Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011) is an Action/Adventure movie directed by Guy Ritchie and based on the works of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. (As Sherlock Holmes), Jude Law, Noomi Rapace, Rachel McAdams, and Jared Harris (As Moriarty).
Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011) is the sequel of blockbuster Sherlock Holmes (2009) movie. The movie happens as Sherlock Holmes and his sidekick Dr. Watson join forces to outwit and bring down their fiercest adversary, Professor Moriarty.
Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011) happens to be a great sequel of Sherlock Holmes (2009). It worked magic on box office and critics. Well, today I have a list of Interesting Facts and details about Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011). Let’s find out.
11. The 15-second onscreen dance between actors Jude Law and Noomi Rapace in the gypsy camp took three days to shoot.
10. The chess board motif runs through out the whole film in either actual chess boards or floors with Black and white checkered squares.
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9. The bagpipers at Dr. Watson's wedding were from the Leicestershire Seaforth Highlanders. Director of Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Guy Ritchie contacted them as his grandfather was in the Seaforth Highlanders.
8. The opera that the characters visit in Paris is Don Giovanni, by 'Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart'. The scene being played is the finale of Act II. In it, the villain and seducer Don Giovanni is visited by the animated statue of one of his victims, who drags him to Hell when he refuses to repent.
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7. At the end of the train sequence in the movie, Watson says to Holmes, "Once more unto the breach". This is a line from a speech in Henry V by William Shakespeare. Much later in the play's speech, Henry V also exclaims, "The game is afoot", which Holmes used as a catchphrase in Arthur Conan Doyle's stories.
6. The bomb-maker in the movie Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011), Claude Ravache is inspired by a real anarchist, François Claudius Koenigstein Ravachol, who was active until his execution in 1892.
5. Stephen Fry also appeared in movie The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013). Also appearing in that film is Christopher Lee, who has played both Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes, as well as Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman, who also appear together as the modern-day Holmes and Watson in TV show Sherlock (2010).
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4. Actors of the movie Stephen Fry (Mycroft Holmes) and Jared Harris (Prof. Jim Moriarty) share the same birthday 24th August.
3. Both actors Robert Downey Jr. (Sherlock Holmes) and Jared Harris (Moriarty) had acted in the Oliver Stone film Natural Born Killers (1994).
2. Leslie S. Klinger is the author of "The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes" and a consultant on this film. He said in an interview that he suggested "Sherlock Holmes: The Grand Game" as a title instead of Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011).
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1. John Watson's voice over speech during Sherlock Holmes' funeral was taken almost word for word from the story "The Final Problem", in which Sherlock Holmes "dies" pulling His arch enemy Jim Moriarty over a cliff with him.
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