{"id":2064,"date":"2008-10-13T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=2064"},"modified":"2008-10-13T16:21:39","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T21:21:39","slug":"on-photos-of-robert-downey-jr-s-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2064","title":{"rendered":"On Photos of Robert Downey, Jr.&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve just seen <a href=\"http:\/\/justjared.buzznet.com\/2008\/10\/10\/robert-downey-jr-as-sherlock-holmes-first-pictures\/\">photos of Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes<\/a> from Guy Ritchie&#8217;s upcoming film.<\/p>\n<p>Now, obviously, Holmes never held a Starbucks cup in 1895.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/justjared.buzznet.com\/gallery\/photos.php?yr=2008&#038;mon=10&#038;evt=rdj-sherlock&#038;pic=robert-downey-jr-sherlock-holmes-06.jpg\">This is probably the &#8220;cleanest&#8221; of the photos<\/a>, without directors, Starbucks coffee cups, or boom mics.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I have a lot of faith in Downey as an actor.<\/p>\n<p>And I realize a still photo of Downey&#8217;s Holmes isn&#8217;t going to convey, well, <i>anything<\/i> about the character &mdash; except how he dresses.<\/p>\n<p>Except I can&#8217;t look at any of those photos and see the Sage of Baker Street.  I don&#8217;t see anthing that Sidney Paget or Frederic Dorr Steele would have drawn.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that&#8217;s Holmes dissheveled.  Maybe that&#8217;s Holmes undercover.  Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s just not <i>there<\/i> for me yet.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe some later photos will.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;ve just seen photos of Robert Downey, Jr. as Sherlock Holmes from Guy Ritchie&#8217;s upcoming film. Now, obviously, Holmes never held a Starbucks cup in 1895. This is probably the &#8220;cleanest&#8221; of the photos, without directors, Starbucks coffee cups, or boom mics. Now, I have a lot of faith in Downey as an actor.<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=2064\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;On Photos of Robert Downey, Jr.&#8217;s Sherlock Holmes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[105,106],"class_list":["post-2064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film","tag-guy-ritchie","tag-robert-downey-jr","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}