Sherlock Holmes, Ned Beaumont, and Dr. Gregory House
After today’s class I naturally ran back home and checked out IMDB for some references of film noir. I never really got anything too good, but then I got to thinking of current pop culture references to 50’s-detective-sherlock-holmesy type icons (whew!) and came to a sort of obvious conclusion:
Dr. Gregory House from House, MD.
Ok, before everyone logs away from this page hear me out:
He solves cases (ok…, medical ones), he has a crutch of a gimp leg (and a general sour demeanor because of it), and actually… the character is (according to creator David Shore) based off of Sherlock Holmes. Holmes, in turn, was actually (according to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) based on a doctor he knew while studying medicine, a Dr. Bell, whose specialty was diagnosis, similar to Houses’. Couldn’t help but post that fun trivia, sorry if that made everyones head spin.
Anyway, here is short video (about 5 minutes) of House explaining his disability. I’ll post a bit more later this weekend on another topic I have yet to cover: Heart of Darkness. 🙂
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