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The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Wogma Readers Reviews
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
quick review:
There are very few detective novels that ensure you vividly remember the endings. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd is one such novel, which will never let you forget the narrative if you manage to read the book. The movie adaptation is detailed, earnest, classy and a nail-bitter, all the ingredients needed to be successful detective film. Ultimately, the book is a much more interesting experience than the movie, but don’t make the mistake of missing the DVD which is one of the most genuine adaptations I’ve seen, managing to retain the complex flavours of the book.
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3 readers have given The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
an average rating of 5/5.0
3 yays
0 nays
0 so-so
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd - Movie Details
- Producer: Brian Eastman
- Director: Andrew Grieve
- Lead Cast: David Suchet, Philip Jackson, Oliver Ford Davies, Malcolm Terris
- Story: Based on a novel by Agatha Chrisitie
- Screenplay: Clive Exton
- Cinematography: Chris O'Dell
- Editor: Frank Webb
- Music Director: Christopher Gunning
- Running time: 110 minutes
- Reviewer: Swetha Ramakrishnan
- Categories: The United Kingdom, World Cinema
- Genres: Murder Mystery
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Comments (7)
Decided to watch it but the IMDB movie review is quite the opposite to what is depicted here. This one gets a 2 out of 10 rating in IMDB (check User Reviews at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0236523/)
As a huge Christie fan, the movie is nothing like the original. However it IS entertaining and I couldn't imagine anyone nut Suchet for the part. It's the part he was born to do.
David Suchet is the definitive Poirot... AFter watching almost all of his works I tried watching an older film with another actor as Poirot but couldn't finish that...
It is true that the makers of this series makes certain changes in teh original storyline but nevetheless, meticulous attention to period details and excellent production values make it one of teh best serieses ever.... Personally I even like the recurring side characters like Hastings, Inspector Japp & Ms Lemon...
The reviewer needs to read and watch more films, to use terms like "literary complexities " for an an Agatha Christie book is completely ridiculous!!! She was nowhere literary! Maybe it is the standard of the books that the reviewer reads! And talking about literary adaptations, one could start with the Merchant Ivory films most of which are adapted from "literary" books by Henry James and Kazuo Ishiguro.
David Suchet makes Hercule Poirot come alive..Having watched 38 Hercule Poirot TV productions last summer in a month and also seen David Suchet perform on stage in London (He is a British stage actor,occassionally seen in west-end productions) I can call myself a true fan. It's worth watching the films just to see him if nothing else. However well made the the film is, it will never be able to do justice to the book it has been adapted from.It is hard to have details of 300-400 pages of a book in a 1.5- 2 hour movie . Which is why most of the adapted screenplay awards go to films adapted from stories and not full blown novels!
@Ilovebooks: I'm assuming you have read The Murder Of Roger Ackroyd (because if you haven't your comment stands invalid), and anybody who has read the book will agree that as a narrative structure it defies the very norms of story-telling and novel writing.
That, my friend, is a complex piece of literature, hence the tag.
I would comment further but that would give away the beauty of the book.
I would assume that you understand the workings of story-telling and the role of a narrator? Keeping that in mind, I feel the structure of the novel is complex and avant garde. Maybe we can have a detailed conversation about that later, where I can openly tell you what I mean incase you are confused.
Yes, dear reviewer, of course I am confused, while you are not! Not to mention, that the narrative structure of Christie's book defies the norms of story telling and novel writing!
That is why I said that you seem to have a limited experience of "literature"!
Yes, the structure of this particular book is "novel" by Christie's standards, but her writing was always one dimensional and existed more to unravel a "set" plot than to generate any pscyhological insights into the characters. This books is slightly better, no doubt. The books are enjoyable no doubt, but whether they would classify as literature is doubtful, and Christie being labelled complex and avant garde?!!! That seems a bit too much!
I would very much like to know what else you read, so that my confusion could possibly be cleared. In the crime genre, or rather the modern crime novel, things are very different. Christie technically would fall into the golden age of British crime writing, along with Dorothy Sayers (Lord Peter Wimsey) and maybe Ngaio Marsh. But that age is long gone, and was soon eclipsed by the hard boiled American school, and today the gritty crime novel has many practitioners, the closest author who would come to avant garde is James Elroy. You should read him. One of his simpler books was made into a film called L A Confidential, you might have seen it. But books like White Jazz, The Big Nowhere et al have redefined what detective / crime writing means.
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