Keeping you informed of the literary world through the eyes of Griffin Stiles. I shall here review books, post my own writings, inform the masses some select book based news and throw any historical obscurities into the light of JUSTICE. I bid you a glorious day.
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
"SACRILEGE AND BLASPHEMY!" or "Hollywood and the last straw"
Join me on my besiegement of Hollywood and have your name forever glorified and honored among literary circles! I was browsing the all-mighty interwebs when I found this page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1515091/. They've done it again. At this point, I suppose that I shouldn't really be surprised but I cant help but feel a bit offended by their audacity and calling these scrapheaps of movies "Sherlock Holmes". I would have no enmity with them if they had simply changed the names of the characters and the movie and might even enjoy it but out of principal, it is quite impossible for me support such awful aberrations from the original texts. The movies is set to star Downy Jr. again for the detective and Jude Law for Watson. Upon reading further, I found that the movie industry was on course to go straight for the neck and post the arch-villain and none other than Moriarty. Go ahead, after ruining the greatest mind of all time in literature, murder the most devious villain with explosions and sensationalism. No, really. I'm sure that all of those who have devotedly read all of the Sherlock Holmes books and sundry other Arthur Conan Doyle books will love it. Not really. The film is expected to be released on the 16th of December this year. I for one will not be attending. That is all I will try to be less "ranting" in the future but it rattles my cage that the new generations will grow up with nothing of Sherlock Holmes save for near random explosions, poison and guns.
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