Benedict Cumberbatch Plays Sherlock Holmes Like a Man Who Is Secretly Terrified of Being Ordinary.
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Benedict Cumberbatch Plays Sherlock Holmes Like a Man Who Is Secretly Terrified of Being Ordinary.
There is an interpretation of Sherlock Holmes that most actors avoid because it makes the character harder to like: the idea that the arrogance is defensive.
That the reason Holmes cannot tolerate mediocrity in others is because mediocrity — the slow pace, the missed details, the sloppy reasoning — represents a version of the world in which his particular abilities don't matter.
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Cumberbatch plays this. Not loudly. It's underneath everything, most visible in the moments between scenes — the flatness that descends when a case is resolved, the deliberate self-medication through stimulation when there's nothing to solve.
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