From college until marriage and children, the fourth season of "Sherlock" is finally coming, the first episode will be broadcast on January 2, 2017, and it is said that Sherlock and the military doctor will enter a darker world... I only hope that the screenwriter will not let Sherlock face the peanuts of marriage and family like the third season to make a grudge against the little daughter-in-law, and solving the case is the right way!
However, the heavy resentment of TV series fans for two years, compared to the readers of the novel at that time, is really a small witch - Conan Doyle let Holmes "fall to the waterfall" in "The Last Case" in 1893, until 10 years later, the detective officially returned in "Empty House", and many poor and obsessive book fans could only mourn their heroes with black veils.
Why didn't Holmes love women?
Holmes has always been a staunch celibacy, "Love is an emotional thing... And there is a contradiction in what I think is the most important calm thinking. I will never get married so as not to affect my judgment. (The Four Signatures), one of the positive comments about Mary Mostan, who was engaged to Watson, was: "Very useful for the work of people like us", and it was a little frighteningly calm. It is rare that there is a "woman" Irene Edler who is so smart that he can still see it, and his feelings stop at collecting her pictures, although it is rare that he has praised her beauty twice.
Why didn't Holmes love women? One of the most widely accepted views stems from his childhood shadow, represented by the famous fanfiction Seven Percent solution, in which Holmes confessed that his father had murdered her because of his mother's affair, which caused his lifelong doubts about love.
However, although far from love, Holmes did not lose compassion for his infatuated lover. In Devil's Foot, Holmes lets go of the murderer who avenged the tragic death of his girlfriend, saying, "I've never been in love." But if I had been in love, if the woman I loved had suffered such a tragic encounter, I might have done the same emotional thing as we lawless lion hunters do."
"The faithful Watson temporarily left me because of his marriage, which was the only selfish act I remembered in the course of our relationship, so I was alone at the time" ("The Soldier with White Skin"), Sherlock Holmes said so humorously.
Watson repeatedly moved out of Baker Street because of his marriage (researchers say the number of marriages was between one and six), and his marriage and his wife were always unhappy (perhaps Sherlock Holmes's resentment was at work). Holmes also stressed Watson's importance to him more than once— "Where else can I have any other friends besides you?" "I would be overwhelmed without my own Bauswell." (The Bohemian Scandal)
Although Holmes often sent Watson and often damaged his friends, at the moment of life and death, Holmes would also reveal his true feelings, the most famous of course was the earth-shattering declaration: "If you hurt Watson, you don't want to get out of this room alive." ("Three People with the Same Surname")
In the eyes they look at, there is "almost a gentle gaze."
If you live together, if you go out, you will be in the same car, and today, how ambiguous should these two people be? Although Conan Doyle's daughter staunchly defended the "innocence" of these two celebrities, Holmes himself said in the original book that he wanted to "fly out of that window hand in hand with Watson and soar over this big city" ("Identity Case"), which would indeed make modern gossip readers think a lot.
Moreover, in fact, the two of them had been holding hands more than once ("Mill Watton," "The Case of the Spotted Tape"), and Watson saw in his eyes with Holmes "such an almost tender gaze that I had never seen before" (The Bruce-Partington Project). However, considering that Victorian brokeback love affairs are a felony, let us continue to believe that the relationship between them stops at platonic.
In the movie "Sherlock Holmes's Private Life", in order to avoid the courtship of the Russian ballet actress, Holmes simply hinted to her that he and Watson were a couple, which probably also represented the "voice" of many readers. Pure readers have no disrespect, but pity genius is too lonely.
In the "Sherlock" that keeps pace with the times, the detective and Peanut are a pair full of pink atmosphere in the eyes of everyone, Watson's constant explanation is more and more black, the two simply pull the small hand to openly sell corruption, even Peanut's wife Mary mentioned Sherlock, and the tone seems to have acquiesced that the detective is Peanut's predecessor. Well, Peanut is finally married, and what is Sherlock's little eyes full of resentment at the wedding? The last episode of the third season, simply "for the happiness of your family, I am willing to be shot and killed" such a plot also appeared, really make people wonder whether this is a dog blood love drama or a brain-burning crime drama?
In the £1350 belstaff coat, he was still the Sherlock Holmes
Appreciating the adaptation of Holmes's novel is, in the final analysis, a bad taste of watching others dance in shackles, and the cleverness of the adaptation of "Sherlock" (seasons one and two) is that the adaptation can be so "betrayal" of the original work, and so "loyal" to the original work.
There are no Victorian "My Dear Watson" and "Sherlock Holmes" here, only the science otaku "Sherlock" and the general practitioner and sharpshooter "John", who of course also lives in the famous 221b Baker Street.
