Hero Professor Moriarty. Jim Moriarty is the ideal antagonist Moriarty's main achievement
Moriarty - the villain of the late Victorian era, the head of one of the most influential criminal networks in all of Europe - is more like a Presbyterian minister, ready to give a blessing to any sinner, than one who lightly sends people he dislikes to their forefathers.
Professor James Moriarty is the sworn enemy of Sherlock Holmes, a brilliant criminal element whom the London detective calls the “Napoleon of the criminal world.” Arthur Conan Doyle himself uses this expression, referring to the real-life evil genius Adam Worth, who served as one of the prototypes for Moriarty.
In the original Holmesian story "The Adventure of the Final Problem", Professor Moriarty, a villain of the late Victorian era, the head of one of the most powerful networks of criminals in all of Europe, falls along with the detective from a cliff . Sherlock believed that the crown of his work should have been the elimination of Moriarty, whose atrocities were poisoning society. However, readers, including Queen Victoria herself, were simply outraged that Moriarty dragged Sherlock to his grave. Doyle had no choice but to “resurrect” his beloved detective.
Moriarty is a vengeful, independent, charismatic and confident man who reveals the ruthless side of his personality whenever something sets him off. He respects Holmes's intelligence and says that for him it is a real intellectual pleasure to engage in battle with people of this level.
Characterizing his worst enemy, Sherlock calls James Moriarty a man of noble birth, with an excellent education and phenomenal mathematical abilities. It turns out that at the age of 21, Moriarty wrote a treatise on Newton’s binomial, which made him famous throughout Europe. He then received a chair in mathematics at a provincial university and, as the detective believes, could have achieved even more high altitudes. However, the genius, in whose veins the blood of a criminal flows, due to his sick mind and hereditary tendency to cruelty, soon became the subject of dark rumors - and was forced to resign and move to London.
In the story “The Valley of Fear,” Moriarty is called the intriguer of all times, the organizer of all devilry and the brains of the criminal world, darkening the destinies of nations. And at the same time, Sherlock himself is amazed at how brilliant the tactics of his fierce enemy, who wrote “The Dynamics of an Asteroid,” an amazing book that not a single scientist dared to criticize, despite the tarnished reputation of the author himself. A defiled doctor and a slandered professor is Moriarty's guise, and Sherlock calls it a stroke of genius.
Wanting to reveal some details of the appearance of the “Napoleon of the criminal world,” Conan Doyle describes a man with a thin face, gray hair and stilted speech. The criminal is more like a Presbyterian priest, ready to give a blessing to any sinner, than one who lightly sends people he dislikes to their forefathers. Moriarty is the owner of untold wealth, carefully concealing his real financial situation. Sherlock believes that the professor's money is scattered across at least twenty bank accounts, and the main capital is hidden somewhere in France or Germany.
In the story "The Empty House", Holmes claims that Moriarty acquired a powerful pneumatic gun from a blind German master, a certain Mr. von Herder. Resembling a simple cane in appearance, this weapon fired revolver rounds over long distances and made almost no noise, making it ideal for taking sniper positions. When carrying out his dirty deeds, the villainous professor preferred to cause "accidents", be it the incident when Sherlock was almost killed by falling masonry or by a horse-drawn carriage rushing at breakneck speed.
Fans of the adventures of the London private investigation genius suggested that not only Adam Worth could serve as the prototype for Moriarty. Someone saw American astronomer Simon Newcomb in the fictional villain. This talented Harvard graduate, with a special knowledge of mathematics, became famous throughout the world even before Conan Doyle began to write his stories. Comparisons were also prompted by the fact that Newcombe had developed a reputation as an angry snob who tried to destroy the careers and reputations of his rivals in the scientific world.
Also under suspicion were the Reverend Thomas Kay, the mathematician and astronomer Carl Friedrich Gauss, and the Fenian John O'Connor Power. Finally, Conan Doyle is known to have used his former Stonyhurst College as inspiration when working out the details of Holmesian. Among the writer's peers in this educational institution there were two boys named Moriarty.
24 June 2017, 18:56Every fairy tale needs a good old-fashioned villain.
Sir A. Conan Doyle portrayed Professor Moriarty as the perfect villain. He is smart, talented and incredibly cruel. Oddly enough, Moriarty personally appears on the pages of the original Holmes stories only once; in the remaining stories one can only occasionally hear references to the “Napoleon of the Underworld.” The villain was described so vividly that subsequently almost all authors who decided to write a continuation of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes turned to this character.
