'The Murder on the Links'
SeaSnap
Cornwall, United Kingdom
Post your thoughts on Poirot's second novel here. Anything, from the characters to adaptations, is accepted, as long as it is to do with the novel in question!
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Tommy_A_Jones, give this book another chance. It's really good.
And because of this love, I am totally disappointed with the movie adaptation. So many divergences.
GOOD FOR YOU!!!
Brilliant! You found the sixth little soldier boy!
Past movie adaptations have made many changes to the characters. For example, the 1945 version of And Then There Were None changed Anthony Marston into Prince Nikita Starloff, a “professional guest” who makes a living being amusing at parties. In the three later English-language movies, Emily Brent, the prim, religious spinster, was turned into a glamorous movie actress who was implicated in the death of her husband (in the African Safari-set version, her victim was her lesbian lover!). In the mountain chalet version her name became Ilona Bergen, in the Iranian desert version the character’s name was changed to Ilona Morgan, and on the African safari she became Marion Marshall. Indeed, most of the characters’ names have been changed in at least one of the adaptations. The current miniseries is one of the few to use all of the original names.
The manners of death were changed as well. In the mountaintop chalet version, one character died when the cable car down the mountain crashed. At the Iranian desert, one was strangled against a pillar instead of being poisoned, and on the African safari “a big bear hugged one” meant being stabbed with a knife that had also impaled a teddy bear.
And yes, there’s a word on the statuette. “Issac.” Interesting!