The 78 version of the movie "Massacre on the Nile" is very famous, I watched this movie very early, when I didn't read the novel, I directly watched the movie and thought it was great. Later, when I read the original work, I felt that it was boring. I admit that the original book is very bullish, but I don't deny that the film is more successful.
Until now, this movie still feels very brilliant, not inferior to the book, and more three-dimensional, very memorable.
It's a very rigorous, very subtle film, far more profound than American cinema – they don't focus on soot, footprints, tooth marks... It's human nature – watching old movies, that's what makes it special.
As we all know, "The Tragedy on the Nile" has a meaningful ending, after experiencing the murder, people get off the boat with their own joy and sorrow, at this time, Polo, who stands on the side of the ship and looks at everyone, says meaningfully: "A woman's greatest wish is to make people love her." ”
Then the camera pulls away, in the blue sea and blue sky, only this long sigh remains!
This is the main theme of this movie, all along, I also believe that the male protagonist Simon is in love with Jacqueline, because he always wants the latter to help him, and Jacqueline will never complain, take his things as his own, more important than his own things, and even pay for him. This should be love—a love that Lynette couldn't give him at all.
However, later I slowly stopped thinking about it, although the book seemed to be full of love, but I felt as if it was just for money, and love was just an excuse. Even in the face of bloody reality, this excuse was shattered with the sound of gunfire. Moreover, in order to cover up the truth, it is necessary to keep killing people. This is actually sin, a sin in the name of love.
And the deceased, Lynette, a rich lady who was in her youth and inherited a huge fortune at the same time, became extremely complex and simple. In fact, she was a little innocent - as a victim, she died of great wealth and died because of something else.
As soon as the young and beautiful Lynette appeared, she attracted the attention of the audience, and she came down from the black limousine, dressed in a white fox fur and a black diamond-encrusted gauze hat, creating an image of a noble lady with a noble temperament: cold, noble, and slightly unkind.
The beginning of the film is relaxed and beautiful, the English countryside scenery and the ancient castle, minute by minute feel into Downton Abbey, the audience and the maid together, ushered in a beautiful and single heiress.
The key to the success or failure of the film adaptation lies in the ability to transform the novel's well-conceived language into vivid and engaging shots. Obviously, the movie did it right from the very beginning.
Just having beauty or money, one of them is enough to make a woman proud. Besides, Lynette was beautiful and rich.
Lynette should be the kind of girl who "just looks at it and everyone will like it"; the setting of the character can almost make people make up a Western romance novel. As one of her best friends put it, she was a woman who "wanted the wind to blow, the rain to rain, and always sat in a golden car to march triumphantly."
The character of Lynette exited the scene very early, but the director undoubtedly had a great preference for her. Look at her outfits, each set is still fashionable today, 50 years later.
She stood with her girlfriend Jacqueline, giving the impression that Jacqueline was far less beautiful than her, let alone her elegance, her pearlescent, huge wealth - not only beautiful, Lynette was also particularly beautiful, especially tasteful.
Actor Lois really played this very wayward woman from the details. She has the highest number of looks in this film, but her personality in the film is really a bit bad.
Just saw the girlfriend, very happy, know that the other party is engaged, immediately take off the shoes and throw them out, deliberately saying that the shoes are a bit of a squeeze and foot pain, in fact, I want to vent - I am obviously stronger than my girlfriends everywhere, why did she have a fiancé first?
The poor girlfriend asked for help for her boyfriend, and Lynette happily agreed to help. After Jacqueline excitedly left, Lynette looked very lonely and lost—she didn't seem to be the kind of heartless and unrighteous person at the moment.
The girlfriend fell in love with the poor boy, and there was nothing wrong with trying to find a way out for him or the future of the two of them, but it was too much to ask the rich woman to be such a major position as a mansion housekeeper as soon as she came up — the typical "I am poor and I am justified" style.
The first meeting between Lynette and Simon took a sharp turn for the worse as a mundane job search. Their eyes spoke for themselves, but their calm gaze rippled.
It's from here, the story begins, the tragedy begins...
The original details Lynette's inner activity in choosing Simon: because she doesn't have Jacqueline's passion, she envies it.
The queen of the millionaire actually envied the love of the poor woman and suffered for it. This is deliberately done by the author, in fact, it is impossible.
Next this transition is designed very well, Jacqueline looks at her fiancé with affection...
