Confrontation Scene Inspiration

Final Scene: Confrontation

We didn't want The Client's character to be the typical bad guy. By this we mean that we didn't want him to be intimidating in the most obvious way as we felt that this would be a lot more effective towards the genre as the fear comes from e less obvious element.

We took some inspiration from the BBC TV series 'Sherlock' which is a modern adaption of the stories of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The character we took inspiration from is the antagonist and Sherlock's nemesis Jim Moriarty.

Andrew Scott even won a British Television Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his interpretation of Moriarty in Sherlock.

Andrew's adaption of Moriarty is the mixture of terrifying and average that we want to incorporate into The Client's character. The fear Moriarty creates comes from how calm he is whilst threatening people and even bringing humour into the scenes when you know you shouldn't be laughing. The fact that he takes his crime so lightly is disturbing and an element we would like to include in our film for the character of The Client.

This is the final scene from the last episode of the first series of Sherlock. As you can see, as certain times Moriarty shows no fear at Sherlock. Even when Sherlock holds a gun to his face he even says provocative things to him such as him being 'a tiny bit disappointed' if he shot him and earlier in the scene when he says that he's not here to kill him because that would be too 'obvious' and 'boring'.
The fact that Moriarty can go from unbelieably angry to laughing within the space of a sentence is terrifying and certainly something that we would like to bring into the character of The Client. This is because for a psychological thriller the fear of the antagonist should come from a less obvious place and should become intimidating in a less obvious way.
The character of Moriarty is feared plainly through his comedic view of death and his crimes and his lack of empathy or emotional involvement in his crimes.