Film adaptions of books must always reach a certain balance of differences and similarities to the book being adapted. Films like Holes (based on Louis Sachar's book of the same name) shows us what it looks like when a film is too faithful to it's source material. The film becomes predictable for those who have read the book, and frankly, the source material for Holes did not need a film.
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Superb adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, despite a slight deviation from it towards the end, in order to add a little bit of romance. I'm familiar with the story, after seeing an excellent stage version about a year back, but that didn't stop my enjoyment of this cinematic version. The cast are great ; we've got Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald turning in a wonderfully charismatic performance as ... read more
Based on a novel and subsequent stage play by Agatha Christie; ten people are invited to an isolated island, only to be killed one-by-one. Could one of them be the killer?
“Film adaptions of books must always reach a certain balance of differences and similarities to the book being adapted. Films like Holes (based on Loui”
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“Film adaptions of books must always reach a certain balance of differences and similarities to the book being adapted. Films like Holes (based on Louis Sachar's book of the same name) shows us what it looks like when a film is too faithful to it's source material. The film becomes predictable for those who have read the book, and frankly, the source material for Holes did not need a film.
On the other hand, films like the adaption of the first three books of A Series of Unfortunate Events, shows us what can happen if a film differs to much from the book. It greatly irritates those who have read the source material, and like Holes, the series did not need a film.
And Then There Were None (based on Agatha Christie's novel of the same name) falls a bit more to the "too dif” read more
"January 10th
Another film I enjoyed, I have seen it before but about a few years ago and I thought I should watch it again, and what I remembered of it was that I liked it and I still do. There have been lot's of remakes of this story but nothing is as good as this 1945 film directed by Rene Clair, especially the very new versions, they aren't very good. If you aren't even much of a fan of Agatha Christie I'm sure you'd still enjoy this quite a bit."
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Agatha Christien 10 pientä neekeripoikaa -filmatisointi on suorastaan vaivaannuttavaa katseltavaa. René Clairin ohjauksen alaisena kamera liikkuu kömpelösti, jännitteitä korostetaan muiden muassa musiikin ja äänitehosteiden avulla ylihölmösti ja käsikirjoitus sekä sen soveltaminen kankaalle prakaavat pahasti. Elokuvallisia ideoita ei ilmiselvimpien lisäksi paljoa ole, vaikka muutama ihan hyvä kuvaoivallus (tippuva lankakerä, murhaajan kasvojen peittäminen) mukana on"
"Directed by Rene Clair
The film adaptation of Agatha Christie's best-selling murder mystery novel with one of the most offensive titles in history originally called "Ten Little Niggers" only to later be changed to "Ten Little Indians" (oh gee, that's much better - up here where I live the "I word" will get your ass kicked!) directed by acclaimed French filmmaker Rene Clair, who opts for an English language picture here. Having to read the book for English class in school when I was younger we w"
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Superb adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, despite a slight deviation from it towards the end, in order to add a little bit of romance. I'm familiar with the story, after seeing an excellent stage version about a year back, but that didn't stop my enjoyment of this cinematic version. The cast are great ; we've got Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald turning in a wonderfully charismatic performance as the Judge, Walter Huston as the decisive but cowardly Doctor, Louis Hayward as the mysterious Ph"
“Superb adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, despite a slight deviation from it towards the end, in order to add a little bit of romance. I'm familiar with the story, after seeing an excellent stage version about a year back, but that didn't stop my enjoyment of this cinematic version. The cast are great ; we've got Irish actor Barry Fitzgerald turning in a wonderfully charismatic performance as the Judge, Walter Huston as the decisive but cowardly Doctor, Louis Hayward as the mysterious Philip Lombard and the lovely June Duprez (who I was recently introduced to in The Spy In Black), amongst others. Brilliantly directed by Clair, it’s a fast-moving, atmospheric film with a real sense of paranoia alongside plenty of subtle, black humour and an abrupt ending to rival Hitchcock. Very enjoy” read more
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