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[DiggitCamara]

@Elendil_s_Heir

It’s still “McKellen.”

McKellgn you say?

[John_Bredin]

@Dinsdale

One minor nitpick, at one point Holmes says his last case must have been a failure or else he would not have spent the past 35 years in seclusion. There’s no way he aged 35 years between the past and “present” scenes. He’d have to be pushing 100! Didn’t see why they said something preposterous like 35 years instead of 5, 10, or even 20.

I haven’t seen the movie yet, but articles about the movie and interviews with McKellen refer to Holmes as 93 in 1947, so yes, pushing 100.

[N9IWP]

Op here :smack: on the spelling - I even looked it up!

Brian

[ekedolphin]

Thoroughly enjoyed it. McKellen should get an Oscar nomination in a just universe. But it’s probably way too early in the calendar year.

[Claverhouse]

I thought this was going to be about that chap who wrote The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table and had a murder castle in Chicago.

[Miss_Mapp]

@Dinsdale

Was a pleasant way to spend a couple hours on a very hot July day.

One minor nitpick, at one point Holmes says his last case must have been a failure or else he would not have spent the past 35 years in seclusion. There’s no way he aged 35 years between the past and “present” scenes. He’d have to be pushing 100! Didn’t see why they said something preposterous like 35 years instead of 5, 10, or even 20.

He was about 60 in the 1912 scenes and in his 90s in the 1946 scenes. I think he actually said 92 or 93 at one point, but I don’t recall exactly.

[Equipoise]

Sorry, I was on my phone and didn’t go look up the spelling.

I’m glad I’m not the only one calling it for an Oscar nomination for McKellen.

[Maserschmidt]

This was a BBC film production, and there’s an unusual distribution deal here between Miramax and Roadside Attractions (one of which does way bigger distributions than the other). I don’t know how much they paid for it, but my guess is they hope to pick up the usual $10 or $15 million from cinematic release via RA, make some money via video on demand, and then do some low-key best actor campaigning.

[peedin]

Saw this 2 weeks ago and adored it. It wasn’t what I expected but it was still excellent. McKellen deserves at least an Oscar nomination. His performance was outstanding.

[Dinsdale]

Thanks all. I actually saw a blurb in the paper today with the 93 figure. I don’t think the younger looked 58 or the older 93, but I readily acknowledge this is a mighty small nit.

[StGermain]

And Roger had an great uncle who lived to 102!

I really liked it. I’ll admit, a part of me saw Holmes drinking tea in that semi-glazed cup in his study and hoped his cognitive difficulties were from lead poisoning (before the armonica came into the story).

StG

[Sage_Rat]

Anyone else feel confident that…

Like the letter that Holmes sent to Japan, the whole end of the movie is a lie for the viewer’s sake. Presumably, the boy died, Holmes didn’t have a resurgence of his mental faculties and use them to become a surrogate father to the family, while embracing Eastern religion, he just decayed further into forgetfulness and died of Alzheimers.

?

[Elendil_s_Heir]

No, I took the conclusion at face value, although according to TV Tropes, in the book

the boy does indeed die as a result of all the stings.

[Frylock]

@Sage_Rat

Anyone else feel confident that…

Like the letter that Holmes sent to Japan, the whole end of the movie is a lie for the viewer’s sake. Presumably, the boy died, Holmes didn’t have a resurgence of his mental faculties and use them to become a surrogate father to the family, while embracing Eastern religion, he just decayed further into forgetfulness and died of Alzheimers.

?

[spoiler]I do not think, in the end, that this was intended. But I’ll admit to having similar thoughts throughout the last fifteen or twenty minutes of the film. I’m just so used to mind-fuck movies that I can hardly help myself from assuming–or anyway, finding myself imagining–that a film about mental deterioration is going to do something like that.

Ahem it could be interesting to go count the stones he was surrounding himself with to see if maybe one of them was for the boy after all…[/spoiler]