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`It takes a lot of effort to play clever': Benedict Cumberbatch on being SherlockHolmes
BY ALEX STRACHAN, POSTMEDIA NEWS MAY 1, 2012
Sherlock Holmes is bored. When Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss's modernized, 21st-century Sherlock returns this weekend on PBS's Masterpiece showcase with the first of three new weekly instalments, Holmes is wrapped in a blanket, staring at a computer screen in his flat at 221B Baker Street. The game is still afoot, but he's become a blogger, making Watson do all the dirty work on the outside world, while he stays at home in front of his computer, barking instructions through a camera phone. He's wrapped in a blanket because it's too tedious even to bother with clothes. There's a persistent ringing at the door. ``Shut up!'' Holmes shouts, but the ringing won't stop. A pair of stone-faced government officials walk into the room in neatly pressed suits and conservative ties - bureaucrats from up high, of the sort you've seen lately on the telly, grilling media mogul Rupert Murdoch over his (alleged) ties to power and influence.
``I'm sorry, Mr. Holmes,'' they tell him, ``but you're coming with us. And where you're going, you'll want to be dressed.''
That would be the Palace. Yes, that Palace. As in Buckingham. Cases may be tedious, you see, but when they involve scandal, blackmail and an unnamed member of the Royal Family, country comes first.
``Sherlock Holmes, put your trousers on,'' Holmes is told, in no uncertain terms. ``For your client.''
``And my client is?''
``Illustrious. In the extreme. And will remain, I have to inform you, entirely anonymous.''
The first of the three new Sherlock tales, A Scandal in Belgravia - loosely based on Conan Doyle's A Scandal in Bohemia - aired earlier this year, New Year's Day, in fact, in the U.K., to glowing notices. ``It fizzles down like a glass of New Year bubbly,'' the Guardian wrote, ``full of wit and sparkle.''
Days after it aired in the U.K., Sherlock's real-life doppelganger, London, U.K.-born actor Benedict Cumberbatch, faced a group of reporters from the U.S. and Canada, and talked about how well Sherlock's new episodes would translate to a North American audience.
He needn't have bothered. The first season was nominated for three Emmys, opposite Downton Abbey, and won a Peabody Award, along with the Banff Television Festival's Rockie Award and Television Critics Association Award for outstanding achievement in movies and miniseries. It's elementary: Sherlock has already found an avid audience on this side of the pond.
A Scandal in Belgravia is notable, because it features the one and only woman, in Holmesian lore, ever to have won Holmes' heart. Irene Adler, played by Essex stage veteran Laura Pulver, is reputed to be ``the smartest woman in England.'' A Scandal in Belgravia's ending, according to Masterpiece producer Rebecca Eaton, ``is deeply ambiguous, typical of Steven Moffatt.''
2012年05月02日 01点05分