Bluesman Mike Lindner Wrote:Joe, isn't it =queer= that any portrayal, these days, of manly affection is automatically gay?
NewYorkjoe Wrote:"Asexual" is a possibility, I grant you. Many Victorian confirmed bachelors had an antipathy to women, despite their Monarch on the throne. Some may have carried this to extremes (Jack the Ripper).
Roger Moore's portrayal of Holmes (with Charlotte Rampling as Ireme Adler) was quite interesting since they had a son together.
I firmly believe that the English "public school" system (which is not public at all, really) seems to encourage some measure of "gaiety" in the British upper class. Witness the notorious Cambridge Four spies, at least two of whom were gay and one bi-sexual. BBC did an interesting series on them, I have it on DVD. Somehow, in this version, these traitors are portrayed sympathetically as anti-fascist! I guess if you let enough years go by, and memories fade as contemporaries die off, you can get away with spinning historical facts any way you like. I wonder what they will say about Obama in 60 years?
NYj
NewYorkjoe Wrote:You are tho right, Thweetie! I can't IMAGINE where this all comes from!
Kissies!
NYj ;^)
Sam Wrote:I did notice that Holmes and House are quite similar. So why not Hugh Laurie? He already has the basics down pat. Downey knows about drug abuse and being an arrogant ass. Not saying he couldn't pull it off. He's a great actor. Just saying that is would be nice if the actors signed to portray these characters actually looked like them as much as possible.
ImDeranged Wrote:Ok, Time for me to jump in.
Alan Moore has a series of graphic novels called League of Extraordinary Gentleman. Which uses old 19th century literature characters as if they are part of a shared universe. Not to be mistaken by the travesty of a film that was made using the same name and concept and ironically starring Sean Connery (James Bond). Moore puts forth that Mycroft being smarter avoided the spotlight went undercover in the government to organize secret agents to work for the Empire. Not wanting to use his own name he was just known by his initial "M".
PicardRex Wrote:But I guess it is harder to show someone being super smart in a movie, for instance take Spiderman, in the comics he is a technical genius and invented his web-shooters, in the movie they are part of the mutation.
Sam Wrote:I did notice that Holmes and House are quite similar. So why not Hugh Laurie? He already has the basics down pat.Hugh Laurie also played Bertram Wooster. That would be funny. Being both Bertie and Sherlock, one of the dimmest bulbs in the closet (but funny) and one of the brightest.