＃英语学习帮帮团＃英文书籍阅读团——1月汇总帖

一月份只有两周：

第一周：读书笔记

【TS读书】《了不起的盖茨比》&英语书籍阅读团打卡1

23号更新了我的读书笔记，并且附上了英文简单的review。算是完成了我第一周的任务。

第二周：一篇BBC history的文章

The most famous detective book, 《Sherlock Holmes》, I have read when I was in middle school. I still remembered that there was one day, I was too scared to cry at home by myself reading the book. The Movie, and the BBC TV-series, are two of my favourite movies as well. 

Here, BBC History Magazine talks about the 11 things we probably didn’t know about Sherlock Holmes. 

1) The first actor to take on the role of Sherlock Holmes in any official capacity was the American William Gillette, whose 1899 stage play was adapted from a script by Conan Doyle himself. 

2) Gillette was also one of the first to annoy the purists by introducing a love interest for Holmes. He telegraphed Conan Doyle and told him that he would like to marry him - Sherlock. 

3) Holmes, having survived the Reichenback Falls, refused to die with his creator. The first film came as early as 1900. 

4) One of the oldest surviving film adaptations of Conan Doyle’s work dates to 1916.  But later the English duo of Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruch in the 1940s became identified in the public imagination as the Holmes and Watson. They made 14 Sherlock Holmes films between 1939 - 1946. 

5) The Adventures of ChubbLock Homes, an early comic strip, appeared in Comic Cuts magazine as earl as 1893, and the urge to parody the great detective has never gone away. 

6) Even in his early days, Sherlock Holmes was helping manufacturers to sell their products. e.g. furniture cream, smoker, mouthwash, breakfast cereal, photocopiers…. 

7) With the growth of television after the Second World War, the Baker Street detective was quick to adapt to the new medium. However, the new actor Alan Wheatley was not a fan of Holmes. He said:” In my opinion he just seemed to be an insufferably prig”.

8) Peter Cushing appeared as Holmes on the BBC in the 1960s. He took up the pipe again, playing an ageing Sherlock in two TV films known together as Sherlock Holmes the Golden Years. 

9) For many people, the definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes was by Jeremy Brett, for Granada Television, in the 1980s and 1990s. Brett appeared in 41 episodes. However, it didn’t make Brett the most prolific Holmes. Clive Merrison, who played the detective completed the full canon - dramatisations of all 60 of Conan Doyle’s Holmes stories and novels. 

10) And so to Benedict Cumberbatch’s Sherlock, in which Andrew Scott rose to prominence playing Moriarty. Scott has appeared in the new James Bond film, Spectre. 

11) The actor playing Dr Wason to Roger Moore’s Holmes was Patrick Macnee, most famous as John Steed in The Avengers. 

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