In your blogpost titled: 26Feb2016 (and shared with me by the end of class): Explain how you know that the movie *A Study in Scarlet*, we watched in class is not authored by Arthur Doyle. [The movie purchased only the title, not the story from Doyle.] Use your knowledge of the Sherlock Holmes we have read this quarter, with the movie. What is different about Sherlock and his methods? What is different about the setting? What is different about the characters? Support your opinions with evidence. You may use your notes, but not Google.
A Study in Scarlet is a screenplay written by someone other than Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The title of the movie was Doyle's own creation, but it was from a previous book he had written. The content in the movie was written by another man. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson deal with multiple murders that relate to a weatlhy and high standard class. The suspects are a lawyer, another upper class woman, and a widowed lady from the upper class. There is a woman who becomes a target of the killer and she tries to get Dr. Watson and Mr. Holmes to protect her before it is too late.
In A Study in Scarlet, it is easy to tell that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not write the screenplay. Two things that make it obvious are that all of Holmes' stories are written in first-person point of view; this movie is written in more of a third-person point of view. Also, Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson usually deduce more at the beginning of the story, but the started the movie off by Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson sitting down at the table eating breakfast then Mrs. Eileen, whose husband had just died, came and asked for them to help protect her and figure out who is doing the crime.
Sherlock Holmes is different because he is not quite as concerned to this murder case as he is in Doyles' books. Maybe he is not worried so much because he does not like the wealthy class but he does not seem in a hurry to solve this case. Holmes' is more observant in the books rather than this story. In the movie, the writer got straight to the case and there was not much foreshadowing to be done. The books have a lot of foreshadowing because it is more interesting and there are many more details.
