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Sherlock Holmes

Theatrical release poster

Directed by Guy Ritchie

Produced by Joel Silver

Lionel Wigram

Susan DowneyDan Lin

Screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson

Anthony Peckham

Simon Kinberg

Story by Lionel Wigram

Based on Characters by

Arthur Conan Doyle

Starring Robert Downey, Jr.

Jude LawRachel McAdams

Mark Strong

Music by Hans Zimmer

Cinematography Philippe Rousselot

Editing by James Herbert

Studio Silver Pictures

Village Roadshow Pictures

Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures

Sherlock Holmes (2009 film)From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Sherlock Holmes is a 2009 action mystery film based onthe character of the same name created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and

produced by Joel Silver, Lionel Wigram, Susan Downeyand Dan Lin. The screenplay by Michael Robert Johnson,Anthony Peckham and Simon Kinberg was developedfrom a story by Lionel Wigram and Michael RobertJohnson. Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law portraySherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, respectively. Inthe film, Holmes and his companion Watson, with aidfrom former adversary Irene Adler, investigate a series of murders connected to occult rituals. Mark Strong playsthe villain Lord Blackwood, who has somehow returnedafter his execution with a plot to take over the BritishEmpire using an arsenal of dark arts and new

technologies.

The film went on general release in the United States onDecember 25, 2009, and on December 26, 2009, in theUK, Ireland, and the Pacific, and was met with a largely

positive critical reaction.[3] The film was also nominatedfor two Academy Awards, Best Original Score and BestArt Direction, which it lost to Up and Avatar , respectively.

A sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, iscurrently being produced and set for a release date of December 2011.

Contents

1 Plot

2 Cast

3 Development

4 Production

5 Music

6 Release

6.1 Box office6.2 Critical response

6.3 Awards and accolades

7 Sequel

8 Home media

9 Allusions to the original stories and earlier

adaptations

10 References

11 External links

Plot

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Release date(s) December 24, 2009

December 25, 2009

(United States)

December 26, 2009

(United Kingdom)

Running time 128 minutes

Country United Kingdom

United States

Language English

Budget $90 million[1]

Gross revenue $524,028,679[2]

The finale is on the unfinished Tower

Bridge.

In 1892 London, famous consulting detective SherlockHolmes (Robert Downey, Jr.) and his partner Dr. JohnWatson (Jude Law) race to prevent the ritual murder of awoman by Lord Henry Blackwood (Mark Strong), who haskilled five other young women similarly. They stop themurder before Inspector Lestrade (Eddie Marsan) and thepolice arrive to arrest Blackwood.

Three months later, a bored Holmes' eccentric behavior again annoys Watson, his roommate. While he enjoystheir adventures together, Watson looks forward tomarrying Mary Morstan and leaving 221B Baker Street.Blackwood is sentenced to death and requests to seeHolmes in prison, where he warns of three moreimpending deaths that will cause great changes to theworld. Blackwood is subsequently hanged andpronounced dead by Watson. Three days later, Holmes isvisited by Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams), a professional thief and his former adversary, who asks him tofind a missing man named Reordan. After her departure, Holmes follows her as she meets with her

secret employer, hidden in the shadows of a carriage. The concealed man states that Reordan is the keyto Blackwood's plans. Holmes only learns that the man is a professor and that he intimidates Adler.

Blackwood's tomb is destroyed from the inside out, Reordan is found dead inside the coffin, andsightings of a living Blackwood cause public panic. Following a series of clues from the body, Holmesand Watson find Reordan's home and discover experiments attempting to merge science with magic.After they survive a battle with Blackwood's men, Holmes is taken to the Temple of the Four Orders, asecret magical organization. The leaders—Lord Chief Justice Sir Thomas Rotheram (James Fox),Ambassador Standish (William Hope), and Home Secretary Lord Coward (Hans Matheson)—askHolmes to stop Blackwood, a former member of the society and, as Holmes deduces from physicalsimilarities, Sir Thomas' son. Sir Thomas and Standish are later killed through apparently supernaturalmeans by Blackwood, allowing him to control the Order. He plans to overthrow the British government,

then conquer the United States and the world. Lord Coward, secretly working with Blackwood, issues anarrest warrant for Holmes.

