I love that there are numerous times in the story when you don’t really know who is on what side. I think the plotting is excellent and the character interactions wonderful. I grew up with a father who was Pennsylvania Dutch (German immigrant Mennonites) and they sound _nothing_ like the British! In spite of these annoyances, I really like this film. Near as I can tell, Sleepy Hollow is located in or around upstate New York and was a Dutch or German immigrant community. The clothing – particularly the dress of the women is a bit more in the 19th century, with the body shape closer to the look of the hour glass which we would tend to see more towards the Civil War era, instead of the compressed upper body that we would tend to see earlier. The film does start in 1799- therefor barely in the 18th century. If you have not seen this film, it is worth a look.
A theme that is built upon and one that unfolds nicely in the movie. Ichabod can both be right and be wrong and in such we see that truth and appearance are rarely the same thing. The resolution of these two opposing ideas is one of harmonious balance. Naturally the Headless Horseman is a bit of a shook to his theory that the murders in the Sleep Hollow are the results of a culprit of flesh and blood. Ichabod is a police inspector anxious to prove that modern scientific methods are the only way to detect and prove the guilty. there is a delightful mix of supernatural and the mundane. That aside this is a wonderful film, if you like the classic look and feel of Hammer Horror. The nature of the courts, manner of the gentry and so on all make this film feel much more at home in some isolated area of the Britain than in up-state New York at the turn of the 18th Century. The cast is English and speak in their native English accents - or affect one in the case of the American actors - and the culture surrounding the characters is clearly British. While the core concept is taken from Washington Irving’s short story, The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow, what Burton has placed on the screen is an updated Hammer Horror film. Christopher Walken appears briefly, and mutely, as the Headless Horseman with most of the Headless bit performed by Ray Park. Starring Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane, Cristina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel and a superb cast of English actors supporting out the film. So last night I watched Sleep Hollow (1999), Director Tim Burton’s take of the classic story by Washington Irving. I’m going to try to do better for everyone here and I appreciate your patience. The Hollow tells the story of Ian Cranston, a high school teen who has just found out he is the descendant of Ichabod Crane.
Between Christmas, familial illnesses, and my own illness - creeping crud caught at LosCon - it has been a rough couple of weeks. My blogging has been very sparse of late and I do apologize for that.
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