Crossing, joining female characters... Classic IP adaptations have their own advantages; pen and paper, blogs, dictations, episode details keep pace with the times So many Sherlock Holmes and Watson Which pair has the strongest combat effectiveness?
Produced by Fuji Television and starring Indigo Fujioka and Tsuneyoshi Iwata, the 9th drama "Sherlock" premiered on October 7 and achieved a high rating of 12.8%. The play transplants the original setting from England at the end of the nineteenth century to Japan in the twenty-first century.
In recent years, there have been many subversive adaptations of Sherlock Holmes's original works in a subversive way that changes the background of the times and social environment, from "Sherlock Sherlock", "Sherlock Holmes: Basic Deduction", to "Miss Sherlock", "Sherlock: Unsaided Chapters"... No matter how to challenge the bottom line in the case, the character image and even the gender of the characters, the deep love between the detective and the doctor runs through the whole process.
After all, a detective who knows few strings and no one listens to him needs a like-minded companion on the lonely road of life. If there are two Sherlock Holmes in this world, then one is in the eyes of the world and the other is in the eyes of Watson.
Throughout the film and television dramas adapted from Sherlock Holmes's original book in recent years, although the settings and plots are very different, there are always similarities: Holmes's dress is always more fashionable than Watson;when the two first meet, Holmes is bound to give a one-minute machine gun speech to Watson or whether he is uneasy or precarious. From the standing posture, fingers, parking tickets, suitcases, stitching lines, to the watch, computer screensavers, books and other details of the reasoning and associations that may be triggered, the screenwriters can be described as well-intentioned in the scene of "first sight in life".
Sherlock
Sherlock (English drama)
Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
Consult a private detective.
● Play the violin
●Utilize a smartphone
● Pay attention to criminal situations such as the Internet
● Temple of Thought
● Put a specimen of the body in the refrigerator
● Shoot at the wall of your own home
Martin Freeman as John H. Watson
Served in the former Fifth Flame Army of Northumberland and was a veteran medic returning from Afghanistan.
● The marksmanship is very accurate
● Write a blog
In 2010, the BBC produced the series Sherlock, which allowed the 53-year-old Holmes of the 1907 book to cross time and space into the twenty-first century dominated by digital technology, where, of course, Dr. Watson, who had returned from military service in Afghanistan, waited faithfully. Superimposed with high-tech national CP with more novel and diverse methods of solving crimes, running through the streets of London.
As of 2015, the series has won 10 awards, including Best Drama Series, at the BRITISH Academy of Film and Television Arts Television Awards, while at the Emmy Awards, it has won 7 awards and 21 nominations for Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, and set a new BRITISH ratings record since 2001.
The fly in the ointment is that the late protagonist is too deified, and The Detective Sherlock is more like Sherlock on the altar. The first two seasons can also use the jumping subtitles to carry out "three-minute reasoning" detectives, and in the third season, they only need to enter the "temple of thought" mode, and all the confusing suspense is suddenly open, and the compression of the reasoning process makes the audience have no chance to participate. In the limited time of each episode, the supporting characters are unnecessarily too plump.
However, there is no denying that Benedict Cumberbatch still played this maverick detective. Compared to other actors, Benedict is closer in age to the age of Holmes in the original book. The young detective of the new century has a personality, fashion, and a profound knowledge of his character, which leaves a deep impression on the audience in two aspects: his character flaws. Typical high-functioning sociopaths, self-congratulatory, harsh on people, and occasionally whipped corpses, are "outliers" and "freaks" in the eyes of ordinary people.
At the same time that Holmes was subverted, Watson's role was also very different from the previous image of a wide-bodied and fat doctor, and Watson played by Martin Freeman was a short man whose height and heel were no more than "root number three" meters, but this did not hide the momentum and tenacity of his soldiers between words and deeds. In the face of the willfulness and imperiousness of his partner and roommate, the doctor also showed unprecedented patience and tolerance.
The modern version of Dr. Watson has kept pace with the times, changing the paper and pencil in the original book to an online blog as a vehicle for telling a series of adventure stories. In order to facilitate the promotion and service of fans, the BBC has also set up a blog called Dr. Watson on the Internet. Although doctors always describe their roommates as "bossy and crazy" in blogs, they always end with "He's incredible, so amazing..."
In "Shen Xia", whether it is the thrill of a desperate situation or a warm and interesting daily life, the tacit understanding between the detective and the doctor is obvious to all. The detectives called "freaks" are lonely, as are the military doctors who suffered from psychological disorders after retiring from the army. When Watson chose to shoot for Holmes, whose life was hanging in the balance, he did not hesitate to carry the shackles of crime, the two souls became emotional fairy partners at the moment of encounter.