Holmes goes into hiding and studies Blackwood's rituals,concluding that the next target is Parliament. Holmes tricksCoward into revealing that the plan is to kill its members. He,Adler and Watson discover a machine below the Palace of Westminster, based on Reordan's experiments, designed torelease cyanide gas into the Parliament chambers, killingeveryone but Blackwood and his supporters. As Holmes andWatson battle Blackwood's men, Adler removes the cyanidecontainers from the machine and flees, pursued by Holmes.

Blackwood and Coward realize their plan has failed; Coward iscaptured but Blackwood escapes. Holmes confronts Adler ontop of the incomplete Tower Bridge but is interrupted byBlackwood. Holmes tricks him into becoming entangled in theropes and chains hanging over the Thames, while Holmes

explains the technical trickery behind Blackwood's supposed magic. As they battle, Blackwood, with anoose of chains around his neck, falls from the bridge and is hanged.

Adler explains that her employer is Professor Moriarty, warning that Moriarty is as intelligent as Holmesbut far more devious. As Watson moves out of 221B, the police report to him and Holmes that a deadofficer was found near Blackwood's device. Professor Moriarty used the confrontations with Adler andBlackwood as a diversion while he took a key component, based on the new science of radio, from the

machine. Holmes looks forward to the new case and new adversary.


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McAdams and Downey, Jr. at a panel

to promote the film at the 2009 San

Diego Comic-Con

Cast

Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes. A bohemian

scientist and eccentric detective-for-hire who becomes a

wanted fugitive in his hunt for Lord Blackwood, while

constantly followed by the presence of Professor Moriarty.

Downey was visiting Joel Silver's offices with his wife,producer Susan Downey, when he learned about the

project.[4] Ritchie initially felt Downey was too old for the

role because he wanted the film to show a younger

Holmes on a learning curve like Batman Begins.[5] Ritchie

decided to take a chance on casting him in the role, and

Downey told the BBC that "I think me and Guy are

well-suited to working together. The more I look into the books, the more fantastic it becomes.

Holmes is such a weirdo".[6] Downey also revealed what his wife had to say: "that when you read

the description of the guy — quirky and kind of nuts — it could be a description of me".[7] Downey

intended to focus more on Holmes' patriotic side and his bohemianism, and felt that his work on

Chaplin has prepared him for an English accent.[8] Ritchie feels his accent is "flawless".[9] Both

Downey and Ritchie are martial arts enthusiasts, and have been inspired by the Baritsu mentioned

in the 1901 story The Adventure of the Empty House.[10] Downey lost weight for the part, because

during a chat he had with Chris Martin, Martin recommended that Holmes look "gaunt" and

"skinny".[11][12]

Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, Holmes' companion and close friend, who is also a surgeon and a

veteran of the Second Afghan War. Law's Watson is more like the original character, who was

more of a colleague, rather than the bumbling fool that actor Nigel Bruce popularised in the

1930s–40s films.[13] Law previously appeared in the Granada Television series The Adventures of

Sherlock Holmes, in an episode based on The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place. Being a

Holmes fan, Law recognised there was material unexplored in other adaptations and was intriguedby Downey's casting; Law was cast because he had a positive meeting with Downey and

concurred the film would have to explore Holmes and Watson's friendship. Downey believed by

emphasizing Watson's qualities as a former soldier, a doctor, a womaniser and a gambler, it would

make for a more interesting foil for Holmes.[14] Law made a notebook of phrases from the stories

to improvise into his dialogue.[15] Ritchie originally envisioned Russell Crowe in the role.[16]

Mark Strong as Lord Henry Blackwood, the main antagonist. An aristocratic serial killer dabbling in

the occult to compel others to do his bidding. Having returned after his execution, Blackwood

unravels plans to control the British Empire. He is given many supernatural elements to his

character, and his presence is usually accompanied by a menacing crow. Strong worked with

director Ritchie for the third time and said he appreciates the director's lack of ego and how easyhe is to work with.[17][18]

Rachel McAdams as Irene Adler, an American femme fatale from New Jersey who outwitted

Holmes twice, as chronicled in Doyle's story A Scandal in Bohemia.[13] In the film, Adler is no

longer married to Godfrey Norton and needs Holmes' help for the case.[14] Downey convinced

Ritchie to cast McAdams, arguing she would not look too young to be his love interest.[19]

Kelly Reilly as Mary Morstan. Watson wishes to marry her, causing a conflict with Holmes.[7]

Eddie Marsan as Inspector Lestrade.[20]

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

Blackwood in all his murders and was the only one of his allies aware of Blackwood's usage of

technology to feign magical powers.Geraldine James as Mrs. Hudson, Sherlock Holmes' landlady. This is James' second Holmes film.


