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As a certain British super-sleuth might observe, there was nothing elementary about the path that Hollywood composer Hans Zimmer took to bring Gypsy folk music into his soundtrack for "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows."
Accompanied by two NDI representatives, Zimmer and his colleagues visited a number of Slovakia's Roma settlements and met with local politicians. "We get to this village and it's like out of the 12th century," Zimmer recalled of one stop. "There is no running water, there's no electricity."
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