{"id":546,"date":"2022-10-07T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=546"},"modified":"2022-10-18T21:33:48","modified_gmt":"2022-10-18T21:33:48","slug":"doctor-strange-aka-benedict-cumberbatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2022\/10\/07\/doctor-strange-aka-benedict-cumberbatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor Strange AKA Benedict Cumberbatch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING:<\/mark> <\/strong>This Article May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m probably going to say this over and over again but that would be because growing up I was always more of DC fan than Marvel, but I never had much of an idea who Doctor Strange was. However, I don\u2019t think I could imagine someone else playing him other than Benedict Cumberbatch (I will probably say that a lot too) but that might be because of certain other characters he\u2019s played in the past.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12 Years a Slave<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                This film, in my opinion, holds as a reminder that not only were there free black people due to the north and south divide but also that not all slave owners were bad. That\u2019s not me advocating for the slave trade but more the fact that there were places where they weren\u2019t treated so badly. Benedict Cumberbatch\u2019s character of William Lord is that reminder. He\u2019s sympathetic as well as listening to the ideas of his slaves. In addition to this, when we first meet his character \u2013 the emotion he shows when he is the one to separate Eliza when from her children is so human and I guess what some would see as uncharacteristic of a slave owner. Truthfully, you don\u2019t totally respect how sympathetic his character is until you meet Michael Fassbender\u2019s character of Edwin Epps, who is just a downright arsehole and fulfils the stereotype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imitation Game<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                I wonder if the posthumous diagnosis of Alan Turing as being \u2018autistic\u2019 is why they chose to write his character in this way. I don\u2019t want to say that suddenly making this diagnosis, with who knows what proof, belittles the man\u2019s intelligence because that would probably be deemed as offensive. There are parts of the way Cumberbatch plays Turing that reminds me of the way he plays Sherlock Holmes. The one thing I will say is, at least they got it right Turing was gay. You could say that Cumberbatch looks like Turing but a slender version. However, I think the choice of the actor playing a young Alan Turing is a great match for Cumberbatch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Black Mass<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                Now, you all must know by now that I love a film based on a true story and this film is no exception. However, it\u2019s not as good and Cumberbatch\u2019s role isn\u2019t as big as I remembered. May be because I thought he was playing an FBI agent instead of being the senator brother of the lead character, James \u2018Whitey\u2019 Bulger. This however, doesn\u2019t make his role any less important as if it wasn\u2019t for Senator Bulger, Whitey may not have got away with as much as he did or for so long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Mentions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

                I cannot talk about Benedict Cumberbatch without mentioning Sherlock. <\/em>If you haven\u2019t watch it yet, I highly recommend it because I think he has possibly made the best adaptation of Sherlock Holmes for our generation (as a main character I mean, I can\u2019t comment on Henry Cavill without seeing Enola Holmes<\/em>). He has even stepped into two amazing franchises by leading his voice to that of Smaug the dragon in The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug <\/em>and taking on the role of Khan in Star Trek: Into Darkness.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WARNING: This Article May Contain Spoilers I\u2019m probably going to say this over and over again but that would be because growing up I was always more of DC fan than Marvel, but I never had much of an idea who Doctor Strange was. However, I don\u2019t think I could imagine someone else playing him … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-before-they-were-marvel-ous-heroes","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":547,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546\/revisions\/547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}