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There is a small gun on the table right next to three cartridges. In a basement room two serious looking men are sitting against each other wore in different color clothes.  “The Last spin” is a shot story written by Evan Hunter. The short story tells about a conversation of these two men and the development of their friendship while they are playing pernicious game called Russian roulette. It is a game where is only one bullet in cylinder of a revolver. Cylinder is spun and then the gun is pointed at own head. At this point the probability of staying alive is five against one.

I think the story starts quite steeply because right in the beginning it is said that the men are enemies. Maybe Hunter has wanted to accentuate that so the development of men’s friendship would be seen easier. The Discussion seems to be a little bit awkward at first, but in the end of the first round of roulette men have found something in common. I would find the playing situation uncomfortable or very scary whole time, but nervous climate turns to more relaxed. But there is still fear of death in the air despite joking and nice chatting, of course. They are still playing deadly game.

The only reason why Danny and Tigo are meeting is that their clubs have said so. Clubs have some disagreement with borders of their areas and Danny and Tigo are wanted to settle it by playing Russian roulette.  Like it would solve anything if other one of these men dies! Ultimately men don’t care what their clubs will say and they become friends and plan going to the lake after all this. This proves that men respect friendship much more than their clubs.

Finally men settle that this round is the last one. There are three bullets in cylinder of revolver and odds to die are 50-50. Last bulling of trigger and men are going to cut the game off but Danny in not that lucky and dies. Tigo’s weeping proves that the deep friendship can be arisen in quite short time.

The dialect of the language what they are speaking is a little bit vulgar, which strengthen the effect about men’s background in gangs. Some words, especially auxiliary verbs, are dropped out from the lines of the men. Here are few examples for the way they are speaking: “Hey, you got to tryin, man,” and other one: “so what’re you gonna do, huh?” They use a lot of colloquial language and it creates certain ambiance to the story.

Sherlock Holmes (2009)

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Sherlock Holmes is a British-American action film based on a fictional detective created by Scottish writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The film was directed by Guy Ritchie and it was released in December 2009. The film was nominated for two Academy Awards, but it lost both of them. First one, Best Original Score it lost to “Up” and other one to “Avatar”.A sequel of the movie, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows was released two years later on 16th December. The sequel was also directed by Guy Ritchie.

American actor Robert Downey Jr. won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy for his brilliant performance as Sherlock Holmes. Downey fits to his role almost perfectly and gives to Holmes nice, finished touch. British actor and director Jude Law portray Holmes’ friend and assistant Dr. Watson. I think he is right person to the role of Watson and managed it very well. In action movies must be an evil person too, of course. This part has been given to Mark Strong who acts Holmes’ enemy Lord Blackwood.

Incidents of the movie are placed in London in 1891. Sherlock Holmes stops the ritual murder by Lord Blackwood, who get arrested and hanged. Blackwood rises from the death and tries to overthrow the British government with black magic and cheating.  Holmes finds out his plan and prevents it saving the members of the parliament. In the end of the movie Holmes gives away secrets of Blackwood’s magic.

I think entirety of the film is very successful. Director Guy Ritchie changed old, classic picture of Sherlock Holmes as a gentleman to modern action hero with a phenomenal ability to draw conclusions. I liked specially the boxing scene where Holmes’ line of thoughts and conclusions are showed before real action. In my opinion, whole movie is very successful and I recommend it to everybody who likes good action movies.