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“Cher ami!" Poirot had said to me as I left the room. They were the last words I was ever to hear him say.”
Ten years ago, David Suchet completed his iconic 25 year run as Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot in Curtain: Poirot’s Last Case.
Undoubtedly one of the best actors to portray the literary character and who has a special place in the heart of the Agatha Christie fandom.
#agatha christie#hercule poirot#poirot#2d art#my art#2d artwork#agatha christie's poirot#sir david suchet#david suchet#j-deco art
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AGATHA CHRISTIE'S POIROT (1989 - 2013)
#poirot#hercule poirot#agatha christie#david suchet#tvedit#perioddramaedit#poirotedit#*edit#poirot 1x06: triangle at rhodes#poirot 1x10: the dream#poirot 3x01: the mysterious affair at styles#poirot 4x01: the abc murders#poirot 5x04: the case of the missing will#poirot 6x01: hercule poirot's christmas#poirot 10x04: taken at the flood#poirot 7x01: the murder of roger ackroyd#HAVE SOME POIROT KISSES <3<3#the way he looks at the lady in the 6th gif *o*#or in the 8th gif when he meets her eyes#EXCUSE ME sir <3
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"We are dealing with a maniac
that is very dangerous."
"Oh, my Lord! What about Egg?
Is she going to be alright?"
Hercule Poirot and Sir Charles having a brainstorming on the train.
#martin shaw#sir charles cartwright#three act tragedy#david suchet#hercule poirot#first time I actually have the titular character in a gif set#I can barely look at him anymore since this episode#my weekend is so packed that I won't be able to concentrate on my writing anyway#so have this gif set instead#that little smile from Charles in the first gif#he is so precious!#also I wonder what kind of choice it was to film him from up above and Poirot from down below#I could say something about certain complexes that makes people want to appear bigger in front of others#while literally putting others down#but we all know which side I'm on in this#also yes Egg would have been alright if you had just eloped with her to finally get married!#I would have loved to see their wedding#instead I got traumatized for life by that ending#and was totally ok with discarding of the Belgian in the last episode because of that#thanks a lot!
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Regrading Taskmaster: S04E01 A fat bald white man.
*Score changes noted in parenthesis.
New series alert and I'd say we've finally reached one of the series that most consider a peak of Taskmaster. I've said as much in the post where I ranked the series, but I'm not quite as fond of this series as most. However, Joe Lycett might be one of my favorite contestants of all time . . . so if this regrade ends with him as the winner, you can call me biased.
Prize Task: The most interesting autograph on the most interesting vegetable.
Two possible methods of grading this exist: (1) It can be evaluated by the total completed submission, or (2) The vegetable and autograph can be evaluated separately. The former seems more appropriate because some of the contestants use a theme for their whole submission.
Hugh brings in a forged "Malcolm X" signature on a carrot. He's actively sacking his points for a joke here. Joe had Sara Pascoe trick Greg into signing a yellow courgette and gets marked down because she lied about it being for charity.
Lolly tries a workaround by placing a signed Black Eyed Peas CD on some black eyed peas. Even if this is considered "on the vegetable," it's a very temporary or conditional sort of on. I'm dropping her below Joe because, to quote him: "fuck charity."
Mel had four of the five members of Take That sign different vegetables (I don't think there was any connection as to the specific vegetables, but they were all interesting). While incomplete, she quadrupled the amount of signatures anyone else got (presumably Lolly just bought a pre-signed CD).
Noel had Sir David Suchet sign a broad bean. Impressive signature, but I'm wasn't familiar with him so I'm struggling to see how it can beat Mel's four, no matter how impressive he is.
Hugh: 1 (0)
Joe: 3 (+1)
Lolly: 2 (-1)
Mel: 5 (-1)
Noel: 4 (-1)
VT 01: Destroy this cake. Most beautify destruction wins.
No disagreement on the winner here. Joe using fireworks to blow up a cake looks just as good as it sounds. Production even helped him out with slow-mo and a little Hoist.
