This movie, with its obsession over sexual perversions, should have been called Baker Street: SVU, instead of presenting itself as a standard Sherlock Holmes story.
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Haha. I said something very similar after seeing this. It was very SVU. Although, in fairness, it is really just the story that is incongruous to Holmes. Everything else is really accurate. I actually hadn't read any Holmes until I saw this, and now I'm obsessed with the Canon. Looking back now, Silk Stocking, with the exception of the actual plot, is kind of a Holmesian's dream. It's chock full of odd little things that only a Holmes fan would really appreciate.
Long and Short of it: I think that Simon Cellan Jones and Allan Cubitt should do another one of these (with Everett, because he wasn't half bad as Holmes, except he was rather apathetic and arrogant) but work on creating a plot that Conan Doyle might've written.
I thought Rupert was one of the best Holmes I've seen! Holmes is apathetic and arrogant, especially when he's on one of his self-destructive drug binges. I do agree, however, that the plot was very un-Doyle. I respect them trying to write a new mystery, rather than just dramatizing one everyone already knows, but they could've done better. Even the idea of the missing girls was good. Just not the whole bizarre conclusion and sexual perversions. It was just weird.
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When the american psychoanalyst starts spouting off all those sexual perversions listed in the book she lent Holmes, I thought to myself, "yeah right!" There is no way a victorian woman would mention such things in polite company, especially if she had met holmes for the first time, even if she was an AMERICAN and thus a little bolder. That was the giveaway for me.
shareGood thing she was Edwardian, then.
shareYes, what era are we talking about, and when was Holmes actually set? I did notice what seemed to be telephones and electric lights in the station house. So this might be 1920's although I thought the original was set in the late 1800's, possibly a tad in reaction to the Jack the Ripper murders?
Me, I wasn't thinking of SVU. I kept thinking of the Silence of the Lambs with this one.
Collegekid, yeah I guess you're right. Holmes has his sweet moments, though, you've got to admit ;).
However, my personal favorite incarnation of Holmes was Basil of Baker St in The Great Mouse Detective.... hehehe