Agatha Christie had a deep insight in the anti social personality disorder. Before the DSM was established! She is the first and probably the only author of detectives that had children as murderer.
Crooked House is one of my absolute favorite Christie stories. And I waited a long time for the film adaptation, but it was everything I could ever have wanted. Was also proud to show it to my Mom, who loves the film adaptions of Christie but hadn’t read the book. I could tell she enjoyed it, and she’s not easily pleased by modern Christie films. So that recommends it even more.
As someone else mentioned, I watched only the very beginning of your video, so I could hop to the film. Teenage daughter (who's such a huge fan of all things Christie that she actually has a signed note from David Suchet) was watching with me, and said: "I don't care about any of these people, but the person playing Aunt Edith is doing a good job, especially if she's an American" (I'd told her who Glenn Close is). Came back to watch your video and discovered your assessment pretty much matched hers.
Thanks for quality videos!! Caught it on Amazon Prime without any knowledge of story. Of course, shocked, jarred by disturbing ending. Yes, slightly sluggish but compelling enough. The lead actress, Sophia, is my favorite Jane Eyre. Great analysis of changes. Keep them coming!
Fantastic video, as always Yeah, I really struggled with this film and (at the time) I hadn't read the book. My biggest problem was probably the lack of stakes. And ending on the quarry crash, not doing any sort of post-climax rounding up.
Crooked House is my favorite Agatha Christie. I started this movie, but didn't get past the first scene because they showed right away that they had changed one of the things I liked about the book, Charles & Sophia's relationship (it's very different from the 2-randos-suddenly-in-love thing she usually did). I will say, I never thought of Charles as stupid. He's no Poirot, certainly, but I remembered him being reasonably inteligent. The characters are the stand out in this book. They're more interconnected than she usually wrote, they care more about each other, makes the whole book interesting. This is pretty much the only mystery that surprised me (unless you count the ones where I can't remember & keep the characters straight, so I have no idea the significance of who did it). I think if it had been coming from another writer, particularly if it were more modern, I probably would have, I just didn't expect THAT from Christie. I had said I thought it was her in jest a few chapters before the reveal, but I didn't actually believe it & I was pretty sure none of the others were guilty, so I was stumped.
When 2017 had come around with new adaptations of Crooked House and MotOE, I was excited to see them as the productions look great, casts looked promising and the etc. But Crooked House(the film) never won me over unfortunately, the pacing was a bit sluggish, visually it was undersaturated, and the performances are fine but not particularly noteworthy, even with Glenn Close in the cast. I do think most of the film’s problems come to down to the script needing more tightening up and a director with more conviction. Perhaps one day Crooked House will shine on the big screen again or the small screen.
I read this book many years ago but didn't see the film yet. I thought the solution is very clever but also really disturbing and Christie didn't know how to properly end it. She always punishes the villain, and to do it with the one of this story, would have been hard to develop and certainly controversial. I also felt the stakes of not getting married if the main character didn´t solve the murder were shallow and over the top.
I didn't even know this film existed. I have only had the book as reference. I loved that Josephine was the killer as I never even suspected it when I first read the book. It seems the film did the old man dirty as in my opinion he did the best he could, protecting the world from Jo, while making sure, she could have some kind of life.
I really would like you to review the French TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie which changed the setting to France with different detectives. It looks cheap compared to David Suchet films and sometimes it only vaguely adapts the Christie text
I always thought Aristide was a dick for not letting Josephine have her ballet lessons. So what if she'd never be world-class? It's not like they can't afford it.
The cast was amazing here. But the biggest mistake was doing Charles dirty. Book Charles was more worthy of rooting, so was his relationship with Sophia. Here, I barely cared about their relationship.
This looked like an interesting video but I'm afraid I found your repeated mispronunciation of Aristides too jarring to finish. Perhaps it is pronounced differently in this adaptation but the Greek pronunciation would be more like, "ah-RIS-tih-dees", I believe.
The characters were amongst the best AC ever wrote, they made them much less interesting in the film, apart from Justice,who was more fleshed out in the film. The others are just oversimplified and annoying. Apart from Sophia's parents, they ruined Brenda's character the most. In the book, we learn that she wasn't just a gold digger & did truly care for her husband, the things are different and more complex than they first appear. In the film she's not only just a gold digger, she's manipulative and obviously fakes her grief. But I think the movie was actually pretty good,once you accept it on it's own terms and stop comparing these characters to their book counterparts. This is much more a Charles/ Sophia story, whilst in the book they're more less catalysts for the others.
The crooked house was the first Agatha Christie I ever read. I was 15 and hooked on Christie all these years later
Agatha Christie had a deep insight in the anti social personality disorder. Before the DSM was established!
She is the first and probably the only author of detectives that had children as murderer.
