The role of Liu Yuling is not only to please female audiences, but also to open up a new market for the traditional theme of the Holmes series. Liu Yuling’s unique advantages of Chinese Americans can also be considered as considerations for using Chinese elements to open up the world market. After all, Chinese elements are now very capable of attracting people. Eyeballs can be pleased no matter where they are. Sherlock Holmes is still British according to the original setting. This kind of mashup is really powerful. In addition, Liu Yuling's actual role also includes caring and taking care of Holmes with the delicateness and tenderness of women. From the current point of view, our great detective is a weird person who speaks badly, and is a child who is not grown up. Only those cases are interesting and meaningful to him, and other things can basically be ignored. This is completely acceptable in the ancient gentry tradition of 19th-century London, but now at least female audiences will think that such a big boy has a woman to take care of and accompany it is a fairly reasonable choice, and it goes a step further. They all want to have a deeper understanding of Holmes’s unfamiliar emotional world. This is what women are good at (or I’m in charge of my territory).
Yes, he is just a virtual character, like 007, like Hamlet, if you want to make them more real, you must make him more emotional and human, so that it will be more real. The background is set in the present, all kinds of high-tech and professional knowledge are not a problem for him at all. Just like playing, he can use smart phones and the Internet proficiently in the play, but some professional knowledge in the field of women is obviously his shortcoming. For example, the person wearing a white lab coat may not be a doctor, but may also be a beautician in a beauty salon. It is the 21st century that Holmes will also keep pace with the times. There is a female assistant around him who is more diverse and powerful, which is beyond the reach of the kind and honest doctor in the original book.
Now it’s not just about equality between men and women, women’s roles are more independent and autonomous, and they have fully penetrated into all aspects of the traditional male realm. That’s good, it seems that the world is more harmonious (of course, it’s not good for women to be too aggressive). In the play, the female Watson also has her own worries and problems. She has had a medical accident and looks forward to getting out of the shadows. The childish Sherlock Holmes just makes people feel this kind of hope. While cracking various mysteries like a cocoon, human nature is also shining with a faint light.
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