There are many other things to watch in "Shen Xia". The producers have also been seeking for new changes. Except for a few episodes of directors or editors with flaws (such as S3E1, S1E2), the production of this episode has always been very good and has aura. The attempts they make may not suit my taste, but I can see that they are changing. I accept. I like it too.
Then yesterday, outside of the New Year's Day, I finally changed my favorite flavor (it's my turn). Kneeled with a plop.
After three brushes, I understood what this thing that pointed to the taste buds was: the Victorian era. The original ecology of Sherlock Holmes.
When "Shen Xia" turned out, the modern setting was the most eye-catching and successful. After five years and three seasons, everyone went back to the year to find inspiration. I can only talk about the general trend of the world, what and what.
Actually, it is estimated that the old devil and the old Mai’s fanatics finally couldn’t bear it, and wanted to restore the picture of their idiots for a lifetime, just like Peter Jackson had to wear his childhood horror movie idol Christopher Lee. Heart once. I like such a pursuer. Putting Holmes back into the original ecology, I like it even more.
The following basically spit (dian) slot (zan) in the order of the photos. After watching the episodes, I finally dragged out the original to find out, it must be because of the Victorian era.
In the beginning, I reviewed S1E1 quickly, retaining most of the lines, adding peanuts as a narration, directly taken from the beginning of the original "A Study in Scarlet". Colors, music, costumes, scenery, props and shapes create the atmosphere of the winter of 1895. Full marks.
Soon, Peanuts has become a best-selling author, and everyone likes Holmes's story. Mentioned "The Strand" magazine. The original works of Sherlock Holmes were originally published in this short story and story-based magazine. The film mentioned The Strand many times. When it first appeared, there was also the title pattern of the magazine, and then a newspaper vendor reported to Peanut that "The Blue Carbuncle" (the story of a sapphire found in the belly of a goose) was very popular.
Hockhua’s carriage came to Baker Street, and Archie, the little attendant, came out to carry the suitcase. This one appeared at the S3E2 wedding, especially the kid who talked to Holmes, who grew up a little bit. Just be a small follower. There is also a small follower named Billy in the original work. Mrs. Hudson complained, saying that she didn't have a line in the story, and opened up a theme of the film: feminism. Later, the maids of Mary, Jasmine, Peanuts, and of course the terrible bride herself, all served this theme.
When Detective Lei came to narrate the case, the Chinese stalk appeared. This "horsefoot inversion" is likely to be a hard translation of the term Club-foot. Where does Club foot come from? From this passage:
text is from "The Musgrave Ceremony", the same paragraph is also the source of the film's title.
It was hard translated into this, and then a plaque was made. . . Also molested Chinese movie fans with this. . . It can only be said that the world is really wonderful.
Then everyone went to the morgue, and the men's Jasmine was so handsome and not to mention it. At this time, the first sign appeared, indicating that everything was not right. Holmes looked at the "you" on the wall and said to himself "How could he survive?" He said he, and Peanut corrected him. (This distinction is very easy to use in English, but I can’t hear it when I change to Chinese. It's all ta) Who is this he? Later everyone naturally knows that it is Professor Mo, but here, it is easy to overlook. I noticed the second brush.
Peanut also said something to Jasmine: What one has to do to get ahead in a man's world. Jasmine's eye circles suddenly became red. This sentence is still outdated.
Peanut's conversation with the maid at home was very interesting. This maid has a name, Mary Jane. How can you see it? Because Peanut told her: You almost ruined my boots when you scraped mud. This mud allusion comes from the beginning of "A Scandal in Bohemia" (the story of Sherlock Holmes meeting THE Woman). In that article, Peanut mentioned that his maid was careless and had a name.
They went to see Mike. Mention a Manor House Case. This conversation is a copy of the original work when McGe first appeared. What's more weird is that a further search revealed that there was a radio drama in 1945 that was really the name, not Doyle's original work, but a Sherlock Holmes fan, very well received. There is it on Youtube. I wanted to listen to it last night, but I fell asleep. I will try my best next time.
Why is there a fat brother? The correct explanation is, of course, that this is Holmes' dream. He subconsciously hopes that his brother is a fat man. Moreover, in the original book, McGe is also a big fat man. However, Maggie wants to eat himself to death. After thinking about it, the only explanation is that the old demon and old wheat are spoofing this role. Because of Michael’s rationality, how could he do such a boring childish thing?
