In ‘The Resident Patient’, Brett was particularly proud of the scene where he examines the patient’s room, picking up all the clues without saying a word. He referred to it as ‘the Rififi scene’ because it was similar to a sequence in a Jules Dassin film. It is a remarkable scene, especially for modern television, having no dialogue for two-and-a-halfminutes.
And it does epitomise the essence of Sherlock Holmes’s minute investigation of a scene of crime: all those passages that Conan Doyle created describing his detective crawling on the floor, inspecting paintwork with his lens, and scraping dust or cigarette ash into a small envelope for analysis are crystallized in this sequence, and Jeremy Brett knew it.
(The Rififi scene; with a 32 minute long burglary scene with no dialogue at all)
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Thanks for the heads up! Honestly the tj/lcers are a bunch of bullies who believe that Mofftiss have some secret plan to make johnlock canon and only the true believers will be left after the dust settles, so I don’t take them very seriously. So I say fuck um! If you’re going to be that immature to bully and belittle people who have a different opinion than you, well that just makes you kind of loser and it’s kinda sad.
I’m just over here have a good time and salting away. You’d think maybe these people would have better things to do, like writing their theories and meta, then to make fun of me, but what am I saying? These are the same people who scared off or bullied ½ of the fans out of the fandom already. I guess they feel like their work isn’t done yet.
So to reiterate my feelings on things, I think BBC Sherlock is DONE. I think Dracula is going to suck and I think Mofftiss are assholes. And the tj/lc crew can believe what they want, I’ve always said so. I’ve always said the meta is very creative and interesting. I just don’t think it’s going to happen. They just don’t like anyone who doesn’t fall in line and follow what they say.
So if you’re going to take my posts and make fun of them, I guess that says more about you than it does about me.
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You tell ‘em! Everyone needs to stay in their lane and chillax
If there’s one thing Moriarty knows how to do (aside from being evil), it’s being fabulous. Like I just finished watching Sherlock (BBC) Season 4 a couple of weeks ago, and this scene was SO iconic, I couldn’t even.
“It’s the most anticipated game in the history of escape rooms,” says Ferguson. “The company behind it has always pushed boundaries, with amazing sets and actors – and it’s the first time intellectual property has been taken and made into a game. It will appeal to escape room fans as well as dedicated Sherlock fans. London needed a flagship game and this is going to be huge.”
Got this article in my inbox today, which features a set picture from the Sherlock escape room opening in a few days in London.
First: tell me I’m not the only one who read that as “The Gay Is Now” because of the E hiding in shadows? Also that left leg of the M is so thin It gets lost in the wallpaper.
Second: normal skull painting. IMO, if they could license it for multiple replica sets in the flat in this escape room, they could have for the show, which just further proves to me they’re lying about the glowing skull in the show (which I already believed anyway, but.)
Tagging a few of you who might be interested in the skull painting (and it’s early and I’m exhausted so I know I’m forgetting like 95% of the people I should tag)
The painting’s covered in glass now? And the yellow paint’s just badly photoshopped 😂😂
wasn’t it always covered by glass? IIRC the original is multiple layers or something, not just a single print on paper. I’m not sure where i read that , it was so long ago. But yeah, definitely confirms the nonsense about the glowing skull.
Sorry to disappoint you but this is not a new picture of ‘The Game is whatever it is’ set – but an old picture from S2 (there are props to indicate Dartmoor/cross keys pub, a post card of the Tower of London, a hound statuette, the poisoned sweeties & the IOU apple etc) that’s been (badly) photo-shopped!
It’s from the same photoshoot as the below pic: (and yes, that painting was always covered in either glass or perspex)
Sherlock Fandom Archive 