My Research Question

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I almost forgot that I am supposed to come up with a research question this week.  It's hard to think of a way to word it.  I want to know if the Sherlock Holmes in the movie is faithful (for lack of a better word) to the SH in the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle because I think that the character in the film owes a lot to the kind of action heroes you see in movies nowadays.  In fact, there are a couple of scenes that reminded me of other movies, especially the chase on foot at the beginning of Casino Royale.

So, how about:  is the Ritchie/Downey Sherlock Holmes the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes, or is it a serious distortion?

I noticed that the film stresses a lot of the seedier aspects of the stories, but I put that down to the modern love of scandal.  The Victorians probably loved it, too, but I think the average person then didn't know much about how many terrible things were going on.  I could be wrong.  We'll see.