The details of the tribute to the original work are everywhere, which shows that the screenwriter knows the original book very well: the first sentence of the meeting: "Afghanistan or Iraq?" Holmes's self-centered message: "If you have time, please come immediately - if you don't have time", it is also used in the TV series; in the original, Holmes whipped corpses in the laboratory, practiced marksmanship in the apartment toward the wall, loved to put the violin on his lap and played it at will, and other details, the TV series did not let go.
The screenwriter is "using" the original allusions all the time in the play, as if breaking the original work, and then rubbing a new model according to the tastes of modern people, but the charm in the bones completely respects the original setting. Sherlock's awkward and arrogant tongue is low emotional intelligence and high intelligence, which is more exaggerated than in the original book, but it is in the right place at the moment. At first glance it seems a little strange, but it can quickly find a familiar feeling. So while Sherlock threw away his pipe and top hat, put on a £1350 slim coat and a dolce & gabbana's seductive shirt, and used blueberries and love crazy, no one questioned whether he was Sherlock Holmes.
In the American drama, the two of them can be friends with peace of mind
The TV series pays constant homage to the original, with jokes about the title being the first thing: "study in scarlet" becomes "study in pink," "the empty house" becomes "the empty hearse," and "the navy treatment" and "the speckled band" are "teased." Into "The Navel Treatment" and "The Speckled Blonde."
Holmes's iconic poisonous tongue spirit original book has been given a blueprint: "Your head should not be just an ornament, but also some use" ("The Study of Blood Words"), and the upgraded version of the TV series is a knife to the throat: "You have lowered the IQ of the whole street!" ”
Secondly, the TV series also found a modern counterpart to the original details: Watson's notes became blogs, Holmes changed from telegraph control to texting maniac; Watson took his roommate's credit card without using a checkbook; Holmes no longer used 7% cocaine injections, replaced by nicotine patches to excite himself; and his collection of photos of "that woman" also became the other party's vertu phone.
The more traversing adaptation is still on the other side of the ocean - the United States also filmed 21st Century Sherlock Holmes, called "Basic Deduction", which has been broadcast to the fifth season. The background moved to New York, Sherlock, who was dumped by the gangster beauty Moriarty, worked as a consultant at the New York Police Department, Watson became a woman, was trained by Sherlock to become a consulting detective, and also had a one-night stand with Sherlock and his brother McCroft, this person is messy... But no matter what, maybe this time you can finally see that the two protagonists can be friends with peace of mind.
The following classic Sherlock Holmes detectives are the ancestors of the TV series!
The Sherlock Holmes Detective Series (all five volumes)
Mass Publishing House, September 1980
The plain cover is a very classic Chinese translation of that year. But now you have to go to the old bookstore.
New Annotated Edition of The Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes
Tongxin Publishing House, January 2013
Translated from what is considered to be the most authoritative and comprehensive annotated version of Holmes's novels to date, the book contains a large number of pictures and illustrations illustrating life at that time, as well as thousands of annotations, and finally a comparative chronology of Holmes, Watson, and the author Conan Doyle, as well as various reference sources and websites. The editor, American Leslie S. Klinger, is a lawyer and one of the world's leading experts on Sherlock Holmes. The three volumes of the Chinese translation, with pictures and truths, are worth collecting. The disadvantage is that each book is too thick and too heavy to be read at home.
Illustrated Edition of The Complete Detective Sherlock Holmes
Nova Publishing July 2011 Edition
Although the content is not as much as the "New Annotated Edition of the Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes", there are also a large number of picture annotations, which are small and lightweight, suitable for carrying around to read.
Detective Watson
Stephen King et al. Translated by Zhang Xiaoxue and Ni Shifeng
People's Literature Publishing House, January 2014
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Sherlock Holmes's debut, Conan Doyle's daughter authorized the publication of this new Sherlock Holmes Detective Collection, officially certified by the Conan Doyle Property Society, which can be said to be an "official fandom". Seventeen Anglo-American mystery novelists, including Stephen King and Edward Hawke, crafted a set of short detective stories that complemented The Holmes Detective Story. In Detective Watson, Stephen King let Watson solve the case before Holmes. "Sherlock Holmes and "The Woman" uses a "can now be told" tone to let the dying Watson say Irene? Adler's true identity. "Watson and His Wife at Home" actually made Mrs. Watson fall in love with the big boss Moriarty. Once the "fandom" is "official", there are many fierce materials.
the hound of baskervilles
BBC Books 2012 edition
This set of "Sherlock Holmes" has been published in a total of 6 copies so far, and the selling point is to use the stills of the British drama "Sherlock" as the cover, each book is written by the two screenwriters of the show, Stephen Moffat and Mark Gatis, and the two male protagonists Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman. Collector's edition of the show's fans.
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