#jacqueline de bellefort

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Death on the Nile (2020) dir. Kenneth Branagh

[missbrunettebarbie]

What my blorbos have in common

Inspired by this post, I now want to see if I can put my blorbos in categories. Since the post needs work and I know I want to add Duela Doe from Gotham Knights (which means I'm gonna need to kick someone out), this post will actually contain all 11 blorbos.

1. The revolutionaries

Here's to the Lyra Silvertongue's, Kyle Brody's and Daenerys Targaryen's of the world, who took it upon themselves to change the worldorder.

2. The burned-out romantics

I didn't realize until now that this is something I love in characters, but apparently I like seeing wide-eyed romantics slowly lose their trust in love. This goes for Niohuru Zhen Huan, Caroline Forbes, Georgiana Pearson and Jacqueline de Bellefort (who oddly didn't get burned out. There is something almost perversely fairytale-esque about Jackie loving Simon till the very end.) Maybe Blair Waldorf too. Do I want to add Duela here? I don't know. The way she behaved when she was in love makes me think she is a romantic at heart, the world just made her cynical in general.

3. The ambitious social climbers/social vampires

This category is for Georgiana Pearson, Caroline Forbes, Niohuru Zhen Huan and Blair Waldorf (although I think she is a softer version because she didn't start as low as the other nor did she hit quite the same rock bottoms). Also funny enugh, I added 'social vampire' not for Caroline, but for Georgiana, who is the only here who's ambition isn't exactly to climb the social ladder, it's more to drag everyone down to her level.

4. The liars/con-artists/double agents

Kinda self-explenatory. Root, Lyra, Jackie, Georgiana, Duela, they all fit this category and I love them for it.

5. The (self-)chosen-one

Buffy and Root go here for obvious reasons. Maybe Kyle inn a way that ties into his revolutionary role. This is probably the category that I myself understand least because as it can be seen not many blorbos fit here. (I need to find more stories where I love the chosen ones).

6. The husband killers

I mean, it's pretty clear what this is about xDD Jackie, Daenerys, Zhen Huan - my darling Black Widows.

7. The ~Problematique/overprotective mothers/sisters

Caroline can go into the ~problematique mother category (and I love her for it!) cause I've watched Legacies, ok? Georgiana I think is a bit of a mix between that and overbearing. I added sister just for Buffy, who is firmly in the overprotective category. Anyway I love how their role as mother/sister plays such an important role in their arcs and how it informs us of entire facets of their character.

8. The masterminds/the planners

This one is hard to explain, but I'm thinking here of the stereotypical chessmasters that try to arrange everything to their will. Kyle, Georgiana, Jackie and Zhen Huan go here. These guys are the ones that ploan ahead and measure their every move.

9. The unapologeatic power/money-lovers

Root, Duela and Blair are the money-lovers, Caroline, Buffy, Georgiana (she loves the power of controlling people's lives more than money IMO) and Lyra are the ones that love their power. For Caroline is her power as a vampire, for Buffy is being the Slayer, for Georgiana is how she can control people's lives as Chase while I added Lyra here because of how she loved her power of reading the Altheometer.

10. The intuitive stabby happy

I feel like I can only explain this by showing who goes here: Duela, Buffy and Caroline. These guys are basically the opposites of the Masterminds, they are the ones that act on intuition, not on plans. They go for the offensive tactic quickly and more often than not their intuition is right. I'm debating whether I should put Root here or not, as I remember her being very intuition-driven, but not as ... blunt as Caroline or Buffy.

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Emma Griffiths Malin as Jacqueline de Bellefort in Agatha Christie's Poirot: Death on the Nile (2004) dir. Andy Wilson

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One Dress a Day Challenge

April: Yellow Redux

Death on the Nile (1978) / Mia Farrow as Jacqueline de Bellefort

This dress from the 1978 movie corresponds to the red dress from the 2022 remake--the thing Jackie wears to Linnet and Simon's wedding party. But while 2022 Jackie vamps her way into the room with a grand entrance, 1978 Jackie is all the wronged ingenue at this point in a sparkly yellow dress, not looking for trouble.

One thing I noticed while screencapping is the asymmetrical design of the shoulder straps. The one on her left shoulder (right side of the screen) mirrors the belt and is accentuated with a beaded lozenge shape, while the one on the right shoulder (left side of the screen) continues the decor scheme of the rest of the dress.

