What's new in the image of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes is the most popular movie hero according to the Guinness Book of Records. Hundreds of actors embodied his image on the television screen and in the theater, and each made him unique in his own way. What is not in the books of Arthur Conan Doyle, but firmly rooted in our minds about this famous detective?

1. The most famous phrase "Elementary, Watson" literary Holmes never said. The word "elementary" is used only in one of Conan Doyle's stories (the story "The Hunchback"). But William Gillette in 1899 on the stage of the theater, playing the famous detective, used it. She later appears in films and is finally assigned to the image of Sherlock Holmes.

2. Holmes also did not wear the famous hat with two peaks, which is called a deerstalker (or diastalker). Yes, and that would be a bad form, because it is only for deer hunting (two visors to protect the face and neck from the sun). She appeared on Sherlock thanks to illustrator Sidney Paget to the story “The Secret of the Boscomian Valley”.

   

   And again later, the image in the hat was replicated in the film adaptations.

3. Curved tube. Sherlock Holmes, of course, smoked and even injected cocaine. And the whole collection of pipes was also: "This is a three-pipe case." Only in this collection was not curved. We owe it to William Gillette again, so that his face could be better seen by the viewer and not obscured by the pipe, he took a curved one. In the conscience of the film adaptation we can also admire such a pipe from Vasily Livanov.

   

But on the other hand, the literary Sherlock Holmes played the violin for sure, used a magnifying glass, was tall and wore an Ulster cloak. Conan Doyle settled him on 221B Baker Street, but there wasn’t such a house in the 19th century, so mankind gave the detective’s image a home, that is, a house museum. It was founded in 1990, although before that letters were sent to the address 221B addressed to the most famous, albeit fictional, detective in history.