tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post1156486547264566239..comments2024-03-29T00:12:01.793-04:00Comments on Patricia Abbott (pattinase): Forgotten Movies: AFTER THE FUNERAL (Agatha Christie Hercule Poirot episode)/FIVE LITTLE PIGSpattinase (abbott)http://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-8923719427862631072016-10-03T12:30:54.420-04:002016-10-03T12:30:54.420-04:00Thanks, Stuart!Thanks, Stuart!pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-33584055710496626152016-10-03T12:23:57.516-04:002016-10-03T12:23:57.516-04:00This is just a quick comment to note that the Such...This is just a quick comment to note that the Suchet Poirot series is not made by the BBC but for the commercial broadcaster ITV.Stuart Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105881178386882385noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83430705822347174972016-09-30T10:07:25.796-04:002016-09-30T10:07:25.796-04:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-13739817825999884132016-09-27T22:42:14.936-04:002016-09-27T22:42:14.936-04:00I am glad you noted some of the Christie adaptatio...I am glad you noted some of the Christie adaptations that you enjoyed. I have been wanting to watch some adaptations. I had heard the FIVE LITTLE PIGS was especially good. I do want to read the books first though and I haven't read any of these. So will have to wait a while to try them out.TracyKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08303342674824383688noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-83744387375410805632016-09-27T17:39:24.747-04:002016-09-27T17:39:24.747-04:00Christie was very much a product of the late Victo...Christie was very much a product of the late Victorian era of her upbringing. She was raised by her grandmother and great-aunt (the deaths of both of them, very close together, is often given as a one of the reasons Christie had a breakdown when her husband left her not long after) and had a rather lonely, isolated childhood. She absorbed that high Victorian concept of life from women who had lived in that world. Even her mid-century work is Victorian manque (which I love).<br /><br />I can't name a favorite Christie--the majority of them each has something special. I don't mind the large cast of characters or the convoluted plots. My favorite stand-alone Christie is ENDLESS NIGHT which is very close to noir and has a great twist close to the end.<br /><br />--Deb pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-86191206454133806822016-09-27T17:37:40.089-04:002016-09-27T17:37:40.089-04:00I think I am working my way into it. But I still p...I think I am working my way into it. But I still prefer the ones-not in a country house-not about the super-rich-not too many suspects. Closer to today's fiction, I guess. I guess the rich will always irk me. pattinase (abbott)https://www.blogger.com/profile/02916037185235335846noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-77826597051500567292016-09-27T17:20:16.528-04:002016-09-27T17:20:16.528-04:00I’ve enjoyed the Poirot series with David Suchet f...I’ve enjoyed the Poirot series with David Suchet for years. Great productions and one of the best theme’s ever. I think the music is called “The Belgian Detective,” by Christopher Gunning. Elgin Bleeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417587392887691664noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-29209216209154099582016-09-27T15:40:03.491-04:002016-09-27T15:40:03.491-04:00ABC is a great one. Lord Edgeware Dies (aka Thirte...ABC is a great one. Lord Edgeware Dies (aka Thirteen at Dinner) is another classic book that made a pretty good adaptation. I thought Fassbender was sort of wrong for Christie, though. He's too intense.<br /><br />I prefer the lighter and shorter Poirots but it was a great series. The only one I haven't watched is Murder in Mesopotamia because I started reading it once and pan to come back to it. It had an engaging first-person narrator. Christie was good at that; Murder at the Vicarage is my favorite example. It's a Marple but it's narrated by the vicar.Graham Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775285782385634486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-67273595671162854222016-09-27T12:42:59.655-04:002016-09-27T12:42:59.655-04:00I agree with John, I have no problem with a large ...I agree with John, I have no problem with a large cast, it's a large world. But I like about all of Christie. I came to them, as mentioned in your recent post about reading, in my mid-late twenties, as opposed to so many here who apparently read them all (!) in their teens, when I was reading science fiction and fantasy, plus whatever was assigned in high school classes, and that was certainly not mystery fiction. So to discover stories and novels with multiple suspects and a puzzle was a treat.<br /><br />ABC is one of my favorite Christie books, though after a reading and the culprit revealed, it's not as much fun. I think it doesn't matter that the world created in the books and depicted so beautifully in the British productions isn't "realistic". Why should it be, or have to be? I think if a reader wants things to be absolutely realistic, then the newspaper, not fiction, is the place to go.Rick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07978136287154214297noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-56830831330353482912016-09-27T12:27:17.230-04:002016-09-27T12:27:17.230-04:00What's wrong with a large cast of characters? ...What's wrong with a large cast of characters? It's truer to real life than the formulaic "closed set of suspects." In my experience I've encountered far too many of the "lower middle-class woman taking her revenge" type in real life than you would ever imagine. Murderous or otherwise.<br /><br />The real brilliance of FIVE LITTLE PIGS is in the reading of the novel. Film offers you the luxury of seeing the events of the past, but in the book the past can only be related through letters, diaries and people's memories. Two or three years ago I re-read it for the first time since I was a teen-ager and marvelled at the way she treats memory in that book, the way seemingly picayune details have a way of working their way into one's memory in the oddest way and staying there for a long time.J F Norrishttp://prettysinister.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-88028853700230170472016-09-27T12:12:15.562-04:002016-09-27T12:12:15.562-04:00I'm with Margot. The BBC took non-Poirot and ...I'm with Margot. The BBC took non-Poirot and non-Miss Marple novels and transformed them into films featuring Christie's most famous detectives. I'm sure it was a money thing.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-71467727619553274562016-09-27T09:50:41.341-04:002016-09-27T09:50:41.341-04:00We've noticed over and over how many TV crime ...We've noticed over and over how many TV crime shows use the "ABC" storyline (I won't explain it for those who haven't read the book; they should read it as soon as possible). As soon as it pops up one of us will say, "Uh, ABC" and we usually know where it is going. And that was only one of Christie's clever subterfuges.Jeff Meyersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00093411926030586355noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33110302.post-56367546787122705802016-09-27T07:37:12.255-04:002016-09-27T07:37:12.255-04:00Very glad you found some Christies to enjoy, Patti...Very glad you found some Christies to enjoy, Patti. Some of the adaptations are done very well, I think. I mostly prefer the ones that stay very faithful to the book, but that's just my view.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com