Lorna wrote: ↑April 29th, 2024, 9:59 am
Hibi wrote: ↑April 29th, 2024, 8:52 am
Love the costumes in that film [EVIL UNDER THE SUN]! (Were they Oscar nominated?)
This is one of the few Christie plots where I figured out whodunit before the end!
1. NO! Which is a terrible shame, I know we've talked about it before- I don't recall the nominees, but I recall there being one or two I would NOT have nominated over the wonderful work in EVIL (especially the use of PRIMARY COLORS)
2. Yeah, with EVIL UNDER THE SUN, it's notsomuch a "whodunnit" as it is a "how did they do it?"- i wonder if that impacted the BOX OFFICE (it is a similar reveal as in DEATH ON THE NILE]
The Five Nominees for Costume Design in 1982 were:
Gandhi***
La Traviata
Sophie's Choice
Tron
Victor/Victoria
Now, I think we can easily say that Gandhi won because it was in a big Oscar sweep, because most of the costumes in that film aren't the most memorable.
Tron is another strange pick, where the nominated outfits are these leotard outfits (enhanced with visual light effects in the editing process), which caused a decided panic with leads Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner when they found out that the outfits had no pants, which caused a big stir among the female Disney employees whenever the two would go to the commissary for lunch every day.
The other three, I feel, were good picks for the costume category.
Evil Under the Sun did come close to a nomination in a soon to be discontinued category called Song Score (it was shortlisted), but was locked out by the trio of Victor/Victoria (which won), Annie, and One from the Heart.
Peter Ustinov did actually play Poirot on the big screen one more time..... But it is best to forget that one. It was Appointment with Death in 1988, which might have started with a script written by Anthony Shaffer, who wrote both Nile and Evil, but it was mostly re-written by others, and the resultant script wasn't good, coupled with a very bad musical score, and an underutilized cast. For a big Christie fan like me, it was a major disappointment.
For the record, in that film, Poirot was trying to find out who killed off a much hated matriarch (Piper Laurie) with a hypodermic. The suspects included Jenny Seagrove, Carrie Fisher, David Soul, Lauren Bacall, Hayley Mills, and John Gielgud.