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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 416865" data-attributes="member: 23">Death On The Nile (1978) <img src="https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dvdsreleasedates.com%2Fposters%2F800%2FD%2FDeath-on-the-Nile-1978-movie-poster.jpg&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=ccf308e860f05e6301ac362d244e67009afa4786513a09aca348d9deec734348&ipo=images" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 591px" /> Oh yes. It felt like every scene was never more than a few degrees away from a soapy connection.Her performance was so terribly hammy and unrestrained it was almost unpleasant to watch. At a certain point I found myself just seeing the Madame puppet in each of her scenes.It did have the knock-on effect of making other performances seem more right-sized, despite the fact that Bette Davis seemed to be phoning in her performance while Maggie Smith acted for both of them. And their two tremulous voices talking over one another felt quite satirical.There was an abundance of quite broad performances - from Jack Warden playing Geppetto to I.S. Johar's comic turn as Choudhury - that mostly seemed to work for this piece.I supposed it was balanced by other characters fading more into the background, overshadowed by the broader turns. Like Jane Birkin's loved-up maid, or Jon Finch and Olivia Hussey', whom I barely noticed until the film was over halfway through.Oh, I can (belatedly) see what you mean. There was certainly a barrage of put-downs.Yes. Watching the opening titles, seeing one big name after another was a little overwhelming and far too much to take in at first. There's one terrific early scene where almost the entire cast is in the ballroom watching Holly Harwood and Greg Reardon dance. The camera pans past Angela Lansbury,  Bette Davis and Maggie Smith and David Niven, each striking a frozen pose with a monocle or a glass in hand or whatever , with a look of distaste or amusement on their immobile faces. Because they hadn't really interacted, it felt  like a tableau or a wax museum. But by the time we get to the final assembly as the truth is revealed it's quite a different story and feels more natural.Oh, well done. I was along the right lines with it being [ISPOILER]a couple[/ISPOILER], but I was leaning towards [ISPOILER]Olivia Hussey and Jon Finch...[/ISPOILER] mainly on the basis that they seemed less visible for much of the film.As I watched last night, I remembered this comment and found myself smiling before she popped up, knowing it was about to happen.I thought it a nice touch that her greed and selfishness were exploited and capitalised upon to become her downfall. This, too, would make a nice twist in a soap.Yes indeed.</blockquote>

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