Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Not Your Daddy's Sherlock Holmes...


Behold...

Feast your eyes on "The Napoleon of Crime!"

Brad Pitt as the criminal genius that thwarts Sherlock Holmes with his dastardly plans?

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Please, stop it! Tell me you're joking. Really? He is? No sh... ooops! I mean, Pitt has picked some really good projects and he knows enough to work on mostly smart scripts, but the mastermind of evil that is the bane of the Basil of Baker Street? This is clearly not the literary Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle. Of that, I'm sure.

It's elementary...

6 comments:

Optimus Crime said...

Pitt as Moriarty is beyond parody.

No Shitt Sherlock said...

Pitt=shitt

Cory Gross said...

Considering that it has Robert Downey Jr. as Holmes and Jude Law as Watson, should this be a big deal? Any ruination has already happened before Pitt got on board.

However, I'm not exactly attached to Holmes as a character, so I add indifference onto the pile.

Dave said...

Not thrilled with Pitt as Moriarty... but I have to say that Downey Jr and Jude Law were excellent picks.

Most people's opinions of Holmes have been formed heavily by years of movies and television and very little by Doyle's books. Holmes was a very broken character, an opium addict, a womanizer... He wasn't the staunch upright man that you've seen over and over again. What's more, Bartitsu was a very real thing. Holmes WAS a fighter. A cold calculating one, but a trained fighter non the less.

And don't get me started on Watson. When Watson joins Holmes he's fresh out of the army from India. I guarantee you he wasn't the goofy pudgy 'side kick' you see so very often.

Anonymous said...

I don't know, Pitt was pretty good at killing Natzees...

TURRICAN Jones said...

Dave, that might all very well be true but Doyle also gave metticulous physical descriptions of Holmes which don't match Downey at all.

I honestly don't mind Richie for the most part, but it seems like a lot of the details he's fixating on are only passingly mentioned in the stories (for example Holme's Bartitsu background is only mentioned as a minor detail in a single story), and it seems like Richie is using these very tenuous connections to justify the license he's taken with the character.

Not all Sherlock Holmes movies have to be faithful adaptations of the source material, but if you do take liberties, then you should be forthright about it.