Trailer is out
It looks great
https://youtu.be/JM1U-Whb-P0
It's just more woke diversity bullshit.
With woke mystery movies it happens like the old saying about the butler being always the murderer. Instead of the butler, in woke mystery movies you have a diversity cast, and the murderer is always (of course) the white blond/brown-hair guy.
I know the novel, checked the cast, and this movie is no exception. Woke movies are so predictable! 😂
Apparenly they have to create entirely new characters so they can cast as many minorities as possible.🙄
shareAnd that's not all. It's again about blacks. Lots of blacks in the trailer.
It's fucking Egypt. The Nile. There's no blacks there. You had Arabs and Copts, and the occasional European tourists, probably British or French back then. But what you have in the movie? blacks. It's surrealist.
It's like blacks have become the Chosen People in the woke religion.
I do have to point out that the crew on the boat are described as "Nubian" which probably refers to darker-skinned Egyptians, like Anwar Sadat. But a black woman being a succesful novelist in the 1930s? Please make up your mind! Have black people been oppressed or haven't they???
And can anybody tell me what character Annette Benning is supposed to be? Who the hell is Euphemia???
Nubians in Egypt are a marginalized minority. Many have very dark complexion, as dark as Sub-Saharan Africans. Anwar Sadat wasn't Nubian. His father was from upper Egypt and his mother was Sudanese.
shareHe was, though:
http://nubianfoundation.org/about-nubia/
Nubians also live in Sudan. Both his parents were of Nubian extraction.
Thanks for the clarification.
shareI checked it. There's a crew member that is described as Nubian, but I think most of the crew were standard Egyptians.
shareI recently read the book. The captain and another guy are described as Nubian. Then there's some English guy. I don't remember other crew being described.
Some kids at the temple are also described as Nubian. If you want to put black people in a Poirot movie, this is the one. Not as one of the passengers, though!
Nice.
shareMixed feelings here.
I have read a handful of Agatha Christie's novels, have watched several episodes of the Poirot series, watched multiple film adaptations of her stories, and for the most part enjoyed Branagh's adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express. But something about this trailer doesn't feel right.
It seems to me to lack the charm of Christie's writing and it feels too modern. I'm not getting the sense that it's truly evoking the era that the story is set in--it feels like modern actors cosplaying as 1930s characters on a modern set than it does the actual 1930s--and I think the studio is trying too hard to appeal to modern audiences.
My hope is that the actual film won't be this way and that the trailer isn't really representative of the movie that Branagh has created.
I think that the iTV show is as close to era accurate as you'll get. These movies are definitely supposed to appeal to younger and wider audiences to expose them to Christie's work as you mentioned, and I like that. As you said, they're like light dinner theater adaptations.
shareI felt like the trailer for MOTOE felt rather modern, especially with its odd use of an Imagine Dragons song, but it still felt rooted in the time period the story was set in. This seems to double-down on the modernity and go even further in that direction.
One thing that both Branagh and the studio need to keep in mind are that a large part of the ticket sales for MOTOE were to older folks. Crowd statistics showed that the 50+ crowd came out for that one in a big a way and the audience skewed significantly older than the audience for most movies today. If they want those folks to keep coming out for these films, then they need to give them something that least feels relatively traditional and true to Christie's stories.
With that said, I do hope these films also attract younger people and introduce new generations to Agatha Christie.
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Wow, I didn't even recognize Russell Brand.
https://nerdist.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Death-on-the-Nile-Russell-Brand.jpg
Now that I know it's him I can see it, but he really looks like a different dude.
Slick.
Almost forgot this was coming out this year (well you never know with 2020). Bring it
Emma Mackey's got this very handsome well chiseled face, looks great in this!
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