i like the miss marple movies better than the books. i like reading the feluda series of books because he is a smart detective! football detective, age 12
Here is an extract from an interview of David Suchet, actor: Strand Magazine
TSM: So how did you prepare for the part of Poirot? Did you have any coaching for the accent?
SUCHET: No, I did it all myself. What I did was, I had my file on one side of me and a pile of stories on the other side and day after day, week after week, I plowed through most of Agatha Christie’s novels about Hercule Poirot and wrote down characteristics until I had a file full of documentation of the character. And then it was my business not only to know what he was like, but to gradually become him. I had to become him before we started shooting. I worked very hard on finding the right voice. I was desperate that he should sound French, although he is Belgian, because everybody believes that he is French. I wanted to move my voice from my own—which is rather bell-like and mellow and totally unlike Poirot. I wanted to raise that voice up into his head because that’s where he works from. Everything comes from there. My voice is very much in my chest and in my emotional area, but his is up in his head. He’s a brain, so that voice had to be raised up and perfected. And then I had to learn how to think like him and how to see the world through his eyes. I had to make his mannerisms and eccentricities not as though they had been put on to be laughed at, but as if they had come absolutely from within that person. I had to make it look real for the audience, yet in a way so that they could find themselves smiling at this strange little man. His mannerisms and eccentricities have to be real and not jokey, so he must never be aware of them or comment on them—even things like putting a handkerchief down on the floor before he kneels. They mustn’t be commented on. This is just what he does.
TSM: Do you find that you have any similarities to Poirot—such as tidiness?
SUCHET: Looking around my apartment at the moment, yes, I’m an unbelievably tidy person. I think I have to own to that.
TSM: Which episode would you say you enjoyed working on the most?
SUCHET: I enjoyed The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but I think my most favorite of all was The ABC Murders. I loved that.
TSM: That’s one of my favorites, and I also liked "Murder in the Mews." Are there any which you’d like to film which you haven’t done yet?
By the way, Strand Magazine has a history for mystery:This is what is said about it:
Satisfy your thirst for great mystery and suspense with the world’s most esteemed mystery magazine. From 1891 to 1950, The Strand Magazine featured short stories by some of the greatest authors of the 20th century, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dame Agatha Christie and Rudyard Kipling. Now handsomely revived, The Strand Magazine brings you gripping, new short stories from some of the greatest mystery writers of the 21st century, including Sir John Mortimer, Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith and Ray Bradbury.
i haven't seen the miss marple movies yet, but i must tell you that the books are the most suspense-filled ever. dear miss marple!entirely unpredictable.
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Has anyone seen David Suchet as Hercule Poirot?
Here is a link for Agatha Christie.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/christiea2.shtml
Here is an extract from an interview of David Suchet, actor: Strand Magazine
TSM: So how did you prepare for the part of Poirot? Did you have any coaching for the accent?
SUCHET: No, I did it all myself. What I did was, I had my file on one side of me and a pile of stories on the other side and day after day, week after week, I plowed through most of Agatha Christie’s novels about Hercule Poirot and wrote down characteristics until I had a file full of documentation of the character. And then it was my business not only to know what he was like, but to gradually become him. I had to become him before we started shooting. I worked very hard on finding the right voice. I was desperate that he should sound French, although he is Belgian, because everybody believes that he is French. I wanted to move my voice from my own—which is rather bell-like and mellow and totally unlike Poirot. I wanted to raise that voice up into his head because that’s where he works from. Everything comes from there. My voice is very much in my chest and in my emotional area, but his is up in his head. He’s a brain, so that voice had to be raised up and perfected. And then I had to learn how to think like him and how to see the world through his eyes. I had to make his mannerisms and eccentricities not as though they had been put on to be laughed at, but as if they had come absolutely from within that person. I had to make it look real for the audience, yet in a way so that they could find themselves smiling at this strange little man. His mannerisms and eccentricities have to be real and not jokey, so he must never be aware of them or comment on them—even things like putting a handkerchief down on the floor before he kneels. They mustn’t be commented on. This is just what he does.
TSM: Do you find that you have any similarities to Poirot—such as tidiness?
SUCHET: Looking around my apartment at the moment, yes, I’m an unbelievably tidy person. I think I have to own to that.
TSM: Which episode would you say you enjoyed working on the most?
SUCHET: I enjoyed The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, but I think my most favorite of all was The ABC Murders. I loved that.
TSM: That’s one of my favorites, and I also liked "Murder in the Mews." Are there any which you’d like to film which you haven’t done yet?
If you want to read more, go to the link below:
http://www.strandmag.com/suchet.htm
By the way, Strand Magazine has a history for mystery:This is what is said about it:
Satisfy your thirst for great mystery and suspense with the world’s most esteemed mystery magazine. From 1891 to 1950, The Strand Magazine featured short stories by some of the greatest authors of the 20th century, including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dame Agatha Christie and Rudyard Kipling. Now handsomely revived, The Strand Magazine brings you gripping, new short stories from some of the greatest mystery writers of the 21st century, including Sir John Mortimer, Ruth Rendell, Alexander McCall Smith and Ray Bradbury.
i haven't seen the miss marple movies yet, but i must tell you that the books are the most suspense-filled ever. dear miss marple!entirely unpredictable.
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