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—Producer/co-writer Lionel

Wigram[25]

She had also portrayed Dr. Mortimer's wife in the 2002 adaptation of The Hound of the

Baskervilles

James Fox as Sir Thomas Rotheram, father of Lord Blackwood and Head of the Four Orders.

Robert Maillet as Dredger, a French speaking henchman working for Blackwood.[21]

William Hope as American Ambassador John Standish.

Director Guy Ritchie declined to say who voiced the character of Professor Moriarty. Rumors suggestedthat the part was voiced by Brad Pitt, who had been reported to have expressed strong interest in the

sequel.[22] Actor Ed Tolputt is credited as "Anonymous Man"[23] although it is not clear if this refers to

Moriarty.[24]

Development

Producer Lionel Wigram remarked that for around ten years, he hadbeen thinking of new ways to depict Sherlock Holmes. "I realizedthe images I was seeing in my head [when reading the stories] weredifferent to the images I'd seen in previous films." He imagined "a

much more modern, more bohemian character, who dresses morelike an artist or a poet", namely Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. After

leaving his position as executive for Warner Bros. in 2006,[5]

Wigram sought a larger scope to the story so it could attract a largeaudience, and amalgamated various Holmes stories to flesh it out

further.[7] Lord Blackwood's character was developed as a nod toVictorian interests in spiritualism and the later influence of Aleister

Crowley.[25] The producer felt he was "almost clever" pittingHolmes, who has an almost supernatural ability to solve crimes,against a supposedly supernatural villain. The plot point, moreover, nods to the Holmesian tale of The

Hound of the Baskervilles, where a string of seemingly supernatural events is finally explained through

intuitive reasoning and scientific savvy. Wigram wrote and John Watkiss drew a 25-page comic bookabout Holmes in place of a spec script.[25] Professor Moriarty was included in the script to set up the

sequels.[26]

In March 2007, Warner Bros. chose to produce, seeing similarities in the concept with Batman Begins.Arthur Conan Doyle's estate had some involvement in sorting out legal issues, although the stories are in

the public domain in the United States.[citation needed ] Neil Marshall was set to direct,[27] but Guy Ritchie

signed on to direct in June 2008.[28] When a child at boarding school, Ritchie and other pupils listened tothe Holmes stories through dormitory loudspeakers. "Holmes used to talk me to sleep every night when I

was seven years old," he said.[29] Therefore, his image of Holmes differed from the films. He wanted to

make his film more "authentic" to Doyle,[8] explaining, "There's quite a lot of intense action sequences in

the stories, [and] sometimes that hasn't been reflected in the movies."[30] Holmes' "brilliance willpercolate into the action", and the film will show that his "intellect was as much of a curse as it was a

blessing".[9] Ritchie sought to make Sherlock Holmes a "very contemporary film as far as the tone andtexture", because it has been "a relatively long time since there's been a film version that people

embraced".[30]

Production

Filming began in October 2008.[31] The crew shot at Freemasons' Hall and St Paul's Cathedral.[26][32]

Filming was done in Manchester's Northern Quarter, while the Town Hall was used for a fight scene

(which required smashing stained glass windows).[33] They shot the opening scene for three days at St

"A lot of the action that Conan

Doyle refers to was actually made

manifest in our film. Very often,

Sherlock Holmes will say thingslike, 'If I hadn't been such an expert

short stick person, I would have

died in that' or he would refer to a

fight off screen. We're putting those

fights on screen."


