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Why change Christie's original ending?

posted 9 years ago by SohoLondon
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Such a classic, classic book and an ingenious premise by one of the all-time great crime writers. So why change her ending?

The killer certainly never revealed themself on the island nor talked to anyone as they were hanging. The ending of the book was a lot more mysterious as the ten murders on an island with no killer wasn't actually solved. There was even another chapter set in Scotland Yard where they were baffled and reveal a detail about the hanging chair that is one of the greatest details in the book.

Only when a letter was sent much later, featuring a forensic confession, was the killer revealed.

So much ingenious detail of how the mystery was engineered was just wiped out in favour of ponderous slow-motion scenes. A real shame as such an clever book should be portrayed as such, instead of being filmed as if Christie had only put a tenth as much thought into the plot as she actually did.

[–] BelleCBelle 8 years ago

This novel AS WRITTEN BY Agatha Christie is considered by many to be her masterpiece - the New York Times, The Telegraph, Kirkuk Reviews, to name only a few. I can think of no reason to change this important part of the novel - although to me all of the scenes matter. Very disappointing. I watched because I did not expect the script to veer from the novel. Started off well but ended up as a waste of my time.

"...question is why you won't come with me." "I don't have a passport." "What are you, American?"

[–] BelleCBelle 8 years ago

[–] djv-6 8 years ago

Considering this is supposed to by a murder mystery, I think you answered your own question.