, and even saved the British Prime Minister. On the way back to China, when passing through Eastern Europe, he solved the "Murder on the Orient Express", which can be described as a dead man.... Wrong, he became a world-class detective with a long reputation.
<h1>Patients with advanced obsessive-compulsive disorder</h1>
Two yellow orioles singing green willows, Poirot detective one meter six. Among the many famous detectives in the world, Detective Polo is definitely the most "outstanding" one. Five short egg heads, small steps holding a civilization stick, especially the small oil beard that is so disturbing that there are no friends, it has become a highly recognizable facial symbol of Poirot. In addition to his appearance from ordinary people, Poirot's eccentric and arrogant personality characteristics are well known to fans.
For example, his assistant Hastings once complained that Poirot's cleanliness habits were incurable: "For Poirot, dirty clothes are more fatal than being shot." For his striped suits and patent leather shoes, which he regards as treasures, he is not allowed to get a little dirt.
Detective spotlessly dressed
Poirot's screen performance is more exaggerated, in the 1974 version of "Murder on the Orient Express", Poirot had to carefully take care of his oil head before going to bed, apply hand cream gloves, especially the "body" beard is equipped with matching protective gear to ensure that he wakes up beautiful. These "traditions" have also been preserved in the latest version of the film.
As a patient with advanced obsessive-compulsive disorder, Poirot's pursuit of the word "order" has gone mad. He settled in London after World War I, where he saw the symmetrical structure.
Miss Raymond was chosen as her secretary also because she was simply a female version of "Xie Er". No matter where it is, whether it is a dining table, a desk, or even a temporary sleeping car, Poirot will stack everything in front of him before he will stop, and an old pocket watch is carried with him until he kicks his legs.
<h1>Defend the dignity of "foodies" with your life</h1>
In addition to his Catholicism, Poirot's other great life creed is that "only food can not be disappointed", he himself once said that "food is not only a taste enjoyment, but also a study of knowledge"; even if he is fat enough to be hospitalized in "Sins in the Sun", he must eat a paragraph before reasoning. It can be said that he is defending the dignity of a "foodie" with his life.
<h1>IQ Magic Weapon: Talk to you! </h1>
Compared with the "long-legged male god" Sherlock Holmes, the immobile "wheelchair detective" Poirot does not have an advantage in appearance. But when Poirot's exquisite reasoning breaks the sky, what a fat destroys everything, what is a meter six tall, we will only exclaim 666!
Although Poirot is completely opposite to Sherlock Holmes in terms of personality, the character function of Poirot's series of novels is actually completely referenced to Conan Doyle's writing routine, and the most intuitive embodiment is the formation of CP by the genius protagonist (Poirot = Sherlock Holmes) + idiot assistant (Hastings = Watson, both have a military background), and the "police acquaintance" (Inspector Jaap = Restred) giving the green light. Holmes relied on the "deduction method" to solve the case, while Poirot relied on the "gray cells" in the egg's head.
But unlike Holmes's traditional criminal investigation method of stripping away cocoons from footprints, fingerprints, soot, ballistics and other clues, the success secret of "Poirot Dafa" can be summed up in three words - "Nagging you". Whenever there is a murder, rather than sticking to the scene of the crime like a hound, Poirot is more inclined to turn his eyes to the people involved.
From the memories of the cases of each opinion, the identity relationship has insight into the people behind the murder, and the motives and testimony loopholes are analyzed from the observation and observation. He will even deliberately give the suspect a set, and eventually achieve the effect of not confessing himself. Even Grandma herself jokingly called Poirot a "charlatan", which shows the detective's flexible control of human weaknesses and criminal psychology.
The star cast of Murder on the Orient Express
In the case of Murder on the Orient Express, for example, the testimony of 12 passengers alone accounts for 80% of the total length. Completely place the reader and the viewer in a closed environment where lies and truth are highly opposed.
It can be said that Detective Poirot's detective story is more like an intellectual game in the layers of fog, focusing on the puzzle solving process of "trickery". And this fundamentalistic nature of classical speculative fiction and Benguet speculative fiction is the core charm of the Poirot series.
In addition, thanks to the closed criminal environment and the range of suspects committed by acquaintances provided by Grandma's "Country House Faction" and "Blizzard Mountain Villa Faction", the grand finale of Poirot's theme works is almost all suspects "gathered together", Poirot Detective will puncture the face of each character with impeccable reasoning, and the real murderer is crushed by Poirot's IQ in a weak defense.
Just like after the "Sleeping Little Goro" is launched, what awaits the audience is bound to be an unexpected and reasonable dramatic climax. This dramatic earth-shattering reversal has become the standard drama that the most fans of the Poirot series talk about, allowing Detective Poirot to attract countless fans around the world.
<h1>The actors behind the Great Detective</h1>
In the upcoming 2017 edition of Murder on the Orient Express, British director & actor Kenneth Branagh, who is known as an "all-rounder", will play the 21st detective Poirot. Among the previous great detectives, The old shakespeare albert Finney's performance in the 1974 version of "Murder on the Orient Express" won a round of applause from the industry and was recognized by Grandma herself. He is also the only actor to play Poirot and receive an Oscar nomination.
Shakespeare's old drama bone Albert Finney played the great detective Poirot in the 74th edition of "Murder on the Orient Express"
In addition, the famous British actor Peter Ustinov, who has won the Oscar twice, is also one of the most well-known Poirot figures.
However, the most recognized detective Poirot so far is David Sucht, the British version of Poirot from 1989 to 2013 starred in a total of 13 seasons, 70 episodes of "Poirot" TV drama, including Grandma's 33 Poirot novels and dozens of short stories.
To this day, when we mention the great detective Poirot, what comes to mind must be David Sucht's mysterious smile and playful little oil beard.
The "Titanic" Orient Express on the railway
The world's first train across continents, the first of the three luxury trains in Europe, traveled through seven different countries, the "Orient Express", which departed from Paris in 1883 and passed through Munich, Vienna, Romania, Vienna, Serbia, and finally to Istanbul.
The Orient Express was renowned for providing luxurious and exclusive services; royalty, nobility, diplomats and merchants from all over the world flocked to the rich and expensive. From the beds, tableware, and food items in the car, it can be said that the cost is luxurious to the extreme, which is simply a "mobile palace" with carved beams and paintings. Today, the Orient Express has become the epitome for romantic exotic travel and is the most legendary cultural heritage in the history of human railways.
Route map of the Operation of the Orient Express
In the 94-year operational history, Orient Train has witnessed too many mysteries and history, and the spy Marta Harley, the Armistice Agreement of World War I, are all related to this car. In addition, the collision and intersection of Eastern and Western civilizations on the Orient Express not only brought about an exotic visual impact, but also made the Oriental Express a perfect hotbed for fermentation suspense.
It is precisely because the Orient Express itself is a very topical and legendary existence, which makes the "Murder on the Orient Express" novel a popular literary masterpiece around the world, and is still used as a theatrical stage by posterity today; 14 novels and movies have appeared in the Orient Express, Count Dracula, 007, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Doctor Who, 101 Loyal Dog and other popular culture ICONs have left one adventure legend after another on the Orient Express.
The 2017 edition of "Murder on the Orient Express" will take us to this luxury train full of first-line casts and earth-shattering conspiracies again with the most exquisite and retro and luxurious choreography and images so far. Bring your tickets and leave on time with Poirot, the most capable detective ever!
Author: Martin Ma Editor: ruo