Both The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the movie The Hound of the Baskervilles created by David Attwood are two artworks that tell very similar stories. Despite this, there are still many differences between the book and movie, such as in the order of events, or the portrayal of key characters. Parts of the movie that differed from the books made no significant changes to the story compared to how Doyle told it, and the similarities reinforced your confidence of it being the original story.
The portrayals of Sherlock Holmes’s character in the book and movie are not the exact same. For instance, in the beginning of the movie Holmes was made to seem arrogant, and ruder to Watson and people in general. Following this, Holmes was much kinder and courteous relative to the book. Due to this, viewers were made to be less fond of Holmes’s character, it seemed as if the director was desperate to save Holmes’s likability by making him a lot nicer near the end. This difference had a big influence on the tone of the movie, as it made Holmes seem so uptight that he was unapproachable.
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Firstly, in the film, he is seen as a smoker, similarly to the book where he smokes on several occasions. In the film, Sherlock is seen to be very perceptive and observant of even minor things, likewise to the book where he proclaims that observance is his ‘special hobby’. The movie does not fail to highlight the important traits Sherlock has that make him such a popular