Sherlock Holmes:
Special Effects
Some times
I wish I could look at a specific earring on a woman or a dust smear on a man’s
coat and tell where they got the earring from or where they have been spending
their nights out on the town. This is called inductive reasoning and Sherlock
Holmes is a boss at it. Sherlock Holmes is
a movie based on inductive reasoning with a splash of adventure and intensity.
The special effects used in Sherlock
Holmes are sneaky but if you pay close attention, they make you feel as if
you are in the moment of action.
Sherlock Holmes, played by Robert
Downey Jr., is a peculiar yet very intelligent man of research and of vision.
In this movie, Downey takes on the role of Holmes to catch a murderous villain,
Lord Blackwood. Throughout this movie, Holmes is faced with mystery after
mystery, clue after clue, and conflict after conflict to try and catch this
manipulative man. Right from the beginning, Holmes is approaching a point of
interest that has led him to another clue. In this scene, there is a man
standing guard where Holmes will be walking through. Of course, Holmes knows
this loser is standing in his path. So,
what does Holmes do? He plans his attack in his mind, punch by punch, knowing the
enemy’s every move and attempt to attack him. This is the first special effect
we see. I am not sure any man can plan a fight, to the “T,” in his mind, before
it ever happens. If there is a man like this, I want his e-mail address and
maybe even his SnapChat name… I digress. Along with this fight scene, there is
yet another street/gamble fight Holmes is involved in that goes into even
deeper detail. Let me explain because it is just that cool. In this gambling
fight, the same process as the first quarrel happens, but, not in a weird way,
the men fighting have no shirts on so there is more emphasis on the punches and
attacks… Although Downey does have an athletic build, but that is beside the
point. In this slow-motion plan of attack, as Holmes is attacking his enemy,
the emphasis and detail on the skin being punched is so radical that you almost
feel the pain being inflicted on the enemy, as it is happening. As it says in Everything’s an Argument, “Images can
bring a text or presentation to life. Sometimes images have the power to
persuade by sheer pathos” (452). I believe this statement is true regarding
this fight scene. It impacts you in such a powerful way that you almost feel
the character’s pain.
Moving on to another one more scene
that I believe has great special effects is the scene with Holmes and his
partner, Watson, on a boat dock that is exploding. If anyone has ever shot a
gun or heard a cannon blast, we know that it numbs our hearing capacity and
discontinues our ability to answer our phone for quite some time, which in some
cases is the end of the world for some people… Anyway, as this scene
progresses, the first explosion that appears, we can actually hear. We hear the
initial “boom.” But the awesome thing about the rest of the scene is that all
we can hear is that loud ringing noise, like that of the gunshot or cannon.
This special effect sequence gives the audience an opportunity to use their
imagination in what they think the explosions are sounding like. Thus, this
gets us that much more involved in the movie because we are filling the gaps of
soundless explosions. Pretty awesome, in my opinion.
All in all, from the psychic-like
slow motion fight scenes to the soundless explosions, the special effects in Sherlock Holmes are quite intriguing. I
truly think that the use of these effects had a fantastic approach and outcome
in this movie. Plus it helps that this movie is in my top three favorite movies…
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