Sherlock Holmes : A Study in Pink

Are you a reader of Sherlock Holmes novel ? WOW GREAT, this part must be something interesting for you (hopefully). Well, like what I do before, I have to do an analysis of a movie, and the movie is Sherlock Holmes : A Study in Pink. This is a serial movie, I've just watched it in my Movie Interpretation class and like I said before here , I don't master in doing analysis but I will try to show you my analysis, finally comment or criticism are welcome and here it is the analysis . . .

Narrative Elements Part 2 Analysis :

SHERLOCK HOLMES : A STUDY IN PINK

by Haniah Hamidah Sahid

INTRODUCTION

Sherlock Holmes : A Study in Pink is the first episode of Sherlock television series. It was broadcasted first time on 25 July 2010 on BBC. The story of A Study in Pink is based on the first Sherlock Holmes novel, that is A Study in Scarlet.

This movie has restricted narration where we, as the audience, do not know at all what happen next. Our understanding is only depending on the character’s understanding, so we look at the movie by using character’s point of view. The main characters whom I am  going to analyze are Sherlock Holmes (Benedict Cumberbatch), Dr. John H. Watson (Martin Freeman) and Jeff / the cabbie man (Philip Davis).

CHARACTER AND CHARACTERIZATION

Characterization is sum of all obervable qualities of a human being, everything knowable through careful scrunity. (Robert Mckee), while

Character is revealed in the choices a human being makes under pressure – the greater the pressure, the deeper the revelation, the truer the choice to the character’s essential nature. (Robert Mckee)

So, I conclude that the existance of characterization is coming first and then the character, and also they are contrast to each other, and character may change depends on the situation which is faced by the character (figure). Here these are the characterization and the character of Sherlock Holmes, John Watson and Jeff the cabbie man.

Name of characters	Characterization	Character
Sherlock Holmes	·           Sherlock has blue eyes, fair complexion, sharp nose and dark brown, wavy hair. ·          He is tall, muscular and well-built. ·          He speaks fast and direct. ·          He’s extremelly brilliant and smart. ·          He likes observing everything, then deducing it, and the way he thinking is so detail. ·          He is a professional consulting detective. ·          He enjoys his job like he enjoys something fun. ·          He is little bit anti social because he does not have any friend indeed.	In the beginning of story, Sherlock has very few friends, he thinks he only has enemies. Sally Donovan, a sergeant, calls him as a freak man. Yet, in the end of story he shows an attitude or a manner that actually everybody needs a friend. It is shown when he is telling to Detective Inspector Lestrade about the shooter of Jeff and  he is aware that the man is John, he is pretending shock and asking Lestrade to forget what he said, it is done by him to cover for John. Whether he is aware or not, he is doing something which means everybody needs a friend to help each other, John has helped him then he helps John back by covering for John.
Dr. John H.Watson	John has green eyes, tanned skin (according to Sherlock), round face and blonde hair. His hair is in army hair style. He has medium high (tall enough for an army but shorter if he’s compared to Sherlock) and he’s well-built. He’s not confident and depressed man. He is an ex-medical doctor recently returned from Afghanistan. He is a loyal person and smart. The way he walks is bad because his foot was shot.	In the beginning of story, John is described as a weak, depressed and not confident but after he met Sherlock and joined him in detecting of serial murder. He joined the latest crime in a woman who wears pink clothes, pink nail polish etc. Because of that, under his awarenes he has against his weakness, he can run without his TONGKAT. So, in the end of story he become stronger and brave, he brave to shoot Jeff who is going to kill Sherlock.
Jeff the the cabbie man	Jeff has greyish blue eyes, fair complexion, oval face, and fat body. He is short, mysterious, old, simple, cruel  but he loves his children so much. He is a cabbie man (taxi driver) and also an assassin.	Jeff keeps his sponsor (a person who gives him money for each person killed) secret, he really keeps it secret, but when he is under pressure (after he was shot) finally he tells the name of his sponsor ‘Moriarty’. It shows that he is loyal to his sponsor, but he changes when he is under pressure.

ATMOSPHERE

The atmosphere of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Pink is thrilling and mysterious. It builds anxiety, concious, tense and scared senses to the audience. The audience is forced to think hard about the story. Guessing many times of what happen next to the story. Guessing how the characters are actually.

THEME

The theme of Sherlock Holmes: A Study in Pink is mysterious serial murder, because the story is about some crimes which have same ways in killing the victims : the victims eat pill, and this story is really unpredictable, we as the audience can guessing for many times who is the real assassin, we can guess the assassin is the brother of Sherlock, then we can twist our thought that the assassin is actually Sherlock, then we’ll be shocked when we know that the assassin is a cabbie, we will not suspect that the assassin is a cabbie. That’s why I think this movie is really mysterious.

REFLECTION

This movie is a movie which hard to understand because we really need to think. It has strong characters and characterizations. However it really has an uncommon story. I get some lessons from this movie that we need to think something deep and logically, then how perfect we are, we will need a friend, then how our condition is, we have to fight for that, we have to against our weakness and even though we are in a hard condition (e.g really  need money) we should not take bad way to get the money, although the reason is good (support the family) we should earn money by doing something right. This third project forces me to see the story deeper, how the characterizations are and how the characters are, the result is like on the second project, I understand the lesson material, that is narration part 2, those are about character and characterization, atmosphere and theme.