Who Is Enola Holmes? Everything You Need to Know About Sherlock’s Sister
She may not be in the Arthur Conan Doyle canon, but she is on Netflix. Photo: Courtesy of NetflixSherlock Holmes' number failed to cut across the world could fill a book. In fact, given that his younger sister, Enola Holmes, is - according to Nancy Springer's apocryph - she is far smarter and more worldly than he might have been, Sherlock's words may fail to diminish because of the young-adult writer's You cannot fill as many books as you have. Some people recognize by seeing the imaginary fast-tracked woman. (It will be six.)
In the new Netflix film Enola Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown brought the titanium teenage sister to widespread acclaim in a streaming story that feels aimed at those who like A Series of Unfortunate Events, but some less funny and Would prefer something with only an orphan (that is) is not an orphan at all). In both the film and the detective novel, Enola is similarly gifted to Mycroft and Sherlock's youngest siblings, but because she is a young woman living at the tail end of the Victorian era, she has to navigate sexism and relish her brothers. Are forced to do. Will never understand. In this way, Enola's story is a rally cry for youth searching for non-male spies who are not named Nancy Drew. However, in addition to this, there is a uniquely specific story involving missing mothers, ciphers, and anti-corset diatribes. Still asking myself, "How did I not know that Sherlock had a sister?" Fair enough As the Baker Street resident himself says, "I can't build bricks without clay!" Give me the data! "Here are the essential details about Enola and how he fits into the world of his famous cokehead elder brother.
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Of the original 56 short stories and four novels written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes has only one brother: an older brother, Mycroft, who only appeared in "The Greek Interpreter", "The Bruce-Partington Plan" and "The Final" gives. The problem, ”among the original stories. The idea that Sherlock and Mycroft have a younger sister - in this case, Enola, a finishing-school keeper and budding detective himself, specializing in missing-person cases - is entirely composed by Nancy Springer , Which began publication Enola Holmes novel in 2006, The Case of the Missing Markes.
The possibility of a secret, third Holmes sibling is the stuff of much older bigotry.
While Enola is Springer's own creation, the old-school fan theory that Mycroft and Sherlock have a secret brother is almost as old as Functional itself. Although Doyle never used the name Sherinford Holmes in print, it is reportedly a name he considered for his fictional espionage before settling on Sherlock. William S. Baring-Gould's book Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street said something different: Mycroft and Sherlock may have an older brother, Sherinford, who manages his family's country property. That theory was developed on the BBC series Sherlock, when the name Sherinford was assigned to describe the prison, which included Eurus Holmes, who, in the fourth season of that series (2017), Sherlock and Myroft's secret sister As it appeared. That said, since the book Springer was published in 2006, Enola made Enola the original Secret Holmes sister for nine years, before Sherlock's Urus season. Like Baring-Gould's super-old fan theory, Enola and her mother (Helena Bonham Carter) occupy the Holmes family's country estate, called Ferndale in Enola Holmes.
Millie Bobby Brown's Enola is very loyal to Enola of Springer's books - with two major changes.
At the beginning of Springer's first Enola Holmes book, The Case of the Missing Marquess, we find out that Enola's mother has gone missing on the eve of her daughter's 14th birthday. In the film, her age is changed to 16 (probably because Brown is 16 years old in real life). As far as Enola's smart and general detection skills are concerned, books and films give us the same character. But because it is a film, and the things of the film have to be in it, there is another slightly noticeable change: In the film, Enola is trained by her mother to be a fighter and she is involved in many types of martial arts Is accomplished It is not that Book Enola cannot handle himself, but one for the fight is certainly not a decisive aspect of his character. Meanwhile, the movie Enola states, "I was taught to watch and listen." I was taught to fight. This is what my mother made me. "
Overachieving the fighting skills of the Holmes characters is nothing new to the film's transformation into this beloved Victorian universe. Although Sherlock himself was known for his ability to wrestle with some ruffians ("solitary cyclists") and those who use the martial arts Doyle call "baritsu" ("The Empty House"), it's not that bad. In every short story, Batman was beating people. And yet in the 2009 film Sherlock Holmes, the same happened to Robert Downey Jr.'s Sherlock.
Brown's Enola does not go full-down Downey with violence, but his Enola is more physically active than the character in Springer's books.
The enroller has a very good relationship with Sherlock, as it is in Springer's books.
Although both Mycroft and Sherlock eventually see Enola as the equivalent of Springer's sixth book, The Case of the Gypsy Good-Bye, at the beginning of the first novel, Sherlock is mostly his sister's dismissal. Springer's books, in this way, take a somewhat no-naughty approach to Sherlock's character, presenting them as predominantly sexist and clueless women. At the end of the first Springer book, Sherlock said of Enola: "Thoughtful and imaginative, perhaps, but no stranger to weakness, irrationality, of her sex."
But Henry Cavill's Sherlock in Enola Holmes is nothing like this. Right from the beginning, he is a supporter of Enola and tries to help her throughout the story. In most Springer books, Sherlock certainly likes Enola more than his older brother Mycroft, but his overall relationship is much cooler. Cavill's Sherlock, by contrast, acts like any older brother of the Victorian period; He is different and brooding, but he is basically a good person. Cavill's Sherlock is not a terrible interpretation of the character from the books (either Doyle's or Springer's), but he is slightly less important than most onscreen Sherlock's. He smiles a lot, he barely smokes, he never mentions shooting a "seven-percent solution" of cocaine, and his best friend, Watson is nowhere. In Springer's novels, Drs. Watson is very nearby. In the case of bizarre bouquets, Enola even assists Watson. But in the end, the Enola Holmes book series took Sherlock and his sister five installments to make peace. In the film, his estrangement is mostly off-camera, and by the time the cavalry sunters, you know he's going to be a good sherlock.
And it works, sure. But perhaps the most arresting thing about Nancy Springer's books is that Sherlock Holmes is considered - at least for a good part of the series - like a bad guy, and Enola stands opposite him. In Enola Holmes, a Netflix film, he is mostly just a joke, Victorian Superman. Which, in the film, which is not about Sherlock anyway, is probably fine.
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