![]() ![]() ![]() So Dudley, the resident blond bully of this school, is henceforth dubbed Not-Draco just for ease of reference. "That was a girl!" "Brilliant deduction, Watson." He has down to a pat the coldness and arrogance, but also the heart of the great detective while also playing a much younger and less stoic version of the genius we all know and love. Shame Nicholas Rowe never really got a starring role in anything prominent after this because he absolutely KILLS it as Sherlock Holmes. And I swear that the guy who does the voice over of older!Watson (can't remember his name) did the voice for a recording of The Tailor of Gloucester. And take note, everyone, because I think this is the only time (outside of Sherlock) that you will ever hear Holmes play the violin with anything less than finesse. Watson looks like a slightly less scrawny Harry Potter. It's right up there with Pirates of the Caribbean and Peter Pan as one of my favorite scores of all time. Death by falling in a Sherlock Holmes story. Bobster can't take the ghastly images and leaps to his death. In some ways this scene reminds me very much of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol as the gentleman retreats to his chambers in a panic and starts seeing things that can't be there. Love the juxtaposition with the 'God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen' being played peacefully (and cheerfully) over the horrific scene of a gentleman being attacked by his own dinner. That hallucination that starts the whole film out, though. So shall we dive in to one of my favorite movies of all time and explore it a bit more in depth? This movie also holds the distinction of being the first to use Computer Generated Images alongside its practical effects. The writer of the script, Chris Columbus, would go on to work on the Harry Potter films, and we can definitely see shades of that dynamic in this film with the school setting, dark adventure, and the trio of Holmes, Watson, and Elizabeth. On the surface it is just a silly little schoolboy mystery that got slapped with the characters from the Sherlock Holmes universe, but when you look closer you realize that it is a charming and exceedingly geeky tribute to the iconic mysteries. That's not entirely true, but that is what the connotations are when one hears the term 'fanfiction'.Īnd this film is definitely more than those low expectations. Except it's usually more than two words because it's usually a run-on sentence. Fanfictions tend to have a bad reputation as the (non)brain-children of vapid 13-year-old girls who have just learned to string two words together. Whenever describing this film to people, I often say that it is a teen!lock fanfic that somehow got made into a Steven Spielburg movie. If you have not yet seen this film, please go and do so before proceeding. ![]()
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