"Dr. Toffee" breaks in to say a few words about actors and directors who can't keep their bloody mouths shut!

Just got back from a high-speed trip to Walmart to get the DVD. I raced back home, made a cup of tea, and popped the disc in the machine, starting the making-of featurette, “Reinventing Sherlock Holmes.” It has to be said: Guy Ritchie, Robert Downey Jr., and Jude Law are a bunch of WRETCHED GITS!!! Here I’ve been going along nicely, having my fictional student work on an argument of their film’s validity as an adaptation, AND THEY DECIDE THAT THEY HAVE TO MOUNT A DEFENSE THEMSELVES! Just who the hell do they think they are?



I’m sorry to tell you this, gentlemen, but when you create a work of art and send it out into the world, it IS your statement of its validity. Moreover, it’s a big hit, so why do you care that it’s being criticized for the very thing that’s making it fresh and exciting? You have probably sent a number of filmgoers running off to bookstores and libraries to read the original stories, for which I applaud you (not to mention your READ poster for the American Library Association), and they will all discover, as Rhonda has, that you are not “reinventing” the characters so much as you are giving them their full context to a depth that has not previously been imagined. And having done that so successfully, why did you feel the need to make trouble for Rhonda (and me)? Now I have to advise her on her revision, and I’m especially glad that she is not a real student, because I’ve had any number of them who, when advised that they needed to do a global revision thanks to a piece of material that was unavailable to them during their research, had hysterics and/or dropped the class only a few weeks before the end of term. You wretched, wretched men.

Back to Rhonda.