Dear SHians,
 
The movie is releasing this December according to reports. As some of you might
recall I was among those people willing to cast the first stone, so to
speak, and wonder aloud about the advisability of getting an actor like Robert
Downey, Jr, to portray the Master (although he's a good actor from what I've
seen of him).
 
From what I've seen on the various websites - the teaser trailers - they've made
a sort of caricature of Holmes that is in no way related to his actual image in
the hearts of millions of fans across generations. It's a "spoof" film based on
the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, more comic and "action-packed" as suits the
21st century.
 
One could compare it to the image of James Bond as presented by Daniel Craig,
although most fans of that genre consider Sir Sean Connery as the original. The
debate rages. In fact, Roger Moore would be a better comparison since he never
took these movies seriously. He was on the whole a mild-mannered, almost comic,
womanizing British spy (from his own accounts in all his interviews).
 
For a non-bookish kind of person who has never heard about Sherlock Holmes
(think a 11-year-old before the first Harry Potter was published) this movie
would no doubt be "fun" and a great timepass.
 
 
Sridhar

--- On Tue, 8/4/09, sumalsn <no_reply@...> wrote:


From: sumalsn <no_reply@...>
Subject: [sherlock holmes society of india] Sherlock Holmes Movie Trailer!!
To: SherlockHolmesSocietyofIndia@...
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009, 8:47 AM


 



Dear Holmesians,
It seems that the SH movie trailer has been just released! A true Holmesian pans
it , quite harshly. Here goes the link!!,
http://blogs. islandpacket. com/37237
Sumalsn



















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