Implacable rivals: Sherlock Holmes and Professor Moriarty. Illustration by Sidney Paget
“He comes from a good family, received an excellent education and is naturally endowed with phenomenal mathematical abilities. When he was twenty-one, he wrote a treatise on Newton's binomial, which won him European fame. After this, he received a chair in mathematics at one of our provincial universities, and, in all likelihood, a brilliant future awaited him. But the blood of a criminal flows in his veins. He has a hereditary tendency towards cruelty. And his extraordinary mind not only does not moderate, but even strengthens this tendency and makes it even more dangerous. Dark rumors spread about him in the university town where he taught, and, in the end, he was forced to leave the department and move to London, where he began to prepare young people for the officer exam ... "
A. Conan Doyle "Holmes' Last Case"
“This man looks amazingly like a Presbyterian preacher, he has such a thin face, and gray hair, and stilted speech. Saying goodbye, he put his hand on my shoulder - just like a father, blessing his son to meet the cruel, cold world. The most brilliant mind in Europe, who also leads all the forces of hell.”
A. Conan Doyle "Valley of Terror"
“The problem with Doyle's Moriarty was that the character was too successful. Almost every supervillain that came after him even spoke almost exactly like him. They are elegant, outwardly polite, courteous, and kind. If we were to repeat all this again, it would look like a cliché. So Mark and I decided to create a truly insane, terrifying, unpredictable psycho Moriarty..."
Steven Moffat
“Doyle was the first, he created a supervillain. All great heroes had their Moriarty. And you need to try very hard to make the villain worthy of such a strong positive hero, or you will get a pale copy of the arch-villain. Basically, the point is to tell stories differently."
Mark Gatiss
“Bad people don’t know that they are bad. They think they are right!” (Mark Gatiss)
Jim Moriarty turned out to be a real, one hundred percent crazy person, whose intelligence, if not higher, then at least in no way inferior to Sherlock Holmes. The viewer sees him for the first time only in the third episode of the first season. A man who sponsors serial murders at the hands of a taxi driver, leads the forces of the Chinese mafia, turns people into living bombs... Invincible and terrifying to all things, Moriarty turns out to be the boyfriend of hospital employee Molly Hooper. Sherlock initially mistakes Jim for a homosexual.
“When we were filming the pilot, we all just fell in love with Molly Hooper and her hopeless love for Sherlock. And I had the idea that we should give her a prize - a boyfriend whom Sherlock would immediately identify as gay! It was an impromptu joke, but it was what ultimately led to the fact that we meet Moriarty for the first time in this form, as a person whom, literally, you would suspect last.”
Mark Gatiss
Jim:
“If you don’t stop meddling, I’ll burn you.” I'll burn your heart out.
Sherlock:
– From trusted sources it is known that I do not have one.
Jim:
“But we both know that’s not entirely true.”
To be honest, at first no one bet on Moriarty. Moffat and Gatiss simply wanted to create a non-classic Moriarty. He had to be younger than all the actors who had played Moriarty before him, he had to be strange, reminiscent of a loser crazy. All. Nobody planned to make Moriarty one of the main characters of the series, but the appearance of Andrew Scott changed everything.
“The problem is that we had to choose the actor to play Moriarty based on the image of gay Jim, but knowing that he would be our Moriarty. I wrote the most idiotic, stupidest scene anyone has ever written, the confrontation between Sherlock and Moriarty, just for the audition. It was full of the craziest dialogue. “I’ll burn your heart out!” and similar nonsense, just to see if anyone could say all this nonsense. And then Andrew came along and did the scene and he was great. I told Mark, “Well, not only are we casting him, but now we're going to have to rewrite this scene.” So we changed the entire ending of the episode to include the pool confrontation - it never made much sense, let's be honest. For what? Why did he do this? Why now? What is he even doing? But you don't mind because Andrew Scott is making his first appearance and he's incredible. If you want a little entertainment, watch this final scene, and then the very beginning of A Scandal in Belgravia. These few minutes are the most stupid sequence of events you have ever witnessed in your life. If you show someone these two scenes in a row and say: “This is a great series,” they will ask you: “What? What nonsense is this? What are you all using?
