![]() ![]() Just think of the clothing on a crime scene. ![]() What matters is that the story works and that the reader/viewer is having fun.Īnd, anyway, the artistic licences go well beyond the roles of the characters. ![]() ![]() The reality on how you carry out the investigations of a murder is different, of course, but that doesn’t matter, because we’re talking about fiction, not documentaries. Okay, along with her is also FBI Special Agent Seeley Booth, but, let’s face it, the engine of all is Brennan. Temperance Brennanalong with their colleagues at the Jeffersonian Institute (which does not exist!) in Washington solves brutal murder cases. In the constant search for a possible new star of the investigations that it is not the classic detective, they even came to the forensic anthropologist in “ Bones ”, a TV series inspired by Kathy Reichs’s (who is a real forensic anthropologist) novels, where Dr. The role of the criminologist, however, owes much to the CSI franchise, which has brought it to light for the first time, so that significant interest in it was created in the public and increased the number of young people who wish to pursue this career, and then maybe find that it is much less exciting and decisive in the resolution of a case than how it looks on TV! In this regard, I wrote about the “ CSI effect” in an old article. I was too young back then, but I happened to watch it more recently on Sky, and despite the effect of the passing of time, I always find it very compelling.Ī similar situation is seen in TV series such as “ Crossing Jordan”, “ Body of Proof” or the recent “ Rosewood”, without forgetting the fiction series of Kay Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell: all series in which pathologists or medical examiners (there is always a lot of confusion about the terminology, which gets worse because of the translations into other languages) will get busy to find the culprit, as if they were detectives, and often risk their life. Do you remember “ Quincy”? It is a series broadcasted NBC between the 70s and 80s that features a pathologist who finds himself investigating cases of murder. The role of medical examiner is one of the most popular. Except when the protagonist is a detective, which by definition has the role to investigate, all the stories with different positions as protagonist must necessarily yield to the will of their creator, so that action involves the main character, and therefore the story works. Of course, the procedures vary from one country to another and with respect to the United States, a frequent scenario in which a reader/viewer comes across, even from state to state, so it is not absurd to think that depending on the location where the story takes place the dynamics between people who work to discover the culprit of some crime (generally a murder) are ruled differently.īut, beyond individual cases, I’m more inclined to think that this phenomenon is simply the result of artistic licence. One thing I have always noticed is that anyone who is the protagonist of the story, whether it’s a detective, a medical examiner, a criminologist, a prosecutor, a lawyer or even an anthropologist, that character automatically rises to a crucial role in the investigation. Being a crime thriller fan myself, as a reader and author, but also viewer, I’ve always been intrigued by the way in which reality of investigative procedures, in particular concerning forensic science, is reinterpreted in fiction (including TV shows and films) for showing it in a way that is comprehensible and able to entertain the audience. ![]()
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