Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Agatha Christie




Agatha Christie is the best selling novelist of all time. (Take that, John Grisham!)   I love her books and I urge you to search them out and read them.  You might have seen a good many of her mysteries portrayed on the TV screen with the wise Miss Marple  and those with her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot  (using his little grey cells!)
In November, there will be a new film based upon one of her most popular stories, "Murder On The Orient Express".  I hope that they have done a good job with it!  I have a trailer of it if you would like to see it...






Agatha Christie was English, born on September 15, 1890 in Torquay in Devon.  Sadly her father died when she was only eleven years old. (He was an American, by the way.) Her entire life is fascinating, I urge you to read it in greater detail and you may do so just here.    

Remember I told you about another movie coming out in November?  That will also be about someone who had an American parent, in this case his mother was American and his father was British...do you know who that would be?
Winston Churchill! The film will be "Darkest Hour" and stars Gary Oldman as Churchill.

Now, why doesn't someone make a movie about the life of Agatha Christie?  There may have been one made in the past but hey, I want to see one right now! Maybe some famous screenwriter will read this blog and be inspired.  (Mention me when you win an Oscar, would you? Thank you!)
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My friends, I will have to tell you about our trip this past weekend in my next post. It involved a lot of walking up and down steps!


                              Yes, I lived through these stairs! 
                              Stay tuned!

35 comments:

  1. LOL- That is a whole lotta steps there, missy! I love Agatha Christie. There is an old, old movie made about The Orient Express and it was fun to watch that. I saw it sometime in the last year.

    I am anxious to see the story about Winston Churchill, too. That should be good!

    Have a wonderful night Kay. xo Diana

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    1. Yes, missy, you need to stop by in Georgia and we could have fun stomping up and down some steps!

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  2. Murder On The Orient Express is a great book. It has long been a favorite.

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    1. I always like it when a film is made from a good book, I hope it will raise more interest in the book!

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  3. Oh my aching knees, look at those steps. I am looking forward to the new Orient movie, with a great line up of stars. The past few days have seen a few interviews with Kenneth Brannagh about it. I think I have read a bio of Agatha Christie, years ago, and yes quite an interesting life which would make a good movie.

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    1. Look at the comment from Lee! She has researched it all for us!
      Those steps...wow, I was so excited to see the gorge, I didn't think about all those steps going down and then, back up again!

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  4. We probably did not know each other in 2012, Kay, otherwise I am sure you would have commented on this review I posted for a book about Agatha Christie. I think I will send you the book :-)

    The steps look impressive!! The first picture reminded me a little of one I posted about our hike in the Enge Schlucht, but your stairs are much longer and steeper, it seems. Looking forward to seeing the whole post!

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    1. I looked at your post and I must have just missed that post, Meike! We have been commenting on each other's blogs since 2011! You are sweet but you must not send me that book, why it would cost a fortune in postage!
      Yes! Isn't it funny that you had your posts about your gorge when we were planning on seeing the gorge here in Georgia?

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  5. I love all things Agatha Christie so enjoyed this post very much, Kay. I'm also looking forward to the movie and I've recently picked up a new book, The Woman on the Orient Express, where Christie herself is the heroine. I have high hopes.
    Amalia
    xo

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    1. Hey! Lovely to hear from you! That book sounds very interesting, do let us know on your blog what you think of it!

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  6. Hi Kay - I must say Johnny Depp in that clip really does act though hardly moves ... I just may have to wait to see it ... but looks to be really good - and look forward to your stepping out and up and down safely - cheers Hilary

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    1. Hilary, I tried to leave a comment on your last post...where you were in Bexhill at the De La Ware Pavilion! I love it!
      Richard has friends who live there and we went there by train from Eastbourne. We saw a lovely sunset there!
      JOhnny Depp, I have mixed feelings about him in this, hope it isn't bad casting!

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  7. Agatha Christie is the best! She is one of the first authors I read when I began binge-reading as a young teen. Have you read "And then there were none?". That is one of my favourites. She said it was one of the hardest for her to write. No kidding!

    I didn't know about this film. I'm going to have to see it. Looks really interesting.

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    1. Yes, "And Then There Were None" is one of my favorites too!
      (I even love the old black and white film of it!)
      Glad to tell you about this movie, dear Martha!

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  8. It always makes me wonder, when they remake a movie, will they even come close to the original? Or to the novel?

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    1. I have the highest hopes for films but very often, they disappoint me.

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  9. Don't know that I'd make it up all those stairs.

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    1. You are right. The going down was much easier than coming up!

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  10. I do love Agatha Christie and have read many of her books and also seen the TV shows too. She is a true classical mystery writer. I got dizzy looking at those steps and glad you made it. Heights like that and I do not get along well at all.