As soon as the camera pans, Mendelssohn's wedding march sounds, and the person gazing at Simon becomes Lynette—the two roles are reversed, the fiancé is married, and the bride is not her.
Getting married is going to make headlines. Rich people are so willful.
The original points out: Lynette rejects other people's marriage proposals because she always has wealth, she does not want to be controlled, and if she marries the poor Simon, the person in control is definitely her and not Simon.
In this way, the choice of letting go or not letting go may lie in the thought that Lynette becomes the evil woman who "takes the only lamb of others" (Polo's evaluation).
This passage from Polo unveils the fig leaf that Lynette is wearing on this relationship – so wonderful that I can't help but quote it here:
I want to tell you frankly that although you tried to cover up the facts, it was indeed carefully designed to snatch your husband from others. I know you were strongly attracted to him at first, but I guess there was a moment when you hesitated and realized you had to make a choice – you could let go or continue. I think it's up to you, not Mr. Simon. You are beautiful, madame, and also very rich. You are smart, intelligent, and attractive. You can use this charm or you can hide it. Madam, you have everything, but your friend has only one person to live with. You know this, even if you have hesitated, but you have not stopped. You stretch out your grip, like the rich man in the Bible, and take the only lamb of the poor poor.
This is the most wonderful part of the whole book, and The Power of Polo, or Agatha, to see the human heart is evident.
Robbing a friend's fiancé and happily going on a honeymoon will of course be followed by the ex-girlfriend's all-pervasive retaliation. The joyful situation in which Lynette and his wife ride up the pyramids and show the beautiful landscape form a terrifying emotional gap with Jacqueline's ghost.
I suppose that at this time all moral tendencies are on Jacqueline's side.
Even in the name of so-called love, it cannot change the fact that Lynette has taken advantage of it. She knew very well that with her wealth and beauty, Jacqueline had no ability to compete with her in front of Simon.
In the desert with Simon Tsema, Lynette, who has always been shown in formal clothes, wears a shirt with ruffled ruffles on her chest, showing her girlish feelings due to love. At this time, her mood must be relaxed, happy, and full of sweetness, and she does not know that there is a conspiracy lurking behind this love.
Harassed by Jacqueline, Lynnette was upset, but she did not see where she felt ashamed.
Her rich man's tone throughout, the arrogance of not taking back her hand—she had her mistakes, and Polo should have seen through Lynette sharply.
The luxurious hotel, Simon and his wife's dance in the audience eye-catching, obviously more than the ex-girlfriend has a family, connections, more popular Lynette looks at the poor boy Simon, gave him everything he wants, but the latter still helped his girlfriend kill such a beloved wife, the audience who has not seen the original may not understand Simon's logic, is it really because of love (ex-girlfriend Jacqueline)? Didn't he have a hint of hesitation in his heart?
Come to think of it, he didn't love Lynette, but had to be intimate with her every day and have to pretend to be passionate—the worst, and what he and Jacqueline had to sacrifice, not just his injured leg.
Why not love her? In the original book, he said that he could not stand Lynette's arbitrariness.
It is indeed a little arbitrary, but in the movie, Lynette is indeed obsessed with Simon, almost a typical woman who is overwhelmed by love. Because she was killed because of her wealth and love brain, she was also too innocent, if you only look at this, she is not only innocent, but also a lovely person.
After the honeymoon in Egypt began, it was very Agatha - the whole boat was Linette's enemy, and it turned out that the beautiful woman who should be loved by everyone was a person who was full of hatred, a group of nearly ten people, and everyone had a vendetta against her.
Unrelated passers-by also covet her jewelry, such as the old lady who loves to steal pearls, and through the dialogue between pearls and mussels, she implies that Lynette is a person who does not care about the suffering of others.
You should think so, the mussel is dying because of this!
Combined with the description of the original book, it is recalled that Lynette once forced the villagers around the manor to move away, and then gave subsidies, and thought that she was taking care of the villagers, so as to describe her as a "benevolent" tyrant - this is a precise metaphor. However, there are still some differences between Lynette in the movie and the original book.
Lynette denounced the yellow love writer and threw the best-selling book into the river with a wave of his hand, accusing him of being "uncultured.".
This action shows that Lynette is not a gentle lady, but a very rich woman. Why simon doesn't love the young, beautiful, and rich Lynette, but risks his life to be with Jacqueline, the former has a bad temperament (which is one of them), and the film answers this question with the lens.
