Ok I’m back after skipping Wed. just to get some of me stuff done…I can actually see the furniture in the living room…hurray.
I’m changing the line up now—and am gonna put the Outlander last today to just see how that adjusts
Today we’re looking at the bad and ugly of detectives.
“But I have heard, Mr. Holmes, that you can see deeply into the manifold wickedness of the human heart. You may advise me how to walk amid the dangers which encompass me.”
“The Adventure of Speckled Band
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The cast for Murder on the Orient Express is fantastic…but the detective Hercule Poirot is one that gets on my last best nerve—he is bad verging on ugly—he is foppish, boorish and totally unwatchable to me…it was like watch it at home and watch the good parts and grit your teeth, go get food or to the bathroom when Finney who did a great job which made it all the more worse for me….if I’d have been on that train they would have been trying to solve his murder and I would have been hiding my part in the crime….grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Another figure I found as a very irritating detective is Columbo, Peter Faulk did a great job on that but this character was slobbish and casual about everything but muder…so different from the last detective and yet every bit as irritating to me…I guess I was lost somewhere in the middle.
Finally on bad any of the Inspector Clouseau–this Peter Sellers, silliness for silliness sake was to me pointless….I like funny but not this babble which supersedes the parts of the script that pass for a plot….It’s not anything that I ever enjoy and Sellers is just one of the many that plays on this, though he probably is one of the better known.
“A large face, seared with a thousand wrinkles, burned yellow with the sun, and marked with every evil passion, was turned from one to the other of us, while his deep-set, bile-shot eyes, and his high thin fleshless nose, gave him somewhat the resemblance to a fierce old bird of prey.” – “The Adventure of Speckled Band,”
Don’t get me wrong I am not completely w/o humor—I guess my humor goes more toward the black..like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang with Val Kilmer and Martin Downey Jr. (who’s Sherlock Holmes series I adore) with the detective Kilmer and the victim—Downey gets a finger cut off among other forms of abuse through out that gritty movie that at times borders on ugly (well cutting off someone’s finger most certainly is a bit more than borders—maybe walks all over ugly would be more like it.)
Another Detective story I enjoyed that deals with (what could be uglier) finding a bizarre killer who murders people all about the city in a effort to make his point and get his goal met is Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector as a quadriplegic Forensic expert who is working on finding a doctor to end his life….in the discovery of the first victim Angelia Jolie is the cop involved (she has commitment and other psychological problems as well) and when Denzel is involved from his hospital bed she becomes his presence at the crime (in one scene he instructs her to cut off the victim’s hands which she reacts to in a way most of us would). While I loved this movie and in fact reads some of the series it was based on, the murders were bizarre and down right ugly and I found it described as a bad movie and mystery. While I enjoyed it a lot. But beauty or good if bizarre movie I guess is in the eye of the beholder.
“I could not sleep that night. A vague feeling of impending misfortune impressed me. My sister and I, you will recollect, were twins, and you know how subtle are the links which bind two souls which are so closely allied.” – “The Adventure of Speckled Band,”
Then there are the remakes: One that has been done over many times and I particularly liked has bit ugly in it’s name which was used in Britian ….which if you read this from Wikipedia. And Then There Were None is a mystery novel by English writer Agatha Christie, widely considered her masterpiece and described by her as the most difficult of her books to write. was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on 6 November 1939, as Ten Little N—-,after the British blackface song, which serves as a major plot point. The US edition was not released until December 1939; its American reprints and adaptations were all retitled And Then There Were None, the last five words in the original American version of the nursery rhyme (“Ten Little Indians“). In the 1978 remake I saw they used the disappearing Indians to denote the next murder and so on.
Did you know that Edgar Allen Poe is given credit with writing the mystery formula that survives to this day with his ugly murderer in Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 and the first mystery series when he continued on with Auguste Dupin , the detective in his first novel which appeared in in two more stories.
While DIckens in England included a mystery subplot in his Bleak House…..and they’ve (mysteries and sub plots both) been around and amazingly popular ever since.
Goodbye, and be brave, for if you will do what I have told you, you may rest assured that we shall soon drive away the dangers that threaten you.” – “The Adventure of Speckled Band,”
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Spend some time checking out Roger that boy is hot ….that’ll help relieve your Droughtlander but could give you Rogerwant instead…ah well…..
Try to convert new watchers to the show–get them to binge watch—here’s some talking points http://www.hypable.com/outlander-is-must-watch-tv-for-men-and-women/
Pick out a walking tour for your next trip to Edinburgh https://www.viator.com/Edinburgh-tours/Walking-Tours/d739-g16-c56?pref=02
https://www.list.co.uk/article/69860-take-the-edinburgh-outlander-walking-tour/
And start researching Sam–here’s his mum’s gallery https://www.list.co.uk/article/76678-interview-chrissie-heughan-on-unabridged-outlander-and-its-star-her-son-sam-heughan/
“I had … come to an entirely erroneous conclusion, which shows, my dear Watson, how dangerous it always is to reason from insufficient data.” -“The Adventure of Speckled Band,”
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Pictures are still from London’s Little Venice main canal.
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He [Moriarty] sits motionless, like a spider in the centre of its web, but that web has a thousand radiations, and he knows well every quiver of each of them. He does little himself. He only plans. But his agents are numerous and splendidly organised. Is there a crime to be done, a paper to be abstracted, we will say, a house to be rifled, a man to be removed – the word is passed to the Professor, the matter is organised and carried out. The agent may be caught. In that case money is found for his bail or his defence. But the central power which uses the agent is never caught – never so much as suspected. This was the organization which I deduced, Watson, and which I devoted my whole energy to exposing and breaking up.’
Sherlock Holmes
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