{"id":1278,"date":"2010-01-02T05:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2010-01-02T05:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:55:00","slug":"our-secret-order-will-rule-the-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1278","title":{"rendered":"Our Secret Order Will Rule the Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is it with secret societies and magical orders in the movies these days? The Da Vinci Code<\/a>. National Treasure: Book of Secrets<\/a><\/i>. . . I could go on.<\/p>\n

Now M. and I are back from watching the new Sherlock Holmes<\/a><\/i>, which felt like “screenplay by Dan Brown<\/a> and Dion Fortune<\/a>, from the stories by Arthur Conan Doyle<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The villain, Lord Blackwood, is a cross between Aleister Crowley <\/a>and Benito Mussolini<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Historians of costume, if you are out there: do not Irene Adler’s dresses with the elaborate bustles seem about 15-20 years out of date for the time of the movie? (I date it to the late 1880s, since Tower Bridge<\/a> is under construction, assuming that is the bridge in the movie.<\/p>\n

Good movie though, with lots of little bits of cinematic homage to “the canon<\/a>,” such as the pocket watch with pawnbrokers’ marks or the steam launch on the Thames.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is it with secret societies and magical orders in the movies these days? The Da Vinci Code. National Treasure: Book of Secrets. . . I could go on. 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