Reading contracts and legal documents shows that Lynette is quite brainy. But she didn't know that the Uncle Andrew in front of her was also her enemy, and this person also wanted to cheat her money.
In preventing the maid from marrying, I did not think that Lynette was wrong at first--the man who obviously married and seduced her maid, Lynette as the master, was not willing to let his subordinates sink. But then I understood what the problem was: Lynette did the same as the forced eviction/forced gain at the beginning of the book, which may not be really harmful to others, but it hurts other people's hearts, because she doesn't know what really matters to others, and she doesn't care to know.
From the conversation with the housekeeper when she first took over the castle, the attitude towards the maid later, and the fact that so many people in society hated her, it can be seen that Lynette is indeed not the ideal partner who can live for a lifetime.
This is understandable: Simon's goal in getting Bai Fumei Linnett into his hands was not his goal, his purpose was to completely occupy all of Bai Fumei's property, not to be the man's slave for life.
I love this scene of the temple, artistically, the film successfully presents the statues of the Egyptian temple, and when visitors enter the multi-stone pillars, the camera looks around, staring nervously at Lynette, walking and panting from the subjective point of view in the stone aisle, followed by a boulder smashing into Linnett and his wife - but the scene where the temple appears is mixed with Jacqueline's destructive emotions of love, jealousy and cruelty.
Didn't Lynette herself know? Someone pushed a stone in the first place ready to smash her to death? Her physique of pulling hatred everywhere and not being afraid is really intriguing.
As the Lynettes snuggle up in front of the temple of Ramses and his statue of the Queen, Jacqueline breaks into the mirror again like a goddess of vengeance, accompanied by an excited shout, and the scarf on her head is blown up by the wind— this passage is too joyful.
Did the pervasive stalking and destruction really give Jacqueline the thrill of revenge? Or has she been in pain?
There are too many names in the film, and Agatha always writes a lot of people and adds a lot of stories. Many people are just to say that they are all murderers - the victims have the disposition of everyone to blame.
Lynette exposes the doctor's bad deeds, which is her last enemy in the movie.
On the night of the massacre, Jacqueline continued to harass a table of people playing cards, and this time Lynette did not react violently at all, and ignored Jacqueline's provocations.
What does this mean?
Is it true that as Teacher Ou Lijuan said, Bai Fumei and Gao Shuai, who came from a wealthy family for generations, have some small tempers and bad habits, and their character is essentially good? And the upstart and dick are not only poor and ugly, but also have a terrible personality!
The more large the family with history, the more important it is to the moral education of its children. Aristocrats are aristocrats not just because they have material wealth.
Late at night, the players said goodbye to each other and said goodbye to each other and returned to the cabin. Simon said that she still had to pack up her cards, and Lynette left alone, making a graceful turn and disappearing from the film.
Throughout the film, this big star who played the 007 series Bond girl has never led the audience to think about "soaring acting", always humbly stuck in his role, playing his traits appropriately, even if he is brilliant, he also tries his best to hide his style and not distract people - this is very amazing.
Lynette was shot in his sleep and shot in the head, and it was fatal.
Although both the original book and the film show that Lynnette is a hateful woman, when she dies, it still makes people feel very sorry, as if a beautiful thing has died...
The key to this matter is still Simon, Lynette seduces again, if Simon does not move, everything will not happen - even if Lynette is hateful, it is not his turn and Jacqueline to harm the family, in the final analysis, it is still money at work. There are always people who think that someone is harmful to others and kill him. These people forget that the mastery of life and death is a matter of a merciful God.
And Lynette, when he has a lot of things, he may wish to be more tolerant, more considerate, less resentful, less calculating, and gentle with the world.
The film ends with a bleak shot: Polo and his friends, who watch the other travelers leave, disembark melancholy, carrying a stretcher of the dead behind them.
Just as Polo used rational thinking to persuade jacqueline, who was venting her anger, not to kill people and die martyrdom, this devastating emotion deeply shocked the audience.
Lynette's body was the last to be carried ashore. At this moment her death was irrelevant.
In the bar, people may talk about her. But after a while, they turn the conversation to the point where it's not the past that matters, it's the future.
And for me, both books and movies attracted me, following Agatha's pen. The Nile is a mysterious, yearning place, like Egypt, and this case, which plunges Lynette into a dangerous environment in which life can be plotted at any moment, is also draped in a veil of mystery and dreams.