Steven Moffat
During the auditions, Andrew suddenly began to manipulate the pitch of his voice, making it frighteningly high, then lowering it back to normal. Gatiss liked this feature so much that he asked Andrew to pronounce all his lines this way. Moffat subsequently decided to add an Irish accent to Moriarty, since "Moriarty" was originally a surname of Irish origin. Subsequently, it was precisely because of the Irish accent that fans of the series disliked Moriarty.
“From the start I told Andrew to keep his cute Irish accent for Moriarty, it is an Irish name after all, I thought it would be cute. And, as a nod to the original, I asked him to add a head shake, distinctive feature, which was described by Conan Doyle. It turned out to be a literal nod.”
Steven Moffat
“Privacy no longer exists. She belongs to me." (Jim Moriarty)
With the appearance of Andrew Scott on the set, it became clear that Moriarty was a much more complex character than initially thought. A person who is capable of doing anything, but who is unable to come to terms with his own head. He is bored, and only the mind of Sherlock Holmes brings him into childish delight. Mark Gatiss, creating the image of Jim Moriarty, remembered the recently read biography of Isaac Newton and tried to convey all the complexity of the great scientist in the hero of Andrew Scott.
“It is worth saying that there were several things that had a serious influence on the creation of Moriarty. One of them (it equally applies to Sherlock) was the story of Isaac Newton. He was so smart and so full of ideas that every morning when he woke up, he had to sit for a while at the foot of his own bed, holding his head in his hands, in order to “debug” his own brain. I thought it was a very exciting idea and we wanted to do something similar with Moriarty. The second thing was my memory of watching an interview with Peter Sellers as a child, and he said something that was both wonderful and scary. He was such a chameleon, such a container for other characters and their traits, that he told a journalist: “I think this is my voice.” It was as if he was a lost soul who didn't know who he really was. And it was precisely this empty person, filled with darkness and horror, that Andrew was able to embody like no one else.”
Mark Gatiss
Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat based the character of Moriarty on Isaac Newton. “He was so smart and so full of ideas that every morning when he woke up, he had to sit for a while at the foot of his own bed, holding his head in his hands, to “debug” his own brain.” (Mark Gatiss)
On set, Andrew Scott was completely immersed in his role. He was wildly worried about Moriarty's fate and practically did not communicate with anyone. After a couple of days of work, Martin Freeman approached him and began asking him about the role. Andrew was so surprised by this that at first he didn’t even find what to say, but within a minute he was excitedly talking about how he sees his hero. Subsequently, Martin Freeman and Andrew Scott became real friends.
“He is up against the dapper Sherlock, and since he is vain, he could hardly ignore this moment. The fact that Moriarty doesn't worry about looking terrifying is ultimately what's most terrifying. He starts a game against Sherlock Holmes and seems bored with worrying about the outcome of the game, making jokes in his face - that's what unsettles him. He does not care. I'm repeating myself. He plays because he's bored - cruel child no brakes. A psycho who fell into euphoria from eating sweets"
Steven Moffat
“Bad people don’t know that they are bad. They think they are right! And he's just having fun. He rejoices at everything that can distract him from the dreary monotony of life. If you're so damn smart, what else can you do? Andrew filled his hero with an eerie feeling of emptiness and melancholy. As if this world was too small, too ordinary, too boring for him. And he is looking for something to amuse himself. Sherlock is the only one who is close to his level of genius, and therefore he can at least briefly enjoy playing with him."
Mark Gatiss
“It's all about confidence in your strength. Moriarty is absolutely confident that he can pull off any task without the slightest effort. Logic is for those who are careful. People who are generally devoid of caution are always the most frightening. Moriarty is the man who forces Sherlock to become a hero. In our series, as in the original, Sherlock initially appears to us as a cold, amoral reasoner, captivated by the game for its own sake, indifferent to good and evil. It is necessary for Moriarty to appear, who will bring him to a state in which he is ready to sacrifice himself for the love of his friends and what he considers right."
Steven Moffat
“It sounds like a cliché: “they are two sides of the same coin,” but it’s true. Sherlock chooses the other side in the game because it's harder to be good! Although Sherlock eventually realizes that he is different from Moriarty. He cares about people, even though he would never want to be like most of us."
Mark Gatiss
Andrew Scott on Moriarty
You need me, without me you are nothing. We are the same - you and me. Only you are boring. You're on the side of the angels.
Since Moriarty is very smart and goofy, I had to rely on the goofy part of me. I had a lot of ideas, I read the script hundreds of times, and then I just waited and watched what would happen, what Benedict would do. I had to be a little unpredictable, I tried different techniques that sometimes worked and sometimes were confusing. So sometimes we had reasons to laugh together.