[leotanaka]

not to be a hater but none of the jacqueline de bellefort scenes in death on the nile 2022 could ever hold a candle to emma malin's "ghost at the banquet" speech in the death on the nile episode of agatha christie's poirot with david suchet.

[coffeebookslovegt]

"Es por eso que la mayoría de las historias de amor son tragedias"

[colourofthekites]

finally finished Death On The Nile and you know what... I am a Jacqueline De Bellefort stan

[melissak2802]

A bunch of ideas not "canon" to the Miraculous Agatha AU chronology at the moment, but just possibly fun if I decide to draw it one day or if someone is interested:

Jane Wilkinson with the Pig Miraculous

Carlotta Adams with the Fox Miraculous

Nick Buckley with the Monkey Miraculous

Jacqueline de Bellefort with the Dog Miraculous

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rules: post the names of all the files in your wip folder, regardless of how non-descriptive or ridiculous. let people send you an ask with the title that most intrigues them and then post a little snippet of it or tell them something about it! tag as many people as you have wips!

ohh boy. see the problem is i have a Lot a lot but okay here goes. you guys can ask for snippets of anything btw!

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Death on the Nile (2020) dir. Kenneth Branagh

[phantom-le6]

Film Review - Death On The Nile (2022)

Having looked into a number of older films in working through my current film review backlog, I’m now going to start working in cinema releases from the past couple of years.  We begin this trend by checking out Ken Branagh’s second foray into the world of Hercule Poirot, as I take a look at the 2022 version of Death on the Nile…

Plot (as adapted from Wikipedia):

In 1914, Hercule Poirot is a soldier on the western front.  He gives a suggestion to his commanding officer that enables them to push back German forces from a bridge they’ve been ordered to secure. Unfortunately, the bridge is booby-trapped; Poirot’s CO is killed in the explosion and Poirot sustains severe facial injuries. His lover Katherine, who is also his nurse, suggests he grow a moustache to conceal the scars. She is killed later in the war.

In 1937 at a London club, Poirot watches blues singer Salome Otterbourne perform. He notices Jacqueline "Jackie" de Bellefort introducing her fiancé Simon Doyle to her childhood friend, heiress Linnet Ridgeway. After meeting Simon, Linnet agrees to hire him as her land agent.

Six weeks later, Poirot encounters his friend Bouc and his mother, Euphemia, in Egypt, and the trio attend the wedding of Linnet and Simon. Others join their honeymoon trip: Linnet's maid, Louise Bourget; Salome and her niece/manager, Rosalie, Linnet's schoolfriend; Linnet's godmother, Marie Van Schuyler with her nurse, Mrs. Bowers; Linnet's financial manager and cousin, Andrew Katchadourian; and Dr Linus Windlesham, Linnet's former fiancé who renounced his wealthy background. Linnet asks Poirot for protection from the obsessive and bitter Jackie, who has stalked the couple to Egypt, angry at Linnet for stealing Simon away from her.

To escape Jackie, the group boards the cruise ship S.S. Karnak, but Linnet tells Poirot she distrusts her guests. Bouc reveals he is dating Rosalie, despite his mother's disapproval; Poirot finds himself attracted to Salome. After a boulder falls off a column and nearly crushes Linnet and Simon, the guests return to the Karnak to discover Jackie has boarded. Linnet goes to bed and Simon confronts Jackie, who shoots him in the leg. When she attempts to shoot herself, Rosalie and Bouc intervene. They take Jackie to Mrs. Bowers, while Windlesham arrives to treat Simon. The following morning, Louise discovers Linnet has been fatally shot in the head. Linnet's valuable necklace has also been stolen. Poirot, assisted by Simon and Bouc, interrogates the guests, each of whom bears a grudge against Linnet or would benefit from her death.

Poirot reveals that Euphemia hired him to investigate Rosalie, who, he concludes, is more than worthy of her son's affection. Rosalie, angry at being investigated, storms off and discovers Louise's body with money. Poirot suspects Louise witnessed Linnet's murder and blackmailed the killer. Interrogating Bouc with Simon, Poirot deduces that Bouc found Linnet dead and stole her necklace to gain financial freedom from his mother but panicked and put it in Euphemia's belongings. Bouc witnessed Louise's murder, but before revealing the killer, he is shot through the throat and is killed; Poirot chases the killer, but only finds the abandoned gun.

