Sherlock Holmes : A Game of Shadows (2011) : Here Are 11 Splendid Facts From The Movie!!

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.

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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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Sherlock Holmes (2009) : 11 Exuberant Facts About The Movie!!

Sherlock Holmes (2009) is an Action/Adventure movie directed by Guy Ritchie and based on the novel written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The movie stars Robert Downey Jr. (as Sherlock), Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Kelly Reilly and Mark Strong in the lead roles.

Sherlock Holmes (2009) tells the story of famous Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner John H. Watson, as they engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

We all love Sherlock Holmes whether it’s played by Robert Downey Jr. Or Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s the character we enjoy watching solving the case in his own clever and annoying ways. Well, let’s move on to the interesting facts and details about the movie.

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11. Watson's line to Holmes, "You know that what you're drinking is for eye surgery?", is an obscure reference to Holmes's cocaine usage. At the time, cocaine was used as a topical anesthetic for eye surgery. In the stories, Holmes injects cocaine.

10. Lead actors Rachel McAdams, Jude Law and Robert Downey Jr. reportedly did most of their own stunts in Sherlock Holmes (2009).

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9. In the stories, Sherlock Holmes is described to be an expert in Baritsu. In the film, however, the martial art that Holmes used is the Wing-Chun Kung Fu (famously used by Ip Man Yee and Bruce Lee). Actor Robert Downey Jr. is a practitioner of the art in real life and the fight scene between him and David Garrick at Punchbowl Pit was coordinated with the help of his trainer.

8. There are repeated references to five women murdered by Lord Blackwood before the beginning of the movie. Five is also the number of women that the bulk of historians agree were murdered by Jack the Ripper (additional victims are disputed).

7. The bridge shown in the movie as under construction is Tower Bridge, which was worked on from 1886 to 1894.

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6. The first Sherlock Holmes film to reach U.S. movie theaters in over twenty years, since the 1988 comedy Without a Clue (1988) with Michael Caine as Reginald Kincaid/"Sherlock Holmes".

5. Lead actor Robert Downey Jr. read many Sherlock Holmes stories and watched The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1984) in order to learn more about the character.

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4. The film depicts Watson pressing Holmes to meet his fiancée, Mary Morstan; Holmes is reluctant to do so. In the original stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Mary Morstan is introduced as a client (in the novel "The Sign of Four"). She and Watson fall in love while he assists Holmes in her case, and he proposes to her at the end of the novel.

3. The name of Sherlock Holmes and Watson's English bulldog is Gladstone. He seems to be named after William Gladstone, four-time Prime Minister under Queen Victoria.

2. The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2008 Blacklist. Blacklist is a list of the "most liked" unmade scripts of the year.

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1. A raven is visible every time a character is killed or thought to be killed in the movie Sherlock Holmes (2009).

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11 Exquisite Facts About British TV Show Sherlock (2010- )!!

Sherlock (2010 – ) is a blockbuster  British TV show created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat. The show is based on the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective stories. The show stars Benedict Cumberbatch (as Sherlock), Martin Freeman, Rupert Graves, Una Stubbs, Louise Brealey, Mark Gatiss and Andrew Scott in the lead roles.

Sherlock (2010 – ) tells the story of famous sleuth Sherlock Homes and his partner Dr. John Watson as they solve crimes in 21st century London.

The show has won numerous awards including a nomination for Golden Globes. Today, I have a list of interesting facts and details about Sherlock (2010 – ). Let’s have a look.

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11. When a new episode of Sherlock airs on BBC the whole cast will go over to Martin Freeman's (John Watson) and Amanda Abbington (Mary Watson) house watch the episode as it airs.

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10. Many of the crew in Sherlock (2010) are related. Sherlock's parents are actually actor Benedict Cumberbatch's parents, Wanda Ventham andTimothy Carlton; Amanda Abbington (Mary Morstan) and Martin Freeman (John Watson) are real-life partners; Producer Sue Vertue is writer Steven Moffat's wife, and co-producer and writer Beryl Vertue is his mother-in-law; Writer Mark Gatiss' husband is the barrister in "The Reichenbach Fall"; Steven Moffat's son plays Sherlock Holmes as a child in "His Last Vow".

9. Sherlock sometimes uses a memory technique that he calls a "Mind Palace." This is not an invention of the screenwriters. It is a method of aiding memory that dates back to ancient Rome. One of history's most famous real-life practitioners was the sixteenth-century Italian Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, who introduced the method to China.

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8. The role of mortician/doctor Molly Hooper was never in the books or short stories and was only meant to be a one-off character to further indicate Sherlock's lack of social skills, particularly addressing any romantic encounters. However, Moffat and other producers loved Louise Brealey's performance so much that they decided to expand her character.

7. Through the series, several Holmes stories by Arthur Conan Doyle are alluded to, either as episode names or in passing. For instance, "A Study in Scarlet" becomes "A Study in Pink", "The Greek Interpreter" becomes "The Geek Interpreter" etc.

6. The actual address used for filming the exteriors of 221B Baker Street is 187 North Gower Street, London NW1.

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5. In season two episode one, A Scandal in Belgravia, Sherlock tells Adler about "Coventry". He says "In the second world war the Alies knew that Coventry was going to get bombed because they'd broken the German code but they didn't want the Germans to know they'd broken the code so they let it happen anyway". Cumberbatch later plays Alan Turing, the mathematician who broke the German enigma code, in The Imitation Game (2014).

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4. At one point in the series, Watson gets fed up with hearing Holmes talking about his intellect and how emotions are unimportant to the point that he sarcastically calls Holmes "Spock". Benedict Cumberbatch appeared in the Star Trek film "Star Trek: Into Darkness" as Kirk and Spock's arch-nemesis, Khan.

3. Although John and Sherlock aren't the wealthiest of people and Sherlock is frequently seen on different occasions denying any reward in money for his job. Watson's clothes do not reflect this, in fact his famous black jacket costs £750, shoes £175, knitted jumper over £200 and his watch a staggering £3000. Sherlock's famous coat is also a staggering £1,750.

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2. "Jim" Moriarty's appearance is subtly the exact opposite of Sherlock's; Sherlock's hair is long and curly, while Moriarty's is clean and combed. Sherlock wears an open collar while Moriarty always wears a tie. As well, Sherlock dons his classic long overcoat with his high collar popped, while Moriarty's is a shorter, trimmer jacket with a Nehru collar. And in most cases, Sherlock is clean shaven whilst Jim wears light five o'clock shadow on his face.

1. In "A Scandal in Belgravia, S2 E1" the scene where Sherlock is unlocking Irene Adlers phone, he types the numbers "7437" which are letters "SHER". Because of that, the letters make a sentence "I AM SHERLOCKED".

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