The Novel and Film of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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The Novel and Film of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, originally a book written by Washington

Irving, is exactly what the title implies, a legend. This legend

includes a town that is haunted by a headless horseman and a single

man's journey. Many years later, this legend was produced as a movie

directed by Tim Burton. Burton stole the title of this legend and

added thrill to this now classic storyline.

The book and the movie ultimately have to be somewhat similar, because

they share a common title, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. Therefore

similarities do not end there, at the title, because Burton was

obviously inspired by Irving. Burton continued the theme and setting

of the legend and the town it took place in, Sleepy Hollow. For

example, the town in the book was a small town in the middle of

nowhere and surrounded by a wooded area. I noticed Burton kept the

same idea for the movie, the town is surrounded by wooded areas as

well, and this is obvious throughout the movie when Ichabod Crane

rides on his horse and eventually learns of and about ?the tree?.

The time period of the two stories was also kept similar, regarding

the way the town peoples dressed and the attitude towards women.

Another similarity is that most of the characters are the same. The

main character, Ichabod Crane, is the same main character with a

similar purpose in the in the movie as the book. The young lady he

grows fond of in both the book and the movie is also present and

similar, Katrina. Burton transferred most of the characters and the

setting over to the movie extremely well.

When it came to watchi...

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...begins to speed up after a long spell of slow chords, the brain

reacts with adrenaline because it associates it with excitement. This

is all done to make the person watching the movie more involved and

capture a larger percentage of their brain. Lighting is manipulated

for the same results, when the town is dark in the movie, it brings

on a dreary feeling. Most of the movie took place in dim lighting to

show Sleepy Hollow as a dreary town.

Regardless of the similarities, the movie was an improvement next to

the book. It may have been the lighting, the music, or even the insert

of affairs that made the movie easier to enjoy, but the main idea is

that one enjoys it. Burton did a fine job of turning an otherwise

boring story into an exciting movie that kept me and many others in

their seat, or maybe on the edge of it.

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