The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Movie And Book Comparison Essay

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“The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, one of the most classic books of all time, written by Washington Irving, was remade into a movie in 1999 by Director Tim Burton. Surprisingly there are many differences between the book and the movie, and little to no similarities. One of the major differences was that in the movie Tim Burton made Ichabod Crane a detective, while in the story he’s a nerdy teacher. Tim Burton did this to make the movie more interesting and for there to be a reason why Ichabod is so good at finding clues and solving the headless horseman case. Also they made Ichabod a little bit more brave in the movie so that there would be more action and drama in the movie. A total different between the story and the movie, is that they give a background of young Ichabod and his mother, but none of that was …show more content…

In the movie, however, it was like love at first sight, and the audience could see that as well, he wasn’t in it for the money, he was just there to do his job and just so happened to fall in love with Katrina. Yes in both the movie and story, Katrina was going to marry Brom Bones, but in the movie Brom Bones body is cut in half by the headless horseman. Director Tim Burton did this to give the audience a little more emotional and dramaful. Who doesn’t love a good romance? Blood. Some people love it some people hate it, Tim Burton loves it. The movie Sleepy Hollow is very gory, bloody and more eerie than the text because the viewer is actually seeing in real life the dark descriptions of what is going on and get the goosebumps, and chills down their spine, which some actually love. Readers get none of that when reading “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”. When is the last time you heard someone jump out of their seats in terror when reading a book, movies are what get the viewers

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