The Similarities Between 'And Then There Were None'

Do you know of a game that tends to come to life? The director of the movie Clue, Jonathan Lynn, had a thought of taking a board game known to many, and make it into a mystery movie in 1985. Agatha Christie’s novel, And Then There Were None (ATTWN) that came out in 1939, shares a lot of similarities with the movie Clue, but also some differences. Though And There Were None and Clue are similar in their use of characters, setting, and plot, And Then There Were None is concerned more with the serious aspect of not being able to escape the consequences of your actions. The setting of both the book and movie give of a tone of mystery. The first element of similarity between the two is the characters. In And Then There Were None and Clue, there …show more content…
All of the guests receive letters about them coming to the mansion for different reasons, with each of them obviously having their own unsolvable committed crimes and secrets. “Watch and pray,” he said, “watch and pray. The day of judgment is at hand” (15). In ATTWN, a man on the train explained how the end is coming and a major storm is on its way while a similar thing happens in Clue, a man came to the door and told the guests that they need to repent and be saved because the day of judgment is coming soon. One by one the guests start dying, while no one knows who the killer is. Throughout both the book and the movie, the guests are all trying to piece together the clues and information they have, to unmask the killer. One difference between them was that in ATTWN, all of the guests that go to the island end up dying, no one is left behind, that’s why it’s such an unsolvable mystery but in contrary, Clue, only has a few people die before they figure out who the man behind this all was. ATTWN definitely has a more serious aspect to it, while in Clue, the guests make jokes about the crimes they’ve