Zodiac, Sherlock Holmes.

Tonight's notes are on the film Zodiac, with a reminder to get to work on including Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes. Taking on a specific iteration of Holmes is a tricky matter, but this one is in the artist-investigator tradition.

This is also on my Instagram account (@mensan98th).

Re: Zodiac, I'm sorting out how Robert Graysmith (played by Jake Gyllenhaal) moves from the fringe to the center of the investigation, and how as he does so, his life moves from a normal, ie, societally centered, one to an existence on the fringe, with no family beside him, no job, and no interests other than sorting out who the Zodiac is. I'm working on how his aesthetic sense as an artist makes this possible for him. It's not simply that he's the only one able to keep working on it; that would make it merely a matter of time, the devotion of 10,000 hours as recommended by Malcolm Gladwell. It's his vision of the world that's different from both the police and the reporters.

I've got a bit on Paul Avery, but it mostly has to do with his connection with Graysmith.

Once I get the skeleton of the Graysmith section in place, I'll start working on Robert Downey Jr's Sherlock Holmes and how he fits in with the artist-investigator idea.