However, what it also added was something that, ironically, it took away. What made Brett's rendition so good was that he embodied not just the strengths of Sherlock Holmes, but also the weaknesses.
Sherlock Holmes isn't just some normal person who happens to be a deductive genius... He's a very flawed man.
Most interpretations of Holmes have excluded his flaws to such an extent that if you ask an American to tell you about Sherlock Holmes, they'll think he's some kind of superman at solving crime. Like everything about him is perfect. They don't know that he used drugs, and that he was almost a manic depressive.
Brett really captured the total essence of Holmes, both in his highs and in his lows. The lows are something which is portrayed in the novels fairly prominantly, but which is excluded from nearly every representation of him in the media.
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Date: 2007-03-21 10:14 pm (UTC)However, what it also added was something that, ironically, it took away. What made Brett's rendition so good was that he embodied not just the strengths of Sherlock Holmes, but also the weaknesses.
Sherlock Holmes isn't just some normal person who happens to be a deductive genius... He's a very flawed man.
Most interpretations of Holmes have excluded his flaws to such an extent that if you ask an American to tell you about Sherlock Holmes, they'll think he's some kind of superman at solving crime. Like everything about him is perfect. They don't know that he used drugs, and that he was almost a manic depressive.
Brett really captured the total essence of Holmes, both in his highs and in his lows. The lows are something which is portrayed in the novels fairly prominantly, but which is excluded from nearly every representation of him in the media.