Chapter 29 "CSI" killed Sherlock Holmes

Guess who is one of the latest victims of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation? Sherlock Holmes. In the fifth season of "CSI," which aired this year, a detective enthusiast dressed as Sherlock Holmes was shot dead.Is this arrangement just to make the story more engaging, or is there some other purpose—for example, to wave at a certain train of thought from the past and send it into history with a bullet? hottest tv series "CSI", a series that started airing in 2000, featuring crime scene investigators in the casino city of Las Vegas, has become the most popular TV series in the United States.On its way to the top of the ratings list, the strongest competitors in the past faded out one by one: "Seinfeld" stopped broadcasting, "Friends" said goodbye, "Sex and the City" died down, and "CSI" was formed at once. situation.

In the past two years, "CSI" has also spawned "CSI: Miami" and "CSI: New York", in order to occupy as large a territory as possible.William Peterson, who plays Grayson, the soul of the CSI team, is very dissatisfied with such expansionary actions: even the best milk powder cannot withstand repeated dilution.But even though he has been promoted to producer, there is nothing he can do.People have been watching to see if there will be a fourth CSI series.The good news is that the producers said that unless the "Who" band who sang the theme song "Who Are You" for "CSI" regroup and write a new theme song, they will no longer consider adding "family members".

At the beginning of the year, "CSI" was awarded the "People's Choice" "Favorite TV Series Award" in the United States.William Peterson took the stage to receive the award with the participation of "no jury, no film critics, only audiences who love to watch TV". Meg Helgenberger, who played the second character of CSI, Catherine, won the "Favorite TV Actress Award".In the newspapers, on the Internet, or through the most primitive word of mouth, all the news about "CSI" has only one purpose: to constantly emphasize how popular and wonderful this TV series is.

If a TV series becomes popular, everyone will come to make fun of it.A less reliable source said that Britney Spears was so intrigued by "CSI" that she planned to suspend her acting career to become a forensic scientist.Previously, Britney Spears appeared on "You Are Whole!" ", deliberately dressed boldly, and was accused by American TV audiences of using the popularity of the TV show to restore the career ruined by the two marriages - this column is currently one of the most popular spoof TV shows in the United States, and the host is Demi Moore's Husband Kutcher.This time it seems that Britney is repeating the old trick again, and borrowing the wind from "CSI".Even the great U2 played two new songs on "CSI" before releasing their new How to Defuse an Atomic Bomb LP.And whether Americans agree or not, British television viewers rank William Peterson fifth in their list of the best candidates to be the next US president.The first is the famous animated character The Simpsons.

Those CSI agents also look really human, not just a fake character.The creators arranged for Grayson to suffer from a genetic ear problem, and he had to have surgery at the end of season four.In order to cover up the wound, Grayson has grown a beard since the fifth season.This beard works so well - who wouldn't live with a little change?Viewers talk about Grayson's new look entirely as friends.A handful of other agents with strong personalities, an episode-by-episode tension, and several leads running in parallel — there's little to say about these, as they are must-haves for any decent TV show. The trick of "CSI" is to romanticize science, or sexualize it, and make romance scientific.

From "Forensic Judgment" to "CSI" The US DISCOVERY channel once filmed "Forensic Judgment" with a similar theme. Except for those viewers who read DISCOVERY as a textbook, it did not have a great impact.It's no wonder that the actors playing the corpse and the victim are amateurs, and the plot is single, like a manual. The emergence of "CSI" benefited from "Forensic Judgment", but it compiled a story from the beginning to the end for each murder, arranged various characters, and invited Elizabeth Devine, who had been a crime scene investigator for 15 years, to do it. Consultant, to ensure good-looking and no scientific errors.

"CSI" also draws on some real cases.For example, on July 4, 1989, a group of people celebrated the National Day in Illinois, USA. A man suddenly fell from a folding chair and found a gunshot wound on his right chest.After investigation, the possibility of murder was ruled out, and it was only a bullet that was fired by mistake. "CSI" changed the gender of the deceased to a woman. Before she died, she was trying to persuade her two husbands to fight. Then the CSI agents showed the audience how they "caught" the shooter. They showed different densities. He shoots in the jelly-like substance and measures the range; sticks a stick into the wound to determine the angle at which the bullet enters the body.Real events turned into a magic show.

