Setting the Stage for Sherlock – Buildings as Metaphor in The Reichenbach Fall (Pt 2)

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What you have to realise is that, when I talk about a ‘stage’ upon which the rooftop duet in “The Reichenbach Fall” is performed, I am quite serious in what I say. The whole layout of the roof, with the way our protagonists move about, the music played and specific buildings in the skyline are taken in and out of shot, are, as Sherlock will later say 'like a scene from a play.' Everything has been carefully choreographed to have meaning, everything we see is being used to say something and give us information.

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