The Man with the Twisted Lip part 4

[SaranDobby]

Odd to watch a film when the sound sync is off....

[suryalinaten10]

I think it's lovely bit of writing that they made Holmes continue sitting there with his pipe while Watson went to sleep in the same room.

[shanicemarvelyndream]

nice moviee

[bagshitass]

Holmes got tricked in this one, he was a stage actor and can recognize the face under the makeup, yet failed to realize that the beggar he seen a few times was a fake..but long live holmes anyway!

[amit79ful]

cute kid at 5:56

[GlassCtiy]

awwwww moments.

one that little girl was adorable with her little doll in her arm toddling about.

two the way he tickles watson's foot. the perfect way to wake a friend just to be annoying.

[kajsab23]

I think its cute how Holmes tickles Watsons foot to wake him up :)

[prolifeprincess]

6:00 = AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[Detectivefiction]

That sequence with Holmes meditating and then rinsing his face is one of my favorites in the entire series.

[Shangas]

If it's one thing I LOVE about this series, it's all the "trifling details" (as Holmes would say) that are included in every single shot to make everything 'just-so' and as authentic as possible. Like at 6:48, you can see the straight-razor hanging underneath the shaving-mirror next to the candle.

[Imverycute2]

I loved it when Holmes smiles gently at that little girl. It's like he's saying, "Go to sleep, honey. It will be all right." Jeremy Brett has said that Holmes (or his portrayal of Holmes) likes children. I don't think he'd make a very good father due to his work, lifestyle, or eccentricities, but that doesn't have to stop him from having a soft spot for children.

[Roncace]

what happened to the audio?

[beautifulpassion]

@Roncace your volume is probably turned off, oh brilliant one.

[linyrocker]

it is to obveus and v. movie clece

[tephygirl23]

Anyone else seeing that the video doesn't match up with the audio? I hate when it does that.

[TheElMarsh]

LOL! "And we shall learn what we may!" "Well, what did you learn?"

 "Nothing."

[HorrorFrogPrincess]

4:58 Seems an odd thing for Holmes to have said, given his general dislike of women.

[alguien1234]

It's true. But Holmes said it in canon.

In fact, Watson didn't say it (in the series, Watson interacts more than he actually does it in the canon, reaching into his mouth Holmes' words).

[Trampadoo]

@HorrorFrogPrincess: Hmmm, not really. As much as Holmes struggles to deal with women's irrationality he also values female intuition. Not to forget, as rational as Holmes may be, Doyle also fitted him out with a good deal of female intuition himself.

[celloLWF]

there is alot of 'medical' content included in the dialogue that is correct for the time period.  For example, when she tells Holmes to tell her his frank opinion of her husbands disposition, she reminds him she is "not hysterical or prone to fainting"

Fainting is a psychosomatic reaction that was fashionable at the time of this story

Women during this time period were thought to be emotionally unstable and irrational. All those theories were created by men physicians

[Shangas]

Conan Doyle was a physician with a failing practice when he wrote Holmes. A lot of the medical stuff mentioned in the stories would have been correct for the period because Doyle was writing from his own personal and professional medical experience.

[redtopaz]

@celloLWF Sometimes I think Doyle wrote male characters who believe in the 'popular theories' about women, but didn't prescribe to them himself. Holmes says some remarkably misogynistic things, and then gets his ass handed to him by Irene Adler. It seems that often when one of Doyle's male characters goes "oh, she's just a woman" and ignores female advice/warnings they wind up missing digits or stabbed to death. It's almost weirdly subversive in places, given the opinions of the time.

[JTeamjesters]

2:16 "Let me try" *finger on lips* Somehow that move always makes me giggle XD

And it's cute how Holmes just timidly smiles at that little girl ^_^ Poor thing, she really seems to like him....who wouldn't?

[Shangas]

I do wonder what Holmes would've been like as a father. Sure as hell, his kids would never misbehave around him! He'd know exactly what they've been up to, every minute of every hour of every day of the week. They'd never be able to hide a single damn thing from father. And certainly not from Uncle Mycroft...

[obiwanobiwan13]

On the contrary, I think if Holmes ever devolved to the state of child-rearing (surely he's not the paternal type... he'd neither want children nor could surely raise them) his children'd of course try and be mishcevious... look at the children of military men and cops today.

Quite a few of them are remarkable brats.

Thank goodness our beloved detective will never have children... again, that's not his game, nor should it be (and think of all the more work for poor Mrs. Hudson!)

[beautifulpassion]

@Shangas but you know they'd try. They'd be just as brilliant, I bet, or have the capacity to be.

[Shangas]

I'm sure they would. Eventually they'd be smarter than father and they'd have to start up their own family business.

Holmes & Sons - Professional Private Investigators.

Later...

Holmes Bros - Professional Private Investigators.

Later still...

Holmes & Co - Professional Private Investigators - Three Generations of Experience.

[RuleNr34]

@Shangas You can imagine the Christmas dinners.

[AlSidre]

@RuleNr34 Yeah

...no! God, no!

[ShawDAMAN]

This scene is interesting, It's fairly unusual in the Holmes chronicles to seem him throwing ideas back and forth and piecing a theory together right along with a Scotland yard inspector. :-)

[yaoi12345]

"I'll see you downstairs in five minutes." <3

[marianneootjers]

How he wakes up watson, by tickling him, I found that hilarious! xD

[pumamama9]

"The impression of a woman may be more valuable than the conclusion of an analytical reason."

Hmm...did SH really say that? Sherlockians?

[prolifik5]

Yes he did actually, but the context is different. He says it to Mrs St Clair when she insists that her husband is alive.

[rastabus]

This expression of belief in a woman's almost supernatural intuitive powers is not accidental and is in fact representative, of the view of Holmes and many Victorians beyond the specific context

[TheLittleRussian2]

It was probably the view of Conan Doyle himself, I assume. I think that if Sherlock Holmes had really been alive, he would not have believed in women's intuition, since this belief is irrational - as much as he didn't believe in anything else irrational.

[rastabus]

mmmm

[R0SECR0IX]

Conan Doyle did indeed believe in spiritual powers. He even tried to contact his dead son via mediums, and was convinced that Houdini genuinely had magical powers.

[alguien1234]

FOR TheLittleRussian2:

I believe that if Sherlock Holmes had really been alive, he had said that to give hope to Mrs. St. Clair ... Oh, I do not know! , BUT he would said it, because he said it in the canon! XDD

I find it even stranger the scene of the rose in "The Naval Treaty" because if Holmes is so rational, why believe in God? There are other scenes where it is shown that is not always as rational, not only in that scene.

[TheLittleRussian2]

I reckon Conan Doyle imprinted something of himself in this literary character, and at least part of it went unnoticed by him. So if Doyle believed in God and spiritualism, those beliefs found occasionally their way into his characters, even such that was as different from him as Holmes.

[beautifulpassion]

@alguien1234 To flip that stament on you; He believes in God because he is rational. ^^

[beautifulpassion]

@beautifulpassion *statement

[alguien1234]

@beautifulpassion

Yes, indeed ... Because that's the point of view of Doyle ... From my point of view, use the flowers as an argument to justify the existence of God is not rational (perhaps because I do not like flowers so much ... XDDDD).

Sorry for my bad English.

[beautifulpassion]

@alguien1234 Meh, I personally love flowers, and can see using them as an example. :/ lol. How could you not like flowers? *Gasp* ~_^

[221bSherlockHolmes]

Yes, Holmes did say that. Holmes recognised the value of the female sense.

[GodsWildfire]

"But what did you learn?"

"Nothing."

[ericthefrootbat]

Poor Watson. He just wants to sleep :)