{"id":19496,"date":"2024-04-05T20:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-06T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19496"},"modified":"2024-04-05T20:01:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-06T00:01:58","slug":"watching-jeremy-bretts-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19496","title":{"rendered":"Watching Jeremy Brett&#8217;s &#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JB   Granada Holmes\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lRdd1_bZTo0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I\u2019ve found myself watching <\/strong>some of the old Jeremy Brett <em>Sherlock Holmes <\/em>episodes from the 1990s, on YouTube. They\u2019re all there, I think, or at least most of them. I\u2019d forgotten how truly excellent they were, especially at the beginning. Toward the end, Jeremy Brett was visibly unwell and putting on weight, and those scripts, based on inferior Conan Doyle stories, were (in my opinion) weaker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was surprised to discover that Jeremy Brett played Freddy in the 1964 film version of \u201cMy Fair Lady.\u201d He was good in that role, but playing what they used to call \u201cJuvenile\u201d parts was not his true destiny.\u00a0 (I always thought Freddy should have gotten the girl, and indeed that\u2019s what happens in G. B. Shaw\u2019s original play.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Granada Productions made a serious effort to do Sherlock Holmes in a manner faithful to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Arthur-Conan-Doyle-Complete-Sherlock-ebook\/dp\/B07DPT5FVM\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=215ITSZEXG7IZ&amp;dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.viJBpCfNbJdOjfEXm_wloNiy8rGyfEwAzs4pwnI-4hSqeFJvnLK-Llk1H89BdzVwqvRjakXL7LyJieUqnHc3qyPQK95gNtPX_DzqIZrQLsfNSR8Hm67WaNfvXU_XVR_HqEByvQAJzNfbDIQ7zuyFhss8UXzet902ZPxIkncLkaBwLTqU-eieXkFvUwP65yMWmzq6MNTD3BsthGxROJ2J-5oQ7UpkSl_1Y0Wef6v0BVM.TX_s29cuMhZgVU3yrtCjDvR3oy7ORPpPX6D8w8v2SiQ&amp;dib_tag=se&amp;keywords=the+complete+sherlock+holmes+collection&amp;qid=1712361445&amp;sprefix=the+complete+sherlock%2Caps%2C216&amp;sr=8-1&amp;tag=brandbooks-20\">the original stories<\/a>. The series bowled me over back in the day, and it has aged excellently. Brett got the job because he resembled Sidney Paget\u2019s original illustrations \u2013 except that Paget\u2019s Holmes was pretty bald. The sets were great, the costumes were great, and Brett\u2019s performance was at once faithful to Doyle\u2019s descriptions and wildly original. Doyle tells us that Holmes would have made a great actor, and Brett plays him as an actor, affecting theatrical gestures and vocal flourishes. One wonders whether the man is quite sane (Brett\u2019s life story suggests he wasn\u2019t entirely), but we always wondered about Holmes the same way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you\u2019re looking for top-shelf literary adaptations, check these out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve found myself watching some of the old Jeremy Brett Sherlock Holmes episodes from the 1990s, on YouTube. They\u2019re all there, I think, or at least most of them. I\u2019d forgotten how truly excellent they were, especially at the beginning. Toward the end, Jeremy Brett was visibly unwell and putting on weight, and those scripts, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=19496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watching Jeremy Brett&#8217;s &#8216;Sherlock Holmes&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[230,5135,2564],"class_list":["post-19496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-arthur-conan-doyle","tag-jeremy-brett","tag-sherlock-holmes"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19497,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19496\/revisions\/19497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}