Miss Sherlock
Miss Sherlock (Japanese drama)
Yuko Takeuchi as Futaba Charisa (self-proclaimed Sherlock)
Born in The United Kingdom, a Japanese national child who returned from overseas. Call yourself "Sherlock".
● Play the cello
●Development of self-defense products
●Make essential oils
● Prada's shoes
● Hermès coat
●Dark green dress
● Love chocolate
●There is difficulty in choosing when ordering
●Do not take off your shoes when you enter a room, as we all know, Japanese people take off their shoes when they enter a room
Kanjigu Shiho Pear as Tachibana Ando (Watson)
Surgeon, volunteer medical personnel returning from Syria. After returning to China, he worked in the library, and when he did psychological counseling, he told his psychiatrist about the investigation with Sherlock.
In April 2018, Hulu and HBO created the web drama "Miss Sherlock", and during the promotional period, Fu and Hua were both sexually transferred as a gimmick.
During the preparations, the lead actor Yuko Takeuchi practiced the instrument in order to play Sherlock, just like Benedict at that time, but the violin was replaced by a cello. In order to make Sherlock's female image more appropriate, the show also made appropriate setting changes, such as changing the preference for doing chemical experiments to the like to refine various essential oils. Even so, it cannot hide the traces of the drama's rigid "Shenxia" in the setting of the detective's personality.
Although Miss Sherlock will tell the classic sentences in the original book from time to time, but only borrow a skin of a famous detective, the play over-renders the weakness of the female detective character, regardless of the occasion of the willfulness and arrogance is not pleasing, and the extremely excited expression on the face of someone who dies makes the audience feel uncomfortable. In order to show that the character does not care about the feelings of others, Yuko Takeuchi deliberately does not look at other people's eyes when speaking lines, but the first reaction to the unsuspecting audience is that Sherlock suffers from intermittent blindness.
The setting of Watson (called Tachibana and Du in the play) is even more disappointing, typical of "silly white sweet", which is useless except for the kindness of heart. The traits of strength and loyalty are completely erased in this play, and the ability is also lacking enough to be supported. In the later period, the IQ was seriously dropped, and Watson's words and deeds were more difficult to understand than Sherlock, who did not conform to social common sense. She is not so much Sherlock's assistant or partner in the tribulation as a "pig teammate" who drags her feet.
The biggest hard wound of this drama is not in the role but in the plot is too thin, the routine is obvious, the reasoning is simple, the case can be guessed halfway through, and it is really too big to move out Of Holmes.
The only remarkable thing is Yuko Takeuchi's smart and exquisite outfit, stepping on Prada's slender heel and jumping up and down flexibly at the crime scene. The dark green dress was elegant and noble, and it was unforgettable.
Sherlock Holmes: Basic Deduction
Sherlock Holmes: Basic Deduction (American drama)
John Lee Miller as Sherlock Holmes
He was a famous detective of the London Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard) in the United Kingdom, and was sent to compulsory drug rehabilitation by his father because of drug problems. He then moved to New York to serve as an adviser to the Major Crimes Unit at the 11th Division of the New York City Police Department.
● Drug use and relapse
● Turn on several TVs at the same time to watch together
● Martial arts are very powerful
●Family relations are cold
Liu Yuling as Jon Watson
He was an emergency department doctor, but after an accident, he could not forgive himself and switched to the work of drug rehabilitation escort.
●You can solve the case alone
● Wrote a bestseller about Sherlock Holmes
In 2012, Holmes and Watson traveled from London to New York: premiered the first season of "Sherlock Holmes: Basic Deduction" produced by CBS Broadcasting. Coinciding with the BBC version of "ShenXia", this American version of Sherlock Holmes was sneered at by many East Shi during the promotional period.
With the development of the plot and the advancement of the relationship between the characters, the audience gradually accepted and optimistic about the American version of Holmes, which is good at local materials and adapting current events. By the end of the seventh season, the Douban score has reached 9.3 points.
The American version of Sherlock Holmes is played by John Lee Miller, and his detective is not inedible, and he does not hesitate to ask others for advice when encountering difficulties. Contrary to the original book, seven seasons are enough to describe Sherlock Holmes in this series with ill-fatedness. From being abandoned by his family, quitting drugs but constantly relapsing, to venturing into the gunshot of his best friend, to concussion almost unable to recover, his growth is often torn skin and flesh.
