Nicht das schon wieder

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Rachel McAdams stars as Irene Adler, the only woman ever to have bested Holmes and who has maintained a tempestuous relationship with the detective.
- film summary from a National Express competition

No, just no. Really. Irene Adler threatens to ruin the King of Bohemia so that he can’t interfere with her marrying that man that she loves. She takes on the Bohemian state and Sherlock Holmes and wins to secure a safe future for herself and her husband.

I’m aware that there’s fanfiction where she has a relationship with Holmes and possibly even published fanfiction at that but this really is another nail in the coffin of just how bloody wrong this film is. Of course I’ll probably still watch it though possibly not in the cinema or I might accidentally murder someone in a fit of blind rage. It’s a shame really because Robert Downey, Jr. is a rather good actor and could probably have done a good job of a role featuring some Victorian action hero who wasn’t Sherlock Holmes.

I rather dislike when things I enjoy become mainstream fashionable in that cheap knockoff fashion where what’s served up isn’t anything like the real thing. Sadly it looks like budget Sherlock Holmes is going to be the next thing served up and ruined because anybody whose first point of contact with the stories is that film will come away with entirely the wrong idea. I’ve seen this sort of thing happen with the word ‘chai’ becoming fashionable amongst twenty-something idiots recently who have to tell you all about the fabulous chai they got from Starbucks as if Indian tea is anything new and people haven’t been drinking it for years in countries across the world long before the ‘trendy’ idiot twenty-something set deigned to notice it. Apparently tea in general has become fashionable too which is highly disheartening. First anime, then tea, now Sherlock Holmes. Will none of my interests remain un-bastardised? If they go for German opera next I may have to defenestrate something.

Comments

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

It's pretty much been proven that Hollywood has a one track mind when it comes to female characters, it's made me swear off watching most new films the last few years. It's so beyond the thought of most people in Hollywood that a female character shouldn't exist solely to get into the pants of the main hero. I'm so tired of that crap.

I think the day Hollywood starts remaking Asian tv drama's is the day I start to weep non stop in anger.

[reichsfreiherr.livejournal.com]

Yahtzee’s has a perfect way of sumarising that point (http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/284-Silent-Hill-Homecoming). (That’s a Silent Hill: Homecoming review but he makes his point at about two and a half minutes in.) I don’t understand it either: what’s wrong with a female character who isn’t after the hero? In fact why can’t they just leave the whole love interest thing out of storylines where it’s not needed? I don’t know if you’ve seen Surrogates but the film ending differs from the comic and that really does make all the difference because sometimes the fact that there isn’t a ‘happy ending’ is the whole point.

If they ever start making versions of Chinese or Korean dramas I really don’t want to know how they’ll handle the obligatory mother-in-law slapping by the daughter-in-law.

[madame-parker.livejournal.com]

You're a darling for pointing me towards that competition, I'll be sure to enter. :)

I haven't seen Surrogates, the trailer put me off giving the film a try. I've noticed how so many people make a huge fuss when there isn't a happy ending in a movie, they start saying how brave it is for a movie to go in that direction, going against the norm is something Hollywood doesn't do anymore, that's why so many films are mostly one note.

I think if I ever watch a film where the female lead isn't just a love interest, I'll be too overjoyed to notice if the film is crap. I'm so tired of the whole love interest plot, it took three seasons for Doctor Who to win me over and that's because they finely gave him a companion who wasn't in love with him, who was with him for the sheer joy of it and because it made her a better person. And then, everything that she'd learned and seen was taken away from her, man, was I pissed off. These days tv and movies have to work so much harder to win me over.