#Sherlock Holmes A Game of Shadows

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SHERLOCK HOLMES: A Game of Shadows (2011)

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

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Which version of this do you prefer?

Note: There have been....A Lot of versions of Sherlock Holmes. Like a LOT. Obviously this is only a fraction of the possible adaptations and retellings that are out there. A second part with further versions will be published at some point in the future.

Further notes:

Apparently Sherlock Holmes may be the most prolifically portrayed character in film ever? So like I really do want to emphasize. There's WAY more versions I could and will put on a poll.

Also some of these are somewhat loosely grouped/are presented together despite slight continuity breaks. Like, the Rathbone films were overseen by two different companies (20th Century Fox, then Universal, though Universal did almost all of them) but they're definitely a series with each other because they're configured around him and his version of Holmes.

Peter Cushing also portrayed Holmes in a 1968 series, but for this poll I've just included his Hound of the Baskervilles film.

Also, not all of these are adapting specific Holmes stories directly. I am counting adapting the characters as enough to count for this poll.

It's the original novel version of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution that's on this poll. A film adaptation was made, and may go on a later poll. I might do a separate poll comparing just those two against each other at some point, as well.

[preacherboyd]

Sherlock Holmes // Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

[echoesofcamelot]

Feeling a lot of feelings about these two today.

Are you happy? At this moment. Are you as happy as you would be on your honeymoon in Brighton?

[wunderkammerie]

Holmes calling Watson "John" in a game of shadows

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Day 16: Flatline

Hawaii Five-0 8x10 | Eureka 4x15 | The Haunting of Hill House 1x10 | Graceland 2x13 | Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows | Lucifer 2x13 | Warehouse 13 1x06 | Stargate Atlantis 1x04 | Superman and Lois 2x13 | Iron Man 3 deleted scene | Stargate SG-1 4x18

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[rocketboots564]

I think it’s time we as a society admit the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies were actually genius and super fun

They had a fun spin on Sherlock and Watson’s dynamic, they made Sherlock a bit 𝓕𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓴𝔂 (which was always a win), the fight and action scenes were cool, and we got Sherlock in drag

10/10 absolutely ✨SHOWSTOPPING✨

[just-dreaming-marvel]

s.s.s. drabbles ~ Determined #1

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Character(s) / Pairing: RDJ!Sherlock Holmes x Reader

Word Count: 69ish

Notes: This is is for @mostly-marvel-musings six sentence sunday challenge! Hope you enjoy!

His heart was controlling his feet more than his brain was.

That was unusual for the man who seemed to have no emotions.

But this was you.

He entered the room to find you standing by the fireplace, looking as lovely as ever.

“Sherlock?” you questioned as you turned to face him.

His heart controlled his feet once again, guiding him to you and colliding his lips with yours.

[koalatysleep]

I wish the RDJ Sherlock Holmes / JL John Watson movies were still on Netflix so I can rewatch them whenever I want to!

The last time I rewatched them, I fangirled so hard my heart felt like it was gonna burst

There's so much delicious subtext between Holmes and Watson, and even the action sequences were character-building or plot-advancing.

The piece de resistance is of course the off-the-chart chemistry between RDJ's Holmes and JL's Watson.

And the movies very sophisticatedly shows us Holmes' and Watson's feelings for each other, instead of telling us outright. As they say, "Show, don't tell" - it's one of the hallmarks of great story telling.

There were so many delightfully romantically coded scenes like this one:

I love how much was conveyed about the characters & their relationship in just 1 scene:

- Holmes had eschewed the companionship of all other human beings by choice & secluded himself in his room for weeks on end to wallow over Watson's impending engagement, but an appearance from the one person he treasures above all others is enough to immediately draw Holmes out of his wallow/strop & get him re-engaged 100% with Watson

- Holmes literally crawls to Watson to sit at his feet! This visual analogy shows us that while most people mistakenly think that Holmes holds all the 'power' in their relationship coz he's the intellectual superior, Watson holds just as much sway coz just the thought of Watson's impending engagement has brought Holmes to his knees. (Plus Holmes sitting at Watson's feet hints at Watson being the Master of Holmes' heart, an analogy that is carried into the 2nd movie when Holmes plays his final chess match against Moriarty and Holmes sacrifices his 2nd most valuable piece (the Queen piece, which is an analogy for Holmes' own life) in order to save Watson, the King of Holmes' heart and the most valuable person in Holmes eyes. But this deserves another post of its own, back to movie 1! )

- even though Holmes is sitting at Watson's feet, due to the clever framing, we never get the sense that he is lesser than Watson, and this shows us that Holmes and Watson are equals in their partnership.

- when Watson sits on the chair after handing Holmes the papers, Holmes was propping his arm up on Watson's thigh to read the papers (this is slightly out of frame but one can deduce from the closeness of their positions). Love the casual physical intimacy here, which also establishes the deep bond and absolute trust between Holmes and Watson.

- both of them obviously looks sad thinking about their "last case together"

- Holmes coyly asks to be wooed out to dinner by Watson by playing up his ennui with the dramatic line "there is nothing out there in the entire world for me", then in the same breath, Holmes immediately overturns that with his responses to Watson sounding him out for a night out together. This is Holmes playfully & coyly letting Watson know that he feels neglected and wants Watson's attention ;) Love the witty repartee & dialogue between Holmes & Watson, and how flirtatiously RDJ played this!

