Hound Of The Baskervilles Film Analysis

The Hound of the Baskervilles 2002 Film Adaptation: A Crime or Sublime? There have been a multitude of films made into novels because of their lasting impression on society as a whole, especially on young and mature audiences. The extraordinary list of novels remade into movies contains critically-acclaimed plots, such as The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, part of The Hunger Games series; the Sea of Monsters, part of the Percy Jackson series; and it would be daft not to mention Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, part of the Harry Potter series; all of these films have been as popular as their counterparts (“Books made into movies”). As much success as those remakes have had, one notable film adaptation of a novel has flown under the radar and undoubtedly deserves attention, …show more content…
The original novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is beloved in which Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, and John Watson, his assistant in crime, investigate if there really is a curse on the Baskervilles and Baskerville Hall. In 2002, a notable film adaptation of the novel, directed by David Attwood, created a new love for the novel. Appearing to be the best film out of the variety of The Hound of the Baskervilles remakes, Attwood conveys a unique spin on the novel. Richard Scheib described it as “one of the best Sherlock Holmes screen adaptations to date” (Scheib); however, there are some differences that could have potentially alienated Doyle’s original fans. David Attwood altered the plot and characters, including main and auxiliary characters, from the original The Hound of the Baskervilles novel in order