I was looking forward to this movie when I watched Trailer before, so I watched the original book "The Case of the Missing Marquess" first. It is also the first in a series of novels by Enola Holmes. The novel was a disappointment to me, so my expectations for the movie dropped a lot before watching it. But after watching the whole movie I think it deserves 4 stars - of course I'm not sure if it's because my expectations were too low, but the writer did a super film and television adaptation! I'd actually give the movie 5 stars for that alone, but as the title says, this movie tries to please all the "labels", so seeing the ending strikes me as too funny, hence 4 stars.
Let me start with the most satisfying part of the movie, it gives me a reasonable closure at the end. The screenwriter filled in all the holes that should be filled, and rounded up all the circles, so that I don't have to read the entire series of novels to find out what was her mother doing, and whether she was killed... . After all, I don't want to have another emotional roller coaster like A Series of Unfortunate Events. From the first part to the end of the thirteenth part, I was hung up by the author's vague hint: the Baudelaire parents might be alive! I can go to you Lemony Snicket
Enola's age was 14 in the first novel and changed to 16 in the movie. This greatly reduces the discomfort caused by the mother's "selfish abandonment of the underage child", and also gives Enola and the little Marquis's first love plot a more socially acceptable and reasonable age. After all, sweet 16 has just begun, and the combination of a hearty girl and a refined and rebellious gentleman is more interesting than a 14-year-old dry child fighting each other. To be honest, the 14-year-old girl created by the author in the original book is really awkward.
But when it comes to age, Enola's mother's appearance in the movie is a bit too young. After all, she has two sons, Mycroft and Sherlock, who are 60 years old in the original book. In the movie, the mother's physique and demeanor look younger than the eldest son Mycroft, and it's still a bit of a drama. However, I guess the original author insisted on putting the little heroine under the surname "Sherlock Holmes", and wanted to express her agility, wit, talent for detectives and Sherlock Holmes's lineage and even the blueprint, so she didn't arrange for Sherlock Holmes' niece/niece/distant child. Cousin or something? In fact, it is not necessary, because in the original book, Sherlock Holmes is a tool that is less conspicuous than a tool, and it is the opposite of the author's expression of "feminist struggle". This is also where I scoff at the original book, I haven't read too many Sherlock Holmes novels, but I think Sherlock belongs to the "witchcraft" rather than the "bird worship", stupid and boring compared to gender It made him even more unbearable. So the movie version is very good at this point, vaguely allowing the audience to feel the familiar Sherlock Holmes. And I personally think that Cavill's Sherlock Holmes is pretty good, so strong, and he hasn't been dragged down by a whole body of tendon.
In addition to the adaptation of age, the adaptation of the plot is also a big deal. When I read the original book (the first one), I thought that if the movie was shot like this, it would be ugly and miserable, but the director wisely avoided this. Under the background of the story frame of the first film, the film has changed the unreasonable places in the first film of the original work, and also added some plots of the later films. For example, why Enola went to London is related to the feminist movement of her mother that she overheard in the movie, and Enola also uses "deductive skills" and observation to think and act; for example, Enola first met the little Marquis and had a certain intersection. , and then decided to help him later, it is much more reasonable than the case where she happened to encounter the disappearance of the marquis in the original book; The stories between the various "house fighting" forces in the Marquis's family should be richer in the movie and make the plot more close, logical, and interesting, etc. I think the adaptation is very successful.
Although there are many successful adaptations, there is no way to hide the comical feeling that this movie brings to me trying to please everyone or all "labels". This movie can be said to be the best Netflix pc drama I've seen so far, and it's a deeper pc than the "Troy: Fall of a City" full of black actors I've seen before. There are Asians, Indians, blacks, Americans, women, feminists, environmentalists, socialists, social philantrophy, caring for the next generation, etc. in this show, people can't help but ask Is there any label left that Netflix is not actually trying to include and please? I really want to ask if Netflix is tired?
In addition, although the plot is not ugly, it is still a bit complicated and disorderly. And the acting skills of the actors are not very convincing, especially at the beginning of the film, I think the acting skills of the Mili Brown children still need to be studied again. In addition, unnecessary characters and plots can be appropriately deleted, such as the black man who opened the women's jujutsu hall - I think this is a character that exists for the sake of inclusion, and deleting it will not have much impact on the plot at all; such as "lady" Miss Harrison, the principal of "Renovation College", came up to give the little girl a slap, and can accept new things like driving a three-wheeled car by herself, but she still drives an "old-time" girls' school... well... not so necessary to exist.
The "original book" on ps refers to the first part of the original novel by Enola Holmes. I don't think the author's writing is good enough to entice me to read her other books, but I'm still looking forward to Netflix's sequel to this series - the first one also has a villain who disguises herself as a woman, and tranny also has A place, Netflix!
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