Full Of It #273 - Agatha Christie
Added 2023-12-10 00:00:07 +0000 UTCAGATHA! Dame Agatha Christie was a British novelist. Her books were and are so popular that she's credited with being the best-selling fictional author in history, having flogged 2 billion books. Primarily known for her characters Hercule Poirot and Jane Marple, Christie's works concern murder mysteries with increasingly bizarre plots. She's always been a staple in my family's viewing and reading, to the point that I've always seen her stories as sort of puzzles that a person could potentially figure out as they go along. I'm re-evaluating this - some of them are utterly ridiculous.
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The adaptation of "and then there were none" that immediately came to mind was the family guy one 😄 Also.. googled and then there were none and clicked on the Wikipedia to check it was the right one.. got a hell of a shock from the original title And when talking about Agatha Christie's disappearance I immediately thought of the Dr Who episode with the wasp... maybe I need to consume the source material rather than getting info from tv shows 😄
Matt Fudge
2023-12-14 15:08:24 +0000 UTCLove Agatha Christie! Her house ‘greenway’ is a national trust property about 3 minutes from where I used to live, it’s got really interesting history of her inside. On your note about Kenneth Branagh, a nice tie in with your Shakespeare pod, I have had the ick from him ever since we were made to ‘review’ the film adaptation of Henry V in GCSEs. He wrote the screenplay, directed, and made himself the lead role.. it just doesn’t sit right.. Fine to be a supporting role, but the Henry V film seemed to just be a vehicle to get himself monologuing on screen for 2 hours. And the Poirot movies feel the same. Produces, Directs, and then gives himself the main role? STAHP Much love
Myles
2023-12-14 12:41:37 +0000 UTC
