過去也有許多傑出的福爾摩斯影集和電影，這位全世界最出名的偵探在大眾印象中都是穿著風衣、戴帽子、叼著菸斗，在大霧迷漫的倫敦中辦案。這一次福爾摩斯要走出迷霧，在21世紀登場辦案。
福爾摩斯這個辦案天才清瘦、孤僻，銳利的雙眼一眼就可以從細節解讀出線索，福爾摩斯也熟知科學辦案的方法。福爾摩斯的最佳拍檔華生醫生，是從阿富汗退役回國的軍人，一次的機緣下，華生成為福爾摩斯的室友兼夥伴，一起展開冒險。「新世紀福爾摩斯」共有三個扣人心弦的案件：
一個全身穿戴打扮粉紅色的女士被發現陳屍廢棄屋中，看起來怎麼都不可能是自殺，她已經是連續第四個神秘死亡的案件，蘇格蘭警場只能求助於唯一能解開謎題的人-福爾摩斯。
從金融中心到郊區馬戲團；城市到處出現神秘的密碼塗鴉，見到這些密碼塗鴉的人紛紛遇害，福爾摩斯和華生能及時解開密碼嗎?
福爾摩斯受邀偵查一件看似單純的案件，年輕的公務人員遭火車輾斃，豈料這是一場追逐戰的序幕，福爾摩斯必須解開五個謎題，否則就會引爆炸彈，傷及無辜，這一次福爾摩斯遇到了最強勁的對手。
「新 世紀福爾摩斯」在英國和美國同步播出，獲得大西洋兩岸媒體好評，英國衛報稱讚本劇「即使原作者柯南道爾也會讚許」，紐約時報評論「娛樂性十 足…Martin Freeman 精準地詮釋忠心但愛發牢騷的華生，是本劇的一大亮點。」劇中福爾摩斯穿的風衣引起男性觀眾熱烈詢問，這款原本已經停產的風衣，在觀眾要求下重新製造上架。
Benedict Cumberbatch 飾演福爾摩斯，1976年出生的Benedict 之前演藝重心多半是劇場，也曾演出電影如「美人心機」、「戀愛學分」和「贖罪」。他在「新世紀福爾摩斯」的演出幫助他星運大開。
飾演華生的是Martin Freeman，Martin以喜劇影集「辦公室笑雲」走紅，曾經演出過電影「愛是您愛是我」和「星際大奇航」。Martin自然散發的喜感為「新世紀福爾摩斯」增添一股輕鬆的氣氛。
第一集：粉紅色研究
一個全身穿戴打扮粉紅色的女士被發現陳屍廢棄屋中，看起來怎麼都不可能是自殺，她已經是連續第四個神秘死亡的案件，蘇格蘭警場只能求助於唯一能解開謎題的人-福爾摩斯。
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| 第二集：銀行家之死
從金融中心到郊區馬戲團；城市到處出現神秘的密碼塗鴉，見到這些密碼塗鴉的人紛紛遇害，福爾摩斯和華生能及時解開密碼嗎?
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第三集：致命遊戲
福爾摩斯受邀偵查一件看似單純的案件，年輕的公務人員遭火車輾斃，豈料這是一場追逐戰的序幕，福爾摩斯必須解開五個謎題，否則就會引爆炸彈，傷及無辜，這一次福爾摩斯遇到了最強勁的對手。
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The episode was written by Steven Moffat, who co-created the series. It was originally filmed as a 60-minute pilot for Sherlock, directed by Coky Giedroyc. However, the BBC decided not to transmit the pilot, but instead commissioned a series of three 90-minute episodes.[2] The story was refilmed, this time directed by Paul McGuigan. The British Board of Film Classification has rated the pilot as a 12 certificate for video and online exhibition, and it is included as an additional feature on the DVD released on 30 August 2010.[3]
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Synopsis
John Watson, an ex-army doctor injured in the war in Afghanistan, meets Sherlock Holmes through a mutual friend. They become flatmates, sharing rooms at 221B Baker Street owned by landlady Mrs. Hudson.There have been a strange series of deaths that Inspector Lestrade supposes to be serial suicides. Sherlock is consulted by Lestrade to look into the latest crime scene which is of a woman wearing an "alarming shade of pink". Before departing with Lestrade, Sherlock utters a derivation of one of his famous phrases, "The game is on." Sherlock deduces that the woman is an serial adulterer with an unhappy, decade long marriage. However, this victim, unlike others, left a note: she clawed the word "Rache" into the floor before dying. Sherlock quickly ignores the suggestion of the forensic expert, Anderson, that it's the German word for revenge and settles on "Rachel", deeming that the victim died before finishing the scrawl.
