![]() Movies owe nothing to literary traditions anyway they're altogether different mediums, and as such, don't need to follow the same rules. ![]() ![]() If the movie is good, it doesn't matter if elements are changed from the book the book still exists, and can be enjoyed for its own worth. As I wrote in my review of Agatha Christie Marple: Series 2 (please click here here to read that review), I've always viewed books and their cinematic adaptations as entirely separate aesthetic experiences. The Granada adaptations have caused quite a bit of talk among Christie enthusiasts, with most viewers coming down against the films for various trespasses against the original novels, including inventing or eliminating key characters, switching locales, and jumbling up key plot points. Whereas those adaptations were marked by an obvious love of old films, with a pulpy, peripatetic approach to the productions that enlivened and reinvigorated the Miss Marple character, these new films of Set 3 were.entirely predictable and worse, ordinary. Going back and checking the credits for these latest four films ( Towards Zero, Nemesis, At Betram's Hotel, and Ordeal by Innocence), I noticed that they had a different producer than the four films in the Agatha Christie Marple: Series 2 boxed set. ![]() ![]() Watching Acorn Media's latest batch of Granada TV adaptations of Agatha Christie Marple: Series 3, it became immediately apparent that something was definitely off from that previous marvelous set. ![]()
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