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Sherlock Holmes: Original Motion

Picture Soundtrack

Film score by Hans Zimmer

Released January 12, 2010

Genre Soundtracks

Film score

Length 52:29

Label Watertower Music

Bartholomew-the-Great church in London,[25] and shot on the river Thames at Wapping for a scene

involving a steamboat on 7 November.[34] Filming continued at Stanley Dock and Clarence Dock in

Liverpool.[35] Street scenes were filmed in cobbled alleyways in Chatham and Manchester. BromptonCemetery in London was used for a key scene, and the palatial 19th-century interior of the Reform Clubstood in for the Café Royal. Scenes from the interior of 221B Baker Street were shot on a sound stage at

Leavesden Studios.[32]

In late November 2008, actor Robert Maillet, who played Dredger, was filming a fight scene at ChathamDockyard in Kent, and accidentally punched Robert Downey, Jr. in the face, causing Downey to be

bloodied and knocked down, but not knocked unconscious as originally reported.[21] The Sun reported

that on November 28, a tank truck caught fire, forcing filming to stop for two hours.[36] When filming at StJohn's Street in December, the schedule had to be shortened from 13 to nine days because locals

complained about how they would always have to park cars elsewhere during the shoot. [37] In January

2009, filming moved to Brooklyn.[38]

Ritchie wanted his Holmes' costume to play against the popular image of the character, joking "there isonly one person in history who ever wore a deerstalker". Downey selected the character's hat, a beat-up

fedora. The director kept to the tradition of making Holmes and Watson's apartment quite messy, andhad it decorated with artifacts and scientific objects from the continents they would have visited.[16]

Music

Director Guy Ritchie used the soundtrack from the film The

Dark Knight by Hans Zimmer as temporary music duringediting. Zimmer was pleased when Ritchie asked him to dothe score but told him to do something completelydifferent. Zimmer described his score to Ritchie as the

sound of The Pogues joining a Romanian orchestra.[39]

For the musical accompaniment, composer Hans Zimmer used a banjo, cimbalom, squeaky violins, a "broken pubpiano" and other unconventional instruments such as theExperibass.

At first Zimmer had his own piano detuned, but found thatit just sounded out of tune. He asked his assistant to locatea broken piano. The first piano they located was passedover as it obviously had been loved and cared for, but thesecond one was the one they used in the production.Zimmer said "We rented 20th Century Fox’s undergroundcar park one Sunday and did hideous things to a piano."[39][40]

All music composed by Hans Zimmer.

No. Title Length

1. "Discombobulate" 2:25

2. "Is It Poison, Nanny?" 2:53

3. "I Never Woke Up in Handcuffs Before"

1:44

4. "My Mind Rebels at Stagnation" 4:31

5. "Data, Data, Data" 2:15

6. "He's Killed the Dog Again" 3:15

7. "Marital Sabotage" 3:44


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8. "Not in Blood, But in Bond" 2:13

9. "Ah, Putrefaction" 1:50

10. "Panic, Sheer Bloody Panic" 2:38

11. "Psychological Recovery... 6 Months" 18:18

12. "Catatonic" 6:46

Total length: 52:29

The boxing scene in the film also features a version of The Rocky Road to Dublin by The Dubliners,which is not included in this album.

Release

The film had its world premiere on December 14, 2009, in London and was subsequently releasedworldwide on December 25, 2009 (December 26, boxing day, in the UK and Ireland), after being pushed

from a November release date.[3] An advance charity screening was held in select locations in Belgium

on December 10, 2009.[41]

Box office

The film opened to an estimated $62.4 million in its first weekend in America alone, placing in second atthe US box office to Avatar , which grossed $75.6 million. The film earned a strong per-theater average of $18,031 from its 3,626 theaters. Its one-day Christmas sales broke records. Sherlock Holmes had

grossed $523,000,000 worldwide[2] making it Guy Ritchie's biggest box-office success yet,[42] and the8th highest grossing film of 2009 worldwide, and domestically. On the domestic charts, it is the fourthhighest grossing film to never hit #1 in the weekend box office, behind My Big Fat Greek Wedding , fellow

Christmas opener Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel , and said film's predecessor.[43]

Worldwide, it is the fourth highest in this category, behind Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, Casino

Royale, and The Day After Tomorrow .

Critical response

The film has received generally positive reviews. Review aggregate Rotten Tomatoes reports that 70% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 216 reviews, with a rating average of 6.2 out of 10.The critical consensus is: Guy Ritchie's directorial style might not be quite the best fit for an update on

the legendary detective, but Sherlock Holmes benefits from the elementary appeal of a strong

performance by Robert Downey, Jr.[44] Among Rotten Tomatoes' "Top Critics", which consists of popular

and notable critics from the top newspapers, websites, television and radio programs, the film holds an

overall approval rating of 57%, based on a sample of 37 reviews.[45] Metacritic, which assigns aweighted average score out of 1–100 reviews from film critics, has a rating score of 57 based on 34

reviews.[46]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three out of four stars and highlighted the film's

strong characters, visuals and action-packed plot;[47] the characters were also praised by JakeTomlinson of Shave Magazine, who believed that Downey, Jr. and Law were "perfect together" and that