After Holmes left, Wilde, the butler, came to inform that a Mr Melas wanted to see Michael. This Mr Melas is the Greek translation in "The Greek Translator". Let's make soy sauce by name.
Then there is the allusion of "Five Orange Cores". I won’t go into details, you all know if you want to.
Then Holmes and Peanuts were on the night shift, "getting to the table in peace and saying that he was alive". The screenwriter here fed the Hockhua Party enough sugar to last two years. But at the end of the conversation, when Holmes said "Nothing made me, I made me... Redbeard!", the strange feeling of being born came back. Oh, before this, there is another place where McGe said "virus in the data". You can't help but flash a question: Is there such a thing as virus in the data in the Victorian era?
From here, the rhythm of the film began to accelerate, and it would be a little chaotic when it was swiped. When the "miss me" note appeared, you knew that all the previous guesses about this film were wrong. This is 50 minutes.
The next thing can only be described as "rapidly turning down", and it is getting more and more weird (for the first brush. The second and third brushes become more and more clear). When Holmes was in concentration, he felt that he was unbelievable, pretending to be a fool. Then, Professor Mo appeared, and the two had a conversation full of ji (qing). It wasn't until the word landing appeared that you suddenly realized that all these were Holmes' dreams. This is at 1 hour. It took only 10 minutes from the appearance of the miss me note to the truth. This shows that the screenwriter did not dare to underestimate the wisdom of the audience.
Therefore, the suspense of this film is not (not entirely) solving the case, but not letting the audience realize that this is a dream within an hour of the narrative, but the clues must be put in, otherwise it is shameless. This is the real game the screenwriter plays with the audience. They are tired of solving crimes or something. Although many viewers have not yet.
The last half an hour was used as a finishing touch. The first answer to the bride's modus operandi. Some viewers felt that without showing how to solve the case, Holmes directly revealed the answer, which was too weak. I don't think so. If they want to show the process of solving the case by reasoning, they can do it, but they have played it too many times before. When Dr. Doyle wrote about Holmes, he sometimes asked him to say the answer directly, omitting the reasoning process, because from an author's point of view, he was really tired of it.
As for whether Mrs. Carmichael is the murderer behind the scenes, it is not said in the film, because at this time Professor Mo appeared in a bridal gown, and everyone's attention was naturally focused on him. (Andrew, I love you!) The explanation is that this was an unsolved case back then. Although Holmes had determined that Lady Carmichael was the mastermind, in fact she was never discovered. So Holmes himself wondered: Why did Madam invite me to solve the case? (Baby, people have never asked you to cut?)
There are two more sources to mention. One is Holmes insisting that the other body be buried under the coffin. This allusion comes from "The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax" Buried alive).
The last source, ah! The last source. That is The Fall of Reichenbach in "The Final Problem". It's a real waterfall, not in a painting.
When Holmes, wearing a Victorian coat, woke up on the trail next to the waterfall, the camera gradually zoomed out, Professor Mo appeared, the camera continued to pull, the music gradually sounded, and the whole waterfall panorama appeared... I clearly felt the word "burn" Ran around in the body, almost yelling out and crying.
How did they do it? How did they know what the waterfall scene in my heart was like over the years!
The appearance of the waterfall scene is the real climax. This is 1 hour and 20 minutes. It is the climax of the whole story (Holmes exorcising the demons) and the climax of the audience's emotions (well, at least the emotional climax of my original fan, as described above)
. The climax of this article has also been reached, and what follows is A few less important observations. One is that there are a lot of lines in the film repeating the first three seasons, but they are placed in different places. Different people have different opinions. Some viewers will find it stinky. I think it is a very fun word game, and since it is Holmes's dream, he will of course repeat the things and conversations that happened before in the dream.
Examples of repetition of lines
There is another theme that is actually quite important, and that is Holmes' drug use. Fans have been struggling with this issue for more than 100 years. This issue was not clearly stated in the first three seasons, but this Christmas special confession, its main plot device (not Mrs. Hudson), is after Holmes took drugs, after high, entered his mind palace, thinking about things. In other words, in the first three seasons, wherever Holmes used the mind palace, he took drugs. After Holmes woke up on the plane for the first time, McGoo had a conversation with him and told us that he took drugs a lot. McGoo forced him to write a list every time and write down the drugs he used. McGe said "Mind palace is a memory technique, I know what it can do, and I know what it most certainly cannot." He also said: "Nobody deceives like an addict." This is telling us that Holmes has Drugs, but the script did not express it. In this film, this issue is brought to light. Because in the original book, Holmes is indeed a drug addict. (So, in the fourth season, will they use stalks such as "Seven Percent Solution"?)
