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Post by jammer81386 on Jul 26, 2020 15:47:13 GMT
Andrew Scott - BBC Sherlock
Jared Harris - Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
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Post by Salzmank on Jul 26, 2020 16:08:39 GMT
Wasn’t really crazy about either Moriarty, but I guess I’ll go with Scott as he stuck out to me more. (Then again, A Game of Shadows I know I’ve seen but can hardly remember.)
Offhand, I guess my favorite Moriarty is George Zucco’s bearded sneerer in Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), one of the few juicy parts Zucco actually got in his whole career. Henry Daniell in The Woman in Green (1945) doesn’t look much like a Moriarty type but is a magnificently condescending villain, and he and Rathbone get one of my favorite movie exchanges ever: (I’m also convinced Lucas, Spielberg, and Kasdan based Raiders of the Lost Ark’s Indy-Belloq dialogue in the bar on this exchange.)
Surprisingly for such an entertaining actor, Lionel Atwill’s (Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon, 1942) isn’t particularly memorable. Eric Porter’s good in the Jeremy Brett show but doesn’t get too much to do (because of canonical faithfulness). Laurence Olivier’s is memorable in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, but the part is tiny.
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Post by politicidal on Jul 26, 2020 17:13:44 GMT
Jared Harris all the way. Andrew Scott sucked.
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Post by hi224 on Jul 26, 2020 19:06:09 GMT
Scott quite easily.
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Post by Chalice_Of_Evil on Jul 26, 2020 22:31:45 GMT
Jared Harris all the way. Andrew Scott sucked. I pretty much agree with you. I thought Jared Harris gave a nice creepy performance (and at least he didn't feel the need to use a cartoonish voice like Andrew Scott did). However, my favourite interpretation of Moriarty that I've seen would be the one from the TV series Elementary. Natalie Dormer was so good in the role, but sadly the show wasn't able to get her back in the series after the second season (she just did one voice-over in a later season).  |
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Post by Salzmank on Aug 16, 2020 1:45:29 GMT
Rewatching Game of Shadows; I saw this when it came out but have forgotten a lot. Harris is fine—best in his first scene, which provides an effective surprise—but not especially memorable. (None of the performances is that good, in fact.)
Something even more noticeable here than in the first is that, by making Downey’s Jack-Sparrow-esque Holmes an action hero, the writers don’t know what to do with Watson. As much as I like Jude Law in the part (he’s lightyears better than Downey), the character’s remarkably pointless here. Doyle purists can mock Nigel Bruce all they want, but at least he always had a point in those movies.
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