I cannot figure out how Noel beat Lolly here. Chucking a cake in a washing machine is not more beautiful than what is actually a pretty good heart portrait. I honestly find Hugh's knife-work a little hypnotic and might have put him above Noel had it been a little cleaner.
Sorry Mel.
Hugh: 2 (0)
Joe: 5 (0)
Lolly: 4 (+1)
Mel: 1 (0)
Noel: 3 (-1)
VT 02: Create the best caricature of the person on the other side of the curtain. You may not look at the person.
Let's address the Hugh situation. He was looking at the model. Telescopes use mirrors to enlarge things and it is not incorrect to say that you are "looking at that thing through a telescope." Greg gave him one point because his drawing was terrible. He deserved a DQ.
The other thing I just noticed about this task is the word "caricature," so it's supposed to be ridiculous. Noel's is easily the best actual drawing and probably more accurate than Lolly's (despite her adding a properly colored dress). Joes is a better drawing of a human than Lolly's but at first I thought it was a caricature of himself. I'd probably put Lolly ahead for accuracy.
Mel's is really bad. So including the bonus point for getting the name, the scores are:
Hugh: 1 (-1)
Joe: 3 (-1)
Lolly: 4 (+1)
Mel: 3 (0)
Noel: 5 (0)
VT 03: Fell all the rubber ducks.
TM has done this task so many times and most people have figured out that the answer is "string." Since it's a matter of time the only question is whether someone breaks the rules. Weirdly, Alex explains they have to stay behind the rope in the studio and it's not read out on the task.
Regardless, no one tries to get around it and there doesn't seem to be any inadvertent crossing (unless you count them leaning over it to throw things).
Hugh: 5
Joe: 3
Lolly: 4
Mel: 1
Noel: 2
Live Task: Make the most juice. You must pick one fruit and one tool. If you pick the same tool as someone else, you must juice blindfolded. If you pick the same fruit as someone else, you must juice one-handed. If you pick the same fruit and tool as someone else, you must juice blindfolded, one-handed and bouncing up and down.
Everyone but Mel needed to juice one-handed and blindfolded. Joe immediately starts off by trying to pick up his bucket with two hands, realizes his mistake and drops it. I think this is mostly forgivable because I'm not even sure if he actually gets the second hand on it.
Less forgivable, Noel and Hugh just ignore the one-handed rule and use both regularly throughout the task.
I cannot fathom why they didn't get disqualified.
Hugh: DQ (-4)
Joe: 4 (+1)
Lolly: 3 (+2)
Mel: 5 (0)
Noel: DQ (-2)
Final:
Hugh: 9 (-4)
Joe: 18 (+1)
Lolly: 17 (+4)
Mel: 15 (-1)
Noel: 14 (-4)
So already a win to Joe originally achieved by Noel. Sort of hinges on whether or not Joe ought to have been disqualified in the live task. Even if he touched that bucket, I'm pretty confident he never "juiced" with both hands.
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Michael Sheen on art, fear and Amadeus: ‘David Suchet was in really good shape. I … am not!’
Those who have followed the career of the Welsh actor Michael Sheen might expect to encounter a chatty charmer, the “bare-footed buffoon” of his Twitter bio, a full-throated stage animal.
But when he meets Guardian Australia, “harried” is the word that springs to mind – a Sheen closer to the exaggerated version of himself he plays in the Covid lockdown TV hit Staged, not given to suffering fools. At one point I swear he rolled his eyes.
“It’s crunch week,” he says. “Very intense.”
Best known for his roles in The Queen, Good Omens and Masters of Sex, he meets me straight from a wig fitting for his role as Italian composer Antonio Salieri, in a new production of Peter Shaffer’s Tony award-winning play Amadeus at Sydney Opera House. He’s shaved his pandemic beard and is wearing jeans, sipping tea from a mug with his name stuck to it. His blue-brown-green eyes are shining. (He once said on Twitter that his eye colour changes “rather annoyingly.”)
