Return to the Victorian era

Rebeka 2022-01-17 08:01:42

At the beginning of the film, Watson’s self-report, quickly pulled me back to the era of reading the novel "The Complete Works of Detective Sherlock Holmes", a few shots perfectly reproduced the scene of the encounter between Watson and Sherlock Holmes. The only difference is the first scene of flogging the corpse instead of studying the hemoglobin, which is irrelevant. The respect for the original is seen at the beginning of the article.

Deerstalker hat, cloak, smoking pipe, broad forehead, stern look, wise eyes, Benny’s Victorian British style god restored Sherlock Holmes’s classic look and gave the movie 120 likes. The streets of London are gorgeous and classical, and you can see that a lot of money has been spent.

The film presents aristocratic Gothic style. The attire of gentlemen and ladies is complicated, refined and elegant, and the buildings are atmospheric and gloomy. The dark tone adds a sense of heaviness and weird atmosphere. On the dark street, wearing a dark yellow tones is the wedding dress, pale face, blood-colored lipstick draws the lips, gloomy eyes, this is the look of the ghost bride in the film, which is scary enough. When Watson guarded the broken glass window and guarded the ghost bride's escape, she quietly appeared behind Watson, her veil covering her face, and her hands slowly raised in a gesture of choking her neck, let alone Watson Ah, I was also taken aback off the screen. The abandoned old church is like a vampire castle, cold and solemn.

The super fast pace makes people enjoy watching. Everyone's speech speed is very fast, simply, without leaving the water, and the transition is also fast. I like a few transitions. Freeze frame and use Establish Shot to put the scene and the narrator scene on the same screen, and the space of the two scenes is presented through the advancement of the lens. For example, when Aremia's husband fell directly on the red carpet of Sherlock's house, a group of people sat on the sofa to analyze the case. Another transition is from the misty manor, the maze of trees, to the close-up of Sherlock's fingers on his chin when he was thinking, bringing the audience back to the reasoning scene from the memory of the victim being intimidated by the ghost bride.

The film sympathizes with the status of women in the old century, using Sherlock's brother to say "We are wrong, they are right", and expresses respect for the feminist movement. They are both brides...no spoilers here.

In the film, Sherlock has been fighting with Moriarty in his heart, and even fell into Reichenbach Falls together. This is also where Conan Doyle tried to end Holmes through Moriarty in the original "The Last Case". In the film, Sherlock also stared at this oil painting in his brother's room many times. This waterfall is their bond. The film is probably a modern scroll, in order to explore Moriarty's life and death, through the construction of a memory palace to create a Victorian case about the ghost bride to solve Moriarty's technique. In the end, the volume said, "I didn't say he was alive, I mean he was back." I guess it meant that Moriarty was dead, and the sin he represented was left in the world. It seemed to be a preview of the sequel. .

Juan Fu constantly travels in his dreams, traveling between ancient and modern times. For fans, he may think of many of the stalks of the previous seasons, while for ordinary movie viewers, he may feel more messy and unaware of its necessity. From the reasoning point of view, the case is not complicated, so if it is purely a reasoning film, there is no highlight. The film is more outstanding in the creation of the atmosphere and the construction of the scene, as well as the exquisite shooting technique, and of course the most popular The volume of Fu.

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The Abominable Bride quotes

  • Sherlock Holmes: You may, however, rest assured there are no ghosts in this world... save those we make for ourselves.

  • Sherlock Holmes: Your wife can see worlds where no one else can see anything of value whatsoever.

    Sir Eustace Carmichael: Can she really? And how do you "deduce" that, Mr. Holmes?

    Sherlock Holmes: She married you. I assume she was capable of finding a reason.