5/20/2023 0 Comments Murder on the orient express book![]() ![]() That one’s a clear reference to another famous Poirot mystery, Death on the Nile. The film ends with Poirot being called away to yet another case, this time in Egypt. Published in 1934, Murder on the Orient Express follows the Belgian detective Poirot, who had become a staple of her work by then. ![]() Poirot certainly arrives a very Agatha Christie-like solution ( The policeman did it!) but that particular case does not occur in any of Christie’s books and seems to have been totally invented for the film. Branagh’s Poirot puts a gun on the table and insists that the suspects will have to shoot him to keep his silence the gun turns out to be unloaded, and Poriot eventually decides he will present the police with the assassin theory and “learn to live with the imbalance.”Īt the beginning of the film, before we even get to the mystery we came for, we join Poirot in Jerusalem, where he must determine whether a priest, a rabbi, or an imam is responsible for stealing a sacred relic. Hubbard, he announces that he can’t live with the injustice of keeping the killers’ secret (something he has in common with David Suchet’s more religious Poirot in the 2010 ITV adaptation of the novel). After presenting both theories and extracting a confession from Mrs. Branagh’s Poirot is not nearly as relaxed about the whole thing. ![]()
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