Monday, October 1, 2012

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
Plot
-In this one, Sherlock Holmes and his associate and friend Dr. John Watson take on their arch-enemy, the "Napoleon of Crime", Professor James Moriarty. To help, Holmes' older brother Mycroft helps, along with a gyspy lady named Simza.




Cast
-Robert Downey Jr.: Sherlock Holmes
-Jude Law: Dr. John Watson
-Noomi Rapace: Madam Simza Heron
-Rachel McAdams: Irene Adler
-Jared Harris: Professor James Moriarty
-Stephen Fry: Mycroft Holmes
-Paul Anderson: Col. Sebastian Horan
-Kelly Reilly: Mary Watson
-Geraldine James: Mrs. Hudson
-Eddie Marsan: Insp. Lestrade
-William Houston: Const. Clark
-Jack Laskey: Carruthers

Did You Know?
-In 2003, actor Stephen Fry was on the UK quiz show Celebrity Mastermind. He had a question about Sherlock Holmes, because it was a subject he was familiar with, and it included a question about the character Mycroft Holmes. When he was 10, he was the youngest member of London's Sherlock Holmes Appreciation Society
-The equation on Professor Moriarty's blackboard is the Binomail Theorem
-Both Jude Law and Stephen Fry appeared together in the 1997 film Wilde
-At Watson's wedding, the men playing the bagpipes were from the Leicestershire Seaforth Highlanders. Guy Ritchie contacted them as his grandfather was a Seaforth Highlander

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