Scratch a Sherlock Holmes - Cineplex.com

COVER STORY ROBERT DOWNEY JR.
HOLMES
Think Guy Ritchie’s take on Sherlock Holmes
F
or Hollywood, it’s elementary. Take a cultural
icon, pump him up with flash, action and star
power, and before you can say “sequel” a
new franchise is branded.
Cynical? Maybe. But given the eagerness
of studios to exploit recognizable characters,
it’s no wonder Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s loyalists
are cautious at best, skeptical at worst,
about the latest film based on the author’s
indomitable supersleuth: the simply titled,
elaborately staged Sherlock Holmes.
Set in Victorian England, but otherwise a world apart from the
stuffy, droll setting we usually associate with Holmes, this new
action-adventure stars Robert Downey Jr. — a quippy American
actor with an ironic modernistic streak the size of the Thames — as
Doyle’s dry master of deduction and Jude Law as an uncommonly
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pushes the boundaries? Star Robert Downey Jr.
says no way. In fact, he and Ritchie combed the
source material looking for clues about the
supersleuth’s true nature ✒ BY KEVIN WILLIAMSON
comely Dr. Watson (or as Downey dubbed him during filming
“Hotson — the hot Watson”).
Further adding to the fretting of devotees? That this Holmes is
helmed by Guy Ritchie — a director known for such rabble-rousing
crime yarns as Snatch, as well as for marrying (and divorcing)
Madonna — and produced by Joel Silver, whose less-than-delicate
credits include The Matrix, Lethal Weapon and Predator. And sure
enough, so far the trailers have courted the youth vote, underscoring
the movie’s explosions, fist fights, narrow escapes and a
fetchingly outfitted Rachel McAdams. Moreover, the same marketing
campaign has also made clear that this Holmes is a grungy,
rough-hewn man of action.
Blasphemous? Not at all, insists Downey, who believes his
Holmes is actually truer to Doyle’s original intention than the
version to which audiences have become accustomed over the
past century. continued
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