Sherlock Holmes Remastered

Dear Dan,

It is nice to hear from you and I hope you enjoy your cinematography course like on the first day you mentioned it. In school nothing special happens except that the course for practicing English for the CAE or FCE examn has started.

To your topic, I found an article in the magazine "Spiegel online" called "Brilliant kombiniert, Mr. Holmes!" (brilliantly deductet, Mr. Holmes!") from 24 July 2011 by Hannah Pilarezyk. In general she describes why it's an amazing series.

At first the author gives an example for a funny dialogue between Holmes ans Watson after a short introduction. She uses the example to argue that the miniseries is very special in the mass of TV crime stories. Then she describes that the series takes place in the present time and under a secend title (sexy, but no interest in women) she points out how perfect the two actors and their roles fit together. For example she wrote that Watson completes Holmes by standing his bad moods and compromising the miss understanding. Furthermore you can read that Benedit Cumberbatches bass voice and broken face is sexy and on the other hand Matin Freemans thick woolpullovers are giving the series a long-established feeling. Moreover the author makes clear that the miniseries is thrilling and the characters have enough depth. She compares it with a German crime series ("Tatort") that is well-known which often tries to be very social criticising and is neither suspenseful or has good characters and I can agree with her. At last she hopes the next episodes will come to Germany more earlier than the last one which came one year later than in Great Britain.

I hope my information is helpful and if we don't hear from each other, I wish you a wonderful Christmas time.

Best regards,

Jakob

You can read about Sherlock Holmes from John Watsons perspective in a Scandal in Bohemia. The story takes place in 1888. Sherlock lives alone in a flat or house in Baker Street and was created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

At first you get to know that Watson is a good friend from him and Sherlock is loyal to him what you can find in line 188 to 189. There it says " "It is both, or none" said he. " You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me." " Moreover it shows how straight-forward and self-confident he is, because he talks to the king in this situation. Sherlock is very sharp-minded because from line 70 there is written Sherlocks explaination how he deducted that Watson did a country walk and came home in a dreadful mess. Furthermore Watson describes Sherlock as a emotionless, cold person because he focus him to his "precise but admirally balanced mind" (line 3).

To put it in a nutshell Sherlock Holmes is a charming character.

The modern adaptation of Sherlock, inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's short stories is the crime drama series Sherlock from the world's oldest national TV broadcaster BBC. The first episode of the second series aired on 1 January 2012, written by co-creator Steven Moffat and directed by Paul McGuigan, is called "A Scandal in Belgravia" in style of "A Scandal in Bohemia".

It starts with a flashback called 'recently' in a swimming pool in which Sherlock Holmes saves Dr John Watson from a bomb vest and Jim Moriarty, their biggest antagonist, threatens them with red laser beams, potential guns. After a call from Irene Adler, he states that it is the wrong day to die and the intro starts.

Next, in their apartment where they live together with Mrs Hudson, the landlady, Sherlock denies cases of missing persons because they would be too boring. Also, Watson writes a blog about their cases. In the next shot, John shows Sherlock a crime scene on a field where a victim lies but no clue for the murder weapon with a laptop because he doesn't leave the house for cases under seven. They get interrupted and broad to the Buckingham palace by officers where they meet Mycroft, Sherlock's brother, and get an order to get compromising photos from Irene Adler also called the Women or Dominatrix which show her and a young lady from the royal family while he is still naked only in a blanket.

When they meet Irene Adler she is naked so Sherlock can't observe anything in contrast to John. As she makes clear he doesn't get the phone with the photos, she wants to know how the man on the field got killed. He insists she should think and solve it by herself. Then the fire alarm goes on. For the reason that it is the most important item to her, she looks immediately to the hidden save. At that moment, armed Americans from an agency interrupt and want to kill John if Sherlock doesn't open the vault. Irene hints with eye contact that the code is her measurements and that it's trapped. Shylock stoops as he opens the save and they fight the Americans. Irene injects him poison and flees with the phone.

Some days later after he wakes up he receives a message from her and his ring tone got changed to moaning.

It's Christmas. Molly has a special packed present and Sherlock deduces that it's for someone she loves. His name is written on it. An embarrassing silent comes up and he apologizes. On a shelf, Sherlock sees a little present wrapped in the same red as Irene's lipstick is. Immediately he takes it and hides in his room. As expected, it's the locked phone from Irene. Since it's her lifesaver something has to happen to her and he identifies a body with a demolished head as Irene. Therefore he smokes and the others are worried about him. Mycroft insists that Watson has to care for him, so his girlfriend breaks up. The watcher gets to know that's one of many girlfriends leaves him due to the bond to Sherlock. Sherlock plays sad tones with his violin.

It's still winter and Watson gets driven to an old factory in believing he's meeting Mycroft. Instead, The Woman waits for him. Watson is angry because his friend is hurt by her. She reveals that she flirted at him but he never responded if he would eat with her. She sends him a text that she isn't dead and says to Watson that she is gay. Then Sherlock's ring tone, the moaning is hearable and Sherlock walks away.

Back at their apartment, he frees Mr Hudson, who got hold as a hostage by one of the American from the beginning. He wants the phone. Afterwards, Sherlock reports that a burglar is injured because he falls off the window. Then he hits him many times and throws him out of the window in consequence that he hit Mrs Hudson.

Later on, Irene appears in their home and Sherlock gives her a phone clone to get her code. She notices it and types "1058", which is obviously wrong. She lets him solve a code for a flight the next day and texts the result "747 tomorrow 18:30 Heathrow" to Moriarty.

