Holmes’s vagueness and incompleteness on the page are what make him so irresistible as a pop figure, on whom we can project our own interpretation. A lot of what we know, or think we know, about him — the deerstalker hat, the cloaks, the catchphrase “Elementary, my dear Watson” — comes not from the texts at all but from subsequent imaginings of him, the movies especially.
Sherlock Holmes examined: in print and on screen
The New York Times looks at the many portrayals of Sherlock Holmes in print and on screen.
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