Comments | noein9: Sherlock Holmes does not wear a Deerstalker.

noein9

Sherlock Holmes does not wear a Deerstalker.

Jan 03, 2010 23:47

I love Roger Ebert, I really do, but he has confessed to being an Anglophile, of the sort that think all Brits speak beautifully and wear starched collars. He says he lovs the Sherlock Holmes stories for their form and function- cases go up to 221B, and solutions come down, with a all knowing Sherlock and a 'frightened' Watson. Ebert feels that ( Read more... )

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calicokat January 6 2010, 16:11:12 UTC

Excellent assessment. I made a similar argument to my father but with slightly less grasp of the text as I haven't given it a proper re-read in years. I should though. I've always been a biiig non-fan of "fretful" Watson, though. If I had to choose between the old series and the new film it'd be the new film.

noein9 January 6 2010, 21:13:29 UTC

I was a huge fan of Sherlock Holmes in Junior High andHigh School- I had all the stories, plus I had a picture of Jeremy Brett as Holmes when my parents joined a PBS drive!

( The Granada Series with Brett was the best of all sherlock holmes movies and series up until then- including the Rathbone series- interracial sex( which was an actual story in Sherlock Holmes)! refugees! plots for profit!- all extremely well paced. But it was still rather sanitized.Not bad one to look up!)

I've always been a biiig non-fan of "fretful" Watson, though.The Rathbone series completely FUCKED that characterization completely. Someone who was in TWO tours in what we will call Afghanistan ( the northern most part of what was considered India's Frontier) serving as medical personnel and who was a soldier himself - and who has the wounds to prove it- would NOT BE FRETFUL ( ... )