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** Rosalie and Jim being paired together in the 1978 film if you know that their actors had starred in notable Shakespeare films within a couple of years as each other - Creator/OliviaHussey in ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet1968'' and Jon Finch in ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'' (the Roman Polanski version). And to boot, both feature [[spoiler: a murder planned between two lovers, and a double suicide at the end]].
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** Rosalie and Jim being romantically paired together in the 1978 film if you know that their actors had starred in notable Shakespeare films within a couple of years as of each other - Creator/OliviaHussey in ''Film/RomeoAndJuliet1968'' and Jon Finch in ''{{Theatre/Macbeth}}'' (the Roman Polanski version). And to boot, both feature [[spoiler: furthermore, just like ''Death on the Nile'', one of these stories features a murder [[spoiler:murder planned between two lovers, lovers]], and a double suicide at the end]].other ends with [[spoiler:the self-inflicted death of two lovers.]]
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Evil Is Sexy TRS; this has become an objective, in-universe trope.
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* EvilIsSexy: [[spoiler: Jackie in the 1978 film is played by Mia Farrow at the height of her It Girl beauty, and wears some very flattering evening gowns]].
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* OlderThanTheyThink: The novel began as an unproduced play Christie wrote called Moon on the Nile, however, while she did write a stage play of the novel later on, it's unknown if she used anything from the original play or started afresh.
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** [[spoiler:Cornelia deciding to marry Dr. Bessner and cone home with him to work at his clinics where he has invested his money...in Austria.]] In 1937/38. Needless to say, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII events beginning soon afterwards]] make this turn of events not quite as hopeful as it seems.
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** [[spoiler:Cornelia deciding to marry Dr. Bessner and cone come home with him to work at his clinics where he has invested his money...in Austria.]] In 1937/38. Needless to say, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII events beginning soon afterwards]] make this turn of events not quite as hopeful as it seems.
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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Linnet Ridgeway/Doyle. An honest, albeit [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]], well-meaning woman that is world-foreign because of a very privileged and almost sheltered upbringing? And who was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] to realize she purposefully stole her best friend's fiancé? Or a bossy woman that pretended to be well-meaning to the public, but was a spoiled brat that always had her own interest in mind? The book has her be able to be read as both, though Jacqueline rightfully points out that Linnet deliberately set out to take Simon from her, with perhaps a minute of hesitation.
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**Linnet Ridgeway/Doyle. An honest, albeit [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]], well-meaning woman that is world-foreign because of a very privileged and almost sheltered upbringing? And who was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] to realize she purposefully stole her best friend's fiancé? Or a bossy woman that pretended to be well-meaning to the public, but was a spoiled brat that always had her own interest in mind? The book has her be able to be read as both, though Jacqueline rightfully points out that Linnet deliberately set out to take Simon from her, with perhaps a minute ofhesitation.hesitation.
** Mrs Otterbourne: a toxic, sex-crazed harpy, or simply someone who oversteps the British gentry idea of decorum? While her books are supposedly oversexed trash, she herself never says or does anything worse than calling a nurse a "repressed virgin" and yet she is repeatedly described as "poisonous" and "odious." Hercule "I don't approve of murder" Poirot jokes about her being killed, and when she *is* killed, her own supposedly very loyal and loving daughter instantly replaces her with the prim pukka mem'sahib Mrs Allerton.
** Mrs Allerton: a lovely, classy, charming, devoted mother, or an overbearing smother and an overprivileged classist colonial? While her son Tim clearly enjoys her company and doesn't feel smothered by her at all, she *does* expect him - an adult man - to read her all his correspondence and feels frustrated that he doesn't show her the letters from one particular person. Constantly shilled as the nicest and best-mannered person on the boat, she badmouths a woman who has just been murdered and whose daughter she's supposed to be comforting. Neither she or her son work at all and they spend their winters in a hotel in Mallorca, and only a supposed "flutter on the stock exchange" is necessary for them to go on a cruise patronised by millionnaires, and yet she describes her life as "poverty" There's also that one very weird passage where she essentially trawls her son for compliments over her figure.
**Linnet Ridgeway/Doyle. An honest, albeit [[InnocentlyInsensitive insensitive]], well-meaning woman that is world-foreign because of a very privileged and almost sheltered upbringing? And who was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] to realize she purposefully stole her best friend's fiancé? Or a bossy woman that pretended to be well-meaning to the public, but was a spoiled brat that always had her own interest in mind? The book has her be able to be read as both, though Jacqueline rightfully points out that Linnet deliberately set out to take Simon from her, with perhaps a minute of
** Mrs Otterbourne: a toxic, sex-crazed harpy, or simply someone who oversteps the British gentry idea of decorum? While her books are supposedly oversexed trash, she herself never says or does anything worse than calling a nurse a "repressed virgin" and yet she is repeatedly described as "poisonous" and "odious." Hercule "I don't approve of murder" Poirot jokes about her being killed, and when she *is* killed, her own supposedly very loyal and loving daughter instantly replaces her with the prim pukka mem'sahib Mrs Allerton.