Science is always sexy, as long as you know which side of it to let others see - the key is to make scientists look sexy.Grayson first showed his skills in the first episode of the first season of "CSI". He put on gloves, took tweezers, and pinched a maggot from the dead body lying in the bathtub and brought it to his eyes: "chrysalis, the third stage." The tone is flat and objective, no different from the tone of 007's martini, and the audience will almost forget the "dead for seven days" guy in the bathtub.Grayson is plainly dressed and has an average figure, but the sexiness brought by his wit far exceeds that of the old playboy 007.The developmental stage of this maggot provides irrefutable support for Grayson's deduction of the time of death, and it is also the maggot that contributed the most to the word "sexy" in the history of human film and television. Every member of the CSI team knows more than Holmes.They can say the chemical terms that you can't pronounce smoothly at all in the most ordinary tone, as if calling their pet's name. These substances can usually reveal who the criminal is.Grayson was lured by a rotten meat head to the small town to investigate a murder case, and his work was inexplicably interfered by the local police, even the toolbox was taken away.Grayson went to a local hardware store and bought a bunch of odds and ends. At the crime scene, he only energized a piece of metal film, and a clear footprint appeared on the film immediately.

What did you say? "When under the strong impact of mysterious affairs, a person dare not disobey." When the audience is being tortured dizzily by daily work, there are such a group of people on TV who work day and night and are full of energy. Things have unquestionable authority, but you are inferior to yourself and only know how to eat and drink men and women, so you can't help but bow down at the feet of knowledge and sexy scientists. Detective Entertainment and Science Sexy Questions CSI turns dead, cold science into sexy hot art.Britney is definitely not the only one who has become obsessed with "forensic science on TV." The popularity of "CSI" even affected the court, for example, the forensic doctor became the most popular person in the court. An article published in "USA Today" stated that according to the survey, among the 500 people who have served on the jury, about 70% of them have watched "CSI" or similar TV programs.Forensic science at the University of Honolulu has become the most popular major at the university, with only 20 students in 2001; 50 in 2002; and 90 in 2003.Chinese-American detective Li Changyu was also turned into an idol by myth in this upsurge.Forensic science, a science that only became popular in 1965, is now a popular science. The contribution of "CSI" to this will be as great as the distortion.An American forensic doctor said that he no longer needs to explain when he declares his profession. Everyone knows what a forensic doctor does—or they think they know.

Grayson and the rest of the CSI team aren't the only science-based protagonists in detective entertainment productions.In the history of detective novels, there have been many "genius detectives" who can find the real murderer without leaving home.Reasoning is their sharp weapon, and many people even reject any field investigation other than this.Nor do they excel by virtue of knowledge in a particular field.Miss Marple described by Agatha Christie is an old girl who loves gossip.All difficult questions, they will be delivered to the little gray brain cells (Poirot).Nowadays, professional and knowledge-based detectives are popular in entertainment products, such as the female forensic doctor Tang Pu in Kath Lex's "Bones Are Talking", and the heroine Aniyu in Michael Onjeda's "The Island where the Buddha Gazes" Forensic, the actor Robert Langdon is a semiotician.The former "Genius Detective" Sherlock Holmes was defeated by "CSI".

Detective entertainment is no longer trendy reasoning, and now the scientific protagonist relies on proof to solve the case.Looking back on "how to determine who the criminal is" in the art theme is very intriguing.From relying on not necessarily reliable brains to relying on evidence that cannot lie, we seem to have made progress. After World War II, people worshiped industry extremely, and now science and technology have become the first driving force for social progress. People pin their hopes and judgments on omnipotent technology instead of their own brains shaking in easy chairs. something to happen.Cold, industrial, or electronic designs will naturally become the trend.This change in taste is reflected in cultural consumer products, and the result is that they must look scientific, just as the food bought by a fashionable person must have calorie descriptions, so as to ensure that he can eat with confidence. But science is progressing, not us.The audience who are now obsessed with "CSI" is not substantially different from the readers of classical mystery novels back then.Science is also easier to follow because it looks too scientific.Personal brain power can be shown off, so why not the evidence, just like the excessive evidence inspection process in "CSI", they often make the audience forget the purpose, but focus on the process of the detectives cutting open the severely damaged car with a giant chainsaw.It can be said that the only change is that the brain show has become a science show. In 1979, when Dr. Li Changyu, a Chinese-American detective, uncovered the murder of a 12-year-old girl, Joanna, in Burlington, Connecticut, USA, he found that Joanna’s swimsuit was pulled up to cover her eyes, so she concluded that the murderer must be an acquaintance of Joanna. ——This is something that Poirot or Sherlock Holmes can do, but in the end it was the forensic science that became popular in the 1960s that helped the police catch the murderer Rona: "The results of scientific tests, all physical evidence is consistent with Rona Relevant." We left our judgment to the evidence, and soon we believed in the evidence as much as those who believed in reasoning once did. After the audience perceives that it is easier to believe in science, they are less willing to believe in themselves.