Hans Zimmer’s experimental score, featuring out-of-tune pianos and banjos, perfectly captures the disheveled genius of the main character.

Before 2009, Sherlock Holmes was often portrayed as a stiff, elderly gentleman in a deerstalker hat. Guy Ritchie’s version, starring as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, stripped away the Victorian politeness to reveal the gritty, chaotic, and brilliant mind underneath.

The success of this film paved the way for the 2011 sequel, A Game of Shadows , and helped spark a global "Sherlock-mania" that likely influenced the BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary . Even years later, fans are still holding out hope for a third installment featuring the Downey-Law duo.

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Hans Zimmer’s experimental score, featuring out-of-tune pianos and banjos, perfectly captures the disheveled genius of the main character.

Before 2009, Sherlock Holmes was often portrayed as a stiff, elderly gentleman in a deerstalker hat. Guy Ritchie’s version, starring as Holmes and Jude Law as Dr. John Watson, stripped away the Victorian politeness to reveal the gritty, chaotic, and brilliant mind underneath.

The success of this film paved the way for the 2011 sequel, A Game of Shadows , and helped spark a global "Sherlock-mania" that likely influenced the BBC’s Sherlock and CBS’s Elementary . Even years later, fans are still holding out hope for a third installment featuring the Downey-Law duo.