In addition, I'd like to tie this in with a movie. Both National Treasure movies are about a man named Benjamin Gates who solves puzzles to find hidden treasure. Gates is a lot like Holmes because he can solve almost any anagram or decode any scriptures thrown at him. Also, Gates can get out of dire situations. In the second movie, Gates was able to find a way out of room filled with water. Gates volunteered to leave himself behind while another person would go through the door. I forgot how he did it though, it happened too fast. I'm probably going to have to re-watch these movies to do a more indepth analysis.
Yeah, I also saw another movie yesterday called, Hot Fuzz. The movie is about the British police force and the main character, Nicholas Angel, had wanted to be a cop since he was like five years old. He was incredibly intelligent and athletic because he held the record for the 300 meter dash or something and aced all the academy exams. He was the top cop in London. He had a record 350 arrests or something and only injured 3 times in action. He took his work really serious. He took it so serious that he had to be relocated to the countryside because he was making the other cops look bad. It was because he was arresting so many people. So in the countryside, he is just as serious and instantly arrests three people a day before he was to begin his new job. He was just like Holmes because he also didn't have a woman in his life. In addition, he was really strict. He pulled someone over for going like 40 mph in a 30 mph zone. He uses his trusty notepad and records the conversation between him and the driver. Angel manipulates him and gives him a ticket. Well, his wife left him because he took his job too seriously. In the countryside, he had to solve a crime because people were starting to die. Angel finds out that the head of the police there was trying to keep the village the best village in the country. It was an award handed out each year and so the conspiracy begins here, they plotted to kill all the criminals, such as graffiti artists or shoplifters. Angel finds the pit where the skeletons of these criminals are and he comes back with some heavy firearms and just annilates the village.
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Nicholas Angel really reminds me of Holmes the women in his life, and the fact that he is very strict, and so dedicated to his job all shows characteristics of Holmes.
Secondly though, I have to ask, I never really related an incidence where Holmes would give up himself and his safety for somebody else. I always felt Holmes was very selfish as a person, I never thought he was humble. He was very fastious.
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