Sherlock Holmes?
. . . a pity, my dear Watson.
Mrs. B and I wandered out in the Saturday evening cold to see Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law make an attempt at Holmes and Watson.
Bad idea.
It proved a feeble attempt.
This Guy Ritchie film (didn't he used to be Mr. Madonna?) recast Downey's Holmes as a down-sized, Victorian Arnold Swarzenegger, and Law's Watson as a Kato-esque sidekick (pun intended.)
A shirtless Holmes in a bareknuckle pit fight? Kicking ass and taking names? Watson subduing a 400 lbs French giant with some type of Gracie juijutsu choke hold? Please!
Yep, it was all there - along with thundering explosions, slashing swords, gunfights, un-ending fisticuffs and a hand-to-hand duel atop the yet unfinished Tower Bridge.
I'm guessing our great unwashed, unread youth will flock to this one, but Downey is not MY Sherlock Holmes. In the great authors' home in the sky, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle must be mixing a 20% solution, for 2% will be much too weak to block this travesty from his brain.
The movie set itself up for a sequel, but I don't care. I won't be seeing it.
Basil Rathbone is MY Sherlock Holmes.
Robert Downey Jr. will never be.
Folks who actually make sense.
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12 comments:
Lisa suggested we go and see it but, to be honest, I'm in the same boat as everyone else; Basil Rathbone was the definitive Sherlock Holmes - he played the part so well it's an impossible act to follow.
They shouldn't tinker with the image of Sherlock - he comes from a time when you didn't need flash bang and whallop to make the story engaging and hold your attention.
It's what the entertainment industry call 'a re-visioning' which actually means hotting-up and modernising with little respect to the origin of the piece.
Unlike your S-i-L my definitive Holmes is the one who lives in my head.
Ian, I knew I liked you for more than marrying my daughter and pouring a fine black and tan.
Brennig, I guessed that would be the outcome when I saw Ritchie advertised as the director.
Sonnenfeld did it with "Wild, Wild West," and Chechik with "The Avengers." There's no room in my head for those revisions either.
I will leave it to the entertainment moguls to their "revisioning" whilst I leave the Holmes in my head intact.
I have to say that I completely agree about Basil vs RDJ...I even said so in a blog entry I wrote a couple of days ago. To be fair, I was actually taking the opportunity to have a well-deserved dig at Jude Law, but the point remains true!
Happy Birthday for tomorrow, by the way1
Dylan,
I read it. Very funny.
I must say that I enjoyed Law immensely in "Enemy at the Gates." The story of Zaitsev is one of my favorites, and he did it pretty well.
Of course, I didn't have to put up with his helpful advice on queues at the airport.
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