Cummerbatch could replace Brett as the definitive Holmes, if they were to remake the Cannon.
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:26 pm
by Guinevere
Gob wrote:Cummerbatch could replace Brett as the definitive Holmes, if they were to remake the Cannon.
Ahem.
Meade, do you want this one, or should I do it?
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 9:43 pm
by Big RR
Blast away!
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:01 pm
by Gob
Oh bollocks .
"The canon."
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Thu Oct 29, 2015 11:12 pm
by Lord Jim
Gob wrote:Cummerbatch could replace Brett as the definitive Holmes, if they were to remake the Cannon.
Well, that trailer is a lot less campy than the original trailer:
But there's still the line about "wear the hat"...
If he wanted to replace Jeremy Brett as the definitive Holmes, does he have the chops to do it?
Perhaps, but he'd have to lose the camp and devote himself to the role...
Why would a guy making the money he's making in Hollywood do such a thing?
I think a much more logical move for Cumberbatch would be as the next James Bond:
That works...
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 12:20 am
by Guinevere
Sorry, no. Too geeky, too "cute," not enough edge. This is my vote for the next James Bond:
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:32 am
by MajGenl.Meade
Guinevere wrote:
Gob wrote:Cummerbatch could replace Brett as the definitive Holmes, if they were to remake the Cannon.
Ahem.
Meade, do you want this one, or should I do it?
Fish / barrel
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 1:50 am
by Gob
Lord Jim wrote:
If he wanted to replace Jeremy Brett as the definitive Holmes, does he have the chops to do it?
Having seen him in other roles, as well as the more serious parts of the BBC "Sherlock" series, I'd say yes.
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:20 am
by Lord Jim
I think he'd still be a much better James Bond...
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:40 am
by Gob
Too skinny. He could do both though, they aren't mutually exclusive.
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:05 pm
by Big RR
You know Jim, that original trailer scares me a bit; I have very little of a tolerance for camp in things that should (at least to me) be serious.
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:44 pm
by Gob
Oh the news Sherlock has always had an element of "camp".
Mark Gatiss one of the driving forces of the writing and production, (who also plays Mycroft Holmes*) is a gay chap, and I'd be surprised if that were not his influence.
I found the interplay between, Watson and Mrs Hudson around Holmes and Watson "having lover's tiffs", highly amusing.
* A SKINNY "Mycroft Holmes," has to be more blasphemous than a Black Bond, surely?
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 9:59 pm
by Lord Jim
One of the things Brett got right, was the fact that Holmes never wore the "deer stalker" signature Holmes hat in the city...
In 39 episodes, I believe he wore it only about a half a dozen times, and always in the country...which is the only place where a gentleman of his stature would have worn such a hat in the late 1800s....
In the city, gentlemen wore top hats or bowlers...
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2015 10:02 pm
by Gob
Good catch Jim. There's no mention of Holmes wearing a deerstalker in the canon, it comes from Padget's illustrations for the Strand magazines.
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 1:40 am
by BoSoxGal
Can't wait!
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 3:56 am
by Lord Jim
Gob wrote:Good catch Jim. There's no mention of Holmes wearing a deerstalker in the canon, it comes from Padget's illustrations for the Strand magazines.
I think it was popularized in the public mind by Basil Rathbone:
Re: This is the 19th century!
Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2015 4:52 am
by Guinevere
Gob wrote:
* A SKINNY "Mycroft Holmes," has to be more blasphemous than a Black Bond, surely?
