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Woke Sherlock Holmes series in Netflix

posted 5 years ago by kuku (3510)
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Guess the argument:
https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-12-19/netflix-sherlock-holmes-show/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Irregulars
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10893694/

In a nutshell: Sherlock Holmes and John Watson are a couple of privileged stupid evil middle-aged white men. Fortunately, there's a multicultural racially diverse gang that are the ones that solve the crimes while the old white men (Holmes and Watson) take the credit.

When I read 'Netflix' and 'Sherlock Holmes', first thing I thought: either (1) they make Holmes black, (2) they make him a woman, or (3) they keep him white but they make him stupid.

Option 3 was correct.

Holy shit, modern Hollywood has become so damn predictable.

[–] rocklyn80 (665) 5 years ago

My guess was they were going to be a bi-racial transgendered couple, with an adopted asian child, otherwise it just wouldnt sell in this pretentious hollywood era we wound up in

[–] kuku (3510) 5 years ago

Yeap, right now every movie/series remake is just about one of this:

1. Race swapping (His Dark Materials, Witcher, the Little Blackmeid)
2. Gender/Trans swapping (Doctor Who, Dracula)
3. Keep the white original, make him stupid/evil, introduce new diverse character that solve the day (this one, Thor, Luke Skywalker in new Star Wars)

You don't need to guess, just being aware of the these are the "creative" options in modern cinematography, you can't be wrong.

[–] PaladinNJ (21772) 5 years ago

They've already done stupid Sherlock Holmes:
https://moviechat.org/tt0096454/Without-a-Clue

[–] kuku (3510) 5 years ago

That's a Mel Brook's style comedy. This series is not supposed to be a spoof comedy.

That's like saying that new Star Wars trilogy is OK because the characters look like the ones in Spaceballs. And yeap, there's a lot of similarities between Disney's Star Wars and Spaceballs, but again, the new Star Wars movies are not supposed to be spoof movies.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 5 years ago

Why do they bother to go to the trouble to make expensive sets and clothing based on the 19th century and then carry on with their colour blind casting agenda, it’s pointless and a waste of money trying to be authentic then blowing it by going all woke.

I somehow doubt the Baker Street Boys will look like this: https://webs.bcp.org/sites/vcleary/ModernWorldHistoryTextbook/IndustrialRevolution/Images/child-labor.jpg