The character of Sherlock Holmes from the 2009 movie to Si Arthur Conan Doyle’s literature stories of him are the same in some ways but also different. In the movie, he is portrayed as a smooth-talking, handsome, and a hero-type character. In Doyle’s stories Sherlock Holmes is portrayed as a man with weak social skills but a strong mental intellect. Other features such as his martial arts skills are conserved in Doyle’s stories, but amplified or even exaggerated in the movie. The general focus of the character (investigation, deductions, fights against evil, etc.) are represented in both the movie and the stories. For example, in “The Speckled Band”, “… and in admiring the rapid deductions, as swift as intuitions, and yet always founded on