When it comes to subverted characters, it is not Sherlock Holmes in the play, but another soul character, Watson. When "Basic Deduction Method" was first broadcast, the image of Watson was set up with female Chinese, which made it difficult for many Fans to accept. With the increasingly rich development of the subsequent characters, the female Watson's humbleness and wisdom and elegance gradually proved that she was "true incense". The doctor is no longer a foil for the detective but an equal opponent. It is difficult to believe that Liu Yuling, the actor who played the female Watson 1 meter 8 aura, is only 1.57 meters tall, and in the past Watson, her version has a very high sense of existence.
The American version of Fu and Hua is more like a family that relies on each other to support each other. The two went from being drug addicts and escorts, roommates, mentors and apprentices, competitors and then becoming heirs to each other's estates. "Basic Deduction" has achieved steady and steady work and good beginning and end in seven years, which can't help but remind people of the sentence "Companionship is the longest confession of affection." ”
《Kabukicho Natsukotsu》
Sherlock Kabukicho (Japanese anime)
Sherlock holmes
One of the members of the Operating Detective Agency.
● A rakugo-loving freak
● When solving puzzles, you will say the self-created "reasoning rakugo". The taste is very strange, and I like to mix canned fruit with fried rice and so on.
john k H. Watson
A doctor at a university hospital on the western side of Shinjuku Ward.
●I am also a client who works as a nanny
Animation also favored Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock Kabukicho, also aired in October this year, is an original anime directed by Ai Yoshimura and produced by Production I.G.
Compared with film and television dramas, this animation is more absurd and bizarre. It tells the story of a chaotic neighborhood on the east side of Shinjuku Ward, where detectives with different personalities come together like a hodgepodge of famous mystery objects, the most concerned of which is Sherlock Holmes.
Sherlock Holmes in the anime was transformed into a rakugo-like (one of the traditional Japanese forms of music, similar to Chinese stand-up comedy). It is said that many of Rakugo's passages have deep roots with China, and some genius detectives who are directly taken from the "Laughing House" compiled by the Chinese writer Feng Menglong in the late Ming Dynasty will reveal the mystery in the form of Rakugo reasoning.
Watson incarnated as a client, in order to get the help of Holmes, he did not hesitate to work hard to become a "driver and nanny" assistant.
Sherlock: The Unscheduled Chapter
Sherlock: The Unspeaked Chapter (Japanese drama)
Fujioka Indigo as Yu Shizuo (Sherlock)
Professional consultant in criminal investigation.
● Playing the violin (the sound of pulling out the siren with the violin)
● Entering and leaving the room never closes
● The speed of using wire to pry locks is very fast ● I like to do various experiments
●Manufacture of lie detectors, etc.
Tsuneyoshi Iwata as Junichi Wakamiya (Watson)
Psychiatrist at a hospital in Tokyo (obtained a doctor's certificate by cheating on an exam)
● Ride a motorcycle
●Use a certain software to make an oral diary
This time, Fuji TV chose Watson as the main subversive character in Sherlock: The Unseclared Chapter, launched in October 2019.
This version of Sherlock is played by Indigo Fujioka, who won the Best Actor Award at the 12th CONFiDENCE Japanese Drama Awards, and is relatively decent in appearance to personality. There is no big difference from the characters in the public impression, and there are also extensions of the setting, such as habitually winding wire around the fingers, picking locks to enter the room is commonplace, entering and leaving the room is never closed casually, and occasionally showing a surprise due to the needs of the plot.
In contrast, Watson (Wakamiya Junichi), played by Tsuneyoshi Iwata, changed his previous honest and thick image, became a young psychiatrist who liked to ride a motorcycle, and was a person who cheated through exams to get a doctor's qualification certificate. And lack of self-confidence, a glass heart. In the play, Watson's diary is upgraded again, and daily records are made on the app in the form of oral accounts.
The drama received a large number of audience attention, and won a high opening rating of 12.8%. Although the suspense is insufficient, the reasoning process is relatively weak, and the motive for committing the crime is the old road of the warm line, the plot is still ingenious, and the soundtrack is also very good. In addition, the luxurious guest lineup of each episode is also eye-catching, such as Matsumoto Maruika, Miho Kanno, and ItoBu.
The unyielding fighting mouth and dismantling of the stage of the two male characters are also a major attraction of this show, such as the "three-year-old" behavior of the two people throwing each other's belongings downstairs at the end of the first episode, which makes many viewers can't help but be funny. Although the daily relationship is not harmonious, the two can cooperate seamlessly in the pursuit of the truth of the case, and they are a pair of qualified rivals.
(Written by/Si Qi)