Blue Herring (spoilers)


They showed Harry and the killer both in the room when he and Susan are getting her files from Dr. Jacobs' office. Since a red herring is to make someone innocent look guilty, what do you call it when a scene makes the guilty look innocent? Blue herring?

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Dracula: Blood has always been the coin of our realm. (Dracula 2000).

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They showed Harry and the killer both in the room when he and Susan are getting her files from Dr. Jacobs' office. Since a red herring is to make someone innocent look guilty, what do you call it when a scene makes the guilty look innocent? Blue herring?
It's still a red herring.

A red herring is simply a device intended to throw the viewer off track. Whether it makes the guilty look innocent or vice verse makes no difference. Still serves the same function.


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Sam

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Ahh, ok. Lol. Red herring is general term for misdirection, huh. Gotcha. ;)

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Dracula: Blood has always been the coin of our realm. (Dracula 2000).

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Maybe it's not the killer, just a surgeon, but I agree it was purposely misleading (I still thought it was Harry, he's the only one we don't see die).

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