November 19 - Sherlock Holmes

This movie has a scene that happens today – November 19. I hope you will enjoy this film and watch it tonight.

SHERLOCK HOLMES

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson stop Lord Blackwell from completing the sixth ritual murder of a young woman. Three months later, Holmes has become a recluse. Watson introduces him to Mary Morstan, his fiancée. Blackwood meets with Holmes and warns of three more deaths that will change the world. Blackwood is hung and declared dead by Dr. Watson. Holmes is visited by his former foe and romantic interest, Irene Adler, who asks him to find a missing dwarf, Luke Reordan. He learns she is working for a professor. It is reported that Lord Blackwood has risen from the dead.  Holmes and Watson find a lab where Reordan was doing something for Blackwood. They have to fight off the attempt by Blackwood’s men to destroy the lab, but this results in Holmes and Watson being arrested. On November 19, 1891 [55:18 to 1:03:04] Lestrade gets Holmes out of jail. Holmes is taken to a clandestine meeting with the heads of the Temple of Four Orders, a secret magical society, headed by Sir Thomas Rotheram, the Lord Chief Justice, Standish, the American Ambassador, and Lord Coward, the Home Secretary. They ask him to stop Blackwood, a former member of their order and Rotheram’s son. Lord Rotheram killed and Holmes inspects a secret room he discovers at the scene of the murder. Lord Coward gets Lord Blackwood elected as head of the Temple after Standish is killed, apparently by magic. Holmes and Watson go to a slaughterhouse and rescue Irene Adler, but explosions injure Watson. Holmes studies the Temple’s rituals and concludes that Blackwood’s next target is parliament.   Holmes, Watson and Irene slip into the sewers beneath Parliament, where Blackwood has set up a machine to flood the chamber with cyanide gas, killing everyone except his supporters to whom he has given the antidote. Irene flees to the incomplete Tower Bridge. There Holmes confronts Blackwood and explains Blackwood’s scientific tricks that he used to appear to create apparent magic. Blackwood is killed and Irene warns Holmes about Moriarity.

A different take on Conan Doyle’s master detective. This version drifts into steampunk at times.  Holmes is very manic in this version and Watson wants to get away from him.

Date given in film at 58:27

Producers - Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downey and Dan Lin

Director - Guy Ritchie

Awards - The film was nominated for the Best Original Score and Best Art Direction Oscars at the 82nd Academy Awards

Screenplay - Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg

Runtime – 2 hours 8 minutes

Released – December 25, 2009

Starring –

Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes, an eccentric detective-for-hire

Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, Holmes' companion and close friend

Mark Strong as Lord Henry Blackwood, an aristocratic serial killer

Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, an American 'femme fatale''

Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan, a governess whom Watson wishes to marry

Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade, an investigator from Scotland Yard

Hans Matheson as Lord Coward, the Home Secretary and Blackwood's right-hand man

Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' landlady

James Fox as Sir Thomas Rotheram, father of Lord Blackwood

Robert Maillet as Dredger, a 7-foot, French-speaking henchman for Blackwood

William Hope as American Ambassador Standish