Examining the woman's clothing and accessories, Sherlock reveals that she's from out of town, intending to stay over for one night which he deduces from splashes of mud on only one leg, thrown up by the wheel of the case. However Lestrade explains that no suitcase was found in the premises. Sherlock flies off, searching for the spot where the murderer might have ditched the case. It turns out that the murderer threw it into a nearby garbage container.
Meanwhile, John receives a call from a public phone. After the subsequent conversation, a black sedan arrives, taking John to an empty warehouse. There, he meets a man claiming to be Sherlock's "arch-enemy" who proposes money in return of information about Sherlock's activities, which John refuses. The man warns John to "choose a side" and walks off.
John finds Sherlock in 221B, where he asks John to send a text message to a number which he reveals to be the fourth victim's. The two then go out for a dinner in a local Italian restaurant where it strikes Sherlock that the murderer must be someone who can stalk and approach people without raising suspicion on the streets of London. That instant, Sherlock perceives a cabbie across the street with a passenger. They give chase with Sherlock using his profound knowledge of London's streets and alleys to run into the cab via various detours and backstreets. Eventually they catch up with the cab but the passenger turns out to be a newly arrived American; a perfect alibi.
Back at Baker Street, Sherlock and John find Scotland Yard executing a drug bust, in retaliation for the fact that Sherlock withheld evidence by chasing after the suitcase himself. In a chain of deductions, he reasons that the last victim planted her mobile phone on the murderer and clawed her mail address password upon the floor, allowing the investigators to trace the GPS signal. John sees that the signal is coming from 221B at which point Mrs. Hudson tells him that there's a cabbie waiting for him downstairs. Sherlock, in a moment of epiphany, realizes the plot. It was the cabbie approaching people without suspicion and taking them to irrelevant locations where they're found dead.
Sherlock leaves his apartment, facing off the cabbie who confesses his doings, but also proclaims that he doesn't kill - instead, he speaks to his victims and they kill themselves. He challenges Sherlock to solve his puzzle instead of arresting him then and there. They drive around London and finally arrive at a school building. There, the cabbie pulls out a gun and two bottles he claims contain one harmless pill and one poisonous pill. Sherlock and the cabbie have a dialogue about motives and consequences after which Sherlock reads that the cabbie is dying. The murderer confesses that he has an aneurysm, and that his 'victims' can either take a 50/50 chance at picking the right pill and surviving or get shot by the gun. Refusing to play the pill game and calling off the cabbie's gun bluff (which in reality is a novelty cigarette lighter), Sherlock walks off, but he's challenged once again to choose a pill to see if he'd got it right.
Meanwhile, John has traced the GPS signal from the victim's phone and followed Sherlock. He perceives him to be in danger when he spots him across the building where he is about to take one of the pills. The cabbie is shot by a bullet from John piercing through a nearby window. He lies there fatally wounded as Sherlock questions him, first about whether he got the pill game right, then, realising it's not important, about his 'fan'. Upon the cabbie's reluctance to tell, Sherlock stomps on the cabbie's bullet wound and manages to get a name: "Moriarty".
Outside, Scotland Yard has surrounded the perimeter and Sherlock is treated for shock. Lestrade questions Sherlock about the shooter and he starts to make some deductions before realizing it must be John. Sherlock feigns shock to cover for John and tells Lestrade to ignore everything he has just said. Sherlock and John leave the scene but run into the man who abducted John earlier in the episode, who turns out to be Mycroft Holmes, Sherlock's elder brother, with whom he has a grudge. After a brief conversation, Sherlock and John return to Baker Street, and Mycroft instructs his secretary to increase their surveillance status.
Allusions
The episode is loosely based on A Study in Scarlet and contains allusions to other works by Arthur Conan Doyle. Tom Sutcliffe of The Independent points out, "Fans will recognise at once that the close-reading Sherlock applies to John's mobile phone is drawn from an almost identical analysis of a pocket watch. More slyly oblique is the conversion of the lost ring that Holmes uses to lure the killer in A Study in Scarlet into a lost 'ring', a mobile phone that can be used to contact the killer directly."[4]John's reference in the final scene to having been shot in the shoulder (but developing a psychosomatic limp in the leg) refers to the fact that in the original A Study in Scarlet Watson's injury is said to be in his shoulder, but in Conan Doyle's later Holmes stories, it is said to be in his leg.
The final victim's phone is described as a "Mephone" with email and GPS capability, probably as a gentle nod to Apple's iPhone.
