If Agatha Christie fans were as drama queens as Tolkien fans, we would take to the streets with pitchforks and torches after each adaptation. The screams of the tolkians upon verifying that in The rings of power Not all elves wore the hair of the Golden Triplets. They do not know what it is to suffer. Morfydd Clark, the actress who plays Galadriel, and who was also given her due for her skill with the sword, can be seen in Killing is easy (Movistar Plus+), the very free BBC adaptation of Christie’s novel.
Its screenwriter, Siân Ejiwunmi-Le Berre, advances the story 20 years, adds an anti-colonial perspective and changes the protagonist’s former English police officer to a Nigerian attaché. They may seem like relevant changes, but as in the case of the elves’ blonde hair, they are merely cosmetic. The really serious thing is that it suffers from the only evil that cannot be allowed in a work based on Christie’s material: it is terribly boring. Nothing works: the plot is stretched to justify three unnecessary chapters, the direction of the actors is painful and the chemistry between the protagonists is non-existent, a pair of well-cut suits is not enough to become Myrna Loy and William Powell – right now there is someone Trying to come up with a new version of The Supper of the Accused is the real crime that should be investigated.
It seems that Ejiwunmi-Le Berre has no interest, nor respect, for the work he adapts, he considers it a mere vehicle for his display; like the insufferable Kenneth Branagh who, aware that he could never be James Bond, turned Poirot into an ex-soldier heartbroken by love. Poirot in love! They will tell me if it is not so that the Christians our navel comes out.
It is not necessary for the characters to be a living embodiment of the text, Christie did not like Margareth—reverence—Rutherford’s chaotic and quirky Jane Marple, although she ended up dedicating her The mirror cracked from one side to the other; nor should we demand fidelity to the text of a copyist monk, Killing is easy It was years ago another chapter of Miss Marple (Pluto TV), although the venerable detective did not appear in the original. It stars Julia Mackenzie and Benedict Cumberbatch, is much more entertaining than the sumptuous modern adaptation and confirms that killing is easy and adapting well to Agatha Christie, too.
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