“Crunch week” is the frantic rehearsal period leading up to a production’s first performance. This one has been made more crunchy than usual by the Christmas break, and an extra three days Sheen lost to a “really rough” stomach bug that also took down his partner, actor Anna Lundberg and three-year-old daughter Lyra; along with their six-month-old baby, the family are with Sheen for the season. They are not getting much sleep.
This should be a time of joy for Sheen: World Cup season for a fan whose love of the sport went viral last September, when he gave a rousing speech to the Welsh team. But due to the time difference, illness and new father duties, he says, “It’s the World Cup I’ve seen the least of.”
Perhaps they were “a bit mad” to come to Australia with a new baby at Christmas time – but it’s his first time in Australia, and Sheen couldn’t resist. “There might not be another opportunity and the children are young enough to travel,” he says, adding that Anna’s family are about to fly in from Sweden.
At least Sheen comes to Amadeus thoroughly grounded in its workings, having played the young Mozart in Sir Peter Hall’s staging nearly a quarter of a century ago. That production took him from the West End to Broadway and Los Angeles, and opened the doors to a film career that has included his flawless playing of British PM Tony Blair in The Queen, David Frost in Frost/Nixon (opposite Frank Langella, who played Salieri on Broadway in 1982) and the prestige TV series Masters of Sex. And let’s not forget Last Train to Christmas.
Sheen was 30 at the time; David Suchet played Salieri, the role Sheen steps into now.
“Peter [Hall] was an absolute legend. To get to know him a bit and listen to him talk about the play, that was so great,” says Sheen. “It was also my first time with the Old Vic and I just loved being a part of that. While we were on Broadway, Barry Humphries was doing his Dame Edna show. I saw him and I was absolutely blown away by the danger and the genius of it. He invited me to lunch, which was just lovely – and now Barry is here in Sydney and coming to see me again.”
Sheen remembers his Broadway and Los Angeles experiences fondly – mostly for their idiosyncrasies. For instance, on Broadway, “people clap you at the end of a speech, or clap you when you walk on stage after you’ve had a good review. The oddness of that!”
Playing Mozart remains the longest single theatre engagement of Sheen’s career. “It lasted about 18 months. It was quite hard going at times.” He played Mozart “like he had nuclear reactor inside him,” Sheen recalls. “It’s a positive creative force but it’s also destructive. He’s driven by it and has to try and keep up with it. All that scatological stuff he says, all the personality quirks, they are all coping mechanisms for someone being hurled through space at 1000 miles an hour.”
Playing the older role is no cakewalk either. Salieri is the storyteller, the main focus. One monologue charting the rise and fall of Mozart runs for several pages.
“The play is very demanding and I’m not in the shape I used to be,” says Sheen, who is 53. “I’ve had two children in the last few years, and what with work and everything that’s happened with Covid, it’s been hard to do all the exercise you need to do. I remember David [Suchet] was going to the gym all the time, he was in really good shape. And I … am not!”
That said, this relatively short Sydney season will allow Sheen to let rip to some extent, he says.
“There is much more freedom to explore when you’re playing Salieri … there’s a lot more room to try things out.”
Directed by Craig Illott, the Opera House production features western Sydney actor Rahel Romahn, 28, as Mozart.
“The thing with Mozart is that he’s a mirror to Salieri,” says Sheen. “Before Mozart came along, Salieri considered himself a risk-taker, a pioneering creative artist. Mozart introduces colours he hadn’t known before, concepts he wasn’t aware of. Mozart is an artist. Salieri is someone who has had a career.”
Which is why, Sheen explains, “Salieri has to smash the mirror.”
Is it inevitable that artists lose touch with the creative spark as careers burgeon and responsibilities grow? Does making great art get harder as you grow older?
“I actually don’t think it’s about age, so much,” Sheen says. “We all start off with a sense of an ideal and what we would like to achieve and strive for. It’s about balancing your career and your life responsibilities, but staying true to your original impetus. Are you satisfying yourself creatively? Are you challenging yourself? Are you developing and getting better? I think anyone creative worth their salt is asking themselves that every day.
