![]() ![]() Space in a train should normally feel limited and restrained. See the sequence in the restaurant carriage in the first episode or the nightclub/bar/cabaret carriage in the second episode, the space looks unrealistically huge! There is even a train within the train! The way the space of the train is depicted in the series makes it look as if it’s one really wide train too. This will not be a linear movement forward, but a disorienting back and forth between carriages, where you’re never really sure where you are supposed to be within the length of the train. Unlike the film, the series jumps from one carriage on the train to the next. In the series, both the length and the width of the train is confusing. Large shots in Bong Joon Ho’s film are the width of the carriage, showing you the restricted space within which the action takes place. Furthermore, as Curtis moved forward, you always had the sense of the width of each carriage. The movie began at the tail end of the train, and ended once Curtis (Chris Evans) gets to the front of the train, where he finally discovered the conductor of the train. The spatiality of the train in Bong Joon Ho’s film was clear. I mean this specifically in terms of the spatiality it is depicting of the train itself. In fact, these two episodes seem to jump all over the place. One thing is for sure, it is not a linear motion forward like Bong Joon Ho’s film. Two episodes in, it’s difficult to say where the series is taking the story, whether it will go beyond the serial murders mystery and come back to what Snowpiercer is really about, or if it will pick elements from the different volumes of the graphic novels. ![]() ![]() So, Murder on the Orient-Express on a never-stopping train where the whole of humanity that’s left on earth lives. What began as a dystopian science fiction satirizing our society and humanity, has turned into a police investigation-a detective-solves-serial-murders show, if you will, but on a train. Layton is asked by Mr Wilford-the engineer/conductor of the train-to investigate a series of murders onboard the train, being the only former detective onboard. However, in the series, there is a big twist. He’s in the tail end (a "tailie"), and wants to break with others into the front of the train. The leading character in Le Transperceneige was Proloff, in the film he was named Curtis (played by Chris Evans), and now in the series he’s called Andre Layton (Daveed Diggs). ![]()
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