- Watson knowing Holmes so well that he knows what Holmes is really asking for (a dinner date), and using that to manipulate Holmes into meeting Mary. Outsmarting Holmes gives Watson a thrill I'm sure ;)

- Watson leaves after revealing that he hasn't proposed to Mary yet coz he "hasn't found the right ring", but this hints at his underlying hesitation coz of Holmes' obvious disapproval. It's very telling that later on in the show, he gives Mary the ring that Holmes gave him - "the right ring" is Holmes' tacit acquiescence

Then we get the dinner with Mary scene which also has delicious subtext:

- while Holmes waits for Watson and Mary to arrive, we see Sherlock getting overwhelmed by the sheer data coming his way. Holmes doesn't usually lose control like this, he's usually able to take in the data without getting overwhelmed. This hints at Holmes' emotional state & anxiety about the meeting with Mary. We see him retreat into his mind to try to block out the overwhelm.

- Watson calling Holmes' name is what brings Holmes out of his overwhelmed state, and John can see immediately that Holmes is not feeling well & is visibly worried about Holmes. In fact, Watson's attention is almost solely on Holmes for the next few minutes - he's watching Holmes exclusively while Mary speaks. This little detail speaks volumes about the priority and place Holmes has in Watson's heart. The dialogue between Mary and Holmes cleverly highlights this -

Mary: "it can seem a little far fetched, making these grand assumptions out of such tiny details"

To which Holmes replies "That's not quite right isn't it. In fact, the little details are by far the most important".

Love the 4th wall dialogue here!

- Then Mary and Holmes engage in a thoroughly entertaining pissing contest under the guise of civil conversation to stake their claims on Watson & one up each other.

Holmes: "Take Watson"

Mary: "I intend to"

To one up this, Holmes proceeds to demonstrate the liberties he's allowed to take with Watson's person as he unsheaths Watson's sword to highlight John's strengths (🤣 not even gonna go into the obvious homoerotic subtext of the sword here), then reaches into John's pocket to pull out the boxing match stub to highlight that he knows John intimately well, gambling warts & all, and he still loves, wants & accepts John even though John's shortcomings have "cost us the rent a few times"

Mary then tries to regain the upper hand by asking Holmes to deduce her, hoping he'll make mistakes since she's a stranger, and it's interesting that she knows Watson hasn't told Holmes much about her, even though she's heard so much about Holmes from presumably Watson.

Holmes quite gallantly tries to dissuade her from this course together with John, but she insists, which Holmes pounces on as his get-out-of-jail-free card 🤣

Love this verbal sparring between Mary and Holmes, and how the subtextual clues of what the characters say and do subtly reveal what they're really communicating to each other ("John Watson is mine, back off!")

- We then find out that Watson was not Mary's first choice for a husband, just like Mary is not first in Watson's heart either. Her first fiance died, and she still loves her first fiance that it still hurts now, just like Watson still loves Holmes.

In any case, I digress. I love the RDJ Sherlock Holmes movies is what I'm saying, coz these are really top notch movies with fantastic acting choices from both RDJ and JL, as well as the supporting cast, great dialogue, spot-on characterisation for Holmes and Watson, and every scene serves to build character, plot, and reveal something about the characters' feelings, which they never need to explicitly talk about, because the subtextual clues like what we have in the scenes above speak loud & clear for anyone who knows how to look, like Holmes himself ;)

Really well done and thoroughly entertaining movies, my favourite films from Guy Ritchie!

If only I can still access the full movies! Would so love to do more in depth analysis like this!

[wasted-women]

ROUND 2C, MATCH 1 OUT OF 4

Cause of Death & Propaganda Under the Cut:

Jenny Calendar

Cause of Death: Neck snapped

Propaganda:

Jenny is so beloved to me. She was sent to Sunnydale, California to watch over the vampire that killed her family (Angel), told that he was supposed to suffer for all eternity, but after he saved her life + after she spent some time with him and the people who cared about him, she realized that she'd changed her mind and didn't want anything to do with continuing a mission of vengeance -- especially since Angel's girlfriend Buffy was also the mentee/surrogate daughter of Jenny's boyfriend Giles! Messy! Despite this, when Angel lost his soul and it came out that Jenny had been sent there to watch him, Jenny was immediately blamed, even though she'd had no idea that Angel would turn evil and TOLD everyone as much! She decided to try and find a way to resurrect old magic and give Angel his soul back, and Angel killed her in retaliation. Parts of the fandom talk about Jenny's death like it was necessary/a good thing/a good writing choice, but I don't think it was. Jenny's death is talked about by the showrunners as "proving that anyone could die," and her dead body was placed in Giles's bed, surrounded by red roses, subsequently inspiring him to try to go on a suicide mission and kill Angel. When the kids are looking at a drawing of her dead body, one of them says, "Wow. Poor Giles." Her death is very clearly engineered to raise the stakes by emphasizing how sad it is for Giles to lose her, and before her death, nearly all of her scenes centered around being Giles's girlfriend/love interest. She was never given a chance to develop as a character, and the only backstory they gave her was designed to push her towards death.

Irene Adler

Cause of Death: Poisoned

Propaganda:

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Paul Anderson as Colonel Sebastian Moran

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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)

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Old drawing of the colonel I did like 2 years ago when I was in my Sherlock Holmes frenzy

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