“When you work on this play, you explore those insecurities and fears, and I have them just like anyone else does. In any part you explore, you look for the bits you connect with and then you amplify them and splash about with them a bit, and that’s what brings the piece to life. It’s not comfortable, but I quite enjoy that. In the end, if you don’t want to explore those things, you shouldn’t play Salieri.”
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Rules: list eight TV shows for your followers to get to know you better!
Tagged by @ruleofexception oh gosh oh boy do I even remember a full eight off the top of my head
1. The Rings of Power. Yeah sue me. Of all the recent adaptations of fantasy series, this is the only one that got its assignment right, which makes it a champion in my eyes already. Also. Hot butter tension.
2. Arcane. I am a sucker for both art nouveau and art deco and guess what, it’s everywhere in this animation. Also high-stakes drama and intense eye contact and beautiful art in general.
3. Hajimete no Otsukai! So wholesome I could die. And just. Look at what a magnificent way to teach children responsibility and kindness and how to approach the world. It even made my mother cry. Haters can fuck off.
4. All of Sir David Attenborough’s Documentaries. I mean all of them yes.
5. Poirot. My favourite crime solver, and a guaranteed comfort watch. But I mean only, and ONLY, David Suchet’s Poirot. The rest are impostors.
6. Nytt på Nytt. (News on news) norwegian news satire show, with sometimes splendidly caustic takes. Comes on every friday to summarize the last week’s news. Much shade is thrown.
7. The Pacific. *loud sobbing noises*. I may be a history nerd, but that doesn’t mean I’m immune to human suffering.
8. Filmavisen. (“Filmpaper”) Not so much a TV show as a collection of old “news bulletins” from the time when Norwegians went to the cinema to watch the news. Greyscale clips presented in Ye Olde Man Talks Eloquently And Very Speedily.
As always, I am tagging whoever wishes to do this and hopes for someone to tag them~ you’re free to say I did, for in spirit, it is true~
#tag game#about the artiste#tv show lists#the rings of power#arcane#old enough#hajimete no otsukai#sir david attenborough#agatha christie's poirot#hercule poirot#the pacific
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Yes, Sir certainly is dexterous.
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Watching the Peter Ustinov Death On The Nile on Freevee. I've read the book and seen the Suchet adaptation, but this is the first time I've seen this one.
Spoilers follow
I like the quick-cut from Jackie & Simon kissing to Linnet & Simon's wedding.
Hey, filming at the Sphinx! (or a reasonable mockup)
Writer Salome Otterbourne being a lush wasn't clear until partway through the book. In this movie she's comically soused in every scene. And played by Angela Lansbury.
Bette Davis playing the rich American Mrs Van Schuyler, Maggie Smith as her butchish nurse-companion Miss Bowers.
Oh my, Linnet is suing Salome for defamation.
Salome's daughter is wondering if dead people can be defamed. (Aka, would Linnet's lawsuit end if she died)
Colonel Race is working for Linnet's British lawyers. They think her American lawyer, Pennington, is embezzling.
Linnet argues with her maid about a promised bonus.
Poirot notes Linnet is angering everyone.
Mia Farrow as Jackie is more effective than I expected.
Of its time: not only does the doctor have a black bag that allows him to dress Simon's bullet wound and give him morphia, the nurse, Miss Bowers, has morphia to give Jackie for hysteria.
Miss Bowers: I think a shot of morphia will meet the case. I've always found it very effective when Mrs Van Schuyler is carrying on.
Second "Belgian not French" reference.
I think the actors had fun filming the possible death scenarios. Bette Davis got to be a possible murderer! Angela Lansbury!
More "not French":
Andrew Pennington: It may be the custom in Paris to go through other people's things, but we're not in Paris now!
Hercule Poirot: Brussels, sir! The country is...
Miss Bowers on Jackie: "Nervous reaction, booze, and morphia, together they'd have sunk the Titanic."
Simon's cabin. Simon hasn't eaten his lunch. Race suggests Simon should eat, Simon says he can't. Poirot takes the tray to the table and tucks in!
"Belgian upstart, not French!"
