The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow Book Vs Movie

When producers generate books or short stories into movies, how much can they really leave out without modifying the plot of the movie? When analyzing the three short stories, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rappaccini's Daughter, and The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, as well as their movies, you find that the producer and the writer had much to compare. However, you will also notice that the producer needed to develop some situations or details because it may not have pertained to what his or her vision was. After analyzing the selections, the reader finds several literary components to compare and contrast between the text and the movie. The plot is one of the leading literary elements that the reader finds as an extensive difference between

However, in the movie (Dezsö Magyar, Sea Cliff Productions, 1980), Giovanni does not see any of this happen. He just simply watches her through the window and eventually gets the courage to talk to her. It may be significant that the producer left this detail out because it gives the audience more of a suspense factor, whereas, seeing it first hand, may spoil the rest of the story. Nevertheless, the story and the movie did keep particular details the same. They both kept the fact that the purple plant is poisonous. The color purple symbolizes creativity and mystery. It was intended for both the author and producer to leave this small but significant detail the same because it foreshadowed that the plant will play an important role in the tragedy. If the reader looks at the story, the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and its movie adaptation, the reader can see similar differences between the author and producer. These differences, mainly pertain to the end of the story, whereas the others are more about the details of the stories. The book (The Legend of Sleepy Hollow), ends with Ichabod Crane, the main character, being attacked by the horseman and then disappearing and never being heard

In contrast to this, the movie (Tim Burton, Mandalay Pictures, 1999) concludes with Ichabod and Katrina getting married and moving to New York. This change is particularly significant to the plot of the story by, in one version, leaving the reader in suspense, and the other, giving the reader a sense of closure. In the same manner, the story says “It is said by some to be the ghost of the Hessian trooper, whose head had been carried away by a cannonball,” (Washington Irving, 17). On the other hand, the movie shows the Hessian’s head being decapitated by a group of revolutionary soldiers who had been chasing him through the forest. This may be important by having the two different situations, one being that the reader knows the backstory and the other being that the reader is left with a rumor that may or may not be true. The reader then starts to look at the story The Jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter. The reader first starts to see the differences at the beginning of the story when in the book it opens up saying, “She flicked her wrist neatly out of Doctor Harry’s pudgy careful fingers and pulled the sheet up to her chin.” (K.A. Porter,