Ok, I'm not a huge Sherlock Holmes fan, having seen only this film and a couple of other Holmes films. Is this the story in which it is revealed that Holmes is an addict? What is the drug he is addicted to? Is Watson his supplier? I was rather shocked, but my friend said that it is a well known fact that Holmes was an addict.
shareHolmes is a cocaine addict in the books. I don't recall any mention of it in Hound of the Baskervilles, but it is referred to in a few other stories. Watson is definitely not his supplier. Hope this answers your question.
shareHowever, the film departs from the books as Holmes never used when he was on a case. It was only when he was bored out of his mind with nothing to do (between cases) that he used coke.
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Indeed, it is a major deviation from the books to have Holmes stoned off his face several times in the middle of a case, when clarity was needed.
They no doubt put this into the films in order to be (ironically) truer to the books. That is to say, a reader of the books knows that Holmes was an addict, and the average movie goer does not. Similarly, this film has Watson go right back and recite the list of Holmes' points of ignorance which Watson made in A Study in Scarlet.
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