Poirot (Peter Ustinov) and Race (David Niven) are quite the team.
From IMDb: during World War II, Major David Niven's batman (personal attendant) was Private Peter Ustinov.
More "Belgian!" references
Maggie Smith is amazing in her formal dinner jacket.
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The Gospel according to St John, read by Sir David Suchet
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The Gospel according to St John, read by Sir David Suchet
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#Youtube#jesusislord#salvation through jesus christ#lord jesus christ#savior#belief in jesus#follower of jesus christ#jesus#the lord#bible study
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Happy Birthday, David Suchet! (b. May 2 1946)
"Poirot is a brilliant, yet profoundly complicated character and I've always loved playing him. He's considerate, with a love of elegance and precision, but he is also so maddeningly frustrating to play as he's so vain and pedantic. What endears me to him the most is his endless love of people. And for all his faults he is one of the greatest listeners in literature. I've been so fortunate to play him."
- David Suchet, Independent interview, November 14 2011
#david suchet#poirot#hercule poirot#agatha christie#tvedit#perioddramaedit#tvandfilm#chewieblog#*edit#poirotedit#poirot 1x03: the adventure of johnnie waverly#poirot 3x01: the mysterious affair at styles#poirot 3x05: wasps' nest#poirot 3x09: the theft of the royal ruby#poirot 10x04: taken at the flood#poirot 12x02: hallowe'en party#LOVE YOU DAVID so so much <3<3#sir you are a marvel and a sweetheart#i am happy to be your fan <3
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Watch "The Gospel according to St John, read by Sir David Suchet" on YouTube
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David Suchet performing one of Salieri's speeches from "Amadeus" at a Service of Thanksgiving for Sir Peter Hall.
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Tabernacle Choir 2022 Christmas concert guest artists
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Filipino singer Lea Salonga and British actor Sir David Suchet, though from opposite sides of the world, sat side by side and spoke about performing in The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square’s Christmas concert on Friday, Dec. 16, after the first performance the night before.
They were joined by Nick Winton, the son of Nicholas Winton whose experiences of helping to evacuate hundreds of Jewish…
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Hi I happened to found your blog casually I saw that you got some request I hope that mine won't bother you I would like to know what do you think of each actor who played Hercule Poirot in both films and series tv, like confrontation and tips on how everyone has modeled his figure on their own. Thank you Have a nice day ^^
Hello! I'm not sure that I fully understand this ask, but I do understand Italian, if you'd like to clarify.
Albert Finney is good; I just don't find his Poirot particularly... Poirot-ish. Poirot needs to have a sense of humor about life, as well as an awareness of its evils. He's much more optimistic than Miss Marple, for instance. Still: Finney is appropriately dapper and finicking and committed to being canonically odd.
I don't know what John Malkovich was doing; let us pass on.
Peter Ustinov I actually like a lot. He captures, for me, the best of late-career Poirot: comfortable, a bit camp, more indulgent of himself and of others' faults than he has been in the past, but never complacent about evil, and always alert for its presence. Also, concerned about food.
Ken Branagh... I like his direction of Poirot better than his performance of Poirot, if that makes any sense. His ideas about how Poirot should be in relationship to space are really good, and I think the character establishment in the opening sequence of MOTOE is great. And he's a very fine actor, of course, and his Poirot is passionately desirous that justice should be served, while being fully aware of how often it is not. I'm still not enormously enthusiastic, but I'll watch the next film.
David Suchet is, I believe, a truly great actor, and he spent twenty-five years with the character of Poirot, and he took it seriously the whole time, and the results are delightful, fascinating, and rich. He is both a man who cares about little symmetrical dabs of jam on squares of toast, and a man who will endure discomfort and risk and even humiliation for the sake of his friends, and sometimes for the sake of justice, which is never an abstraction to him.
#david suchet#my detection obsession#hercule poirot#i swear i typed poirot and it autocorrected to suchet#which... is fair to my feelings if not to sir david#kenneth branagh#peter ustinov#albert finney#john malkovich
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