Good point--maybe that is what made the written stories so wonderful--the understatement. Mr. Holmes always wanted to just stick to the facts without embellishment.
Yours in cosutming, Lisa A On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:03:33 -0500 Elena House <exst...@gmail.com> writes: > I watched an interview with Robert Downey Jr. when the first one came out, > and he made the excellent point that there actually was a great deal of > action in the SH stories... it was just written in a very glazed over sort > of way. "They gave chase," or, "After a struggle, they apprehended the > culprit," and so forth. (I paraphrase.) The action's there, just not > described in the kind of dramatic detail that modern novelists indulge in. > Not even when there's a waterfall involved. > > -E House _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
