Posted on 12/15/2009 9:10:59 AM PST by C19fan
Long before the film was in the can, there were worrying signs. Early reports suggested that the re-imagined Sherlock Holmes would not be wearing a deerstalker, nor would he be sucking pensively on a Meerschaum Calabash. We already knew that this most quintessential of English characters was to be played by an American – and that the director had not made a great film for almost a decade.
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Ritchie has turned Holmes into a rock-and-roll roué resembling a young Keith Richards. He is an inveterate drug abuser and lives in decadent squalor; yet he is also a master of martial arts, happy to show off his six-pack in the ring as a bare-knuckle fighter. And the monstrous hangovers never dull his skills as a sleuth without peer.
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The relationship between the latest Holmes and Watson hints at a homo-erotic dimension. They frequently squabble like a married couple, and Holmes spends much of the movie trying to persuade Watson not to leave their shared accommodation at 221B Baker Street as Watson makes arrangements for his forthcoming marriage.
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I agree. That and Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe series were excellent.
PSHAW! :-) Basil Rathbone rules! (I wanted to belt Brett a couple of times.)
FWIW, Turner Classic Movies had Basil on the 25th and 26th of this month.
You hit the nail on the head.
The reason for this dreck is that the producers/director/writers are brain-dead pseudo-intellectuals with neither the brains nor brass to come up with their own pitiful character, so they had to try to steal the ingenious creation of a dead man.
(Sorry, Dr. Doyle, your spiritualism was a blind alley, after all.)
I doubt their efforts will come to much. In a few short years, this travesty will be long-forgotten.
Competent boxer yeah, but the scenes in the preview are wild and crazy Hollywood action hero fight scenes. That’s too far for me, at least with the Holmes character.
Sorry I missed them. I haven’t seen one of his Holmes movies in quite a while.
Both actors had a very good take on Holmes. I preferred Brett myself, as those productions were almost word for word faithful to the original stories. Rathbone’s movies were of course the first I saw of Holmes on screen, but they did take liberties with the stories.
Watson did not divorce his wife. She died. Wilson is a multi-philanderer and divorced at least twice.
Watson did not divorce his wife. She died. Wilson is a multi-philanderer and divorced at least twice.
Yes, especially the ones where he fought Nazis.
Homes gay? Possible
Watson Gay? Never! He liked women far too much.
they both like women too much... if they are going to do anything out of the norm, it's that House, Wilson and Cuddy will all end up together... in the new pad...
Not saying I agree with this practice, but that's why I think we see so many remakes, sequels, etc. Hollywood is largely unoriginal and uncreative.
I always had my suspicions about Watson....
http://www.nerowolfe.org/htm/stout/Watson_was_a_woman.htm
The movie "Sherlock Holmes" is straight entertainment and worth seeing -- the only people upset will be Sherlock Holmes purists. The overall story and moral is very true to the spirit of Conan Doyle's Holmes stories (I've read them all many times), though it is racy in a way that would have repulsed the old Victorian. Yet even the raciness in this movie is done with light and nicely done humor.
I recommend the movie.
So, do they portray Holmes and Watson as gay?
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