Benedict Cumberbatch News

[J.P.]

WATCH NOW!

[J.P.]

Geez, it is so weird to know exactly where this takes place.

[sfmpco]

In case you missed it... here's the Adobe Summit talk:

 

[sittything]

That hair is not Arcadia-approved.

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

To short and no curl......meh.

[J.P.]

The talk is great. I have been listening to this at work, had a good alibi saying this is the Adobe Summit (relevant for work) 

 

Another funny effect - places you have been to belong to your internal map of the world. It feels different when you think of them.

I was walking beside the hall at ExCel twice a day during this weekend. Have seen the whole set being built through a huge glass wall and the banners hanging all over the place. Should have stayed there. :D Like his hair like this - much better than the sleek hairstyle. It makes him younger.

[Inge l-w]

Who gives a cent for the hair, the talk is just great! Or are we going into another round of Byronic locks that are losing their credibility as their victim grows older?

[sittything]

Sadly, I cannot listen to the talk until later... too long.  :( 

 

 

[Boton]

 Or are we going into another round of Byronic locks that are losing their credibility as their victim grows older?

 

I would like to see Sherlock always have a bit more hair than this as a nod to the "Byronic locks," but BC can't really carry off the full curly do any more.  He looks so much older than he did even a couple of years ago, that maybe it's time for Sherlock to embrace a more middle aged hair do.

 

Just as long as he doesn't go all the way to Jeremy Brett, I'm fine. 

[besleybean]

Surely only Jeremy Brett could do that!

[Inge l-w]

YEP! Absolutely, certainly, totally, utterly YEP! I do love the modern version, but for me, James Bond will always be Sean Connery and Sherlock Holmes will be Jeremy Brett, with a smattering of Basil Rathbone, for fun and improbable cases. I love to watch BC, as Khan, as Turing, as Pitt the Younger, as Sherlock, but they should never have waited this long! (Evil snigger,

[sittything]

I would like to see Sherlock always have a bit more hair than this as a nod to the "Byronic locks," but BC can't really carry off the full curly do any more.  He looks so much older than he did even a couple of years ago, that maybe it's time for Sherlock to embrace a more middle aged hair do.

 

He does.  :(  It makes me sad.  I may have to start a new rewatch... an homage to curls.

[sittything]

YEP! Absolutely, certainly, totally, utterly YEP! I do love the modern version, but for me, James Bond will always be Sean Connery and Sherlock Holmes will be Jeremy Brett, with a smattering of Basil Rathbone, for fun and improbable cases. I love to watch BC, as Khan, as Turing, as Pitt the Younger, as Sherlock, but they should never have waited this long! (Evil snigger,

 

It's funny how we latch onto certain people in certain roles.  I suppose because I've never seen anything else Sherlock, BC will always be Sherlock to me.   Sitty's first Sherlock.

 

[Bakerstreet Irregular]

Oh I don't know. My father had cancer when he was in his sixties and he lost all his hair due to chemo treatments. When he got into his 70s his hair grew back. Fuller, longer and with more then a little wave. He looked fabulous. Very distinguished. I'm sure BC could still carry if off very well.

[sfmpco]

I really never bothered with the other Sherlock Holmes versions.  They were just stuffy old British dramas to me with stuffy actors delivering their lines in a stuffy manner not at all realistic.  Although I do have a fondness for The Seven Percent Solution simply because I'm a long time Vanessa Redgrave fan.  To me the current modern version has no equal.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Just as long as he doesn't go all the way to Jeremy Brett, I'm fine.

 

I don't think Jeremy Brett normally wore his hair like that, it was just his Victorian-Holmes hairstyle.  Apparently we'll see a similar style on Mr. Cumberbatch in the Victorian Special, but after that -- unless "the wet look" comes back -- I tend to doubt that his Sherlock will ever sport such a 'do.

 

[Arcadia]

PRESENTING

SIX ACTORS OVER 40 WHO LOOK GREAT WITH LONG HAIR

 

THIS HAIR HAS BEEN APPROVED BY ARCADIA

[sittything]

[SherlockedCAMPer]

PRESENTING

 

SIX ACTORS OVER 40 WHO LOOK GREAT WITH LONG HAIR

 

THIS HAIR HAS BEEN APPROVED BY ARCADIA

 

Agreed even though I have no idea who #3 is (never watched anything he was in even if I have heard of it) and had to do a double take on High Jackman (Sorry used to his look as Wolverine).

[sittything]

#3 was Sayed in Lost

[SherlockedCAMPer]

Never watched Lost. I've watched SVU on and off over the years but not the episode he was in. But he does look good with that hair.

[Inge l-w]

Long straight or wavy hair, not particularly good-looking on any of them, and all with a different shape of face, more strong-jawed and rather more square-faced, than BC. And the original of the illustrations, with his slicked-back hair was considered one of the handsomest men of his generation, was Walter Paget!

Stuffy British actors, yeah, right! Especially the pixie-like flexibility, pure animal vitality and almost a ethereal panther-like grace of JB coupled with his eloquent hand gestures. Even BC himself said in the commentary to TGG that he had watched Rathbone and Brett before he decided on his own mannerisms.

[jadpdr]

Instead of debating, why not try using BC's actual face in one of those applications which let you try on different looks and styles? Then it will become obvious that his face cannot support some looks and not look slightly ridiculous. Game over for the Byronic curls, will rewatch Series 1 ASAP!

[besleybean]

Holy Mary.

[Boton]

Long straight or wavy hair, not particularly good-looking on any of them, and all with a different shape of face, more strong-jawed and rather more square-faced, than BC. And the original of the illustrations, with his slicked-back hair was considered one of the handsomest men of his generation, was Walter Paget!

Stuffy British actors, yeah, right! Especially the pixie-like flexibility, pure animal vitality and almost a ethereal panther-like grace of JB coupled with his eloquent hand gestures. Even BC himself said in the commentary to TGG that he had watched Rathbone and Brett before he decided on his own mannerisms.

 

 

 Then it will become obvious that his face cannot support some looks and not look slightly ridiculous. Game over for the Byronic curls, will rewatch Series 1 ASAP!

 

Well, I think you always have a soft spot for your first Holmes.    Mine, as I've said, was House, so I'm always amazed at how kind and likable our Sherlock is by comparison!

 

It is definitely a question of how face shape plays with hair style, because yes, there are many men over 40 who can pull off longer locks if they can grow them.  But, in my opinion only, BC's curls only play well when he looks very youthful, and lately he has grown out of that ability to look 10 years younger than his chronological age on occasion.  It happens.  Perhaps if he gained a bit of weight and it went to his face, that would improve things, but I don't know.  But I think the "Byronic curls" would look like someone trying to hold onto fleeting youth at this point.  Better to just work with what you've got.