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Finally, Gadot arrives at to fill the Nile!
while simultaneously tossing her glass of Champagne overboard.
The rhythmic effect is haunting.
Just by describing it now, Ive gotten it stuck in my head again.
Its like a beat dropping in a pop song: enough Champagne … TO FILL THE NILE.
(Who did the murder is, of course, secondary.
People die, this is an Agatha Christie adaptation, we get it.
Tertiary is figuring out whether Rose Leslie or Kenneth Branagh is doing a weirder fake French accent.
That one Im still pondering.)
A bottle pops in the background when she announces, … to fill the Nile!
(I went ah!
in my seat as it happened; sorry to the other members of the press.)
Hercule Poirot has a flute and gets quite disoriented.
Without her, nobody is motivated to fill the Nile with Champagne anymore.
That brings us to a total of 37.71 liters of Champagne.
Is that enough Champagne to fill the Nile?
The answer, it will not surprise you, is no.
The Nile is one of the worlds largest rivers.
That is comparatively not very much Champagne.
She has enough Champagne … to fill up a bathtub a little bit!
She should not get in … because you should not bathe in alcohol!
If Linnet reallywantedto fill the Nile, however, then things get complicated.
And if you refilled the Nile with Champagne, how much would you should probably pour in per second?
So when Linnet throws her one flute of Champagne overboard … to fill the Nile!
… she is not really filling the Nile at all.
But no, that cannot happen, because instead Linnet is murdered.
This is the real tragedy ofDeath on the Nile.
