Who is Sherlock Holmes?

         Sherlock can be described as great mind because of his deductive reasoning skills. Lazy, because he rarely bathes, and lives in a mess. Rude because of the way he treats Watson, the police and everyone else around him. And a master of disguise in some situations he has to disguise himself for instance in A Scandal in Bohemia he disguises himself as a priest to get into Irene’s house.

 In Guy Ritchie’s 2009 film Sherlock is portrayed as a superhero, a mastermind, and it hints at romance. Sherlock Holmes is seen as a superhero, because of all of the action scenes he is placed in, where as in Sir Conan Doyle stories Sherlock does not fight nearly as much in the books as he did in this movie. But you have to look at the audience this film is trying to appeal to at this time action pack movies are huge, and if rendition of Holmes did not have some aspect of this it would not be as appealing. He is seen as a mastermind because of the way he pieces together his mysteries, and thinks on the top of his head and analyzes every situation. In the books Doyle tip toes on the thought that Sherlock may have some kind of mental disorder like Autism because of his thought process, and his lack of social skills. Guy’s take on Sherlock hints at romance with having focused of Watson’s engagement to Mary, and even Sherlock’s ineraction with Irene. In the books neither woman are talked about and seen as much as they are in this film. Especially Sherlock and Irene this film has Sherlock saving her character countless of times and also shows her kissing him. In the books Sherlock is seen as asexual.

The films take on Sherlock is more of a take of the time it came out, to appeal and address its audience, just like Doyle's books where to appeal to the readers of this era.