Persuasive rhetoric used by Hercule Poirot In Hercule Poirot: murder on the Orient Express Movie

This research aim to reveal the usage of rhetorical strategy in the movie Murder on the orient express by Agatha Christie and directed by Kenneth Brannagh. This research has two main problems, first is what are the rhetorical strategy used by the characters during investigation scene and the second is what are the most used rhetorical strategy used in the movie. This research using descriptive qualitative and quantitative methods. The researcher used rhetoric teory from discourse analysis combined with body language and way of speaking teori. This research showing the usage of rhetoric strategy by the detective and the potential suspect during interrogation process in the movie with lies identification theory. The result of this study is both of the detective and the suspect are using rhetorical strategies. The differences is while the detective using rhetorical strategy to make the suspect telling the truth or their unconscious reaction to see their lies based on their body gesture. Otherwise, the suspect used rhetorical strategy to strengthen their argument so it would make confidence impression that they are confidence with their answer.