What's the Difference between A Slight Trick of the Mind the Book and Mr. Holmes the Movie?
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In the Movie |
Sherlock Holmes
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Sherlock Holmes
Portrayed by: Ian McKellen
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Mrs. Munro
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Mrs. Munro
Portrayed by: Laura Linney
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Roger Munro
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Roger Munro
Portrayed by: Milo Parker
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Tamiki Umezaki
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Tamiki Umezaki
Portrayed by: Hiroyuki Sanada
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Ann Kelmot
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Mrs. Keller
Portrayed by: Hattie Morahan
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Mr. Keller
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Thomas Kelmot
Portrayed by: Patrick Kennedy
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Dr. Baker
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Dr. Barrie
Portrayed by: Roger Allam
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Constable Tom Anderson
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Inspector Gilbert
Portrayed by: Phil Davis
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| In the Book |
In the Movie |
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There is much detail in the travels of Mr. Umezaki’s father and involvement in politics. |
Nothing of this in the film. Only that his father abandoned them over forty years ago. |
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This does not happen in the book. |
Mrs. Munro is planning on taking a position in another town as a maid in her sister’s hotel and will take Roger with her and put him to work. Roger does not want to leave.
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Homes finds Roger dead from stings in the bee yard. Homes is more concerned about how Roger died, than the fact that he is actually dead. Holmes avoids telling Mrs. Munro about her dead son. He calls for an ambulance for Roger; the boy is taken away along with his mother. |
Homes finds Roger unconscious from stings, later revealed to be from wasps. Holmes calls an ambulance, Roger recovers. |
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Holmes finds Mrs. Munro with a can of petrol about to destroy the bee hives. He talks her out of it and she leaves the bee yard. Holmes later determines that Rogers tried to drown a wasp nest in the ground then was attacked and stung to death. Holmes destroys the wasp nest with the petrol. |
Homes finds Mrs. Munro trying to destroy his bee hives with petrol. He stops her and explains that it was wasps that attacked Roger as he tried to use a water can to destroy their above ground nest in a tree stump. He shows her the large wasp nest nearby the bee yard. They destroy it with fire.
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The minor subplot regarding Mrs. Keller is rather brief. Holmes suspects she may have had accidental lead poisoning from playing the glass-armonica which led her to kill herself by walking out in front of a train. |
There is a major subplot in the film about the death of Mrs. Kelmont. She as distressed about her two miscarriages and eventually walked out in front of a train. |