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House/Sherlock/40s vid - must see!


I just saw this today, and while I don't know who made it, it inspired me to
1) Seek out this show
2) Join Vimeo to leave feedback
3) Try to get more people to watch it because it's amazing!

http://vimeo.com/37043737

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What is the connection to Sherlock? Besides being a great show...

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It's really super --

A friend of mine found it and posted the link on Facebook.

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Benedict Cumberbatch.

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Benedict Cumberbatch is now the most obvious connection.

But did you know "House MD" was based on Sherlock Holmes? David Shore, the writer of House, admitted it. House solved the illness of the week in much the same way Holmes solved murder cases.

There's even parallel in the names
House <==> Holmes
Wilson <==> Watson

And House lived in apartment 221B, I think.

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There are even more parallels between House and Holmes. Like the great detective, House is extremely anti-social, though he has a small group of friends and co-workers who can stand him, as does Holmes.

He also does not believe that his work will be as effective if he "cares" about his patients or even sees them necessarily, unless they're interesting, very much like Holmes' admission that he only wants cases that are odd and has no interest in clients who are ordinary. Both characters routinely dismiss people as "boring" or "idiots".

Like Sherlock, House thinks best while distracting himself with video games, playing music on a stereo or instrument and often bouncing or tossing a ball around. I'm sure that if he could do it, he would shoot a gun at the wall when bored, as Holmes does in both the original book and in the latest show, "Sherlock".

By the way, if you like the style of these two, check out the excellent comedy/drama, "Doc Martin", starring Martin Clunes as a former surgeon with blood-phobia who moves to a small fishing village in Cornwall to set up as a GP. He shocks and insults almost everyone he meets just by being himself, an emotionally stunted (yet brilliant) man who was so traumatized by his parents' rejection that he has almost no ability to relate to people, much less be nice to them. Yet, like House, he is a brilliant doctor.

I'm sure there are places on the 'net and elsewhere that lay out the many inspirations for House found in Conan Doyle's Holmes.



Don't get me wrong...
It might be unbelievable,
But let's not say so long

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