Book 2 Review 1

I would say. The specific challenges the director would have trouble incorporating was Dr. Watsons view point since its is in first person the story is written  and every thing we see is in his eyes. The movie would need to incorporate his point of view as well as bring his character to life, since he rarely is shown.  also another challenge the director faces is how to work with the dialogue. During the book, for example when Sherlock and Watson first meet Mr. Sholot, their whole interaction is the three of them cramped into a musty study , whilst Mr. Sholoto tells them of the treasure that is being graded and caused Mary's father to be murderderd, linking the whole story  to the Sign of Four and Shelock Holmes into a deeper mystery. I fell it would be very boarding as an audience to watch the dialogue. With this being said the author must then choose do I show the scene of the treasure, and how it is hidden in a completely new scene ? Do I have the scene start as Holmes and Watson visualizing the scene in front of them as a small semitransparent scene unfolding becoming clearer as Holmes is putting the scene together in his head? Or do I just cut to a new scene with Sholot as a beginning over voice? All of these things will need to be analyzed and changed by the director to better adapt the book into a movie. With this being said I find this scene very essential to be kept because it illustrates the possible reason for the crime, due to. The treasure being hidden in this scene and even Sholot, goes into details of how Mary's father died. Which is the begging mystery of this case ( those as this scene illustrates her fathers death becomes the least of their worries.)   I also find they need to keep the scene where Sherlock is investigating Mr. Sholot,s brothers death, because the clues come to be very important to the case and if the directer were to cut out the scene then people would be wondering how his solving of the crime came to be. However right after he investigates the death,Sherlock finds a trail of ash that he believes can lead to the killer.He then sends Watson of to get a dog from a near by shop and Take Miss. Mary home . I felt the whole scene if put in a movie to be very long and a bit out of order if I was the director of the film I would cut out the scene of Watson getting the dog leading it to be that the police arrived with one and they happened to use it to track the killer. The whole back story to. Me. Just seemed useless . as for the scene with taking Miss. Mary home, I fell that it should be kept,for the sack of romance so that girls are attracted to enjoy the movie, and that it adds a bit lighter side to the story line, instead of just dark rainy and gruesome mysteries.  Though with the deletion of Watson getting the Dog and now having no excuse to take Mary home I fell that as a director I would have him take her home before the investigated the murder after they found the body though. So that as an audience we get a break from the murder, and have the mystery of what will be found at the crime scene, knowing that smoothing important must be there if the director would cause a break.

Watson taking Mary home: