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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
"I think Wilder did want to tell as much as he could the private life, but what it turns out to be is that we know less about Holmes by the end," she says. "If you really look at it from a certain perspective, if you go with a certain lens, you actually can't think of who he really was." In an interview where Billie Wilder admits that, he does talk about the censorship issues surrounding the film. The fact that Sherlock Holmes is the main character is irrelevant, Holmes is a mystery to the viewer, and as such, we project our own fears and desires onto him,. which is true, but not, I think, what was intended
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