Poirot, played by David Suchte, because it has lasted twenty-five years and has a large number of episodes, has long been deeply rooted in people's hearts, and this, needless to say.
David Sucht's version of Poirot, when exposing the case, is often very vocal, which is very different from the calm and idle Peter Ustinov, who often reveals the case leisurely, unhurriedly, and calmly, and often has a sense of compassion.
Both are British actors, however, in completely different styles.
Peter Ustinov's version of Poirot
David Suchet's voice is very strong, of course, when facing a vicious criminal with a bad character, of course, he is very relieved, but when the case is not a vicious crime, but a cause, David Suchet's performance is very excessive and unreasonable, for example, David Suchet faces the "jury" twelve righteous men in "Murder on the Orient Express" and the revenge couple in "Death Date", which is very fierce, which is difficult to understand.
"Murder on the Orient Express", everyone is familiar with it, here is not verbose, here to talk about "Death Date".
This novel takes place in British Palestine in the 1930s. The British archaeologist Boynton excavated the skull of Jesus' cousin, John the Baptist, in the holy city of Jerusalem, so he invited his family and some celebrities, including Poirot, to visit.
John the Baptist
Boynton has two wives, and has a son with his first wife, and the current Mrs. Boynton, who has two husbands in succession, she has no children, adopted three children, she is very rich, to fund the archaeology of her current husband Boynton, so Boynton ignores his son's dissatisfaction with Mrs. Boynton and is obedient to his wife.
Mrs. Boynton, because she had no biological children, was a psychopathic and vicious woman, three adopted children, who had been abused by her since childhood, and had been severely devastated physically and mentally, and now they were all grown up, but Mrs. Boynton was still very fierce to them, and continued to torture them in a different way, and they really couldn't stand it, and often thought about killing this evil woman.
Also visited was a doctor, Riodo, and the female writer Celia.
David Suchet's version of Poirot was invited
Mrs. Boynton, the evil wife, was quietly murdered on the roof of an earthen house on the excavation site of the archaeological team, lying on a recliner and basking in the sun.
The archaeological team excavated the site of the construction site
Poirot began the process of solving the case, according to the time when the evil woman was killed, all the people had alibi, and the three adopted children of the evil woman, as well as Boynton's son, had the possibility of killing the evil woman, the case seemed to be insoluble, but with Poirot, everything could be solved. The result of the investigation: The doctor Riodo and the female writer Celia join forces to kill the evil woman.
It turned out that they were the biological parents of One of the three abused children, Gini, and after learning that their own daughter had been abused from an early age, they were angry and determined to take revenge, so they carefully designed and killed the evil mother-in-law.
At the end of the TV series, in Poirot's loud rebuke, the couple both took poison and committed suicide. On the one hand, the TV series repeatedly renders the cries and screams of the children when they were abused when they were young, on the other hand, David Sucht angrily rebuked the revenge couple when solving the case, which is really inexplicable, you solve the case and no one stops you, at least not so vicious, you must know that the evil wife is the bad person, and the revenge couple deserves sympathy.
And the daughter Gini, just found her biological parents, but they both committed suicide in front of their own eyes, and their pain was compounded! David Suchet's ferocity at this time was very inappropriate.
Daughter Gini burst into tears
Interestingly, in the 1988 film Death Date, Peter Ustinov starred as Poirot, and interested readers can compare Peter Ustinov's version of Poirot to see how vicious and unreasonable David Sucht is in the face of a vengeful couple.
The TV drama version has made major changes to the original work, and the 1988 film version is more faithful to the original work. In the film version, the relationship between the characters and the related plot is as follows: there is no adoption relationship, the evil wife Mrs. Boynton is the second wife of the rich Man Boynton, and she tries her best to control and torture Mr. Boynton's four children, but there is no abuse in the TV series, because they are Mr. Boynton's biological children, and one of them is her own biological daughter. When Mr. Boynton died, Mrs. Boynton colluded with lawyers to embezzle Mr. Boynton's inheritance to his four sons and daughters. They traveled to Jerusalem together, accompanied by a number of other people. Mrs. Boynton sat in a chair under a sun umbrella outside the tent and fell asleep, where she was killed. The person who killed her with the poison injected with a syringe was Her Fellow Lord Westerholm. The reason is that mrs. Boynton, the evil woman, was previously a female prison guard, and Lord Westholm was previously a female prisoner in prison, and Mrs. Boynton recognized Lord Westholm and intended to expose her.
After Poirot analyzes and solves the case, Lord West returns to the room and shoots herself, and Poirot learns in the name of stealing the gun in order to preserve her reputation and social status. Compared to Peter Ustinov's version of the thick, David Suchet is a little too mean.
Peter Ustinov's version of Poirot, more intelligent in life, more experienced in the vicissitudes, more cherished the harmony of life, just as at the end of the film he watched young people happy to go their separate ways, he said, he hopes that they can all be happy and happy.
The difference between the two versions of Poirot is related to the experience and temperament of the two British actors themselves, and it is also related to the difference in the times, the film was filmed in 1988, the eighties, for the world, it is a sweet era; and the TV series was filmed after 2010, since the September 11 incident in 2001, the honeymoon period of the world has ended, replaced by more harsh atmosphere.
At the end of the film, Poirot watches the young people go away