Let me love you.
A South Korea TV show about movies says that the success of the Star Trek: Intro Darkness in the country is mainly attributed to Benedict Cumberbatch.
Yo amo a este hombre. Lo digo con todo mi corazón. Y aún así creo que la película por sí sola es bastante buena, me parece un poco fácil decir que el éxito de toda una producción es debida a un sólo actor.
No, no me malinterpreten. Creo que la actuación de Ben es extraordinaria pero, ¿ustedes creen que si la gente con la que hubiera trabajado hubiera sido poco talentosa, el resultado sería el mismo? En general creo que todos merecen una pequeña gran parte del éxito -o no- que tuvo la película ya que esto siempre será un trabajo en equipo. Pero de nuevo, esta es MI opinión al respecto y NO es por ningún motivo alguna verdad absoluta.
Por su atención, gracias :)
-V.
Since the last competition to decide our Favorite BatchFit was so fun, and at the spurring of some followers/anons, we’re announcing the WTFit Competition to decide our least favorite outfit our dear B. Cumbers has ever worn! Submit your least favorite outfits all this week and we’ll post them…
What can we deduce about him?
Sherlock has 4 volumes of The Children’s Encyclopedia by Arthur Mee on his bookshelf.
The introduction certainly explains why Sherlock would be fond of them:
Nothing could be more false to [the encyclopedia’s] purpose than to imagine that it seeks to cram the mind with things that children need not know.
(One of the volumes has descriptions and images of the solar system, but the section on tides & the moon gets as much space. Handy knowledge for recovering bodies from the River Thames…)
My head canon is that they belonged to Mycroft and his little brother stole them. He displays them proudly in 221B as a trophy— the only visible evidence in the flat of his childhood.
There’s nothing like a bit of pre-221b Holmes.
The Lamplighter — A book Ben requested for the 221b set?
In The Reichenbach Fall, why does The Lamplighter, a 19th Century sentimental novel, so obviously appear on Sherlock’s desk?
It’s the “annoying dick” scene in which Sherlock is breaking into the wireless surveillance network at 221b right before Mrs. Hudson brings in the burnt gingerbread man from the courier named Grimm.
Actually it’s not in the complete scene. Right before the close up of Sherlock, the book is NOT on the desk (see below.)
Then it is (see the top gif in the set above.)
Here’s Why
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, based on John le Carré’s famous spy series, was released September, 2011 just a few months before The Reichenbach Fall aired.
In that film Benedict Cumberbatch plays spy Peter Guillam, the head of “Scalphunters”, the violent division of ‘The Circus’ (MI6) that deals with operations such as assassination, blackmail, burglary, and kidnapping.
In the TTSS universe Lamplighters are spies responsible for surveillance and couriers. The Lamplighters have certainly broken into 221b!
TTSS and Sherlock Holmes
John le Carré compares Peter Guillam to John Watson!
“With no Sherlock Holmes, would I ever have invented George Smiley? And with no Dr. Watson would I ever have given Smiley his sidekick Peter Guillam? I would like to think so, but I doubt it very much.”
— John le Carré The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Vols. 1 & 2 The Short Stories.
So yeah, my head canon is that Ben asked for the book to be on the set. I’d bet hard cash on it.