“Sherlock and Moriarty are similar in many ways. They have the same style of thinking. They need each other." (Andrew Scott)
Sherlock and Moriarty are similar in many ways. They have the same style of thinking. They need each other. Moriarty and Sherlock simply went down different paths. One found himself a true friend, but Moriarty does not have a single person who would take care of him. In the love between Sherlock and Moriarty... There is more than hatred. This is respect.
From the book by Elizabeth Buta
"Sherlock. One step ahead of the audience"
The main character, the head of a powerful criminal organization, a genius of the criminal world.
Here's how Sherlock Holmes describes him:
He comes from a good family, received an excellent education and is naturally endowed with phenomenal mathematical abilities. When he was 21, he wrote a treatise on Newton's binomial, which won him European fame. After this, he received a chair in mathematics at one of our provincial universities, and it is likely that a bright future awaited him. But the blood of a criminal flows in his veins. He has a hereditary tendency towards cruelty. And his extraordinary mind not only does not restrain, but even strengthens this tendency and makes it even more dangerous. Dark rumors spread about him on the university campus where he taught, and in the end he was forced to leave the department and move to London, where he began preparing young people for the officer exam...
Returning from the review, Kutuzov, accompanied by the Austrian general, went into his office and, calling the adjutant, ordered to be given some papers related to the state of the arriving troops, and letters received from Archduke Ferdinand, who commanded the advanced army. Prince Andrei Bolkonsky entered the commander-in-chief's office with the required papers. Kutuzov and an Austrian member of the Gofkriegsrat sat in front of the plan laid out on the table.
“Ah...” said Kutuzov, looking back at Bolkonsky, as if with this word he was inviting the adjutant to wait, and continued the conversation he had begun in French.Sherlock Holmes considered mathematics professor James Moriarty to be the villain and genius of the underworld.
The professor wrote a treatise on Newton's binomial, was prone to cruelty, created a powerful criminal organization, died at the Reichenbach Falls without saying the last “forgive” to his sworn enemy.The cinema, a big fan of contrasting good with evil and vice versa, could not help but respond and show Moriarty on the screen. If Holmes appeared in films in 1900 ("Sherlock Holmes Baffled", directed by Thomas Edison (according to other sources - Arthur Marvin), 30 seconds, not preserved), then Moriarty - just 8 years later.
Sherlock Holmes
Denmark, 1908.
Cast: Gustave Lund, Viggo Larsen (SH).
Some sources claim that the role of SH in this film was played by Alwin Neuss.
No photos of Lund found, let it be Viggo.To consolidate success.
Sherlock Holmes II
Denmark, 1908.
Still the same.A short break for 8 years and a couple more films.
The Valley of Fear
Great Britain, 1916.
Director: Alexander Butler
Cast: Booth Conway, H.A. Saintsbury (SH), Arthur M. Cullin (Dr.).
There are also problems with the photo of Conway, the play poster with the performer of the role of Holmes.Sherlock Holmes
USA, 1916.
Director: Arthur Berthelet
Cast: Ernest Maupain, William Gillette (SH), Edward Fielding (Doctor)Film titles are not very diverse.
Sherlock Holmes
USA, 1922.
Director: Albert Parker
Cast: Gustav von Seyffertitz, John Barrymore (SH), Roland Young (Doctor).
Here he is, the first Moriarty in the found photos.The Final Problem
Great Britain, 1923.
Director: George Ridgwell
Cast: Percy Standing, Eille Norwood (SH), Hubert Willis (Doctor).
Shot with Holmes. Alas.
USA, 1929.
Director: Basil Dean
Cast: Harry T. Morey, Clive Brook (SH), H. Reeves-Smith (Doctor).Sherlock Holmes" Fatal Hour / The Sleeping Cardinal
Great Britain, 1931.
Director: Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast: Norman McKinnel, Arthur Wontner (SH), Ian Fleming (Doctor).
The professor's name is Robert Moriarty.Sherlock Holmes
USA, 1935.
Director: William K. Howard
Cast: Ernest Torrence, Clive Brook (SH), Reginald Owen (Doctor).
Moriarty's revenge. Holmes is getting married.The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Great Britain, 1935.
Director: Leslie S. HiscottMurder at the Baskervilles/Silver Blaze
Great Britain, 1937.
