Jim Moriarty is a character in the modern cinematography of detective stories about Sherlock Holmes of the world-famous and illustrious English writer Arthur Conan Doyle, professor, the enemy of the protagonist and an unsurpassed attacker from the series “Sherlock”.
Character Character
Jim Moriarty is an Englishman who is characterized by wit, arrogance, arrogance and boundless narcissism. Despite his good origin, a prestigious education and an extraordinary mind with brilliant mathematical abilities, the hero has a tendency to cruelty and he really likes to be a dangerous villain, to confront the respected detective Sherlock Holmes.
The villain's literary name is James Moriarty, in the series he is known as Jim Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes calls him a consulting criminal. The villain also has other names - "spider" and "demoman".
Hero Activities
Jim Moriarty - the genius of the criminal environment, the head of a major criminal association, in essence - a rabid sadistic psychopath. The first and only criminal consultant in the world is the exact opposite of the detective consultant Sherlock. The hero uses his subordinates, less successful villains, as his weapon - all the criminals who came across Sherlock in the first season are predecessors and loyal followers of Moriarty.
Connection with Sherlock Holmes
Contrary to fierce rivalry, Jim Moriarty is truly admired by Sherlock like no other. He recognizes the detective’s unprecedented abilities, considers him a worthy adversary, which is why he carefully and diligently tries to create obstacles to the disclosure of the enemy’s crimes. Jim and Sherlock even have something in common in the characterization: sarcasm and cynicism.
In 1989, Karl Powers laughed at Jim Moriarty and was killed by a merciless criminal. The killer kept his victim’s shoes. He threw sneakers into Sherlock Holmes’s apartment on 221B Baker Street in order to once again meet with the detective.
According to the scriptwriters, Jim is Sherlock’s weak point. Holmes himself calls him a spider, believes that the criminal clearly knows where the pain points are in people and when to use them skillfully.
Screen image of an antihero
The screenwriters of the series believed that the literary character Moriarty, invented by Arthur Conan Doyle, was too successful. Traits of the hero were inherited by many subsequent literary and cinematic villains: sophistication, approximate decency, gallantry and delicacy. Therefore, film playwrights, working on the script of the series, did not want to adhere to the prevailing stereotypes, and Jim turned into a relevant, more modern image of a gloomy, frightening, crazy arch-villain psycho.
The antagonism of Sherlock and Jim ends in the third episode of Reichenbach Falls in the second season of the series (2012), where they fall from the edge of the roof. In the episode of the special episode of the series (2016) “The Ugly Bride”, Jim's death is depicted, which corresponds to her book version of Conan Doyle’s short story “Holmes’s Last Affair”: both heroes who fall off a cliff into Reichenbach Falls die in a duel of sworn enemies.
Jim Moriarty - actor Andrew Scott
Andrew Scott is an Irish film and television actor and theater actor, born October 21, 1976 in Dublin. He made his film debut in 1995 as the main character (Eamon Doyle) in the film "Korea." The actor starred in more than 30 films, including the role of Paul McCartney in the film Lennon Unvarnished (2010), the main role (Laevsky) in the on-screen production of Anton Chekhov’s short story “Duel” (2010) and others . Many film critics consider his talent outstanding.
For the first time, Scott appeared in the third episode “The Big Game” of the first season (2010) in the Moriarty role. The actor stands out from other artists who previously played Moriarty: first of all, his screen image is much younger in age than in the original book and other movie versions .
To the masses
Undoubtedly, Jim Moriarty, whose quotes dispersed among a wide audience immediately, has no less army of fans than his film opponent Sherlock Holmes. All admirers of the villain-genius know his inimitable capacious phrases and are happy to use them in conversation. Among the most popular sayings:
- unconventional greeting mentioning the M-1 army browning in your pocket;
- the cynical admission that the antihero has no heart means that there is nothing to burn out;
- to the fervent accusation of insanity - the answer: "Have you only guessed?";
- a philosophical statement that in a world where all doors are closed, the king is the one who has the key, etc.
Quoting such a charismatic antagonist is a good argument in a heated discussion. And Moriarty’s particularly brief and concise statements are actively used by ordinary people as the status of social networks.