Sherlock Holmes is Pretty Bad Ass
So, I’ve been in China and Japan for the past two weeks. It was all amazing but there were those long periods in airports and on airplanes that I had to deal with. I got The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes on my Kindle during the trip. It was a free download via the Kindle store. I am pretty hooked on it now. Those are some great stories. It inspired me to buy The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection. It was only like $4 through the Kindle store and for a 900+ page book, I think that’s pretty good. Sherlock Holmes is just a brilliantly designed character. Bill Waterson, the guy who did Calvin and Hobbes said that he liked writing Calvin and Hobbes because all he needed to know was what a little kid knew. What the hell did Arthur Conan Doyle have to know to write Sherlock Holmes? Sherlock Holmes is a genius. How hard was it to write for a character like that? Some of the solutions are some what easy to see, yet they are still entertaining to read all the same. How did he do that? It’s interesting how sometimes you can already know the ending of a story, yet the journey there is still just as entertaining. Sort of like a movie that starts off showing the last scene. Like Fight Club. You know right from the first scene that the main character ends up with a gun in his mouth near the top of a sky rise. You don’t know the specifics, but you know where it’s going to end up. A lot like most romantic comedies. It’s painfully obvious that the two main characters are at one point going to be driven apart and then in the end, it’s all going to work out. They’re going to fall in love and blah blah blah . Example: 50 First Dates. See also: The Money Pit. See also: Saving Silverman. See also: The Break Up. Which actually started out with the two characters not getting back together or talking to each other. It tested poorly though so they changed the ending. Which I think is pretty lame. I’ll continue to study Sherlock Holmes, maybe something will come to me as to why it’s so entertaining. Maybe it’s just because, the character is just so absolutely clever and amazing. By the way, I had no clue that in the original stories, Sherlock Holmes was addicted to cocaine. They make several references in the book to him going on binges and staring off in to space for hours on end.
I saw Clash of the Titans last night. I liked it. It was pretty much exactly what I expected. Just a cool action flick based around Greek mythology. It didn’t have to make sense, it didn’t have to win an Emmy. It just had to be that. Mission accomplished. I was satisfied.
Tags: Arthur Conan Doyle, bill waterson, calvin & hobbes, calvin and hobbes, clash of the titans, fight club, sherlock holmes, the adventures of sherlock holmes
April 6th, 2010 at 10:50 am
THAT’S GREAT!.. Now how about we apply some of that Sherlock Holmes inspiration and apply it to some FILMING WE SHOULD BE DOING!!??
… no I’m not getting restless at all
April 13th, 2010 at 6:53 pm
I haven’t read the Sherlock Holmes stories yet, but I know people ho have. I think it’s really awesome that it still holds up over time. I wonder if those books will be in circulation for so long that some time in the future, they will have to teach a class at college so that future kids can understand the time period and lack of technology well enough to understand the book and how someonel ike him figured out these mysteries without modern tools and forensics and stuff. I’m imaginign the looks of wonder on their faces when the realize that cars had only recently been invented.
April 13th, 2010 at 6:54 pm
And yes, more filming!!! Carl is happier when he’s filimg
Chris, let us conspire to get this movng again!