I concede that I think After the Funeral is probably too low here. I realized that after I recorded but left it. I think it should be at least a few spots higher maybe around the low 20s. I just despise the Susannah-George storyline and I think the shift in time really hampers a lot of what I love about the novel.
Have you heard the BBC Radio Poirot dramas? They're wonderful. I highly recommend them. I am currently relistening to The Mysterious Affair At Styles. I plan to give all of them a relisten. There are 26 of them. 25 of the novels and 1 short story.
I've listened to some of the Poirot dramas. It's one my list of things to complete. I really enjoyed the ones I listened to much more than I thought they would. I thought they would be more of an audiobook and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed them.
Before I start watching the video: My least favourite adaptation is Roger Ackroyd, because it totally misses the point of the novel. By the way, thanks for your other videos. I read a few Ellery Queen novels a while ago, none of which I liked much, so I'll maybe try your top favourites and see if I like them better.
@@marcevan1141 I haven't watched it, but the russian adaptation is supposed to be very good. It's definitely possible to do a better adaptation than the odious Suchet-one. The very least thing one can do, is to build up Sheppard as Poirot's Watson/Hastings for the episode. Even with this the Suchet episode failed.
@Sebastian-lw5qb Yes, I agree. It was very bad. I do have to admit (and I know I'm in the minority here) that I don't think the novel is all that great. I first read it when I was only 12 and I was blown away by that ending. Many years later, I reread it, and although I still think Christie pulls off that final revelation, in other ways, i find the book rather glum and much less fun than some of her other works. I certainly prefer "The ABC Murders" and " Five Little Pigs."
@@marcevan1141 For me, it's the other way around. I read it three times so far and actually liked it better with each reread, because you can always find something new.
I hate ’Cards on the Table' adaptation with a burning passion. The premise of the novel is brilliant, and what did they do with it?? WHY did they do it? They robbed Poirot of his perfect mystery! But if I'm honest, the worst adaptation for me is still ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, because as a film it's just another detective story, whereas as a book, well, it's ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’. It's difficult to trick the viewer the way Christie tricks the reader, but it's not impossible. There's an absolutely brilliant (flawed, but brilliant) Russian adaptation of the novel (’Poirot's Failure’) that pulls it off very effectively.
I have not watched a lot of foreign-language adaptations but I am interested in this Russian Ackroyd. The Russian And Then There Were None was certainly something. I was a little more lenient with Ackroyd here because of the difficulty in adapting it.
@@summationgathering for many people in Russia Russian ’And Then There Were None’ was like their first horror film. It's so good. I was lenient with ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' (I watched it only two years ago, though I'm a big Christie fan all my life), because I was afraid of what they could have done with Poirot, but, well, he's okay mostly.
We really disagree about After the Funeral. It's easily in my Top 5 if not Top 3.
I concede that I think After the Funeral is probably too low here. I realized that after I recorded but left it. I think it should be at least a few spots higher maybe around the low 20s. I just despise the Susannah-George storyline and I think the shift in time really hampers a lot of what I love about the novel.
Agree completely - a flawless (and suspenseful) adaptation of one of the finest Christie novels.
Have you heard the BBC Radio Poirot dramas? They're wonderful. I highly recommend them. I am currently relistening to The Mysterious Affair At Styles. I plan to give all of them a relisten. There are 26 of them. 25 of the novels and 1 short story.
I've listened to some of the Poirot dramas. It's one my list of things to complete. I really enjoyed the ones I listened to much more than I thought they would. I thought they would be more of an audiobook and was pleasantly surprised how much I enjoyed them.
Before I start watching the video: My least favourite adaptation is Roger Ackroyd, because it totally misses the point of the novel.
By the way, thanks for your other videos. I read a few Ellery Queen novels a while ago, none of which I liked much, so I'll maybe try your top favourites and see if I like them better.
For me, Ellery Queen is really hit or miss. Many of them slog but the top ones, I feel are very good.
There's no way to make a film version of "Roger Aykroyd. " The impact of the mystery depends on a literary device.
@@marcevan1141 I haven't watched it, but the russian adaptation is supposed to be very good. It's definitely possible to do a better adaptation than the odious Suchet-one. The very least thing one can do, is to build up Sheppard as Poirot's Watson/Hastings for the episode. Even with this the Suchet episode failed.
@Sebastian-lw5qb Yes, I agree. It was very bad. I do have to admit (and I know I'm in the minority here) that I don't think the novel is all that great. I first read it when I was only 12 and I was blown away by that ending. Many years later, I reread it, and although I still think Christie pulls off that final revelation, in other ways, i find the book rather glum and much less fun than some of her other works. I certainly prefer "The ABC Murders" and " Five Little Pigs."
@@marcevan1141 For me, it's the other way around. I read it three times so far and actually liked it better with each reread, because you can always find something new.
I hate ’Cards on the Table' adaptation with a burning passion. The premise of the novel is brilliant, and what did they do with it?? WHY did they do it? They robbed Poirot of his perfect mystery!
But if I'm honest, the worst adaptation for me is still ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’, because as a film it's just another detective story, whereas as a book, well, it's ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd’. It's difficult to trick the viewer the way Christie tricks the reader, but it's not impossible. There's an absolutely brilliant (flawed, but brilliant) Russian adaptation of the novel (’Poirot's Failure’) that pulls it off very effectively.
I have not watched a lot of foreign-language adaptations but I am interested in this Russian Ackroyd. The Russian And Then There Were None was certainly something. I was a little more lenient with Ackroyd here because of the difficulty in adapting it.
@@summationgathering for many people in Russia Russian ’And Then There Were None’ was like their first horror film. It's so good.
I was lenient with ’The Murder of Roger Ackroyd' (I watched it only two years ago, though I'm a big Christie fan all my life), because I was afraid of what they could have done with Poirot, but, well, he's okay mostly.