Differences Between And Then There Were None Movie And Book

And Then There Were None is a powerful murder mystery novel made into a movie series set on Soldier Island, an island off the coast of Devon, in 1939 England. Ten people from various socioeconomic backgrounds are invited to this island by an unknown and mysterious host (other than Justice Wargrave, who is invited by an old friend named Constance Culmington). Having the initials of U. N. Owen, this host knows small details about each of the guests’ lives, and although none of the guests recall meeting this unknown host, the details make U. N. Owen’s letters believable. Once all of the guests arrive on the island, they are served a delicious meal and drinks. Soon after, Tony Marston is dead. The next morning, Mrs. Rogers. One by one, over the

In the adaptation, Mr. Rogers is abusive towards Mrs. Rogers in a physical, mental, and emotional way, whereas in the novel, none of these traits are present. His character is also much more sinister, thin with dark features. Armstrong’s alcoholism is more prevalent in the movie than in the novel, where tremors, sweats, and irritability is shown. Some murders were also much more violent in the movie compared to in the book. For example, in the movie, Mr. Rogers suffocated Mrs. Brady with a pillow while Mrs. Rogers watched, rather than in the book where the Rogers’ just withheld medicine from her. Beatrice Taylor, rather than drowning herself due to Emily Brent’s actions, threw herself in front of a train. Lombard killed 21 natives for diamonds, where in the book he just left them to starve to death. These changes in characters and how they committed their murders results in a major difference from the novel to the movies. The characters (overall) being darker results in a murderous feeling to the whole movie, rather than in the book where it didn’t necessarily feel like that until the murders really started happening. This puts it far past the line, as by changing the characters, they changed the whole atmosphere of the movie which contributed to it not feeling like a work of Christie as much

The murders committed by the guests, as discussed above, were overall more violent and bloody than those committed in the book. Some of the murders on the island were also more violent in the movie, for example, Blore was stabbed to death rather than the bear clock falling on him. Marston also snorts cocaine in the movie and there is nothing in the novel - whatsoever - about that. Then, towards the end of the movie, there’s the infamous party scene, where Lombard, Vera, Armstrong, and Blore snort the remainder of Marston’s cocaine and get drunk. While dancing, Lombard tells Vera that she should come with him to his room that night, and she does. The addition of unnecessary sexual tension between Vera and Lombard, more violence, and drugs was not needed for the overall plot of the movie, as it takes away from the fact that the guests are getting killed one by