Miller's character was socially inept and (ironically) clueless almost to the point of being autistic. In my opinion the writers took Holmes' innate antisocial nature too far in that version.
Hugh Laurie's character in 'House' was really supposed to be Sherlock, and his best friend Wilson a stand-in for Watson.
If you haven't seen Jeremy Brett in any of the BBC episodes that he starred in, do try to find them. I believe his S.H. was just right.
J. L. Miller and Benedict Cumberbatch starred in a play based on 'Frankenstein' in which they played the Doctor and the Monster in alternating scenes. I've just recently learned that it was filmed in 2011, and I'm going to have to find a copy of that.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Elementary was one of the few series that actually concluded. The writers did a good job with the way it ended. I watched it because Miller was actually pretty good.
Lots of people are odd birds. But I didn't watch it because of her.......but it doesn't change the fact that that gal has nice legs. I suspect that is why she got hired
For waltky: http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
"The Nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."
- Thucydides
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote" B. Franklin
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
There was a very popular writer of swashbucking adventure stories in the 1920s named Rafael Sabatini. Two of his bestselling novels were 'Captain Blood' and 'The Sea Hawk'.
'Captain Blood' became the star-making vehicle for a young Australian-born actor named Errol Flynn in 1935. (Flynn's ill-fated son Sean, who never really wanted to be an actor but who would occasionally agree to be in a movie in order to finance his other ventures and interests, starred in a Spanish-Italian film in 1962 called The Son of Captain Blood, and played Zorro the following year.)
'The Sea Hawk' was made into a silent film in 1924 starring a now-largely forgotten actor named Milton Sills, but a later version of the story, filmed in 1940, starred Errol Flynn. And of course Flynn was one of the screen's most memorable Robin Hoods.
Another of Sabatini's best selling novels was 'Scaramouche', made into a film in 1952 starring Stewart Granger. Granger also appeared in movies as H. Rider Haggard's hero Allan Quatermain in one of the many film versions of King Solomon's Mines, as Rudolf Rassendyll in The Prisoner of Zenda, and as Sherlock Holmes in a 1972 t.v. movie version of The Hound of the Baskervilles.
Which reminds me - Roger Moore, in addition to playing James Bond, also starred as Sherlock Holmes in a 1976 t.v. movie, Sherlock Holmes in New York, and much earlier in his career as Simon Templar, "The Saint", and as Ivanhoe.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Private Pickle (09-04-2020)
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." John Greenleaf Whittier
"Our minds control our bodies. Our bodies control our enemies. Our enemies control jack shit by the time we're done with them." Stick
Private Pickle (09-04-2020)
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." John Greenleaf Whittier
"Our minds control our bodies. Our bodies control our enemies. Our enemies control jack shit by the time we're done with them." Stick
Standing Wolf (09-04-2020)
True enough. With House it's also interesting that in a sense the character came full-circle from doctor to consulting detective and back to doctor, since as I'm sure you know Conan Doyle based the character, with his amazing ability to discern pertinent facts from seemingly insignificant things, on one of his instructors in medical school, Dr. Joseph Bell.
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
"For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." John Greenleaf Whittier
"Our minds control our bodies. Our bodies control our enemies. Our enemies control jack shit by the time we're done with them." Stick
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Hal Jordan (09-04-2020)
There are so many t.v. series and films being made from comics these days - I've actually begun watching a couple of series without any idea that they were based on a comic. 'The Boys' and 'Umbrella Academy' come to mind. (What really came as a shock is when I realized that the actor playing The Homelander in 'The Boys', that super-powered homicidal psycho, was Antony Starr from my all-time second favorite show, 'Banshee'.)
“Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.” - Robert E. Howard
"Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas and not eat a chicken fried steak." - Larry McMurtry
Hal Jordan (09-04-2020)