Director: Thomas Bentley
Cast: Lyn Harding, Arthur Wontner (SH), Ian Fleming (Doctor).
20 years have passed since the death of the Dog and Sir Henry's daughter gets married. Next about the Silver horse.
USA, 1939.
Director: Alfred L. Werker
Cast: George Zucco, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce.Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
USA, 1943.
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Lionel Atwill, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce.
Lionel Atwill played Dr. Mortimer in 1939's The Hound of the Basquerilles.The Woman in Green
USA, 1945.
Director: Roy William Neill
Cast: Henry Daniell, Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce.Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes / Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace / Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace
France-Italy-Germany, 1962.
Director: Terence Fisher, Frank Winterstein
Cast: Hans Söhnker, Christopher Lee (SH).Une adventure de Sherlock Holmes
France, 1967.
Director: Jean-Paul Carrere
Cast: Grégoire Aslan, Jacques François (SH), Jacques Alric (Doctor).
A little-known film, not listed in almost any reference book.
Photos of actors from other films.
Elementary, My Dear Watson
Great Britain, 1973.
Director: Harold Snoad
Cast: Bill Maynard, John Cleese (SH), William Rushton (Doctor).
Episode "Comedy Playhouse".The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes" Smarter Brother
USA, UK, 1975.
Director: Gene Wilder
Cast: Leo McKern, Gene Wilder, Douglas Wilmer (SH), Thorley Walters (Doctor).Sherlock Holmes in New York
USA, 1976.
Director: Boris Sagal
Cast: John Huston, Roger Moore (SH), Patrick Macnee (Doctor).The Seven-Per-Cent Solution / Critical Solution / The Seven Percent Solution / Sherlock Holmes' Vienna Vacation
UK-USA, 1976.
Director: Herbert Ross
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Nicol Williamson (SH), Robert Duvall (Doctor).
Moriarty is a modest mathematics professor whom Holmes, in his morphine delirium, made into an evil genius.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Deathmatch
USSR, 1980.
Director Igor Maslennikov
Cast: Viktor Evgrafov, Vasily Livanov, Vitaly Solomin.
Viktor Evgrafov was voiced by Oleg Dal.Sherlock Holmes
USA, 1981.
Director: Peter H. Hunt
Cast: George Morfogen, Frank Langella (SH), Richard Woods (Doctor).Sherlock Holmes
France, 1982.
Director: Jean Hennin
Cast: François Maistre, Paul Guers (SH), Philippe Laudenbach.The Baker Street Boys
Great Britain, 1983.
Director: Marilyn Fox
Cast: Colin Jeavons, Roger Ostime (SH), Hubert Rees (Doctor).
Colin Jeavons played Inspector Lestrade in the subsequent series The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.Meitantei Holmes
Japan, 1984.
Cartoon series with talking animals.The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Great Britain, 1984-1985.
Cast: Eric Porter, Jeremy Brett, David Burke.Of course, the series comes out afterwards" The Return of Sherlock Holmes". The actors are the same, except for the Doctor, played by Edward Hardwicke.
Young Sherlock Holmes
USA, 1985.
Director: Barry Levinson
Cast: Anthony Higgins, Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox.
In 1993, in Sherlock Holmes Returns, Anthony Higgins played the detective himself.Without a Clue / Without a single piece of evidence
Great Britain, 1988.
Director: Thom Eberhardt
Cast: Paul Freeman, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley.Alfred Hitchcock Presents. My Dear Watson
USA, 1989.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Cast: John Colicos, Brian Bedford, Patrick MoncktonHands of a Murderer
Great Britain, 1990.
Director: Stuart Orme
Cast: Anthony Andrews, Edward Woodward, John HillermanThe Hound of London
Luxembourg, 1993.
Director: Peter Reynolds-Long
Cast: Jack Macreath, Patrick Macnee, John Scott-Paget.Star Trek: The Next Generation:
Elementary, Dear Data(1988)
Ship in a Bottle(1993)
Played by: Daniel DavisSherlock Holmes Returns
USA, 1993.
Director: Kenneth Johnson
Cast: Ken Pogue, Anthony Higgins (SH).At this time, Moriarty appears in the animated series " Black cloak", "Batman", "Futu frame" and a couple of minor television projects.
Sherlock
USA-Romania-UK, 2002.
Director: Graham Theakston
Played by: Vincent D"OnofrioThe League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
USA-Germany-Czech Republic-UK, 2003.
