Wired: The new Sherlock Holmes movie, with a reimagined Sherlock.
Screen: Robert Downey Jr.’s Sherlock — Faithful or Flawed? “But Guy Ritchie, who directed the film, says making the sleuth more of a stud is staying true to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories.” If you’ve ever read any of the stories, you’ll know that Robert Downey Jr. is just a wrong choice (in spite of his massive acting cred). He is not ‘rather over six feet’, he is not so ‘excessively lean he seems taller’, nor does he have a ‘thin, hawklike nose’ (to use Conan Doyle’s own descriptions). Jeremy Brett, if he’d been a little more pugilistic when he began his run as Sherlock, would have been simply perfect. As it is, he remains the Sherlock standard to be judged against.
IMHO.
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