Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia
Jan. 29th, 2012 11:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
katikatWatched A Scandal in Belgravia with the audio commentary. Man, I totally forgot just how beautiful the cinematography is in this show. I will have to make a series screen-cap entries of my favorite scenes, the way I did it with XMFC.
The audio commentary was with Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Sue Vertue, Benedict Cumberbatch and Lara Pulver. Gosh, Benedict has a beautiful voice, it's so lovely... *_*
-- The scene with the boomerang - for the scene transition they had to move a fireplace right in the middle of the valley and people who went by went all "O_o What the...?!" LOL!
-- The scene in the Buckingham Palace, they talked about how John and Sherlock were already deeply bonded there, they still had their quirks but they were just having so much fun together. Later on, at the very end of the episode, they also mentioned that whenever they took John out of the equation, Sherlock suddenly became much more vulnerable. Aww...
-- The scene with the sheet! LOL! Benedict said that in one take, he overstepped the sheet's limit and went down like a cut tree. That he literally went "CROOMP" down because he couldn't lift his arms and everybody LOL'd like crazy.
-- Benedict admitted that he loved to fiddle with props and that he really should stop doing that. He also cringed at how fake his violin playing looked, even though he knew a bit how to play.
-- Lara and Sue LOL'd when they talked about the orgasmic moaning Irene programmed into Sherlock's phone, that they made her record it over and over and over again! Also, the writers loved how John teased Sherlock about it and how Sherlock behaved like a teenager, hiding behind his newspaper!
-- And Sherlock's hair! Benedict loves to swim but they feared the chlorine would turn his hair green!
-- The scene in the morgue, when Mycroft offered Sherlock a cigarette - at first, Benedict enjoyed having a smoke but then they had to do it again and again and he actually got a nicotine poisoning. And in the morning they had to film the scene where Sherlock broke the 007 code and he was so out of it, Martin Freeman and Lara Pulver had to be really patient with him.
-- And then the part where John yelled at Irene for playing dead - Benedict said that it was an amazing scene that showed John's love for Sherlock. Erm, MAN love, not LOVE love - and someone suggested they should call it "movve" :))
-- Also, they all love Martin Freeman's reactions. Whenever there's a funny line, they always look at Martin to see how he will react.
-- And when Sherlock found Irene sleeping in his bed, they talked about Sherlock's "woman sensing nose" and that they decided to really show it was her, otherwise it could've easily been a shaved chimp that broke into the flat, LOL!
-- They also joked about Doyle's lack of continuity and how they loved poking fun at it.
-- The scariest part of the filming? The scene where Mycroft waited for John in front of the shop in Baker Street. The London riots were really close and the police warned them that they would have to get out of there before nightfall. And then the raining machine stopped working and the cops told them to run - and they did. And it was really scary.
It's too bad that The Reichenbach Fall doesn't have a commentary of its own - but I think they did it on purpose because they didn't want to accidentally reveal anything. Still, it's too bad. Especially the emotive ending would've deserved it.
But! I really loved this one. Listening to them talking, you can feel how much they enjoy working on this show. And even though I really, really hate the long hiatuses between the seasons, Steven Moffat is right in one thing: this way, every episode is something special, a real event, because with Sherlock it's all about quality, not quantity.
The audio commentary was with Steven Moffat, Mark Gatiss, Sue Vertue, Benedict Cumberbatch and Lara Pulver. Gosh, Benedict has a beautiful voice, it's so lovely... *_*
-- The scene with the boomerang - for the scene transition they had to move a fireplace right in the middle of the valley and people who went by went all "O_o What the...?!" LOL!
-- The scene in the Buckingham Palace, they talked about how John and Sherlock were already deeply bonded there, they still had their quirks but they were just having so much fun together. Later on, at the very end of the episode, they also mentioned that whenever they took John out of the equation, Sherlock suddenly became much more vulnerable. Aww...
-- The scene with the sheet! LOL! Benedict said that in one take, he overstepped the sheet's limit and went down like a cut tree. That he literally went "CROOMP" down because he couldn't lift his arms and everybody LOL'd like crazy.
-- Benedict admitted that he loved to fiddle with props and that he really should stop doing that. He also cringed at how fake his violin playing looked, even though he knew a bit how to play.
-- Lara and Sue LOL'd when they talked about the orgasmic moaning Irene programmed into Sherlock's phone, that they made her record it over and over and over again! Also, the writers loved how John teased Sherlock about it and how Sherlock behaved like a teenager, hiding behind his newspaper!
-- And Sherlock's hair! Benedict loves to swim but they feared the chlorine would turn his hair green!
-- The scene in the morgue, when Mycroft offered Sherlock a cigarette - at first, Benedict enjoyed having a smoke but then they had to do it again and again and he actually got a nicotine poisoning. And in the morning they had to film the scene where Sherlock broke the 007 code and he was so out of it, Martin Freeman and Lara Pulver had to be really patient with him.
-- And then the part where John yelled at Irene for playing dead - Benedict said that it was an amazing scene that showed John's love for Sherlock. Erm, MAN love, not LOVE love - and someone suggested they should call it "movve" :))
-- Also, they all love Martin Freeman's reactions. Whenever there's a funny line, they always look at Martin to see how he will react.
-- And when Sherlock found Irene sleeping in his bed, they talked about Sherlock's "woman sensing nose" and that they decided to really show it was her, otherwise it could've easily been a shaved chimp that broke into the flat, LOL!
-- They also joked about Doyle's lack of continuity and how they loved poking fun at it.
-- The scariest part of the filming? The scene where Mycroft waited for John in front of the shop in Baker Street. The London riots were really close and the police warned them that they would have to get out of there before nightfall. And then the raining machine stopped working and the cops told them to run - and they did. And it was really scary.
It's too bad that The Reichenbach Fall doesn't have a commentary of its own - but I think they did it on purpose because they didn't want to accidentally reveal anything. Still, it's too bad. Especially the emotive ending would've deserved it.
But! I really loved this one. Listening to them talking, you can feel how much they enjoy working on this show. And even though I really, really hate the long hiatuses between the seasons, Steven Moffat is right in one thing: this way, every episode is something special, a real event, because with Sherlock it's all about quality, not quantity.
