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Will the Real Watson please stand up
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Emma Richey Nov 17.
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Watson was born in 1852(according to Baring-Gould), which would make him 29 when he met Sherlock Holmes. Nigel Bruce's portrayal of Watson was funny, but off the point.
Watson was obviously athletic, as he must have played tennis at one point(Charle…
Yes. I am just watching some of Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce stories. It is very annoying. I think it is directorial interpretation possibly in an attempt to make Holmes look cleverer. This is probably because the production was not relying on the c…
Well stated, Mr. Turner. I am a fan of Hardwicke as well.
I am often annoyed with the Bruce interpretation, or the directorial interpretation, but it was during wartime and there was a need for more levity than is common in the canon. I agree that a bumbling Watson is almost disrespectful to the Doyle crea…
Incidently, while I too enjoyed Mason as Watson, he did have that silly scene with the peas that indeed reminded me of Bruce.
The Nigel Bruce Watson was certainly intended for comic relief, and an attempt to make Holmes seem smarter by comparison. He is not so bad in their first movie, "Hound of the Baskervilles", though he quickly got goofier as the series progressed. In…
LAS VEGAS - Leave it to Robert Downey Jr. to turn Sherlock Holmes into a wisecracking action hero who ends up handcuffed naked to a bed.
This is how MSNBC.com begins a March 31st writeup of the Richie movie. Heard enough?
Apparently ACD had it all…
Does anyone know who is composing the music? That can be a very revealing indicator of the direction of the film. More clearly than anything else, It would demonstrate what kind of stage Richie is setting. Ironically, a soundtrack with Victorian fla…
I think the point really is very simple. The Nigel Bruce character, obviously capable of recognizing that he was intellectually outmatched by Holmes, was not bright enough to grasp the full extent of Holmes' cleverness himself, much less convey it t…
The thing to remember with Watson is that he is able to understand Holmes' cases after the fact, after it is laid out for him... and narrate them well, following the logic after the case is solve.
Knowing that your friend (Holmes in this case) has…
One oddity that I forgot to mention regarding the age of Nigel Bruce was that he was actually three years younger than Basil Rathbone! :-O
Yep, this has always bugged me. The other thing is that the Nigel Bruce Watson was way too plump and old to be the ladies man that we know Watson to be. I can't imagine any young woman being interested in this old bumbler. They would have been far m…
Am I the only one who is totally annoyed by Nigel Bruce's portayal of Watson as a bumbling old fool? John Watson was a Physician and author, for gosh sakes. Show a little respect. I like to visualize James Mason, myself.
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Need a hand hooking up with a scion society somewhere in Chicago's western suburbs. Haven't had any luck reaching out to names on other (out-of-date?) website lists. Thanks.
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