Director: Stephen Norrington
Played by: Richard RoxburghHello from fans
House M.D.
No Reason(season 2)
USA, 2006.
Director: David Shore
As Jack Moriarty: Elias KoteasCinemafia turns to one of the most popular villainous images and offers to trace how we saw Professor Moriarty on film and television.
The works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about the great detective Sherlock Holmes are among the most frequently filmed. Since the birth of cinema, about 100 films, TV series and even cartoons have already been shot. Everyone, of course, is attracted by the genius of deduction Sherlock Holmes. Viewers love this hero and watch with great interest his train of thoughts when investigating crimes. Holmes is a genius bright side, designed to unravel the most difficult crime and punish the perpetrators. He has an equally strong opponent - Professor Moriarty. " ... The blood of a criminal flows in his veins. He has a hereditary tendency towards cruelty. And his extraordinary mind not only does not restrain, but even strengthens this tendency and makes it even more dangerous“This is how Sherlock Holmes describes his intellectual adversary in “The Last Case of Sherlock Holmes.” The author gives a clear description of the professor in his stories: “ This man looks amazingly like a Presbyterian preacher, he has such a thin face, and gray hair, and stilted speech" Let's see how this literary hero was embodied in cinema.
Professor Moriarty's first film appearance was in Viggo Larsen's Danish film Sherlock Holmes mortal danger"("Sherlock Holmes and Livsfare") 1908. This role was played by Gustav Lund.
In 1939, the film “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” was released. Professor Moriarty is planning to steal jewels from the Tower of London. To distract Holmes from theft, he organizes an attempted murder of a beautiful and rich girl. George Zucco became best known for his role as Professor Moriarty.
The best Hamlet of the 20th century, Laurence Olivier, played the role of Moriarty in the 1976 film “Seven Percent Solution” (also known as “Critical Decision”). The most interesting thing is that the film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nicholas Meyer, the modern author of works about Sherlock Holmes.
In the 1988 film Without a Single Evidence. the insidious Professor Moriarty is trying to destroy the British economy and once again outwit... Dr. Watson. Namely Watson, since Sherlock Holmes here is an alcoholic actor hired by the doctor for this role and a lover of young ladies named Kincaid.
In the 1985 film Young Sherlock Holmes, the villain is the headmaster of Holmes' college. Professor Rath, aka Moriarty, gives students fencing lessons and at the same time exterminates teachers. Anthony Higgins did a great job in his role. And in 1994, he also successfully played Sherlock Holmes in the television series “1994 Baker Street: The Return of Sherlock Holmes.”
This is not the only example of one actor embodying the roles of opponents in different films. Richard Roxburgh played Holmes in the film The Hound of the Baskervilles in 2002, and a year later the film The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was released, in which the actor played the role of the Phantom/Moriarty/M. The film is based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill, which features numerous literary characters XIX century.
In the BBC series Sherlock, the role of Moriarty was played by Irish actor Andrew Scott. Scott himself says that his Moriarty is very smart, sometimes terrifying, sometimes just charming, he can be serious and sometimes playful, he can easily hide in a crowd and still be in plain sight, and he is also completely unpredictable. We couldn't agree more.
Moriarty received his original incarnation in the television series Elementary. Natalie Dormer stars as Irene Adler/Jamie Moriarty, who fakes her death to defeat her lover Sherlock in a moral duel.
In 2013, the Russian series “Sherlock Holmes” by Andrei Kavun was released. Alexey Gorbunov did an excellent job with the role of the calculating and cold Moriarty. Characteristic feature This hero became wearing glasses with blue lenses.
And, of course, one cannot help but remember best film adaptation"Sherlock Holmes" - television films by Igor Maslennikov. Screen image Viktor Evgrafova most closely matches the description of Moriarty given by Doyle in the stories.
Animation also couldn’t pass up this work. The main adversary of the mouse detective Basil of Baker Street from the 1986 cartoon The Great Mouse Detective is the rat Professor Ratigan, who demands to be called a mouse and tries to take over the mouse kingdom.
And this is what the main antagonist of Sherlock Holmes looks like in the anime series by Hayao Miyazaki “The Great Detective Holmes” of 1984-1986.
Although each director presents the external embodiment of Moriarty in his own way, they are all united by cunning, a calculating mind, cruelty, an evil genius and a great desire to defeat Sherlock Holmes, which, alas, always fails.
