Comments on: The Adventure of the Extraordinary Adaptation http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/01/16/the-adventure-of-the-extraordinary-adaptation/ History, Art, Nature, the Fine and the Silly, from a Colonial Fop. Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Sir Frederick Chook http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/01/16/the-adventure-of-the-extraordinary-adaptation/comment-page-1/#comment-489487 Sir Frederick Chook Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:50:37 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/?p=426#comment-489487 The violet silk number? D'you know, I didn't think of it like that! I was treating Ms Sha to excited little whispers all throughout - "There's Watson's bulldog pup!" and whatnot - and whenever Irene appeared in trousers, I would sagely declare "Male costume is nothing new to her." To be fair, Sha returned the favour - noticing that the initial pan across Baker St is lifted from the Granada series opener, for instance. Have you seen the Brett adaptation of A Scandal in Bohemia? It has lots of brilliant little inserts of the Crown Prince and Irene's fun together - her target-shooting, her jump-riding, her dressing up in white tie and tails and flirting with the cabaret girls. She is an adventuress, no less. (I wonder what they'll do with Moriarty - one of my collections was prefaced with an editorial arguing that Moriarty was, really, a stop-gap villain - invented on the spot to give Holmes a big end to the series. Colonel Moran was the better character - the twisted prodigy of the British Empire, all dignified cruelty. Meaning, adapters have license to improve on Moriarty - he needs it - but they must preserve his dragon's ferocity.) In any case... ah! I'm so glad you enjoyed it too! A superhero treatment is only fitting for Holmes, I think, considering his immense contribution to the genre. Speaking of, it's only relatively recently I actually got to see Batman Begins - I can see why Cillian Murphy has the fans he has. That disarming fey persona... good work, Mr Murphy, I say. The violet silk number? D’you know, I didn’t think of it like that! I was treating Ms Sha to excited little whispers all throughout – “There’s Watson’s bulldog pup!” and whatnot – and whenever Irene appeared in trousers, I would sagely declare “Male costume is nothing new to her.” To be fair, Sha returned the favour – noticing that the initial pan across Baker St is lifted from the Granada series opener, for instance.

Have you seen the Brett adaptation of A Scandal in Bohemia? It has lots of brilliant little inserts of the Crown Prince and Irene’s fun together – her target-shooting, her jump-riding, her dressing up in white tie and tails and flirting with the cabaret girls. She is an adventuress, no less.

(I wonder what they’ll do with Moriarty – one of my collections was prefaced with an editorial arguing that Moriarty was, really, a stop-gap villain – invented on the spot to give Holmes a big end to the series. Colonel Moran was the better character – the twisted prodigy of the British Empire, all dignified cruelty. Meaning, adapters have license to improve on Moriarty – he needs it – but they must preserve his dragon’s ferocity.)

In any case… ah! I’m so glad you enjoyed it too! A superhero treatment is only fitting for Holmes, I think, considering his immense contribution to the genre. Speaking of, it’s only relatively recently I actually got to see Batman Begins – I can see why Cillian Murphy has the fans he has. That disarming fey persona… good work, Mr Murphy, I say.

]]> By: Melanthios http://www.frillyshirt.org/2010/01/16/the-adventure-of-the-extraordinary-adaptation/comment-page-1/#comment-489483 Melanthios Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:37:24 +0000 http://www.frillyshirt.org/?p=426#comment-489483 You forget to mention that Ms Adler is obviously an Aesthete, which is made obvious by her bright pink dress in the beginning, and her bright colours throughout. Hence the pants make sense. Also she's a grifter. She's so way more badass than she was in the books, for srs. And I am the kind of dude who is always complaining about heroines in historical movies. Damn I love this movie. And you're so right! It IS batman. And I mean, that's totally appropriate, because Batman was supposed to be the 'modern' Holmes. World's Greatest Detective and all. You forget to mention that Ms Adler is obviously an Aesthete, which is made obvious by her bright pink dress in the beginning, and her bright colours throughout. Hence the pants make sense. Also she’s a grifter. She’s so way more badass than she was in the books, for srs. And I am the kind of dude who is always complaining about heroines in historical movies.

Damn I love this movie. And you’re so right! It IS batman. And I mean, that’s totally appropriate, because Batman was supposed to be the ‘modern’ Holmes. World’s Greatest Detective and all.

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