What the fuck do we do now?
take a picture, thats it.
it was probably made in Britain
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I said “dangerous”, and here you are.
As we all know, Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes is considered to be Mark Gatiss’ and Steven Moffat’s template for their version of Sherlock Holmes, as well as their favorite adaptation. Gatiss considers Wilder and Diamond to be “among the best screenwriters in the world”.
What they don’t mention is that the commonly-available version of the film is, in fact, heavily edited, largely due to censorship laws and Wilder’s conflicts with the Doyle estate at the time of filming.
The original screenplay was what Wilder consider a symphony with four movements, including multiple cases and an expansion on Holmes’ relationship with drugs, an extended prologue, as well as more personal conversations with Dr. Watson.
The final release only included two of those four movements.
Some of those deleted scenes are included in the special features of the TPLoSH DVD.
However, there is no way to fully grasp the arc of Wilder’s original, uncensored vision of the film without viewing the full screenplay.
Luckily for us, there’s an elderly Sherlockian out there with an impressive screenplay archive, a love of Wilder films, and a generous spirit. All credit to him for this find.
I’ve included a free download link for the full roadshow version of the TPLoSH script below. I hope to see some good meta come out of it, and that it sparks some interesting fandom discussions.
Enjoy!
DOWNLOAD: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF SHERLOCK HOLMES ORIGINAL ROADSHOW SCREENPLAY [x]
It’s finally done! A commission I did as a print for the Baker Street Babes’ Tea Party this month. I’m honored to be a guest print artist…I just wish I could come ;A;
As always you have my thanks for being such wonderful people- good luck with the event!
This gloriously talented artist did a print for our London Sherlockian Tea Party happening on the 22nd. She does commissions at very reasonable prices and is an absolute joy to work with, go check her work out!
Random Headcanon: The social hierarchy of merfolk is based on depth tolerance. Merfolk royalty are terrifying.
Are there posters of this somewhere? There should be posters to hang up in patient rooms everywhere!
He said, she said, we said, STOP SAYING “SAID”
At some point in your writing career, you’re going to be told, “Don’t use the word ‘said’ when you’re writing.” Which is a terrible piece of advice even though I agree with it to a large extent.
So let’s have little talk about the word “said,” why it gets such a bad rep in the literary world, and how you should use it.
Lady Karasu 