More Holmesian geekery

[dotfic]

I'm on vacation! \o/ I saw Sherlock Holmes again, in the middle of the afternoon, on a working Monday (I feel so decadent), and the theater was still at full capacity. My first viewing, while enjoyable, didn't go so well due to the people sitting right behind me who would not shut up but more because of the fight that broke out in the back of the

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[marinarusalka]

The Boy and I are going to see Sherlock Holmes tomorrow. I'm so psyched!

You going to be free for lunch or dinner any day next week?

[dotfic]

Dinner any day next week should be fine. I'll drop you an email.

Hopefully the movie won't disappoint you. I'm growing to like it more the more I see and digest it.

[destina]

I would like to be on vacation!! But since I'm not, I'll just congratulate you on yours. :D

[dotfic]

As you can see, I am making productive use of the time! :D

*goes back to reading yuletide fic*

[ghostrunner7]

I love how you could tell RDJ had gone back and watched the Jeremy Brett versions. That absolutely killed me. I think I squeeked in delight when he did one of the quick-flash smiles.

[dotfic]

He did seem to be channeling Brett at moments. Even though RDJ's depiction is completely different -- he doesn't have the precision and feeling of focus -- but he does do that same sort of scary energy.

I loved RDJ's delivery on "data, data, data. I cannot make bricks without clay!" That's the kind of line Jeremy Brett always knocked out of the park and RDJ had to find a way to do it his way, while his delivery felt to me like a tiny smidge of a nod to Brett.

[memphis86]

Just got back from seeing it. I have hearts for eeeeeeyes! THEY ARE SO IN LOVE ZOMG.

And yes, I suppose I shall decompress my squee and eventually have a more calm reaction tomorrow but for now I'm just all :D :D :D

[dotfic]

They really are. I'm still at ♥___♥ (And I'm not denying, above, that the thing is dripping with subtext, just tired of movie critics using that as a reason to criticize the movie, as if it's a *flaw*, and also it does have dual levels of readings, y'know?) Erm. Where were we? Oh yes, my reading? YES COMPLETELY SMITTEN WITH EACH OTHER ZOMG.

Watson breaks my heart.

[20thcenturyvole]

Having spent the lead-up to the movie re-reading a bunch of Sherlock Holmes, I thought it was remarkably faithful in a lot of ways that most adaptations aren't - for example, so many versions skip over canon like Holmes' freakish strength and fighting skills, not to mention Watson's general awesomeness and competence. And a bit in the movie that made me "HAH!" a little too loud: Holmes freaking out his housekeeper by shooting 'V.R.' into the wall. I can remember reading that! Sure, Irene Adler was shoehorned into an un-canonical 'comely thief' role, but aside from that, I can't understand the complaints of people decrying the film from the POV of canon.

[dotfic]

Yes, thank you! I know in canon it's mentioned he was a champion boxer, and a former actor, and he'd spend weeks in a funk doing drugs. It's been a while since I've re-read the stories but I just re-read A Scandal in Bohemia and already finding there were a ton of shout-outs in this movie to that story alone, not just items like the photograph of Irene, but in the style of the dialogue and the Holmes-Watson repartee.

They spun out Irene's role far beyond what's in canon, and she is more respectable there -- in this she seems like kind of a grifter. But the version I'm re-reading from is The Annotated Sherlock Holmes...lots of crunchy, tasty, overly detailed information, and the scholars are all over the Holmes/Irene.