Things you didnt´t know about Sherlock Holmes

Una de las cosas que más me satisfacen como madre en la de poder compartir con mi hija Carmen la afición al personaje de Sherlock Holmes, no sólo ver los capítulos de la serie de la BBC sino en también poder disfrutar con ella en la lectura de las Aventuras de Sherlock Holmes con los relatos de Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. Este vídeo ha sido elaborado por ambas para un trabajo del Instituto donde hemos disfrutado en indagar más aún en anécdotas sobre el personaje, su autor y sobre la serie de la BBC Sherlock. 

One of the things I met a mother in to share with my daughter Carmen fandom character of Sherlock Holmes, not only see the chapters of the BBC series but also be able to enjoy it in reading the Adventures of Sherlock Holmes with the stories of Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle. This video has been produced by both the Institute for a job where we enjoyed in inquire further into anecdotes about the character, its author and the BBC series Sherlock. 

Things you didnt´t know about Sherlock Holmes

The first Sherlock Holmes novel was something of a flop.

The detective made his debut in the novel A Study in Scarlet (1887), written by a 27-year-old Doyle in just three weeks. Famously, Doyle was inspired by a real-life lecturer of his at the University of Edinburgh, who could diagnose patients simply by looking at them when they walked into his surgery. It didn’t sell well, and more or less sank without trace.

The second Sherlock Holmes novel was the result of a dinner party with Oscar Wilde.

One person who had admired the first novel was the editor Joseph Stoddart, who edited Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine. He convinced Doyle, at a dinner party in 1889, to write a second novel featuring the detective, for serialization in the magazine. Wilde, who was another one of the diners, agreed to write a novel for the magazine — his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

Sherlock Holmes is the most-filmed fictional character.

Holmes has appeared in 226 films and been played by dozens of different actors since the advent of cinema in the late 19th century.

Sherlock Holmes Is the Most Portrayed Literary Human Character on Film and TV.

today announces that Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, has been awarded a world record for the most portrayed literary human character in film & TV.

Guinness World Records adjudicator Claire Burgess commented, "Sherlock Holmes is a literary institution. This Guinness World Records title reflects his enduring appeal and demonstrates that his detective talents are as compelling today as they were 125 years ago."

However, Sherlock is not the overall most portrayed literary character in film. That title belongs to the non-human character Dracula, who has been portrayed in 272 films.

Sherlock Holmes was originally going to be called Sherrinford

The name was altered to Sherlock, possibly because of a cricketer who bore the name. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Holmes, was a fan of cricket and the name ‘Sherlock’ appears to have stuck in his memory. Doyle was also a keen cricketer himself, and between 1899 and 1907 he played ten first-class matches for the Marylebone Cricket Club — quite fitting, since Baker Street is situated in the Marylebone district of London.

Here at the 120 meter-high waterfall, Author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle found inspiration and a death place for his hero Sherlock Holmes in the battle against Professor Moriarty.

If you are a faithful follower of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, you will sound the name of the Reichenbach Falls. For all those followers, but not faithful of the famous detective, these cataracts appear in the story "The final problem" where supposedly dies Sherlock Holmes next to Professor Moriarty (after Sir Arthur Conan Doyle decided to resuscitate the detective in the book "adventure Of the uninhabited house "). Once everyone knows the relationship between this fictional character and Reichenbach, we must comment that these cataracts did not appear in the mind of the famous British writer but actually exist and can be visited.

These cataracts can be observed in Switzerland, specifically Meiringen, near Bern. Said town, is turned to the figure of the famous detective, in its streets we can find 221b of Baker Street (at the moment is a museum on Holmes),

Holmes never says ‘Elementary, my dear Watson.’

Not in the canon of original Conan Doyle novels and stories. Holmes says ‘Elementary!’ and ‘my dear Watson’ at various points, but the idea of putting them together was a later meme, which possibly arose because it neatly conveys Holmes’ effortless superiority to his ‘dear’ friend and foil. The first recorded use of this exact phrase is actually in a P. G. Wodehouse novel of 1915, Psmith, Journalist.

The first well-documented time that Holmes uttered the phrase was in the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes is a 1929 American Pre-Code mystery film directed by Basil Dean and written by Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Dean and Garrett Fort. The film shares its title with the third volume of the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle.

A silent version of the film was also produced to accommodate theaters which did not feature sound.

Does Sherlock Holmes have another brother other than Mycroft Holmes? 

Sherrinford is revealed to be the member of a cult worshipping an alien telepathic slug that is mutating him and his followers into an insect-like form; the novel culminates with Holmes being forced to shoot his brother to save Watson.... That might explain Mycroft's dialouge in The Last Vow "You know what happened to the other one" as well as Moriarty going bad might.

There Have Been More Than 900 Sherlockian Societies in Existence So Far...

Sherlock Holmes is very, very popular.

So popular in fact, that since the time of his creation, there have been 911 Sherlock Holmes societies across the world.

Of course, these are just the known ones - there might be many other informal Sherlock Holmes fan groups too.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Didn't Exactly Love Sherlock Holmes... 

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Holmes' creator - didn't hate Sherlock Holmes. But he didn't love him too much either.

He always felt Sherlock Holmes was nice as a money-spinner, but there were deeper pursuits he'd rather apply his mind to.

Here are some of his 'not so happy with Holmes' quotes:

"I was in danger...of being entirely identified with what I regarded as a lower stratum of literary achievement."

(He didn't like being identified with Sherlock Holmes - it was a 'lower stratum' of literary achievement.)

"(I wanted to kill Sherlock Holmes) even if I buried my banking account along."

"...I have sometimes been inclined to (be) weary of him (Sherlock Holmes)...because his character admits of no light or shade."

"I think of slaying Holmes in the last and winding him up for good and all, He [sic] takes my mind from better things."

There Have Been More Than 900 Sherlockian Societies in Existence So Far...

Sherlock Holmes is cool. And so are some mind-blowing facts about him.

The world of Sherlock Holmes is no different - it is a world that begs to be lived in and shared, and it is, the world over, in the form of Sherlockian societies.The most famous and prestigious of these is the Baker Street Irregulars - dating from 1934, it is ancient, revered, and by-invitation-only. But, if you have no such invitation, there are a number of "scion" societies the world over which have no such barriers to membership, and thus many ways to join the Sherlockian community of scholarship and celebration.

The Sherlock Holmes Museum both is and isn’t at 221B Baker Street.

Although the museum in London bears the official address ‘221B’ in line with the celebrated address from the stories, the museum’s building lies between 237 and 241 Baker Street, making it physically — if not officially — at number 239.

.Museums

Both exhibitions, each with a Baker Street sitting-room reconstruction, are open to the public.

In 1990, the Sherlock Holmes Museum opened on Baker Street in London,

The Most Popular Sherlock Holmes Story Ever

Co-created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss, Sherlock stars Benedict Cumberbatch as Sherlock Holmes and Martin Freeman as his loyal friend, Doctor John Watson. Rupert Graves plays Inspector Lestrade.

The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain – they live at the same address of 221b Baker Street, have the same names and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them.

Steven Moffat says: "Conan Doyle's stories were never about frock coats and gas light; they're about brilliant detection, dreadful villains and blood-curdling crimes – and frankly, to hell with the crinoline. Other detectives have cases, Sherlock Holmes has adventures, and that's what matters."

Benedict Cumberbatch plays a modern version of the detective (with Martin Freeman as Watson) in the BBC One TV series Sherlock, which premiered on 25 July 2010. In the series, created by Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat, the stories' original Victorian setting is replaced by present-day London. Cumberbatch's Holmes uses modern technology (including texting and blogging) to help solve crimes

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