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| The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow |
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Ichabod Crane characters are odd in ways, but Burton shows him as a completely
different character than Irving does. Johnny Depp’s character does not show
interest in Katrina only for her money, in fact he shies away from her at first
because he is an outsider, and he knows that she has a bunch of suitors. Ichabod
in the story, however, is after Katrina for her money and challenges Brom for
her. The fact that Ichabod is selfless in the movie makes him much more
likeable which is why I think Burton made that change. He is more of a hero. With that, there is also the part that
Burton left out where Ichabod leaves Sleepy Hollow never to return, leaving
Katrina to Brom, and fleeing the ghostly hollow in fear of the apparitions.
The
extra part is that Ichabod returns to solve the mystery of the Headless
Horseman who does indeed exist, a plot twist that makes the movie much more
interesting and way cool to watch. The stories of the ghosts told in the Irving
story are mere superstitions and not very believable. But in Burton’s movie,
the whole town regards the Horseman as a commonly known fact of Sleepy Hollow. They
scoff at Ichabod, who believes that he can find a man of flesh and blood behind
the mystery of the decapitations.
I
really like how Burton takes the ghost stories and makes them true. He takes
the fears of the characters and brings them to life so that it is not really a
film about the Irving story, but instead a film about the ghost stories told in
the town and what would happen if they were all true. He even makes the
shrieking woman in white a real character in the form of the witch sister who
tells Ichabod where to find the Headless Horseman’s bones. This means that the
superstitious inhabitants of Sleepy Hollow are not so sleepy after all. Their
tales are true and they live in very real danger.
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