leighanneslittlehorns
12-23-2009, 12:57 PM
Robert Downey Jr., Guy Ritchie give classic the action movie treatment
There is no telltale mud caked on his boots. No suspicious stain on his clothing. Nothing that indicates a foul crime may have been committed. But as Robert Downey Jr. sits down at a Santa Monica café with a cup of coffee, there are a few small details that a keen-eyed detective might notice. For example, there’s the stylish black watch, a piece of expensive celebrity swag that he has, interestingly, turned facedown on his wrist: “It shows that I’m someone who is uncomfortable with receiving things for free,’’ he says. Then there’s the straw trilby hat perched on his head that doesn’t quite go with the rest of his outfit. “I was having a bad hair day,’’ he explains. It’s elementary.
As the star of the upcoming action-adventure film “Sherlock Holmes,” opening Dec. 25, Downey has had time to hone his own deductive powers. When he stepped into the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Baker Street detective, Downey, along with British director Guy Ritchie (“RocknRolla”), was determined to give the iconic crime-fighter a unique stamp — no mean feat for a character who, according to the book of “Guinness World Records,” has been portrayed on film more than any other.
In this reimagined Holmes — which pits the 19th-century sleuth and his sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) against a sinister occultist — gone are the traditional hallmarks that have become the stuff of easy parody: the deerstalker cap, the cape, the curvy pipe and magnifying glass. In their place are bare-knuckled fight scenes, massive explosions, and highly choreographed action.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34313547/ns/entertainment/
There is no telltale mud caked on his boots. No suspicious stain on his clothing. Nothing that indicates a foul crime may have been committed. But as Robert Downey Jr. sits down at a Santa Monica café with a cup of coffee, there are a few small details that a keen-eyed detective might notice. For example, there’s the stylish black watch, a piece of expensive celebrity swag that he has, interestingly, turned facedown on his wrist: “It shows that I’m someone who is uncomfortable with receiving things for free,’’ he says. Then there’s the straw trilby hat perched on his head that doesn’t quite go with the rest of his outfit. “I was having a bad hair day,’’ he explains. It’s elementary.
As the star of the upcoming action-adventure film “Sherlock Holmes,” opening Dec. 25, Downey has had time to hone his own deductive powers. When he stepped into the role of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Baker Street detective, Downey, along with British director Guy Ritchie (“RocknRolla”), was determined to give the iconic crime-fighter a unique stamp — no mean feat for a character who, according to the book of “Guinness World Records,” has been portrayed on film more than any other.
In this reimagined Holmes — which pits the 19th-century sleuth and his sidekick Dr. Watson (Jude Law) against a sinister occultist — gone are the traditional hallmarks that have become the stuff of easy parody: the deerstalker cap, the cape, the curvy pipe and magnifying glass. In their place are bare-knuckled fight scenes, massive explosions, and highly choreographed action.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34313547/ns/entertainment/