{"id":13728,"date":"2017-11-05T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13728"},"modified":"2017-11-05T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T00:05:00","slug":"poirot-is-a-show-off-but-hes-brilliant-thats-why-i-brought-him-back-to-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=13728","title":{"rendered":"Poirot is a show-off, but he\u2019s brilliant. That\u2019s why I brought him back to life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Murder on the Orient Express brings vintage Agatha Christie back to our cinemas, novelist Sophie Hannah tells how she resurrected the brilliant Belgian detective on the pageWhen I heard that Kenneth Branagh was to star as Hercule Poirot in a new Hollywood film of Murder on the Orient Express, I was quietly pleased. Branagh is a brilliant actor, and I had a sense that he would be a great Poirot. There have already been several \u2013 David Suchet, Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney were excellent in their different ways \u2013 and I looked forward to seeing Branagh join their ranks.Well, on Thursday night I did, at the Royal Albert Hall, for the movie\u2019s world premiere. It was an impressive and lavish event attended by thousands. The smartest character, of course, was the immaculately dressed Belgian genius, Hercule Poirot. I soon saw that I\u2019d been right to trust Branagh. His portrayal of Agatha Christie\u2019s most loved character is superb. It isn\u2019t so much that his moustache is luxurious and resplendent (though it is both); it is simply that he feels like a real, proper Poirot. That, for me, was the most important thing. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2017\/nov\/04\/hercule-poirot-new-lease-of-life-agatha-christie-orient-express\" target=\"_blank\">Poirot is a show-off, but he\u2019s brilliant. That\u2019s why I brought him back to life<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Murder on the Orient Express brings vintage Agatha Christie back to our cinemas, novelist Sophie Hannah tells how she resurrected the brilliant Belgian detective on the pageWhen I heard that Kenneth Branagh was to star as Hercule Poirot in a new Hollywood film of Murder on the Orient Express, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}