Dracula, Dorian Gray, and Holmes

[mightymads]

There was a great darkness at the end of that century: Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, and Holmes—they are all rather dark creatures. But the thing that I find most complicated about him is to get across this kind of the brilliance of the brain. Hence the hair straight back, trying to look like the drawings that used to accompany the Strand Magazine, and the white make-up. I did a very white make-up to try to make myself look very pale and aesthetic.
—Jeremy Brett

It's rather curious and telling that he places Dracula, Dorian Gray, and Holmes into the same row 😉

Comments

[senmut]

Quintessential character Icons, all of them... and I can actually see an argument for why Holmes fits within that class. But I'm very scattered on wits due to illness, so can't quite phrase myself well.

[mightymads]

Get well soon!

[luthienberen]

Very interesting! Yet Jeremy Brett captured the essence of Holmes (and for me the essence of that era of Victorian history - the closing decades of the century and period where so much change had occurred with greater upheavals in the horizon). Now I need to watch more Granada - ah, later in the week when I'm more relaxed!

[mightymads]

It is interesting! Especially considering that Jeremy played both Dorian Gray and Dracula :)