When Holmes sees that the fourth victim has scratched "Rache" into the floor before dying, he immediately considers both the fact that "Rache" is the German word for revenge, and that she was trying to write "Rachel" (two possibilities considered in the novel). In the novel, the word was "Rache", and "Rachel" was just a wild-goose chase for the police; in this episode, it is in fact reversed--one of the officers mentions the German explanation, and Holmes says "Don't be an idiot."
Production
The story was originally filmed as a 60-minute pilot for Sherlock, directed by Coky Giedroyc. However, when the BBC commissioned a three-part series, it ordered several changes and decided not to transmit the pilot. The Sun reported an unnamed source as saying, "The crew couldn't just re-use footage because the series is now totally different. The stories are now more intricate and detailed, so they basically had to start again."[2]The episode was set in 2010 rather than the Victorian period and so used modern devices such as mobile phones, TX1 London cabs and nicotine patches rather than the traditional pipe and other period props.[5]
Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes
- Martin Freeman as Dr. John Watson
- Rupert Graves as DI Lestrade
- Una Stubbs as Mrs. Hudson
- Louise Brealey as Molly Hooper
- Vinette Robinson as Sgt Sally Donovan
- Jonathan Aris as Anderson
- Phil Davis as Jeff Hope
- Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes
- Lisa McAllister as Anthea
Broadcast
The first broadcast was on BBC1 at 21:00 on 25 July 2010. Viewing figures were up to 9.23 million viewers and averaged a 28.5% share of the UK audience with a high AI rating of 87.[6][7]Reception
The episode received critical acclaim. The Guardian's Dan Martin said, "It's early days, but the first of three 90-minute movies, "A Study in Pink", is brilliantly promising. It has the finesse of Spooks but is indisputably Sherlock Holmes. The deduction sequences are ingenious, and the plot is classic Moffat intricacy. Purists will take umbrage, as purists always do."[8] However, Sam Wollaston, also for The Guardian, was concerned that some elements of the story were unexplained.[9] Tom Sutcliffe for The Independent also suggests that Holmes was "a bit slow" to connect the attributes of the killer to a London taxicab driver, but his review is otherwise positive. He wrote, "Sherlock is a triumph, witty and knowing, without ever undercutting the flair and dazzle of the original. It understands that Holmes isn't really about plot but about charisma ... Flagrantly unfaithful to the original in some respects, Sherlock is wonderfully loyal to it in every way that matters.[4]References
- ^ Tim Oglethorpe (23 July 2010), "Sherlock's got sexy! With nicotine papers instead of a pipe and taxis replacing hansom cabs, the new TV Holmes is a very 21st century hero", Daily Mail
- ^ a b Wightman, Catriona (27 May 2010). "BBC drops Sherlock Holmes pilot". Digital Spy. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ^ "SHERLOCK - A STUDY IN PINK". BBFC. 23 July 2010. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
- ^ a b Sutcliffe, Tom (26 July 2010). "The Weekend's TV: Sherlock, Sun, BBC1 Amish: World's Squarest Teenagers, Sun, Channel 4". The Independent. Retrieved 2010-07-28.
- ^ Sam Wollaston (26 July 2010), "Sherlock has a great new take on the characters - but what happened to the plot", The Guardian
- ^ Mark Sweney (26 July 2010), "Sherlock Holmes more popular than Tom Cruise", The Guardian
- ^ Paul Millar (28 July 2010), "'Sherlock' well-received by critics", Digital Spy
- ^ Martin, Dan (23 July 2010). "Sherlock makes Sunday night TV sexy". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-07-25.
- ^ Wollaston, Sam (26 July 2010). "TV Review: Sherlock and Orchestra United". The Guardian. Retrieved 2010-07-26.
External links
- "A Study in Pink" at the Internet Movie Database
- "A Study in Pink" at TV.com
- Newsarama: Annotations on "A Study in Pink" - Listing the connections between the episode and the original Holmes stories, compiled by comic book historian Alan Kistler.
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Sherlock is a British television series that presents a contemporary update of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes detective stories. It was created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, and stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as Doctor John Watson. After an unbroadcast pilot in 2009, the first series of three 90-minute episodes was transmitted on BBC One and BBC HD in July and August 2010, with a second series of three episodes first broadcast in January 2012. A third series has been commissioned and will reportedly air in 2013. The series has been sold to over 180 territories.
Hartswood Films produced the series for the BBC, and co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series. Filming took place at various locations, including London, Merthyr Tydfil, Swansea, Dartmoor and Cardiff. Other cast members include Rupert Graves as DI Greg Lestrade, Andrew Scott as Jim Moriarty, Mark Gatiss as Mycroft Holmes, Una Stubbs as Mrs. Hudson, as well as Vinette Robinson and Louise Brealey playing recurring roles.
