Attenborough vrs Roth.


After the excellent first episode, I feel Attenborough had a lot more menace and evil about his being than Roth.

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I think both were brilliant.

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Roth is being enabled to flesh out the character a bit more than Attenborough was allowed. Roth has license to portray Christie as sex fiend more than has been revealed before.

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Disagree.

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I agree with Andrewward666. Roth is good but no match for Lord Attenborough.

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I much prefer Attenborough.

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I also prefer Attenborough.

It's that man again!!

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I think Attenborough possibly has the edge but they're both great actors and great [and creepy] in this.













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After watching the 1971 film with Attenborough which I gave 8/10 I could only muster up a 5/10 for this .... in fact I didnt watch the 3 part ..rubbish in comparison

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Yes jrmcveigh, I see where you're coming from! The film was the best by far. The BBC version added some detail regarding facts but had so many flashbacks & also omitted a few points in the courtroom scenes (i.e how many offences Christie had committed in the past) & I feel that these let the series down. Also the murder of Beryl Evans wasn't shown & very little detail of that fateful day was included. This version differed so much to the film like in Ethel's last days, they met a new tenant who had just moved in while they were away! In the film, at that point there was no other tenant in the house until after John Christie left. The sets & Roth playing Christie were good but a few things made it a bit of a disappointment for me & no doubt many others.

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Both deliver very creepy performances. I think Attenborough's performance is even more terrifying and sinister than Roth's though.





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Yes I agree totally!

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Attenborough was "scarier", but Roth, and this production, put across the mundane seediness and self-delusion of Christie in better detail. For instance, in the TV version the new tenant challenges Christie about what authority he has in the building (none - he was just a narcissist) which as far as I know was not outlined before. I always assumed Christie had been given a sort of "super's" role in the house, to use an Americanism - but it turns out he was self-appointed.


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