Agatha Christies Poirot mysteries are some of the best book I've ever read. I wish Kenneth Brannagh didn't feel the need to make them more "action packed" with Poirot getting into gun fights and chasing people down as that wasn't the point of Poirot. But the films are still enjoyable enough.
"There was right. There was wrong. Now there is you. I cannot judge this. You must decide." Fun Fact: The twelve passengers sitting in the tunnel at a long table mimics the painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci. Legacy Fact: Sir Kenneth Branagh is the fifteenth actor to embody Christie's Hercule Poirot on screen, not including parodies and/or works not written by Dame Agatha Christie. Location Location Fact: The Orient Express ran over a variety of routes. The "Classic" Orient Express ran between Paris and Istanbul via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Bucharest. The train in this movie, as a station announcement makes clear, is the Simplon Orient Express, which ran via Milan, Venice, Belgrade, and Sofia. Historical Fact: The story was inspired partly by an incident in 1929 when the Orient Express was trapped in a blizzard in Çerkezköy, Turkey, where it was stranded for six days. Two years later, Dame Agatha Christie was involved in a similar scenario when she was travelling on the Orient Express and the train got stuck for a while due to heavy rainfall and flooding, which had washed away part of the track. Hot Take Fact: Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset, who starred in the Murder On The Orient Express (1974), told director Sir Kenneth Branagh how excruciating it was to shoot the extended scene in which the murder was revealed. To avoid this feeling among the actors and actresses in his version, Branagh shot his side as Poirot first, cut wherever he could when shooting the actors and actresses up close, and did everything possible to ensure the whole cast spent as little time as possible on-set during the shooting of the lengthy scene.
This version is ok but I prefer the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. It's not as action oriented as Kenneth Brannagh's Poirot but then neither was the book. Same with Death On The Nile. I prefer the 1978 version with Peter Ustinov as Poirot to Brannagh's version. I laugh out loud when I read something funny as well.
Agatha Christies Poirot mysteries are some of the best book I've ever read. I wish Kenneth Brannagh didn't feel the need to make them more "action packed" with Poirot getting into gun fights and chasing people down as that wasn't the point of Poirot. But the films are still enjoyable enough.
"There was right. There was wrong. Now there is you. I cannot judge this. You must decide."
Fun Fact: The twelve passengers sitting in the tunnel at a long table mimics the painting "The Last Supper" by Leonardo Da Vinci.
Legacy Fact: Sir Kenneth Branagh is the fifteenth actor to embody Christie's Hercule Poirot on screen, not including parodies and/or works not written by Dame Agatha Christie.
Location Location Fact: The Orient Express ran over a variety of routes. The "Classic" Orient Express ran between Paris and Istanbul via Strasbourg, Munich, Vienna, Budapest, and Bucharest. The train in this movie, as a station announcement makes clear, is the Simplon Orient Express, which ran via Milan, Venice, Belgrade, and Sofia.
Historical Fact: The story was inspired partly by an incident in 1929 when the Orient Express was trapped in a blizzard in Çerkezköy, Turkey, where it was stranded for six days. Two years later, Dame Agatha Christie was involved in a similar scenario when she was travelling on the Orient Express and the train got stuck for a while due to heavy rainfall and flooding, which had washed away part of the track.
Hot Take Fact: Veteran actress Jacqueline Bisset, who starred in the Murder On The Orient Express (1974), told director Sir Kenneth Branagh how excruciating it was to shoot the extended scene in which the murder was revealed. To avoid this feeling among the actors and actresses in his version, Branagh shot his side as Poirot first, cut wherever he could when shooting the actors and actresses up close, and did everything possible to ensure the whole cast spent as little time as possible on-set during the shooting of the lengthy scene.
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You gave a brilliant summation at the end of this, mate!! Well done!!
French is the language they speak in Belgium too so that's why he has a French accent despite not being from France 🙂
This version is ok but I prefer the 1974 version with Albert Finney as Poirot. It's not as action oriented as Kenneth Brannagh's Poirot but then neither was the book.
Same with Death On The Nile. I prefer the 1978 version with Peter Ustinov as Poirot to Brannagh's version.
I laugh out loud when I read something funny as well.
I prefer all the Poirot movies/episodes with David Suchet in them. He didn’t just play Poirot, he was Poirot.
@toodlescae I completely agree!!😉
Would be nice to see you react on 50 first dates
I laugh every single time (maybe 50🤦♀️)I see this movie. Please watch it 😂😂
dont try to solve the poirot cases, you cant :P you never have all the clues until theyre presented to you at the end
Honestly, would prefer Dafoe as Ratchett.