The World's Greatest (Non-Caped) Detective
I smell adaptations! It's actually kind of refreshing to watch an adaptation of something that isn't a comic book, so my fanboy side can go to sleep.
I'm speaking, of course, of a great and brilliant man. A man who's battled drug addiction and who embraces cold, hard logic. A man who cuts himself off from humanity. Perhaps his arrogance stems from the fact that he's so much smarter than the people who surround him, and thus he feels alone. Can one person be that cold and alone?
That man, naturally, is the brilliant detective and crime-fighter, Sherlock Holmes. In my lifetime, I've read no more than five Holmes stories. My junior year of college, I happened to read "A Scandal in Bohemia", and I liked it.
The other day I happened to catch the 1984 version of "A Scandal in Bohemia" with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Gayle Hunnicutt as Irene Adler. Despite cheap camera work, I was pretty impressed with it. It played out a lot like I pictured it, and I could still remember it pretty well. Watson's narration at the beginning and the end, to the best of my knowledge, was the same too.
Gayle Hunnicutt was also very attractive. Brett's Holmes was great. I didn't have much of an opinion about Holmes as a person, but seeing him be arrogant (and having that arrogance almost cost him the case) on TV like that really worked. And his two disguises were flawless (Holmes is a big enough jerk to disguise himself as a clergy man and make it look like a woman's place is on fire).
So that ending, where Holmes has Irene Adler's picture and he's playing the violin...showing that he actually DOES have emotions...worked really well. I'm tempted to try and watch the whole series, but I'd rather have read the stories first, and that takes too much effort. And I'd probably turn into a Holmes fanboy anyway.
I'm speaking, of course, of a great and brilliant man. A man who's battled drug addiction and who embraces cold, hard logic. A man who cuts himself off from humanity. Perhaps his arrogance stems from the fact that he's so much smarter than the people who surround him, and thus he feels alone. Can one person be that cold and alone?
That man, naturally, is the brilliant detective and crime-fighter, Sherlock Holmes. In my lifetime, I've read no more than five Holmes stories. My junior year of college, I happened to read "A Scandal in Bohemia", and I liked it.
The other day I happened to catch the 1984 version of "A Scandal in Bohemia" with Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes and Gayle Hunnicutt as Irene Adler. Despite cheap camera work, I was pretty impressed with it. It played out a lot like I pictured it, and I could still remember it pretty well. Watson's narration at the beginning and the end, to the best of my knowledge, was the same too.
Gayle Hunnicutt was also very attractive. Brett's Holmes was great. I didn't have much of an opinion about Holmes as a person, but seeing him be arrogant (and having that arrogance almost cost him the case) on TV like that really worked. And his two disguises were flawless (Holmes is a big enough jerk to disguise himself as a clergy man and make it look like a woman's place is on fire).
So that ending, where Holmes has Irene Adler's picture and he's playing the violin...showing that he actually DOES have emotions...worked really well. I'm tempted to try and watch the whole series, but I'd rather have read the stories first, and that takes too much effort. And I'd probably turn into a Holmes fanboy anyway.