‘The Singing Detective’ is a BBC
television serial Film Noir/musical drama written by Dennis Potter and directed
by Jon Amiel in 1986,
which stars Michael Gambon. Michael Gambon plays a character who is tormented
and bedridden by a debilitating disease. He relives his detective stories
through his imagination and hallucinations with his alter ego.
During the episode shown to us of ‘The Singing Detective’
in the screening, we come across voice-overs and mystery music being played at
parts in the episode. There are also uses of diegetic and non-diegetic music.
The harmonica has been used for diegetic sound and the mystery music soundtrack
as non-diegetic sound.
With the musical scenes in the hospital, it makes it
theatrical as well as including some comedy involved. We see a switch between
visions, flashbacks and hallucinations of the crime that his alter ego has
commit while we see him a hospital bed with burns on his body. This drama has
more of a theatrical side to it with the musical sequences throughout as well
as mystery music being played. Comedy has also been used within the dialogue of
the main character as well as a voiceover.
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