不朽神探：夏洛克·福爾摩斯傳奇

The Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes

Host： You don’t need to be a 1）“high-functioning sociopath” to 2）deduce the origins of this tune. The theme music， of course， to the hit BBC series， Sherlock. It’s yet another reboot of the characters Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created some 130 years ago. Victorian it is not. The Sherlock Holmes， played by Benedict Cumberbatch， is 3）tech-savvy， he fits right into modern-day London， 4）emoticons and all.

Zach Dundas （Writer）： You sit Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in the sitting room at 221B Baker Street， waiting for someone to show up with a mystery， and， from there， anything can happen. So， if you’re looking for a format in which to tell a story or， you know， create some sort of adventure for a character， this is a tailor-made set-up that has really never been improved upon in the mystery genre.

Host： Two of the most memorable Sherlock Holmes were played by Basil Rathbone and Jeremy Brett， but they’re very different. What did each bring to it that made Sherlock unique？

Zach： One thing that’s fascinating about Sherlock Holmes is that every generation seems to reinvent him and Dr. Watson for their own needs， and so if you look at the different Sherlocks that have come along over the years， you can kind of see what the popular culture of the time was interested in. Basil Rathbone and 5）Nigel Bruce in the 1930s and 40s made a series of movies， in which he was almost like a magical creature that brought a little bit of the Victorian era into modern times， and， in doing so， created a sort of new way for Britain， and by extension， America， to take on the Nazis and to take on the challenges of that time. Jeremy Brett， on the other hand， was cast in a…extremely 6）authentic version of the character made in the 1980s， but you can see in his portrayal a high degree of 7）neuroticism. They really emphasize the 8）cocaine use， which was very briefly mentioned in Arthur Conan Doyle’s original stories， so you can see what the 1980s was interested in.

Host： In…we’re at the point now where Holmes is getting reinvented weekly， monthly online. People are just sort of 9）imbuing the character with whoever they want him to be.

Zach： There’s an amazing amount of 10）fan fiction being written about Sherlock Holmes， and it’s fascinating because it’s being written[in] many different languages， every major language. Huge amounts of this material are piling up online， and the fan fiction is written about different versions of the character， so there’s this incredible sort of 11）prismatic view of the character provided through fan fiction that is something that we’ve really never seen before， uh， and is， I think， an 12）intriguing new direction for how a character could evolve in popular culture.

Host： We’re seeing Sherlock Holmes is redone over and over again， but， I mean， wouldn’t some people argue that， you know， Shakespeare created just about every other story that isn’t Sherlock Holmes？

Zach： Well， certainly you could look at Shakespeare’s characters， you could look at Jane Austen’s characters. 13）Frankenstein has been frequently reinvented， of course， but it’s rare to see a character that spans the entire 14）breadth of modern popular culture. I mean， Sherlock Holmes was invented by Conan Doyle really very early on in the era of mass publishing and mass literary audience， and so you can see over the 130 years the character has existed， an almost laboratorylike 15）demonstration of how our culture works and how our culture evolves， and how we like to take stories from previous eras， reinvent them， remix them and redo them to match the needs and desires of today.

主持人：你并不需要擁有“高功能反社會人格”才能推理出以下這段旋律的出處。沒錯，這正是BBC當紅劇集《神探夏洛克》的主題音樂。阿瑟·柯南·道爾爵士在將近130年前創作的人物被再一次搬上熒屏。這次完全摒棄了維多利亞風格。本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇所飾演的夏洛克·福爾摩斯精通科技，與當代倫敦完全融為一體——表情符號什么的用得可溜呢。

扎克·鄧達斯（作家）：你讓夏洛克·福爾摩斯與華生醫生坐在貝克街221B的起居室里，等著什么人帶著一樁謎案找上門，由此可以展開各種各樣的故事。所以，如果你要找個講故事的標準模板，你知道，又或者想給人物創作一個冒險故事，這就是為你量身定做的故事背景——在神秘文學當中，從未有過比這更好的設定。

主持人：其中兩任最讓人難忘的福爾摩斯分別由巴茲爾·雷斯伯恩和杰里米·布雷特飾演，但是他們倆的形象截然不同。他們各自做了些什么讓福爾摩斯如此特別呢？

扎克：福爾摩斯很有魅力的一點在于，每一代人似乎都會為了當時的社會需求重新塑造他和華生醫生。因此，如果你看看這么多年來出現過的各個夏洛克，就可以從他們身上大致看到當時的流行文化關注的內容。巴茲爾·雷斯伯恩與尼格爾·布魯斯在上世紀三四十年代拍了一系列電影，影片當中的福爾摩斯簡直就像什么魔法生物似的，給現代生活帶來了一點維多利亞風情。這個混搭創造了一種新的形式，激勵著英國人——推而廣之，也包括美國人一同抗擊納粹黨，直面那個年代的重重挑戰。……