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Producer Lionel Wigram remarked that for around ten years, he had been thinking of new ways to depict Sherlock Holmes. "I realized the images ...
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Producer Lionel Wigram remarked that for around ten years, he had been thinking of new ways to depict Sherlock Holmes. "I realized the images I was seeing in my head [when reading the stories] were different to the images I'd seen in previous films." He imagined "a much more modern, more bohemian character, who dresses more like an artist or a poet", namely Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After leaving his position as executive for Warner Bros. in 2006,[4] Wigram sought a larger scope to the story so it could attract a large audience, and amalgamated various Holmes stories to flesh it out further.[9] Lord Blackwood is based on Aleister Crowley (although, partly named for horror novelist Algernon Blackwood), which was due to Doyle's own fascination with the occult.[21] The producer felt he was "almost clever" pitting Holmes, who has an almost supernatural ability to solve crimes, against a supposedly supernatural villain. Wigram wrote and John Watkiss drew a 25-page comic book about Holmes in place of a spec script.[21] Professor Moriarty's existence is hinted in the script to set up the sequels.[19]
In March 2007, Warner Bros. chose to produce, seeing similarities in the concept with Batman Begins. Arthur Conan Doyle's estate had some involvement in sorting out legal issues, although the stories are in the public domain in the United States. Neil Marshall was set to direct,[22] but Guy Ritchie signed on to direct in June 2008.[23] When a child at boarding school, Ritchie and other pupils listened to the Holmes stories through dormitory loudspeakers. "Holmes used to talk me to sleep every night when I was seven years old," he said.[24] Therefore, his image of Holmes differed from the films. He wanted to make his film more "authentic" to Doyle,[10] explaining, "There's quite a lot of intense action sequences in the stories, [and] sometimes that hasn't been reflected in the movies."[25] Holmes' "brilliance will percolate into the action", and the film will show that his "intellect was as much of a curse as it was a blessing".[11] Ritchie sought to make Sherlock Holmes a "very contemporary film as far as the tone and texture", because it has been "a relatively long time since there's been a film version that people embraced".[25]
Filming began in October 2008.[3] The crew shot at Freemasons' Hall and St Paul's Cathedral.[19] Filming was done in Manchester's Northern Quarter, while the Town Hall was used for a fight scene (which required smashing stained glass windows).[26] They shot the opening scene for three days at St Bartholomew-the-Great church in London,[21] and shot on the river Thames at Wapping for a scene involving a steamboat on 7 November.[27] Filming continued at Stanley Dock and Clarence Dock in Liverpool.[28] In late November 2008, stunt man Robert Maillet was filming a fight scene at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, and accidentally punched Robert Downey, Jr. in the face, causing Downey to be bloodied and knocked down, but not knocked unconscious as originally reported.[29] The Sun reported that on November 28, a tank truck caught fire, forcing filming to stop for two hours.[30] When filming at St John's Street in December, the schedule had to be shortened from 13 to nine days because locals complained about how they would always have to park cars elsewhere during the shoot.[31] In January 2009, filming moved to Brooklyn.[32]
Ritchie wanted his Holmes' costume to play against the popular image of the character, joking "there is only one person in history who ever wore [a deerstalker]". Downey selected the character's fedora. The director kept to the tradition of making Holmes and Watson's apartment quite messy, and had it decorated with artifacts and scientific objects from the continents they would have visited.
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Includes (the little bit of) Jeff and Annie from last night's episode. Song by Cake.
2 things I noticed -
1: when Britta asked Jeff at the end of la...
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Includes (the little bit of) Jeff and Annie from last night's episode. Song by Cake.
2 things I noticed -
1: when Britta asked Jeff at the end of last night's episode if he did all this for them, he says yes, and then in the very next shot, he is looking over her head at Annie. Am I imagining this? No. Am I reading into it? Yes. But whatever!
2: In the Debate episode, someone pointed out that Jeremy "Soulpatch" Simmons was actually aiming at Annie when he first started going all Fast and Furious on his wheelchair and then Jeff stepped in front of her. An I reading into this? Maybe. But its kinda hard NOT to read into things when they have a whole episode about two people liking each other and kissing! So it's the shows fault, really . . .
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![Love You Madly [Community -Jeff/Annie]](http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/r_BVVIb1Fu8/default.jpg "Love You Madly [Community -Jeff/Annie]")
Good work~
-vickie