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    1. Funny you should say that about heights...when I walked across that bridge, I walked over it very quickly and I only looked down once that was enough for me!

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  11. I want to see both these films! I adore the classic Agatha Christie series of books about Poirot. I think I've read them all over the years. I'm not as fussy about her other detectives though. Just Poirot.

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    1. Hercule Poirot is my fave too but shh..don't tell Miss Marple!

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  12. I want to see both those films. I can hardly wait.

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  13. Love Agatha, books and movies. Those stairs would have killed me.

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    1. Yay! I love Agatha Christie fans!
      The calves of my legs, oh goodness, they are showing their age!

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  14. There was a movie made about Agatha Christie....Vanessa Redgrave played the part of Christie. Dustin Hoffman was in it, too. It was about the period that Agatha went missing for a while. 1979 movie, "Agatha" was, however, a fictional account of what may have sparked off her never explained disappearance for 11 days.

    I watch a TV interview with Kenneth Branagh during this past week in which he talked about the new movie with him playing Poirot..."Murder on the Orient Express"

    Some further trivia....."The Danish Girl star Alicia Vikander and The Amazing Spider-Man’s Emma Stone have both been lined up to play a young Agatha Christie in biopics being developed at rival Hollywood studios.

    According to the Hollywood Reporter, Vikander has been approached by Sony to play the celebrated crime author in her formative years as a “proto-feminist” unhappy with traditional wife-and-mother expectations. Stone, on the other hand, has been pencilled in for Paramount’s take on Christie’s “missing” 11 days in 1926 – a subject already covered in Michael Apted’s 1979 film Agatha, which starred Vanessa Redgrave and Dustin Hoffman.

    The resurgence of interest in Christie follows a flurry of interest from film-makers in getting film versions of the writer’s work off the ground. A forthcoming adaptation of her 1934 yarn Murder on the Orient Express has Kenneth Branagh in the director’s chair and Angelina Jolie in the cast, is due to start shooting this summer and will be released in 2017. A version of the 1939 mystery And Then There Were None was successfully aired on BBC1 at Christmas, and leading British film compnay Working Title are moving ahead with a feature film adaptation to be directed by The Imitation Game’s Morten Tyldum. However, a Julian Fellowes-scripted adaptation of Crooked House appears to have stalled, after an announcement in 2012 that Possession director Neil LaBute was on board."

    As footnote...I;m saddened at the death of the legendary Fats Domino. He was wonderful, as was his music.

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    1. Lee, thank you so much for telling me about the movie from Michael Apted! I love him! I think I have written a post about him before, he did several movies that I love!
      I will have to see if I can somehow find the Agatha film that he made, I truly do admire his work.
      I will try my best to see any movie about Agatha Christie. I wish I could make one of her myself!
      And yes, it is sad that we lost Fats Domino. I love quote from him that heard on TV today, "Well, I might not have invented Rock & Roll but I don't remember anyone playing music like this until I came along!"

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  15. A movie on the life of Agatha Christie would be amazing. I don't know why they haven't made one yet. She had a very interesting life.

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    1. Hey Mark! She really was a fascinating person to me!

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  16. One of my favourite old black and white films is 'And then there were none' and even numerous modern remakes have been worth watching. With Miss Marple and Poirot it depends who plays them for me if I'll watch it or not. Everyone usually has a favourite that nails the character for them. Never read the books though. Once won a quiz night by knowing Miss Marple's first name when two others did not- got a bar towel and a bottle of vodka :o)

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    1. I like both Miss JANE Marple and Hercule Poirot but I must admit, I have a special fondness for Poirot!
      A bar towel and a bottle of vodka...sounds like a country song! LOL!

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  17. If you ever have chance then visit Greenway at Galmpton Devon which is cared for by the National Trust and was Agatha Christie’s home. There are amazing displays of her personal life including a tailor’s dummy wearing an outfit she wore. She was much taller than I imagined plus lots of info about her archaeologist husband. What an amazing woman she must have been. The BBC did a new version of And Then There Were None over Christmas 2015 starring Aidan Turner (Poldark) by the way.

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    1. Thank you for this comment, Redhair116!
      I would dearly love to visit Devon one day and if I ever do, I would certainly visit Greenway. I am so glad that she found such great happiness with Max Mallowan, her archaeologist husband. I truly do admire her, not just as a writer but as an amazing woman who should inspire us all.
      YES! WE did get to see that BBC version on our TV! I am grateful, we don't always get to see things that you do!
      Thanks very much for your comment, please stop by again! :-)

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  18. That's a lot of stairs, Kay. I read "Murder on the Orient Express" decades ago. Agatha Christie was a favorite author of my mother, so I read a lot of AC novels. I hope to see this movie!

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