A bit later, when Sherlock and Irene are alone, she asks him out for dinner and comes very close. Thereby he measures her pulse, unnoticeable to her.

In the next scene, he gets ordered to the airport to the jumbo jet. At the stairs, he meets the American he threw out the window. In the airplane are many dead corpses, all sitting in their seat. Sherlock realises the plan from the government, to let the plane explode with the bomb from the terrorists and let them think they did a lot of damage, but no one gets hurt. Mycroft, who comes out of the dark, is downcast because Sherlock informed Irene Adler unnoticed that they know from the bomb. The two years of planning is collapsed.

Back at their apartment, Irene blackmails Mycroft and gives him a list with many demands he has to fulfil for the code for the phone. On it is maybe information to save citizens and if they open it it will explode or if they torture her to get the code they can't be sure it's not the one which deletes all information. By the way, she sends love from Moriarty.

Then Sherlock stands up and got the solution. The Dominatrix is sentimental and is in love with him and he types the code SHER so it says "I am SHER-locked" while a tear is running down her face.

Some time has passed and Mycroft informs Watson that he should say Sherlock that Irene got in a Witness protection program but actually she is murdered by terrorists. He hints that his agency isn't innocent. Next, Watson tells that story him and he takes the phone although Watson has to give it the police.

The watcher sees Irene texting him the last message "goodbye" before one terrorist takes a swing with a sword and black screen. Sherlock's ring tone is hearable and he, disguised as a terrorist, tells her to run.

Finally, to sum it up, the Woman, a big rival and assistant for Moriarty, that gets beaten by Sherlock because she fell in love with him but he saves her and I'm sure he appreciates her for her cleverness.

The short story "A Scandal in Bohemia" written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was published in 1891 in the Victorian era. It's the first short story with Sherlock Holmes after his first appearance in the novel A Study in Scarlet from 1887. Narrated by John Watson in the first-person view.

At first, John visits Sherlock in Bakers street. Because of his Marriage, he sees him less often. Impressed by his observing skills Sherlock shows by deducting where he was, that he works again as a doctor and that his wife has fired their house-made, Watson has to deduct their new assignment, which is a pink-tinted note-paper. Sherlock helps him a lot and at next, they meet the thirty-year-old German King Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein, and hereditary King of Bohemia, who has tried to hide his identity with a mask but Sherlock immediately recognises him. He reports, that he made a photograph with Irene Adler, a retired Opera of Warsaw, who was born in New Jersey in 1858 and now lives in London. She blackmails him to send the Photograph to Clotilde Lothmann von Saxe-Meningen, second daughter of the King of Scandinavia when they make public their engagement. This would ruin him. Also, as he states, five attempts were made to steal it from her but all failed.

On the next day, Sherlock, disguised as a groom (someone who takes care of horses) gets information about Irene and Godfrey Norton, a lawyer by chatting with the other groomers. Then as he follows them into a church he finds himself helping them to marry as some sort of witness. Back at home and after he reports Watson this funny situation, he explains him his plan. Later in front of her small and elegant villa, Sherlock clarifies why he thinks it's in her house and not at any banker, lawyer or under her dress. Next, a carriage rolls to the house and many loafers fight about who gets to open the door and maybe earns a copper. Sherlock dashes into the group, protecting Irene Adler who came out of the carriage. Then he falls down with blood running down his face, or at least it seems so as he explains later and well-dressed man and the guards try to help him. Irene who now stands at the door gets asked if he can come inside. As she agrees, he gets transported in her sitting-room. There he shows that he needs air and a maid opens a window. With his signal, Watson throws a plumber's smoke-rocket into the room and he cries out, that it would be burning. As the crowd is squirrelling around he apologizes for a false alarm.

At John's and Sherlock's meet point, he explains to him, that Irene showed him the recess because the photograph is the most important thing to her and in case of fire it's a natural reaction to look for the most valuable item. Due to the coachman who showed up and watched him, he couldn't get it right away, he says. At Sherlock's apartment, someone passes them and wishes him a good night.

At eight o'clock in the morning, they meet the king and drive tho Irene's villa. An old woman expects them and informs them that Irene left in the morning with her husband and will never return. Shocked by this they inspect the hiding place. They find a photo of Irene Adler in an evening dress and a letter addressed to Sherlock Holmes. In it, she reveals that she got warned against him and that she is impressed by how lately she saw through his plan, namely after the fire alarm. Furthermore, she writes, that therefore she went up and got in man clothes, followed him, wished him a good night and flew with her husband. In addition, she states, that the king does not have to worry about the photograph because she only keeps it for protection.

In the end, the king is happy about the outcome and Sherlock only wants and gets the photograph as payment.

All things considered, it can be said that in the short story The woman, as he calls her has beaten him but also it ended happy for all parties.

In “A study in pink” from the series “Sherlock” you can see how Holmes and Watson meet for the first time.

John Watson is round about 35-years old and when we see him for the first time, he wears a brown jacket and underneath it a white shirt that is squared in light blue and red. His trousers in jeans blue. He has short brown hair and has some creases in his face. Furthermore, his skin is pale white. Nothing is special about him. He has no tattoo, no piercing or something else like these things.

I think he is polite, because he borrows Holmes his mobile phone. Another character property from him is being modest. He says “Come on, who wants me for a flatshare, man”, but maybe he’s a nice man. And at last, I would say he is a little bit sad because in the four minutes from the video you can’t see him smiling.

All in all he is a good character because none of his character traits is evil.