Locking the surviving guests in the boat's saloon, Poirot reveals that Simon killed Linnet, with Jackie as the mastermind. They are still lovers and arranged Simon's romance with Linnet to inherit her wealth. Simon drugged Poirot's champagne and Jackie pretended to shoot a blank at Simon who faked his injury with paint stolen from Euphemia. While Jackie distracted Bouc and Rosalie, Simon killed Linnet and, returning to the saloon, shot his own leg, muffled by Van Schuyler's scarf. Jackie killed Louise with Windlesham's scalpel, and Bouc with Andrew's gun. As a final clue, Poirot reveals that the handkerchief used in the fake shooting, recovered along with the gun, had been faded to pink instead of brown, proving the stains were not from blood. Faced with Poirot's irrefutable proof, Jackie embraces Simon and shoots him through the back, killing them both with one shot. As the passengers disembark, Poirot is unable to voice his feelings to Salome.

Six months later, Poirot is now clean-shaven and visits Salome's club to watch her rehearse.

Review:

To date, Branagh has directed and stared in three Poirot films, beginning with 2017’s Murder on the Orient Express, while A Haunting in Venice was released last year in 2023.  This middle instalment was originally slated for a 2019 release, moved back to 2020 for production reasons, and then hit multiple delays due to the Covid-19 pandemic, eventually gaining theatrical release in February 2022.  Across all three films, two aspects are evident; one is a former love interest of Poirot’s that appears to be unique to this film series, and the other is a progressive deviation from the source material that will doubtless delight critics and irritate the hell out of the purists among the novel fans.

As someone who has at least listened to an audio drama based on the novel version of this story, the deviations quickly stand out, and to be honest, I’m not sure all of them are needed.  Some feel like strictly Hollywood contrivances, added solely to please producers who may be paying more attention to audience surveys than the material being dealt with.  Others are perhaps compelled by an inherent need to distance the film from past adaptations, and yes, there has been more than one adaptation before this one.  While US audiences may only know the film versions, the British TV channel ITV had a TV series of feature-length Poirot adaptations featuring David Suchet as Poirot, so there’s at least two adaptations of the story by British standards.

While the film succeeds in being different to its predecessors, some aspects of it may not be to everyone’s tastes.  More specifically, the highly sexualised behaviour of Jackie and Linnett, played by Emma Mackey (Netflix’s Sex Education) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) seems at odds with the kind of behaviour that would be acceptable at the time the story is set.  Nonetheless, the two women and Branagh are joined by a relatively all-star cast in delivering great performances, which largely compensate for deviations from the source material and a little too much Hollywood in a Christie crime story for all tastes.

Overall, this version of Death on the Nile is a decent film, but perhaps not everyone’s cup of tea.  One final positive to its credit is that, like its predecessor, the main transport conveyance seen in the film is a giant stage-set, giving an incredible environment that matches the quality acting.  On balance, I’d give this film 8 out of 10.

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the way poirot had said it didn't make sense for jackie to have killed linnet cause he thought she was capable of murder yes but not cold blooded murder like that and then jackie said she was glad she didn't have to be the one to shoot linnet cause she didn't think she could do it not cold blooded murder like that

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@sweetbitterbitten / Jacqueline de Bellefort from here!

"Should you find the patience to regale me..."

That there is no pretense, nothing of the sort nor flavor an offering from her, is why he presses on. Only the depths of the Nile rival his intentions and his resolution. Only the sky above, stained in the Karnak's billowing steam, rival her guile.

--"I would be quite interested in knowing how I have done so."

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One Dress a Day Challenge

January: Red Redux

Death on the Nile / Emma Mackey as Jacqueline de Bellefort

Now, this is how you show up at your ex's wedding if you want to make a splash--in a blood-red gown with gold accents and a plunging neckline. The featurette on the costumes said that they were going for a modern interpretation of period styles rather than strict authenticity, which I can definitely see. It's not too far off, though, and it is a very striking effect.

See the month of yellow for what Mia Farrow's Jackie wears for the corresponding scene in the 1978 movie.