Of course, Li Xiaole never expected that he could be respected by the British audience just by publicity and marketing, his kind of marketing is actually only the most rudimentary, which makes people curious to watch "Sherlock", but the audience did not have no benefit from the evaluation of this series.

He can even imagine how these people will be overwhelmed with the scolding the morning after tomorrow if these people are not satisfied with this series, and the director can only prove himself with his works in the end.

The third episode is a key episode of the entire "Sherlock", not only because of Heath Ledger's appearance, but also because he himself made major changes to the plot, he pulled the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes back from God to a man, so that the audience is no longer simply looking up to and worshipping him, but can also experience his true thoughts, and the completely different choices for people similar to him and Moriarty, showing the different choices of human nature at the crossroads of darkness and light.

On the evening of 25 May, when the third episode of Sherlock Holmes aired on BBC2, countless people across the UK were in front of the televisions, including Ed Watts, the Minister of State for Culture, who rarely watched the series.

"Dad, why are you looking at this today? Aren't you too naïve to dislike TV series? The youngest son, Kevin, asked him curiously.

"I just wanted to see what the appeal of this was." Ed Watts raised his eyebrows, he never thought that the Drama Council, a pure art money-losing organization, had any need to exist, and now a Chinese suddenly appeared who changed all this, and he was suddenly curious, will this commercial drama series made in China really surpass American dramas?

He wanted to re-evaluate the value of the Drama Council......

To the viewer's surprise, at the beginning of the episode, everyone felt a completely different atmosphere from the previous light-hearted and witty atmosphere, and for the first time, Holmes encountered an enemy that he really felt was intractable - Moriarty.

In this case, Li Xiaole changed the original straightforward narration of the whole series, began to intersperse the memories of Sherlock Holmes's past, and gradually broke away from those clichéd patterns and began to dig into the heart of this genius detective.

People soon discovered that this fascinating simple detective story is actually "logic for the surface, emotion for the inside", with something more profound, behind the suspense, complex narrative, and meticulous logic, is an almost paranoid character, tired and stubborn to find himself for the most secret motives in his heart.

When Holmes's assistant nurse Jasmine introduces Holmes to his new boyfriend, Holmes just calmly spits out one word from his mouth: "GAY"

"Who do you say is GAY, and we are dating? SHERLOCK~~HE'S NOT GAY~~! Why do you want to destroy it~...... He's not~! Jasmine denied it hoarsely afterwards.

"He drew his eyebrows, his forehead was obviously coated with taurine essence milk, his eyes were bloodshot from nightclubs all year round, and his **** was exposed on his waist, which was very obvious, the brand was very special, and the most obvious, he left me a phone under this plate, you better break up with him now, the long pain is better than the short pain." Holmes used his unassailable reasoning to crush Jasmine's insistence.

Seeing Jasmine turn around and run out of the laboratory in tears, Holmes turned to Watson with a helpless and confused expression, "Isn't it nice to tell her the truth and save her time?" ”

"Kind? No? Sherlock, that's not kind~~" Watson looked into his eyes and shook his head resolutely.

Sherlock Holmes sighed, this is a portrayal of his life, he is smarter than everyone else, he can see the truth behind all the disguises, but when he tells these truths and wants to help those who are deceived, in exchange for not respect and gratitude, but anger and hostility, he was born a "freak" in the eyes of the world, everyone admires his analytical ability, but no one has ever liked him as a "freak".

In the camera, Li Xiaole began to use various interspersed memory clips to introduce the source of power in the life process of the omnipotent Sherlock Holmes, how he became the legendary detective now, and many insiders like Ed Watts in front of the TV set realized that the theme of the first half of this episode was "how Sherlock Holmes came to be".

This surprised Ed Watts, because all Sherlock Holmes adaptations never mention his past, and Conan Doyle, the author of the original Sherlock Holmes, did not explain any of Holmes's past, so no director was willing to dig into the character's heart.