I don’t agree with some viewers who think this film is a game work. I think the screenwriter takes care of it seriously in this film. They are brave after seeing the dark side of Holmes. At the same time, Holmes is still very cute. It's really not easy.
The film "The Hateful Bride" is not only a special tribute for the festive season, life is endless and sugary, it also combines the feminist movement of the year and the present, and also deals with the more difficult drug abuse problem. At the same time, the Victorian scene is presented. So the beauty is in place, Anderson's IQ is still the same, Professor Mo's magic is still... I borrow a sentence from him to ask you all to see together:
Gothic Enough? Mad Enough?
What else do you want?
PS: The stalks appearing in this film are marked in the original work. Friends are welcome to make up for what I missed. thanks.
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Added on January 5:
Thank you for your thoughts My article is useful. Thank you so much. These two days have been very busy, and there is no way to sit down and add in the other slurs that my friends have seen in the message (the author will be indicated), I hope I have time tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
After the film was released in the past two days, I found that everyone had a lot of negative reviews. Perhaps because the media of film and television are different, the expectations and experiences are different. I watched it on the computer (sorry, I don’t have a movie here, and there’s no official TV show. I can only use this method. If there is a show, I will naturally buy a ticket). I think it’s very good, it’s true. , So everyone really has different perceptions. It is also possible that many viewers headed for Holmes's name, only to see something that could not be understood without prior knowledge, and the gap was too great, so they were naturally unhappy. In addition, the online feedback in the first three seasons is completely different from the large-scale feedback after the movie was released. The quantity is not the same. (Therefore, the influence of the public film is huge)
But I still think that if I can understand the various clues and easter eggs of this film, at least it can not be said that this is a sloppy work by the screenwriter. On the contrary, the script has been written. Great effort (and love). As for its focus and presentation, whether everyone likes it or not, that's not something I can put on my beak.
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Added on January 6:
The following is the original stalk pointed out in the comments of your friends:
from Drennuz/Aoting: The instant sense of the waterfall should come from this famous illustration:
By Sidney Paget, appeared in The Strand Magazine in December, 1893.
from Solin Oak Lazi/Wei Chen Weiming/wt: Clubfoot is not a hard translation, but the Chinese name for this disease. Club foot or clubfoot, also called congenital talipes equinovarus (CTEV) (this string is congenital clubfoot). However, the Limehouse area where the plaque appeared in the movie was historically an immigration area full of opium smoking houses. It is estimated that the plaque was hung there as a sign for some kind of foot bath. (Let me laugh again)
from Tania: Turning off the lights at Carmichael's house at night is from the story of "Spotted Belt".
from K: The most reproduced original is the title changed from John, Sherlock to Watson and Holmes
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from Transformers: When Mary received a letter and was about to go out, she said England refers to Maggie. It’s a tribute to the original book, because in the original book "The Bruce Partington Project" Fu said that his brother’s job is to memorize all the affairs of the British government, as a database of the British government, and said in the original book: The brother himself is the United Kingdom government.
from Zhang Xiaozhen: There is also a classic line: The game is afoot! from the original "Grange Manor".
from Rice grains: As soon as Lestrade enters the door, Holmes takes tobacco from Persian slippers, which is also a restoration of the original work. In the original work, it is mentioned many times that Holmes hid tobacco in slippers.
from (づ°▽°)づ: The stem of "Seven Percent Solution" was actually mentioned, right? In the midnight conversation, Ah Fu said that only the Vienna doctor would pay attention to those problems.
Thank you friends. My post is a real starter. In addition, I only sorted out the stems related to the original book. There are too many stems related to the first three seasons, so I won't remember them.
English subtitles can be downloaded here:http://subscene.com/subtitles/sherlock-special-the-abominable-bride
Finally, a few friends asked about the book. The complete Sherlock Holmes at hand is an old version of Penguin. "This collection first published by Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1930/Published in Penguin Books 1981/Reprinted 1981." was bought from a second-hand bookstore for a few dollars. My original Sherlock Holmes books are all second-hand books, and I am very happy to find them one by one.
Just sauce. Thanks again! Let us continue to immerse ourselves in the world of Holmes.
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