Moriarty's Skull

It's always nice to be smartly dressed in some sharp Dunhill and be given a cane with Moriarty's Skull at the end of it...

The summer’s gone, and all the flowers are dying ‘Tis you,’tis you must go and I must bide. But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow ‘Tis I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.

“He fucks you, but he loves me.”

Greatest Cumberscenes, Part IV: Wreckers (2011)

Part I here.

Part II here.

Part III here.

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Benedict Cumberbatch doing additional voice recording for Wreckers. You have to wait a bit…

So many people ask for it, so I put it here… not my video of course…

The moment in Wreckers (2010) when the tension between brothers David (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Nick (Shaun Evans) begins to escalate. And yes, part of the tension is a (most probably unfulfilled) sexual tension. “He fucks you, but he loves me”, shouts Nick at David’s wife Dawn. And there is an intimate tenderness and closeness between the brothers that makes Dawn uncomfortable and jealous. 

It’s a love/hate, sub/dom relationship (“He owned me” says Nick about their close childhood alliance), arisen from the violence they experienced through their father.

This scene is nearly unbearable in it’s intensity, and the moment when Nick falls down to his knees and begs his brother’s pardon whereupon Nick kicks him in the head and leaves the room with dead eyes is nauseating.

It’s Cumberbatch who makes the intensity happen. He plays the key figure of this movie, and he is sublime. He’s gut-wrenching, adorable, terrifying, pitiful, enigmatic - sometimes all of it within a minute. It’s a rewarding role, and he gets the most out of it.

Dear God, Benedict Cumberbatch is drop-dead gorgeous in Wreckers…. help!
And so brilliant. His voice is totally different… what a fucking genius actor he is. From slightly sociopathic consulting detective to arrogant WW I officer to gay spy to middle-class teacher/husband… he even walks different in every movie… my God… it’s breathtaking…

Dear God, Benedict Cumberbatch is drop-dead gorgeous in Wreckers…. help!

And so brilliant. His voice is totally different… what a fucking genius actor he is. From slightly sociopathic consulting detective to arrogant WW I officer to gay spy to middle-class teacher/husband… he even walks different in every movie… my God… it’s breathtaking…

Hood handles Dawn’s sense of social slippage with admirable grace by having David turn up and embrace Nick with a passion that he never once displays towards her. The love evident in the brothers’ embrace suggests a dam bursting, as though David has suddenly allowed his true self to surface. Worried about how little she seems to know about her husband, Dawn begins experiencing strange dreams born of fear at the prospect of social and psychological partitioning. 
From brilliant Wreckers analysis 
Wreckers (2011) – Mondus Vult Decipi by 
Jonathan McCalmont

Hood handles Dawn’s sense of social slippage with admirable grace by having David turn up and embrace Nick with a passion that he never once displays towards her. The love evident in the brothers’ embrace suggests a dam bursting, as though David has suddenly allowed his true self to surface. Worried about how little she seems to know about her husband, Dawn begins experiencing strange dreams born of fear at the prospect of social and psychological partitioning. 

From brilliant Wreckers analysis 

Wreckers (2011) – Mondus Vult Decipi by 

Jonathan McCalmont