A quickie little item emerged over at TotalFilm today concerning the almost-certainly-inevitable Sherlock Holmes sequel. Well, that is, inevitable as long as any sequel(s) is “Homes & Watson” and not “Holmes <3 Watson.” Andrea Plunket, who apparently is the copyright holder of the American adaptations to the Holmes legacy, didn’t take some rainbow musing from star Robert Downey, Jr., on a recent appearance on Letterman.
Downey wondered if they might take the character all the way to The Blue Oyster with Watson in any sequel. Plunket doesn’t see it that way, however: “I hope this is just an example of Mr. Downey’s black sense of
humour,” she says. “It would be drastic, but I would withdraw
permission for more films to be made if they feel that is a theme they
wish to bring out in the future. I am not hostile to homosexuals, but I am to anyone who is not true to the spirit of the books.”
Sure, literary accuracy is what I immediately go to after scoping that statement. Anyway, check out Devin’s review of said flick here.
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Not at all. The only SH work that still merits copyright protection is he CASEBOOK. As long as the sequel's story avoids any elements mentioned in the CASEBOOK, this crazy old coot (and she is nuts–dated Claus Von Bulow) doesn't have a leg to stand on.
I had to read that first paragraph three times before it began to make sense. "Andrea Plunket, who apparently is the copyright holder of the American adaptations to the Holmes legacy, didn't take some rainbow musing from star Robert Downey, Jr., on a recent appearance on Letterman." Is anyone actually editing this stuff?
Haha, this one had me confused too:
"Sure, literary accuracy is what I immediately go to after scoping that statement. "
Took my girlfriend to go see this on Christmas Day (she loves RDJ, go figure) anyways about halfway through the movie she turns to me and says, 'isn't sherlock holmes gay or something' Of course looking to respond, I didn't really knowthe answer, so I said back to her 'yeah I think he is' oh well guess I was wrong. Movie was crap BTW.
Yeah, who gives a fuck what this crazy old slag thinks about anything?
Holmes showed interest in one person in the stories…and only one person. Irene Adler–the American actress. She tricked him in A Scandal in Bohemia–and got away with the crime. Watson says, "To Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman." Holmes seemed to really say a lot of nice things about her…which was a bit of a shock to Watson, because Holmes wasn't the type to gush over anyone. He had made it clear…he saw society in terms of crime and nothing elese. He hated society as a whole and said at one point something like, "the kindest woman I know murdered her children and her husband,' or something like that.
Holmes hated society as a whole. He was a misanthrope.He did not like men and made it clear, and he really had nothing to say good towards women at all. I always got a sense from reading the stories that it was because if anyone was gonna get away with a crime–if anyone could really trick Holmes, it would be a woman.
Remeber, when Doyle wrote Holmes, he wanted to make it clear that Holmes was something of a thinking machine like person. Cold, and calculating. Watson was the heart…the emotion.
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