Crooked House is one of my absolute favorite Christie stories. And I waited a long time for the film adaptation, but it was everything I could ever have wanted. Was also proud to show it to my Mom, who loves the film adaptions of Christie but hadn’t read the book. I could tell she enjoyed it, and she’s not easily pleased by modern Christie films. So that recommends it even more.
As someone else mentioned, I watched only the very beginning of your video, so I could hop to the film. Teenage daughter (who's such a huge fan of all things Christie that she actually has a signed note from David Suchet) was watching with me, and said: "I don't care about any of these people, but the person playing Aunt Edith is doing a good job, especially if she's an American" (I'd told her who Glenn Close is). Came back to watch your video and discovered your assessment pretty much matched hers.
Thanks for quality videos!! Caught it on Amazon Prime without any knowledge of story. Of course, shocked, jarred by disturbing ending. Yes, slightly sluggish but compelling enough. The lead actress, Sophia, is my favorite Jane Eyre. Great analysis of changes. Keep them coming!
She played jane eyre?? Where??
Fantastic video, as always
Yeah, I really struggled with this film and (at the time) I hadn't read the book.
My biggest problem was probably the lack of stakes.
And ending on the quarry crash, not doing any sort of post-climax rounding up.
Thank you for this. Love Agatha Christie and the worlds she creates.
Crooked House is my favorite Agatha Christie. I started this movie, but didn't get past the first scene because they showed right away that they had changed one of the things I liked about the book, Charles & Sophia's relationship (it's very different from the 2-randos-suddenly-in-love thing she usually did). I will say, I never thought of Charles as stupid. He's no Poirot, certainly, but I remembered him being reasonably inteligent. The characters are the stand out in this book. They're more interconnected than she usually wrote, they care more about each other, makes the whole book interesting. This is pretty much the only mystery that surprised me (unless you count the ones where I can't remember & keep the characters straight, so I have no idea the significance of who did it). I think if it had been coming from another writer, particularly if it were more modern, I probably would have, I just didn't expect THAT from Christie. I had said I thought it was her in jest a few chapters before the reveal, but I didn't actually believe it & I was pretty sure none of the others were guilty, so I was stumped.
snazzy new intro!
Wonderful video as usual- will have to check out the movie!
18 seconds in and I'm bailing...
I'll come back for this after I watch the film.
Good call!
When 2017 had come around with new adaptations of Crooked House and MotOE, I was excited to see them as the productions look great, casts looked promising and the etc. But Crooked House(the film) never won me over unfortunately, the pacing was a bit sluggish, visually it was undersaturated, and the performances are fine but not particularly noteworthy, even with Glenn Close in the cast.
I do think most of the film’s problems come to down to the script needing more tightening up and a director with more conviction. Perhaps one day Crooked House will shine on the big screen again or the small screen.
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I read this book many years ago but didn't see the film yet. I thought the solution is very clever but also really disturbing and Christie didn't know how to properly end it. She always punishes the villain, and to do it with the one of this story, would have been hard to develop and certainly controversial. I also felt the stakes of not getting married if the main character didn´t solve the murder were shallow and over the top.
I didn't even know this film existed. I have only had the book as reference. I loved that Josephine was the killer as I never even suspected it when I first read the book. It seems the film did the old man dirty as in my opinion he did the best he could, protecting the world from Jo, while making sure, she could have some kind of life.
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Did Christie INVENT the murderous little girl trope?
I really would like you to review the French TV series Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie which changed the setting to France with different detectives. It looks cheap compared to David Suchet films and sometimes it only vaguely adapts the Christie text
I always thought Aristide was a dick for not letting Josephine have her ballet lessons. So what if she'd never be world-class? It's not like they can't afford it.
The cast was amazing here. But the biggest mistake was doing Charles dirty. Book Charles was more worthy of rooting, so was his relationship with Sophia. Here, I barely cared about their relationship.
anyone who thinks the old man looks like Harry S Truman in the portrait ?
This looked like an interesting video but I'm afraid I found your repeated mispronunciation of Aristides too jarring to finish. Perhaps it is pronounced differently in this adaptation but the Greek pronunciation would be more like, "ah-RIS-tih-dees", I believe.
The characters were amongst the best AC ever wrote, they made them much less interesting in the film, apart from Justice,who was more fleshed out in the film. The others are just oversimplified and annoying.
Apart from Sophia's parents, they ruined Brenda's character the most. In the book, we learn that she wasn't just a gold digger & did truly care for her husband, the things are different and more complex than they first appear. In the film she's not only just a gold digger, she's manipulative and obviously fakes her grief.
But I think the movie was actually pretty good,once you accept it on it's own terms and stop comparing these characters to their book counterparts. This is much more a Charles/ Sophia story, whilst in the book they're more less catalysts for the others.
I liked this film. I'm not tied to the books souch. I liek when the films try new things for the most part.
The Pale Horse was weird as shit though