Strong was "a convincing and creepy villain".[48]

A. O. Scott of the New York Times was more reserved: he noted that the director's approach to films was"to make cool movies about cool guys with cool stuff" and that Sherlock Holmes was essentially "a series

of poses and stunts" which was "intermittently diverting" at best.[49]

David Stratton of The Australian disliked the film's interpretation of the original Holmes stories and

concluded, "The makers of this film are mainly interested in action; that, they believe, is all that gets


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young audiences into cinemas today. They may be right, but they have ridden roughshod over one of literature's greatest creations in the process." He did praise the production design and score,

however.[50]

Awards and accolades

On January 17, 2010, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced the winners of the 67thGolden Globe Awards with Robert Downey, Jr. winning Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion

Picture Musical or Comedy for the portrayal of Sherlock Holmes.[51] The Broadcast Film Critics

Association nominated Hans Zimmer for Best Score but lost to Up by Michael Giacchino.[52] The filmwas nominated for Best Original Score and Best Art Direction at the 82nd Academy Awards. The filmwon Best Thriller at the Empire Awards. The film was nominated for the Vits Awards for "Best Music" and

"Best Effects".[53]

Sequel

Main article: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

When Guy Ritchie finished the movie, he discussed a sequel with the production team. Robert Downey,Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams and the other cast members also signed up to a possible sequel; JaredHarris of Mad Men will take on the role of Holmes' arch nemesis Professor Moriarty, beating out

competition from rumored A-listers Brad Pitt, Daniel Day-Lewis, Sean Penn and Gary Oldman.[54][55]

[56][57] Ritchie and his writers have started to work on the story and pre-production began on March 21,

2010. Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows will be released on December 16, 2011.[58] According toJude Law, filming for the sequel will likely begin in October 2010. Actor and comedian Stephen Fry will

portray Mycroft Holmes.[59]

Home mediaSherlock Holmes was released on DVD and Blu-ray/DVD/digital on March 30, 2010 in the United

States.[60] The film has since grossed $44,540,401 in DVD sales.[61]

Allusions to the original stories and earlier adaptations

Although Sherlock Holmes takes a number of liberties with the original Holmes stories, it also containsnumerous references and allusions to the earlier works. The film quotes the Conan Doyle novels andstories on several occasions, including: "The game is afoot" ("The Abbey Grange," as well as the originalsource of the phrase, Shakespeare's Henry V ); "Because I was looking for it" ("Silver Blaze"); "You have

the grand gift of silence, Watson. It makes you quite invaluable as a companion" ("The Man with theTwisted Lip"); "Crime is common, logic is rare" ("The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"); "My mindrebels at stagnation. Give me problems. Give me work" (The Sign of the Four ); "It makes a considerabledifference to me, having someone with me on whom I can thoroughly rely" ("The Boscombe ValleyMystery"); "Data, data, data — I cannot make bricks without clay" ("The Adventure of the Copper Beeches"), "...one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts” ("A Scandal inBohemia"), and "There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you"("The Hound of the Baskervilles").

The scene in which Holmes and Watson make a series of deductions from a dead man's watch closelymirrors a similar sequence in The Sign of the Four , in which Holmes uses nearly identical observations(scratches around the watch's keyhole, pawnbroker's marks on the inside of the case) to deduce

information from a watch belonging to Watson's late brother. Holmes' also displays an ability to follow hiscarriage's path whilst blindfolded, which is another reference to The Sign of the Four . Holmes's passing


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External links

Official website (http://sherlock-holmes-movie.warnerbros.com/)

Sherlock Holmes Filming Locations (http://www.ukonscreen.com/gfbjjkb-Sherlock-

Holmes-(2009).html)Sherlock Holmes (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0988045/) at the Internet Movie Database

Sherlock Holmes (http://www.allmovie.com/work/392042) at Allmovie

Sherlock Holmes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/sherlock_holmes_2009/) at Rotten Tomatoes

Sherlock Holmes (http://www.metacritic.com/movie/sherlockholmes) at Metacritic

Sherlock Holmes (http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=sherlockholmes.htm) at Box Office

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