Critical reception was overwhelmingly positive and the first series won the 2011 BAFTA Television Award for Best Drama Series.[1] All six episodes have been released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in the UK, alongside tie-in editions of some of Conan Doyle's original books. Soundtrack albums from each series have also been released.
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August 26, 2014 2:41 pm
‘Sherlock’ a big winner for BBC’s finances
In a curious twist, neither Holmes nor Watson was present to collect the record haul of seven Emmy awards won by the hit BBC series Sherlock in Los Angeles on Monday night.
However, solving the mystery of their no-show was not quite a “three pipe problem” the Deerstalker-wearing detective would normally have to solve. The critics had considered British stars of the show Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman to be outliers for the awards.
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The surprise victory for them, and for a series produced on a fraction of the budget of big US TV dramas that dominate the event, highlights the financial boost that Sherlock has provided for the BBC. It said last month that the series is now its biggest selling export, licensed to 224 territories worldwide – more than any other programme.
Revealing that filming of the fourth series of Sherlock will begin in January, the head of BBC drama said he expects this series to outstrip the success of even the third, promising viewers around the world a “shocking” plot twist which was revealed to the lead actors in a secret meeting a month ago.
Winning gongs respectively for outstanding lead actor and supporting actor in a mini series or movie, Sherlock ’s co-creator Steven Moffat also picked up the best writer trophy at the 66th annual Emmy Awards. Four technical awards took the total haul to seven, one more than the night’s other big winner, the US crime drama series Breaking Bad.
The three Emmys were all in recognition of His Last Vow, the final episode from the third series, first aired on UK screens in January. A contemporary reworking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Adventures of Charles Augustus Milverton, the society blackmailer of his 1904 tale is transformed into a treacherous newspaper magnate, Charles Augustus Magnussen, played by Lars Mikkelsen.
“Sherlock is our best-selling programme, and won more awards than any other programme last night at a fraction of the cost of the American shows,” said Ben Stephenson, controller of BBC drama.
He said a significant share of BBC Worldwide’s profits was driven by the export of just four programmes – Sherlock, Dr Who, Top Gear and Dancing with the Stars (the US name for Strictly Come Dancing).
Financial results for the broadcaster’s commercial arm last month revealed that BBC Worldwide had generated profits of £174m to be returned to the BBC, an 11 per cent rise on the previous year, and equivalent to 10 per cent of the annual content funding budget for BBC TV programmes.
Conceding that Sherlock has made a “huge amount of money” for the broadcaster (the BBC will not break down specific revenues per show), Mr Stephenson was initially surprised at the rapturous reception the show received in America, where it is licensed to the channel PBS.
“In the US, the assumption is you have to make 12 or 24 episodes,” he said. “Sherlock has made nine episodes over the course of three years, yet it’s been such a big hit. Ultimately, it comes down to amazing creativity – whatever its shape or size, creativity does drive commerciality.”
Last month, it was revealed that BBC Worldwide is in talks to sell a near-50 per cent stake in its flagship BBC America channel to US television group AMC Networks – the home of Breaking Bad – as it seeks the financial power to compete with high-end drama rivals such as HBO and Netflix.
Nevertheless, Sherlock’s global success has broken many records. The BBC says the third series – where Mr Cumberbatch’s detective miraculously returns to sleuthing after seemingly plunging to his death from the roof of Bart’s Hospital at the end of series two – has received more than 70m hits on the Chinese digital platform Youku.
The DVD of the third series received the most pre-orders ever for a BBC series yet to be broadcast – at a time when the format is dying – and the final episode was the most tweeted about television programme when it was first aired on UK screens.
Fans around the world are waiting with breathless anticipation for series four, and screenwriter Mr Moffat revealed he had a “devastating” plan for the next instalment.
“We’ve practically reduced our cast to tears by telling them the plan,” he said in an interview after the awards ceremony on Monday night.
Mr Stephenson said: “This is not hyperbole.” He confirmed that the BBC will film a “special with a big twist” in January, followed by a three-part series filmed in 2015, with no fixed date for broadcast.
“Steven sat down with Martin [Freeman] and Benedict [Cumberbatch] a month ago and took them through what the plans are [for series four]. It’s impossible to guess what’s going to happen. They are being very bold and brave. There are twists and turns, as you would expect. But it is shocking.”
He said he was confident that sales of this series would eclipse the success that series three has enjoyed.
“The amazing thing about Sherlock is that every time we’ve done it, sales and ratings have gone up,” he added. “We sold to 224 countries last year, and I think that will continue to rise. Obviously there are only so many countries in the world, but maybe we’ll start selling it to the aliens next.”
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