In Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), around 21 minutes into the film, Watson asks Holmes about the guest list for his stag party: Watson: "What about the chaps from my medical school?" This mention of medical school brings to mind Stanley Kubrick's Eyes

In Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), around the 21-minute mark, Watson and Holmes are in a tavern, about to throw Watson’s stag party. Watson, looking around, tells Holmes he doesn’t recognize anyone: Watson: I don’t know a single damn person here. Do I?

In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), directed by Guy Ritchie, around the 1-hour and 47-minute mark, Holmes reveals to Moriarty how he managed to significantly reduce his fortune by stealing and decrypting the notebook where Moriarty kept a record of his criminal empire:

In Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), around the 1-hour mark, Claude Ravache (Thierry Neuvic), leader of a French anarchist group, kills himself with a gun. Earlier in the same scene, Holmes finishes a sentence Ravache begins: Ravache: "He was given another

In Guy Ritchie's Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), scene around 1 hour and 8 minutes, Holmes tells Watson and Simza that the bomb which exploded at the Hotel du Triomphe was also meant to conceal the murder of Alfred Meinhardt: Watson: He makes guns, big guns.

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 1 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 2 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 3 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 4 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 5 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes movies and Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction – Part 6 In some of my earlier posts and articles, I discussed how Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael considered Pulp Fiction (1994) a film worth studying while adapting Arthur Schnitzler’s Traumnovelle into

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) makes repeated use of chess imagery—perhaps a nod to Stanley Kubrick’s greatest passion after filmmaking. When Moriarty and Holmes meet for the first time, Moriarty pointedly asks: Moriarty: “Now, are you sure you want to

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) contains references to the game of chess, perhaps Stanley Kubrick’s greatest passion after filmmaking. At one point in their match, Holmes sacrifices his queen to defeat Moriarty: Moriarty: “I think you just lost your most

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) features a climactic chess match in which Holmes sacrifices his queen, echoing the famous Larsen–Petrosian game of 1966. I have argued earlier that this could be Ritchie’s way of alluding to Stanley Kubrick’s secret

More Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows / Twin Peaks echoes: the waterfall beneath the peace summit castle mirrors the one beside the Great Northern Hotel. Another hint that Guy Ritchie may be nodding to Stanley Kubrick’s hidden hand in Lynch & Frost’s series. #StanleyKubrick

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011) shows more parallels with Twin Peaks. Given its many Kubrick references, Ritchie may be hinting at Kubrick’s secret involvement in the Lynch/Frost series—even the soundtrack echoes Twin Peaks. #StanleyKubrick #EyesWideShut

In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), Watson & Mary depart from Platform 7 (≈38m). In Eyes Wide Shut, a “7” appears in Macke’s painting at Bill’s office. Given the Kubrick links in Ritchie’s Holmes films, Platform 7 could nod to Fincher’s Se7en (1995)—where Kubrick’s FMJ

In Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut (1999), the August Macke painting View into a Lane (1914) in Bill’s waiting room features a shape resembling the number “7,” which can also be read as the Hebrew letter Dalet (ד)—meaning “door” or “portal.” This could be Kubrick’s subtle nod to

In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), around the 1-hour-and-36-minute mark, Holmes and Simza waltz to Johann Strauss II’s Accelerationen, Op. 234. This moment could be another Guy Ritchie’s homage to Stanley Kubrick, echoing the iconic waltz sequence set to Strauss’s The

In Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), the brief exchange between Holmes and Simza — “What do you see?” / “Everything. That is my curse.” — may be alluding to Kubrick’s idea that cinema depends on the viewer’s ability to truly observe, recalling his statement that “the