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proteus_lives (proteus_lives) wrote in scans_daily,
@ 2009-05-20 02:01:00

Current location:	Outer Dark
Entry tags:	char: loki, char: sherlock holmes, char: thor, medium: movies, publisher: marvel comics, title: thor

The God of Mischief Has Been Cast. (Non-Girl Loki News)
Greetings True Believers! Here is the actor that has been cast to play Loki in the upcoming Thor movie. He looks reasonable but I see Loki with dark hair. He'll need some hair color. What do you TB's think.

Also, I'm providing the link to the first Sherlock Holmes trailer. Robert Downey Jr. is Holmes and Jude Law is Watson. I'm conflicted, the film looks entertaining but....it doesn't seem like Holmes. I'll be interested to see the comments on it.

Enjoy!

Loki: http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/05/thor_heres_your_loki_tom_hiddl.php

Holmes: http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2009/05/sherlock_holmes_trailer_its_a.php

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2009-05-20 09:22 am UTC (link)

Rathbone was the one I grew up with, and though the stories were frequently poor, he was magnificent as Holmes; intense, irascible, but quite brilliant and underneath it all, at some level, compassionate. Nigel Bruce was TOO much of a bumbler compared to the books, but he worked as a foil for Rathbone for the length of a movie.

They made me want to read the books.

Then when I was older and I HAS read the books, we had the sublime Jeremy Brett as Holmes, and he simply WAS Holmes... with all the fascinating flaws that even Rathbone wasn't allowed to get away with. And Edward Hardwicke as a suitably implacable Watson, nobody's fool, and intelligent by any ordianry measure, but completely outclassed by Holmes in terms of reasoning.

It was a great era for detective TV fiction - Brett as Holmes, Joan Hickson as Miss Marple (We will not speak of the more recent Geraldine McEwan Miss Marple out of respect for Ms McEwen's other sterling work) and David Suchet as Poirot (Thankfully we still have Suchet, and more of his Poirot to come!)

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	leikomgwtfbbq 2009-05-20 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	thumbs-up Hardwicke is my favorite Watson, by the way, simply because he wasn't portrayed as an idiot. That's the mistake that a lot of Holmes adaptations make. Sure, he's not as smart as Holmes himself, but nobody is, except Mycroft Holmes. They're re-airing the old Brett series on my local PBS station and it fills me with so much squee. ♥ (Reply to this) (Parent)

	gbone 2009-05-21 01:46 am UTC (link)
	I agree with Jeremy Brett. In fact, that is the only Holmes I know. (Reply to this) (Parent)

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