Chapter 272 The First Difficulty of Rewriting

As his mental willpower gradually grew stronger, Lin You became more and more adept at using the quill pen; as long as the content to be rewritten was not too difficult or complicated, he could easily bear the mental burden of rewriting.

The golden ink accumulated over the past six months was splashed in the air, transforming into one carefully crafted word after another.

"Mycroft's power is a double-edged sword; although he does not say it, this powerful man has used his power to help his brother more than once. At the same time, for some 'special' cases, Mycroft will switch sides and become an obstructionist in solving the case. As for using his power to prevent Dr. Watson from recording the truth of certain cases, it is only natural."

At this point, all the basic work for rewriting the worldview of the Sherlock Holmes story has been completed. Lin You stopped writing and scattered the words into the world of the original novel.

The big world above head crashed down and completed the fusion process without any hindrance.

At the same time, several other versions of the Sherlock Holmes story world also had a chain reaction. The most intense reaction was the early film and television versions; most of them strictly followed the original novel content and there were no obvious contradictions or conflicts. So when the novel story was integrated, they also entered the integration track.

A portal opened at the right time. On the other side of the door was the second story world planned to go to, which was also the first difficulty of the rewriting task - the movie version of "Sherlock Holmes" starring Robert Downey Jr.

This version of the movie is very different from the original novel. To be more precise, this movie series was not adapted from the original novel at the beginning, but from a comic book.

Comic book author Lionel Wigram adapted the Sherlock Holmes novel stories to create comics, and then worked with a film company as a producer to adapt the comics into a script and developed the "Sherlock Holmes" movie.

After two adaptations, you can imagine how different the story content is from the original novel. Can you believe that Sherlock Holmes used Wing Chun when fighting with others in the movie?

The most annoying thing is that after the double adaptation, the story content is very different from the original novel, but the time background is still set in London in the late 19th century; the timeline basically overlaps with Holmes' experience in the original novel.

At the same point in time, there is also a famous detective named Sherlock Holmes, living at 221 Baker Street; he has the same friends and assistants around him, and his enemies also have the same names, but the process of investigating the case is completely different.

To put it in an analogy, this feeling is similar to the problem of two Athenas existing in the big world at the same time. And Lin You came to the world supported by comics and movies with the task of solving the problem.

Although it is difficult, the writer already has a draft in mind.

It was still London, and the river was still smelly; the author did not rush to write, but stood on the clock tower of Westminster Palace and watched the final battle of the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie.

In this film series, the biggest adaptation is that the villains' conspiracies all point to international politics, diplomacy and even war; compared to the content of the original novel, the overall structure of the story is undoubtedly much larger.

The villain of the first film attempts to massacre his opponents in the British Parliament and then lead his supporters to rebuild the British Empire.

The villain of the second film tries to start a world war in the last few years of the 19th century in order to open up a larger arms market.

These cases are serious political and diplomatic scandals, and the authorities of various countries have good reasons to block information. So, it is only natural that Mycroft Holmes uses his power to cover up the truth, right? Lin You picked up the quill pen and wrote new words along the foreshadowing of the character Mycroft: "The Duke of Blackwood's massacre plot in the Palace of Westminster shocked the top leaders of the British Empire; this political conspiracy that would have made the British Empire lose face in the world was made invisible by the "accidental" efforts of several private detectives.

A member of parliament who witnessed the whole process said in an interview that the whole thing was like a "funny clown show" and mocked Blackwood as a "crappy liar and self-righteous paranoid".

But no one knew how thrillingly this congressman escaped death, and how he was personally urged by Mycroft Holmes to memorize a long manuscript in order to cope with the interview.

Of course, no one would know that the two private detectives who "accidentally" uncovered the conspiracy were taken to the palace, received long-term "patient" and "meticulous" instructions, and accepted the "suggestions" put forward by the royal family and the government in a "friendly" atmosphere. The truth was buried, leaving no trace in newspapers, novels, or diaries.

All people saw were the details, some sporadic incidents that were exposed to the world early in the investigation process; in order to cater to the content of the congressman's interview, the media even portrayed Sherlock Holmes as a humorous and likable image when reporting the case.

To those who knew Mr. Holmes personally and to those who knew him, the description in the newspapers was ridiculous—but no one cared what they thought.”

The only purpose of these long paragraphs is to explain why the story of the first "Sherlock Holmes" movie is significantly different from the original novel.

Such a major political scandal must be covered up. Blackwood can only and must be a "bad liar and a funny clown".

In order to cover up the scandal, the whole story was processed by the media into an absurd drama full of black humor; as for Dr. Watson, it is natural that he would not record even a single word about the case.

If Dr. Watson didn't write it, it naturally means that Sir Conan Doyle didn't write it.

So, this is a case that actually happened, but was covered up for various reasons, so much so that even the original novel did not mention it.

After such an arrangement, there will be no logical conflict with the original novel story when it is integrated into the big world; at the same time, the image of Sherlock Holmes played by Robert Downey Jr. can be successfully integrated with the image in the novel.

The golden text disappeared, and the time in the movie world was artificially "accelerated". Everything was like a flash of light, and quickly "fast-forwarded" to the timeline of the second movie.

Unlike the almost original villain in the first movie, the villain in the second movie is Holmes's nemesis, Professor Moriarty, who is also regarded as the originator of super criminals in literary history.

The only similarity between the two films is that the plots of the films have also been extensively adapted compared to the original novels.

The Moriarty in the novel is "only" related to half of the criminal activities in London; the Moriarty in the movie is a tyrant who wants to provoke a world war.

One is a criminal and the other is a war criminal.

(End of this chapter)