AND, that facial hair is completely atypical and ahistorical to the time he was in. His reference was the Belle Epoque. That facial and head hair? I don’t know what nonsense that’s supposed to be. People of the 30s would have recognized Suchet’s or Finney’s Poirot as somewhat old-fashioned but, recognizable.

I loved Ariadne because Christie was making total fun of both herself and her most famous creation.

And worse, this was not even a new problem. Young women in Europe, most notably Sunderland in England, experienced the exact same epidemic of poisoning and early death due to lead and other heavy metals — in the early 19th century. They hand-painted most of the pottery to come out of that city, including the famous…

Poirot wore bow-ties, not neckties, and even had he worn a necktie, probably wouldn’t have been so sloppy when tying a Half-Windsor. Also, given that the Windsor knot would have been fairly new at the time, Poirot would not have worn it. He was still wearing pince-nez in the 1930s.

So, my initial reaction was, “Who is the director who did this to him?!?” And then I saw that Branaugh is the director... and I realized he chose this look for himself...

In the books he is described as short, has an egg shaped head, so fastidious about his personal appearance a speck of dust might kill him (look at that tie and that collar!!), dark haired well into old age. His clothes are impecably cared for but hopelessly old fashioned (this is what anyone would wear.)

I AM a Poirot superfan (actually Agatha superfan, I own every single book she’s written including the atrocious romance novels she wrote under the pseudonym Mary Westmacott). I’m such a superfan in fact that my purse has WWPD printed on one side and WWMMD on the other- Agatha fans will get what this means ; ) Greatest…

There is a detective from the Agatha Christie oeuvre for whom Branagh’s look would be appropriate: Sven Hjerson, the fictional Finnish detective created by Ariadne Oliver (Christie’s avatar within her own novels, which is some pomo shit when you really think about it).

No, worries, mademoiselle, the oldest hipster in Brooklyn is on the case.

The world is bereft of creativity.

My recently deceased grandmother has risen from her grave and is begging me to tell all of you that THE ONLY LEGITIMATE HERCULE POIROT IS DAVID SUCHET, ALL OTHERS ARE IMPOSTERS AND SHOULD SEE THEMSELVES OUT PROMPTLY.

Looks like they blew the special effects budget on a Snapchat mustache filter.

You have got to be fucking kidding me.

That looks like 8-year-old me trying to give myself a moustache by holding the dog’s tail over my upper lip. And the goatee looks like grey paint.

It looks like he was riding that train, and got hit in the face with a mustache travelling at high speeds.

There are still some...unfortunate...things going on with radiation in medicine, although I’m willing to believe there’s not malice. I say this as someone who had, oh, five or six CT scans in the space of a couple years about 12 or 13 years ago, in addition to a ton of other scans, and shortly after all that was done,…

Fuuuck I forgot about her, it’s been four years since I had a class on the Renaissance, or at least one that involved Tintoretto. (I had a few brief weeks on Classical-inspired Renaissance art but we mostly talked about Raphael and Michelangelo and how everyone and their brother was trying to decide what the Apollo…

I think that Mad Men’s use of Weber’s work as inspiration is a great example of the gray area of creative rights laws. Personally, as a professional artist (designer) I think that this is a true transference of concepts even though the inspiration is super obvious because style can’t be copywritten, and I don’t think…

Deleted the whole thread to rid us all of a troll (sorry guys, what can I say, I normally know better but my desire to show off cool art historical knowledge is definitely a downfall in the vein of Classical hubris), but in case anyone was interested in some of the relevant historical information:

So his message to uplift young girls is going around and telling them they’re beautiful?