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This is Robert Downey Jr. as Sherlock Holmes in Guy Ritchie's in-progress movie.
This is how Arthur Conan Doyle described him in A Study in Scarlet:
"In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination."
The first person who sees anything of that in the above picture gets a gold star, and first dibs on smacking Guy Ritchie with a dead fish.
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Oddly enough, Jude Law as Dr. Watson seems a bit closer to the mark, even if no respectable Victorian doctor would be caught dead in a shirt of such cheap fabric that his unmentionables showed through the fabric....
This is how Arthur Conan Doyle described him in A Study in Scarlet:
"In height he was rather over six feet, and so excessively lean that he seemed to be considerably taller. His eyes were sharp and piercing, save during those intervals of torpor to which I have alluded; and his thin, hawk-like nose gave his whole expression an air of alertness and decision. His chin, too, had the prominence and squareness which mark the man of determination."
The first person who sees anything of that in the above picture gets a gold star, and first dibs on smacking Guy Ritchie with a dead fish.
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Oddly enough, Jude Law as Dr. Watson seems a bit closer to the mark, even if no respectable Victorian doctor would be caught dead in a shirt of such cheap fabric that his unmentionables showed through the fabric....