** Mrs Allerton: a lovely, classy, charming, devoted mother, or an overbearing smother and an overprivileged classist colonial? While her son Tim clearly enjoys her company and doesn't feel smothered by her at all, she *does* expect him - an adult man - to read her all his correspondence and feels frustrated that he doesn't show her the letters from one particular person. Constantly shilled as the nicest and best-mannered person on the boat, she badmouths a woman who has just been murdered and whose daughter she's supposed to be comforting. Neither she or her son work at all and they spend their winters in a hotel in Mallorca, and only a supposed "flutter on the stock exchange" is necessary for them to go on a cruise patronised by millionnaires, and yet she describes her life as "poverty" There's also that one very weird passage where she essentially trawls her son for compliments over her figure.
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** Maggie Smith would get to be on the other side of an Agatha Christie style set-up in ''Film/GosfordPark''. This time, she's the aristocrat - and very much as acid-tongued as Bette Davis in this.
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** Maggie Smith Dame Creator/MaggieSmith would get to be on the other side of an Agatha Christie style set-up in ''Film/GosfordPark''. This time, she's the aristocrat - and very much as acid-tongued as Bette Davis in this.
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* ValuesResonance: Ferguson reads almost exactly like a satire, whether you think it's fair or not, of modern young Internet communists, especially since [[spoiler:he's actually filthy rich and unable to provide a solid reason for being in Egypt that's not "taking a luxury vacation".]]
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** [[spoiler:Cornelia deciding to marry Dr. Bessner and cone home with him to work at his clinics where he has invested his money...in Austria.]] In 1937/38. Needless to say, [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII events beginning soon afterwards]] make this turn of events not quite as hopeful as it seems.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The journey the characters take would look very different today. The construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded much of the Nile Valley between these cities to create Lake Nasser. Even their destination of Wadi Halfa in Sudan is no longer the same, much of the old city having been relocated and flooded.
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** The journey the characters take would look very different today. The construction of the Aswan High Dam in the 1960s flooded much of the Nile Valley between these cities to create Lake Nasser. Even their destination of Wadi Halfa in Sudan is no longer the same, much of the old city having been relocated andflooded.flooded.
** The S.S. ''Normandie'' plays a minor part - the ship only functioned as a passenger transport from 1935-1939.
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** The S.S. ''Normandie'' plays a minor part - the ship only functioned as a passenger transport from 1935-1939.
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* NightmareRetardant: In some scenes in the 1978 film, the blood is far too bright and red to be convincing. [[spoiler: It's justified in Simon's case, since he's faking at first]].
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* NightmareRetardant: In some scenes in the 1978 film, the blood is far too bright and red to be convincing. [[spoiler: It's justified in Simon's case, since he's faking at first]].first.]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: With TheReveal that [[spoiler:Simon never loved Linnet and married her only to get her money, kill her and marry Jackie afterward, Linnet becomes this. She's blamed for stealing away Simon, but no one mentions that ''he'' also choose to dump Jacqueline for her. If he were truly honorable, he would have refused her. Also another man who she trusted, her family lawyer and HonoraryUncle was plotting to murder her to cover up his embezzlement. The poor woman was more valuable dead than alive to anyone she trusted.]]
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: With TheReveal that [[spoiler:Simon never loved Linnet and married her only to get her money, kill her and marry Jackie afterward, Linnet becomes this. She's blamed for stealing away Simon, but no one mentions that ''he'' also choose chose to dump Jacqueline for her. If he were truly honorable, he would have refused her. Also another man who whom she trusted, her family lawyer and HonoraryUncle HonoraryUncle, was plotting to murder her to cover up his embezzlement. The poor woman was more valuable dead than alive to anyone she trusted.]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Simon Doyle isn't a very redeemable person once everything is found out. Poirot outright says that Jaqueline is the only reason he won't be hanged]].
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* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler: Rosalie recovers from her mother's death pretty quickly, especially once she and Tim Allerton are engaged]].
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* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler: Rosalie recovers from her mother's death pretty quickly, especially once she and Tim Allerton are engaged]].engaged. Possibly justified, considering she was probably exhausted from dealing with her mother's alcoholism, and the grief hadn't set in yet]].
