Day 23: Film with Great Casting
This choice is one more love letter to the Soviet “Sherlock Holmes” series. These five films, made between 1979 and 1987, are like most other Russian adaptations of English literature, in themselves love letters to the image of an elegant England and the brave and upstanding, bright and self-deprecating English ‘gentleman.’ The wonderful Vasily Livanov has the perfect dignified, liquidly aquiline profile and absently scintillating intellect of Sherlock, with the same deceptively tranquil, cunning light in the eyes. The lovely, fair-complexioned Solomin is far from being ‘brown as a nut’ like Watson, but he has all the tender-eyed romantic loyalty of that great doctor (and the perfect little moustache too). And not only are these fine actors so perfect for their roles on their own, but they’re the perfect embodiment of Holmes and Watson as a pair, encapsulating the bond of male friendship in a fresh and heartfelt way, making it a joy watching them walk down the streets of the former Latvian SSR/Victorian London together :’) Xo
This choice is one more love letter to the Soviet “Sherlock Holmes” series. These five films, made between 1979 and 1987, are like most other Russian adaptations of English literature, in themselves love letters to the image of an elegant England and the brave and upstanding, bright and self-deprecating English ‘gentleman.’ The wonderful Vasily Livanov has the perfect dignified, liquidly aquiline profile and absently scintillating intellect of Sherlock, with the same deceptively tranquil, cunning light in the eyes. The lovely, fair-complexioned Solomin is far from being ‘brown as a nut’ like Watson, but he has all the tender-eyed romantic loyalty of that great doctor (and the perfect little moustache too). And not only are these fine actors so perfect for their roles on their own, but they’re the perfect embodiment of Holmes and Watson as a pair, encapsulating the bond of male friendship in a fresh and heartfelt way, making it a joy watching them walk down the streets of the former Latvian SSR/Victorian London together :’) Xo
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