The hound of the baskervilles (1 Viewer)

[OutOfOrder]

Hey
im doing an assignment on the film The Hound of the Baskervilles
directed by david attwood in 2002.. anyone seen it?

anyway i have to compare the way cosy crime is represented in it with the way it is represented in The Real Inspector Hound.
Anyone think they can help at all pls?

thanks

marcus

 

[Trippendicular]

Well its not a very good example of cosy crime, it has an emphasis on Holmes active retrieval of evidence and isnt confined to a room/house or anything

 

[OutOfOrder]

i didnt even think about that lol
but the setting and everything is, like the country manor house, the isolation from civilization..
besides those, what else are conventions of cosy crime?
or does anyone know of a website with info on the movie? its a film study task..
i can only seem to find movie reviews..

 

[Robbo_m8]

The description of this sub-genre of being "cosy" does not necessarily refer to the actions of the characters. It is more the setting, how the setting was before the crime - and how it will return to. Cosy refers to how everything is often tied up easily, or at least thats how i see it.
I'm not sure about this movie adaption of the Hound of the Baskervilles - im sorry if it doesnt corolate to the book, which is all i know of the story. THe setting in it, although not appearing to be confined to an area is, only a handful of people live in the area and although Holmes and Watson begin in London, and after coming to the manor often to travel to Combe Tracy, they are mostly isolated to the moor and the region around.
THe Holmes story is important, being an early classic form of Detective mystery. How it relates to Real Inspector Hound - obviously the setting, the arrival of the detective as an outsider who solves the mystery, class structure being important (ie servants and the role and manipulation of women). In relation to the movie, have a look at how safe Watson appears in the house, what technques are used to show the possibility of evil lurking around him - especially when on the moor and in the manor.
I've probably typed a bit of rubbish there - but i hope that helps if only a little.