On the screen, those memories begin to introduce the Sherlock Holmes family, his family is a typical middle-class family, different from ordinary British families, Sherlock Holmes's parents have a clear European heritage, the kind of power to restrain one's behavior for the sake of some metaphysical pursuits, people think of many European royal families: a strong sense of moral self-discipline, a sense of mission to care for the disadvantaged, and a sense of chivalry to assume social responsibility.

In these memoirs, the focus is on the character of his father, Sherlock Holmes, whose maturity and nobility are revealed in various small incidents of helping others, and the relatives of the Sherlock Holmes family are taken care of by him.

"Sherlock, we should be grateful to the people around us, because we are all given by these people today, and we want to repay them......" Sherlock repeatedly instructed the young Sherlock.

But tragedy is to destroy beauty to show people, such a perfect father in little Sherlock's mind, because of a car accident died unexpectedly, Sherlock became an orphan.

When Sherlock's mind became more and more keen, he found that the relatives who were relieved by his parents did not want to raise him at all, but just kicked him around as a ball, he felt very painful, panicked, he was afraid of being abandoned again, lonely, Young Sherlock wanted to be loved from the bottom of his heart......

Poor little Sherlock began to learn to read words and feelings, and began to make himself empathetic, hoping that those relatives would like him, which explains why Sherlock Holmes was so versatile.

But when he became more and more keen, more and more aware of the real motives and truths under people's appearances, and tried to use them to help others, but those relatives did not appreciate him, but felt that he was "terrifying", and became more and more distant from him.

At home, at school, young Sherlock Holmes began to become more lonely, the more he understood the ugly side of human nature, the more disappointed he was in human nature, little Sherlock had no friends, no ****, not even opponents, and a "freak" like him could only live in the abyss of loneliness.

It's like he said to Watson, "Wouldn't it be nice to tell him the truth and save her time?" "He didn't understand what the others were doing or what he was doing, and he didn't understand his kindness.

As an adult, he can't get along with people, and the only thing he can feel the value of his existence is to solve all kinds of cases...... This is actually ridiculous, because the police officers he helped thought he was a freak, and it was the same paranoid and intelligent criminals who admired him and respected him.

That's why in this story, his eyes light up when he hears a treacherous and complicated case, and when there is no case, he will shoot at the wall and vent, muttering: "Boring~!" It's so boring, I can't live this day, and the criminal class is wilting? ”

Watching the TV report that Moriarty continued to use all kinds of clever methods to kill innocent people, he felt excited, because he could instinctively feel that Moriarty behind the scenes was the same kind of person as him......

The difference is that he himself finds the value recognition of this society by solving crimes, while the same "freak" Moriarty finds his own sense of existence by committing crimes, they are all just looking for themselves.

"What the hell is he trying to do? Playing detective games with you, do you think he wants to be arrested? Watson asked incomprehensibly.

"I think he's just trying to have fun......" Holmes said with a look of enjoyment.

Watson was furious, looked into his eyes and roared, "Sherlock~! How many lives are in danger, but they are all fresh human lives, tell me~~ Don't you care? ”

"Does it work? Can it save people? ”

"Nope."

"Then I'm not going to make that mistake."

"You're at ease."

"Yes, that's right~ Did you just see me clearly today?"

"No ......"

"I ...... Got you down? ”

"Very good...... The corollary is good. ”

Looking at Watson's angry and speechless look, Sherlock Holmes uttered the deafening and poetic life motto:

"John, don't engage in hero worship, heroes never exist, and even if they do, they don't include me ^"

When they saw this scene on the camera, everyone's hearts were shocked, and at this moment, suddenly they felt that this role once played by 75 actors, this character who had existed in their hearts for 130 years, suddenly became completely different, he was no longer the old detective who only had elegance, wisdom, and cynicism, but for the first time seemed to be a living person who could exist in life.

Li Xiaole used the line just now to portray Holmes's character so coldly, whether it is Ed Watts, the Minister of State of the Ministry of Culture, or Fred, the chairman of the Drama Council, and even all the British actors, directors, and drama critics who saw this scene, they couldn't help but applaud secretly in their hearts: "Wonderful~!" ”

Li Xiaole's Chinese has been remade countless times by British directors, but no one has ever walked out of the "heroism circle" work, has undergone a new refinement and sublimation......