{"id":255677,"date":"2013-09-22T00:35:33","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T00:35:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/"},"modified":"2018-10-07T02:45:21","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T02:45:21","slug":"willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-255677 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/attachment\/255678\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"120\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho5_r2_500-150x120.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/attachment\/255679\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho1_r3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho1_r3_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho1_r3_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/attachment\/255680\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho2_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho2_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho2_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/attachment\/255681\/'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho3_500-150x150.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho3_500-150x150.gif 150w, https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho3_500-100x100.gif 100w\" sizes=\"100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/willietheplaidjacket.tumblr.com\/post\/61768630171\/mid0nz-holmesosexuality-on-mark-gatisss-camp\" target=\"_blank\">willietheplaidjacket<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mid0nz.tumblr.com\/post\/61765170135\/holmesosexuality-on-mark-gatisss-camp-mark\" target=\"_blank\">mid0nz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Holmesosexuality: On Mark Gatiss\u2019s Camp<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mark Gatiss\u2019s gay <em>Sherlock<\/em> characters and scenarios in <em>The Great Game <\/em>(in particular) are an emotional homage to Billy Wilder\u2019s film,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mid0nz.tumblr.com\/post\/31876063868\/on-billy-wilders-film-the-private-life-of\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes<\/em><\/a>. This is a film that Gatiss (an out and proudly married gay man) credits with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2010\/nov\/07\/mark-gatiss-sherlock-holmes\" target=\"_blank\">changing his life<\/a>\u00a0and claims that it was a template of sorts for him and Moffat as they conceived of <em>Sherlock<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Gatiss\u2019s version of Sherlock and John\u2019s relationship mirrors what Gatiss reads in TPLoSH\u2014 that Sherlock falls in love with John gradually over the course of their relationship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The relationship between Sherlock and Watson is treated beautifully; Sherlock effectively falls in love with him in the film, but it\u2019s so desperately unspoken. -Gatiss on TPLoSH (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2010\/nov\/07\/mark-gatiss-sherlock-holmes\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I can\u2019t help but see this scene from Sherlock when I think of Gatiss\u2019s comment about TPLoSH.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/71eb6cf9045b7ea6eafdd5c36ad8a195\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho1_r2_500.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Holmes\u2019s unspoken tenderness in\u00a0TPLoSH\u00a0is\u00a0complicated. There are two conversations about homosexuality going on simultaneously in the film: the overtly gay\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_(style)\" target=\"_blank\">campy<\/a>\u00a0performances\u00a0and plot line; and the hints that Holmes\u2019s\u00a0erotic attachments are to his own sex, hints that are <em>only<\/em> expressible because of the situations engendered by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_(style)\" target=\"_blank\">campy<\/a>\u00a0plot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There\u2019s an amazing scene [in TPLoSH] where, to get out of a situation where a Russian ballerina wants Sherlock to father her child, he claims Watson and he are gay. Watson is outraged and, when he calms down, speaks of the women all over the world who could attest to his sexuality. He says to Sherlock, \u201cYou do too, don\u2019t you?\u201d Holmes is silent, and Watson says, \u201cAm I being presumptuous? There have been women, haven\u2019t there?\u201d Holmes says, \u201cThe answer is yes \u2013 you are being presumptuous.\u201d Sensational.\u00a0-Gatiss on TPLoSH (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2010\/nov\/07\/mark-gatiss-sherlock-holmes\" target=\"_blank\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/66.media.tumblr.com\/3a0e8fbde4cdd7c2f37874f9408aa16b\/tumblr_mt4o81OK8i1rx7w9ho6_r4_250.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Humor is what Holmes has. Humor protects him. <em>Innuendo says so much and nothing at all<\/em>. Gatiss uses it masterfully in the pool scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Glad No-one Saw That<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Parallel this scene from TPLoSH to the \u201cglad-no-one-saw-that\u201d pool scene where all Sherlock can utter is that thing that John did was good. Sherlock can\u2019t express in any clearer terms (until <em>Hounds<\/em>, Gatiss\u2019s next script) his emotions over John\u2019s willingness to sacrifice his life and what the kind of love they share means. John diffuses the poolside tension with a lame joke about sex\u2014 the \u201cyou-ripping-my-clothes-off\u201d and \u201cpeople-will-talk\u201d bit. Note the grin on Sherlock\u2019s face when he says that people do little else. You get the sense that Sherlock <em>likes<\/em> the idea. The fact is that people DID see it\u2014 we, the audience, saw it (and possibly the snipers and Moriarty we can imagine). The performance was both visible and utterly private\u2014 \u00a0mocking, overt sexual expressions with a genuine unspoken erotic subtext.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But this tender dialog and demonstration of loyalty, love, and vulnerability can <em>only<\/em> arise between Sherlock and John because of the roles they play in Moriarty\u2019s campy theatrical. He\u2019s the first of them to give voice to the gay subtext overtly when he scolds Sherlock that \u201cdaddy\u2019s had enough now.\u201d (<a href=\"http:\/\/mid0nz.tumblr.com\/post\/61321744479\/whos-your-daddy-sherlock-the-origins-of-the\" target=\"_blank\">Daddy is a term overtly dripping with campy gay signification<\/a>.) And it\u2019s Moriarty who breaks the spell of the desire expressed but not said. The sexual tension between John and Sherlock cannot linger too long. Moriarty is a better joker. He\u2019s soooooo changeable and he and Sherlock to have a \u201cspecial something\u201d between them to attend to.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes on\u00a0<\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Camp_(style)\" target=\"_blank\">Camp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There are so many definitions of \u201ccamp\u201d that it can be confusing. What most people <em>can<\/em> agree on is that it\u2019s a sensibility that\u2019s got to do with homosexuality, love, and performance. Here are two useful attempts at defining this sensibility. The first expresses <em>so aptly<\/em> Gatiss\u2019s approach to <em>Sherlock<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&ldquo;You can\u2019t camp about something you don\u2019t take seriously. You\u2019re not making fun of it; you\u2019re making fun out of it. You\u2019re expressing what\u2019s basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance.&rdquo; <br \/>&#8211;\u00a0Christopher Isherwood, <em>The World in the Evening<\/em> (1954)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>In American writer Susan Sontag\u2019s 1964 essay \u201cNotes on \u2018Camp\u2019\u201d, Sontag emphasized artifice, frivolity, na\u00efve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess as key elements of camp.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sontag cites Tchaikovsky\u2019s ballet <em>Swan Lake<\/em>\u00a0as a prime example of camp. And <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/TqEEb1Qf6iQ\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s <em>Swan Lake<\/em> that leads to the campy gay antics of TPLoSH<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Gatiss said. SENSATIONAL!<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Really well put. Bravo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>willietheplaidjacket: mid0nz: Holmesosexuality: On Mark Gatiss\u2019s Camp Mark Gatiss\u2019s gay Sherlock characters and scenarios in The Great Game (in particular) are an emotional homage to Billy Wilder\u2019s film,\u00a0The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes. This is a film that Gatiss (an out and proudly married gay man) credits with\u00a0changing his life\u00a0and claims that it was a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2013\/09\/22\/willietheplaidjacket-mid0nz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[5326,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":255682,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255677\/revisions\/255682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}