Good Vs Evil

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Good vs. Evil. The theme every book, movie or story deals with at least once. We even deal with it in our real world. The issue becomes even greater when the evil matches the good, like Sherlock and Moriarty or Guy and Bruno. The combination of the protagonist and the antagonist creates a crisis which can only be solved if both parties cease to exist or one part gives in their role. We see this in both “Sherlock” BBC series and in the movie “Strangers on a Train” where both sets of doubles demonstrate the need of the other member for existence.

In “Sherlock” we are introduced to Moriarty the world's best consulting criminal we directly begin to notice the doubles complex knowing that Sherlock Holmes is the world's best consulting detective. …show more content…

The scene starts of outside the train station with a panning shot of the feet of both characters all the way till they sit next to each other on the train. You could tell they are opposites from their feet because Guy has the all black regular dress shoes and is wearing a looser fit suit and holding a tennis racket while Bruno has a pair of very fashionable black and white dress shoes and is wearing a fitted sit. This shows us a lot about the too characters for example we learn that Guy is a tennis player and doesn't have the financial backing like that of Bruno who seems to be a wealthy person with an unclear profession. The panning shot also illustrates the difference between the two by the way they walk one is walking from bottom left to top right and the other is walking bottom right to top left. After the two characters sit next to each other on the train the happen to bump feet and Bruno notices Guy because of Guy’s tennis career and the fact that he’s been in the news lately because his potential marriage to Anne Morton. It is also revealed that both characters are having their lives obstructed due to a single person in Guy’s case it's his ex wife and in Bruno’s case it's his father. This shows how they are both dealing with equivalent conflicts but Bruno proposes an idea where they can both deal with solve each other's conflicts. Guy

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