{"id":41576,"date":"2024-12-12T19:27:10","date_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41576"},"modified":"2024-12-12T19:27:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-13T01:27:10","slug":"belated-movie-reviews-872","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/12\/belated-movie-reviews-872\/","title":{"rendered":"Belated Movie Reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_41592\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41592\" class=\"wp-image-41592\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?resize=360%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?w=474&amp;ssl=1 474w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?resize=300%2C123&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?resize=150%2C62&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/DOTN-2024.jpg?resize=250%2C103&amp;ssl=1 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-41592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Man with Caterpillar on Lip<\/em>. (2024, Branagh)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Death_on_the_Nile_(2022_film)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><b>Death on the Nile<\/b><\/i><\/a> (2022), which is the Kenneth Branagh version of said movie, differs from the <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/09\/belated-movie-reviews-871\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ustinov version<\/a> in that this is less a subtle send up of the British upper classes, on which author Agatha Christie, I think, built a career, and more an examination of her magnificent detective, Hercule Poirot, as to the costs of being a standout in his field.<\/p>\n<p>And how much his highest standards of excellence has cost him outside of his chosen field &#8211; and why.<\/p>\n<p>To this end, we see Poirot prior to the cruise on the Nile, setting up story elements that reinforce Poirot&#8217;s sacrifice, but eventually, as with the prior movie, the bodies begin to pile up as we anchor at Abu Simbel.<\/p>\n<p>And Poirot begins to sweat. But maybe for more than reasons than when he was partnered with Ustinov.<\/p>\n<p>An excellent way to spend a couple of hours, although those who idolize the fabled detective may be outraged at the ending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death on the Nile (2022), which is the Kenneth Branagh version of said movie, differs from the Ustinov version in that this is less a subtle send up of the British upper classes, on which author Agatha Christie, I think, built a career, and more an examination of her magnificent \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/12\/12\/belated-movie-reviews-872\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41593,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41576\/revisions\/41593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}