Hound If The Baskervilles Essay

Evaluation of the Hound of the Baskervilles The movie the Hound if the Baskervilles is about a story happened around Sherlock Holmes, who is a wise, clever detective written by Conan Doyle. “The Baskerville family has supposedly been under a curse since the era of the English Civil War, when Hugo Baskerville offered his soul to the devil for help in abducting a woman and was reportedly killed by a giant spectral hound. Sir Charles believed in the curse and was apparently running away from something when he died.” (Wikipedia, 2015) So it’s a story full of suspense. Since the beginning of the movie, the audiences can feel an aura of mystery, this makes the audiences be personally on the scene. It’s a solid suspense movie, because the movie kept the audience in suspense until the end, but also discovering the truth of the case with detective Sherlock, which built a reliable detective appearance at the same time. The movie is at the background of old London, which is helpful to understand detective Sherlock Holmes. …show more content…
There was no evidence in the beginning of the story, Mr. Henry and detective Sherlock only accept the information passively, but with the development of the case, more and more evidences are related together, all-too-apparent, the confusing hints in the development are all discovered, the murdering plan was exposed eventually. How should we evaluate detective Sherlock and his assistant Dr. Watson in this story? As people said, “Holmes approaches the crime exactly as a scientist would, with no preconceived ideas about what the facts mean, and without dismissing any fact as irrelevant. In contrast, Watson's mind is likely to draw conclusions based on his feelings, which is what many artists do. Therefore, his narrative is full of emotionally charged imagery.”(schoolbytes.com, 2015) The movie use characterization perfectly molding this partner, highlighted their complemented