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* MoralEventHorizon: [[spoiler:Simon]] seems like a decent guy, if weak-willed [[spoiler:given he gave up one fiancee for another and showed no regards for his ex's feelings]]. Then Poirot drops the bomb: [[spoiler:Simon never loved Linnet. His dumping Jackie was deliberate so as to marry Linnet, kill her while she slept, make it look like she had enemies, and share his new inheritance with Jackie. Poirot himself calls them both out for the fact that Linnet wasn't nice, but that certainly doesn't justify manipulating a naive woman and Linnet was Jackie's best friend. It seems fitting that Jackie ends up killing Simon and herself when the jig is up because no jury would look at them with sympathy]].
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She's pretty broken up about it at first; Mrs. Allerton has to care for her for a while because she's so distraught, it's mentioned how devoted she was to her mother, and when she sees Poirot later her eyes are still red from crying
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* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler: Rosalie takes her mother's death surprisingly well, which presumably is to keep her as a RedHerring. Even by the end, she seems to be unaffected and happily engaged to someone]].
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* AngstWhatAngst: [[spoiler: Rosalie takes recovers from her mother's death surprisingly well, which presumably is to keep her as a RedHerring. Even by the end, pretty quickly, especially once she seems to be unaffected and happily engaged to someone]].Tim Allerton are engaged]].
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* UnintentionallySympathetic: With TheReveal that [[spoiler:Simon never loved Linnet and married her only to get her money, kill her and marry Jackie afterward, Linnet becomes this. She's blamed for stealing away Simon, but no one mentions that ''he'' made the choice to switch partners. If he were truly honorable, he would have refused her. Also another man who she trusted, her family lawyer and HonoraryUncle was plotting to murder her to cover up his many shortfalls. The poor woman was more valuable dead than alive to anyone she trusted.]]
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** Jane Birkin's attempt at a French accent can be a bit comic, but not enough to ruin the film.
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** Jane Birkin's Creator/JaneBirkin's attempt at a French accent can be a bit comic, but not enough to ruin the film.
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* CrazyAwesome: The killer [[spoiler: Jaqueline is rather badass in a dark way. She realizes that her boyfriend will get himself killed, and engineers the complex murder plans herself to ensure they both get away with it. She manages to shoot a witness right in front of Poirot within minutes of being warned that the witness is about to reveal the murderer.]] They would certainly have gotten away with the murder even with Poirot's involvement had they not gotten extremely unlucky.
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* CrazyAwesome: The killer [[spoiler: Jaqueline is rather badass in a dark way. She realizes that her boyfriend will get himself killed, and engineers the complex murder plans herself to ensure they both get away with it. She manages to take out a witness in front of Poirot within minutes of being warned that the witness is about to reveal the murderer.]] They would certainly have gotten away with the murder even with Poirot's involvement had they not gotten extremely unlucky.
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* CrazyAwesome: The killer [[spoiler: Jaqueline is rather badass in a dark way. She realizes that her boyfriend will get himself killed, and engineers the complex murder plans herself to ensure they both get away with it. She manages to take out shoot a witness right in front of Poirot within minutes of being warned that the witness is about to reveal the murderer.]] They would certainly have gotten away with the murder even with Poirot's involvement had they not gotten extremely unlucky.
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* CrazyAwesome: The killer [[spoiler: Jaqueline is rather badass in a dark way. She realizes that her boyfriend will get himself killed, and engineers the complex murder plans herself to ensure they both get away with it. She manages to take out a witness in front of Poirot within minutes of being warned that the witness is about to reveal the murderer.]] They would certainly have gotten away with the murder even with Poirot's involvement had they got not gotten extremely unlucky.
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* JerkassWoobie: When Linnet meets Simon, there is a brief monologue in which she reflects on how happy Jacqueline is to be with him and how lucky she is to have someone she cares that deeply about, which leads to Linnet realising how truly lonely and unhappy she is for her all her apparent success and beauty, because she doesn't have anyone like that in her life. Of course, then she steals Simon away from Jacqueline, which puts a dent in the sympathy somewhat. [[spoiler:The woobie factor is intensified in retrospect when it is revealed that the man she loved had strung her along to murder her for her money.]]
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* CrazyAwesome: The killer [[spoiler: Jaqueline is rather badass in a dark way. Her motivation is simply realizing She realizes that her boyfriend will get himself killed, and she engineers the complex murder plans herself..herself to ensure they both get away with it. She manages to take out a witness in front of Poirot within minutes of being warned that the witness is about to reveal the murderer.]] They would certainly have gotten away with the murder even with Poirot's involvement had they got gotten extremely unlucky.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Simon Doyle isn't a very redeemable person once everything is found out. Poirot outright says that Jaqueline is the only reason he won't be hanged..]]
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Simon Doyle isn't a very redeemable person once everything is found out. Poirot outright says that Jaqueline is the only reason he won't be hanged..]]hanged]].
