Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly wrote Sleepy Hollow is "a choppily plotted crowd-pleaser that lacks the seductive, freakazoid alchemy of Burton's best work." Gleiberman compared the film to The Mummy, and said "it feels like every high-powered action climax of the last 10 years.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" at American Literature. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow public domain audiobook at LibriVox "Sleepy Hollow", a non-fiction description of the story's locale written by Washington Irving in 1839. Sleepy Hollow Cemetery.
Sleepy Hollow (1948), a Broadway musical, with music by George Lessner and book and lyrics by Russell Maloney and Miriam Battista. It lasted 12 performances. Sleepy Hollow (2009), a musical with book and lyrics by Jim Christian and music by Tom Edward Clark.
Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1819.
Washington IrvingWashington IrvingBornApril 3, 1783 New York City, New York, U.S.DiedNovember 28, 1859 (aged 76) Sunnyside, Tarrytown, New York, U.S.Resting placeSleepy Hollow Cemetery, New YorkPen nameGeoffrey Crayon, Diedrich Knickerbocker17 more rows
According to the New York Historical Society, others believe Irving was inspired by “an actual Hessian soldier who was decapitated by a cannonball during the Battle of White Plains, around Halloween 1776.” Irving's story takes place in the New York village of Sleepy Hollow, in Westchester County.
The immediate result was The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent which contained his two most famous fantasy stories, Rip van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. These classic stories have kept Washington Irving's name alive.
A major theme present in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” is greed. Katrina, for example, loves the attention she gets while men quarrel over her. She does not seem to care much about either of them and only for their public displays of love and devotion.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, short story by Washington Irving, first published in The Sketch Book in 1819–20. The protagonist of the story, Ichabod Crane, is a Yankee schoolteacher who lives in Sleepy Hollow, a Dutch enclave on the Hudson River.
In 1815 he went to Liverpool to look after the interests of his brothers' firm. In London he met Sir Walter Scott, who encouraged him to renewed effort. The result was The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent (1819–20), a collection of stories and essays that mix satire and whimsicality with fact and fiction.
Abraham Van BruntAbraham Van Brunt, also known as the Horseman of Death, Headless, Death, the Horseman and the Headless Horseman, is an undead man and one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. He was an Englishman who fought alongside the American army.
Most of the book's 30-odd pieces concern Irving's impressions of England, but six chapters deal with American subjects. Of these the tales “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” and “Rip Van Winkle” have been called the first American short stories, although both are actually Americanized versions of German folktales.
1820Irving's 'Legend': The Story Behind the Story. Beloved by generations of readers, Washington Irving's “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” ranks among the classics of American literature. Although it is one of Irving's shortest works, it has had a long life since it first was published in 1820.
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a gothic story by American author Washington Irving, contained in his collection of 34 essays and short stories titled The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. Written while Irving was living abroad in Birmingham, England, "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was first published in 1819.
The Headless Horseman, of course, is a major character in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” But the ghostly rider—and, especially, his head—also symbolize the tension between reality and imagination, between the natural and the supernatural, held by many of the townspeople.
In a small town, a brewing romantic rivalry with a local tough and a school-teacher culminates in a terrifying ride in the night. In a small town named Sleepy Hollow, a gangly schoolteacher named Icabod Crane comes to town.
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"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" uses a third-person narrator, Diedrich Knickerbocker. Knickerbocker has recorded the story based on an oral retelling he heard from an old man, so the reader is removed several times from the story by the framing devices.
Sleepy Hollow is the name of the valley where this legend takes place. Based on the title, Irving emphasizes the ghostly mood of the place, rather than a specific ghost such as the Headless Horseman, and he wishes readers to know from the very beginning that the story may or may not be true.
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is told in the past tense, although the framing devices at the beginning and end of the story, not including the postscript, are in the present tense.
Many productions have to build entire towns, especially if they are a period piece like Sleepy Hollow. The plot of the movie takes place in 1799, which meant that the buildings had to look fairly different than they do today.
According to Joss Williams - the special effects supervisor - in the featurette Behind Sleepy Hollow, the team got a hold of the mechanical horse that was used in the movie National Velvet, which starred Elizabeth Taylor.
The windmill in Sleepy Hollow was inspired by the 1931 movie Frankenstein, and this windmill also caught fire like the one in Frankenstein. In order to make this effect look even more realistic, Christina Ricci revealed in the featurette Behind Sleepy Hollow that flaming sticks were shot above the actors heads as they ran away from the windmill.
The reason for this was because Tim Burton specifically asked the special effects department to figure out how they could get the heads to spin before they fell to the ground, as revealed in the featurette Behind Sleepy Hollow.
Often times horror movies will sneak in subliminal messages to secretly scare the audience. The Exorcist famously did this in 1973, and Tim Burton also did it in 1999 with Sleepy Hollow.
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton have worked on several movies together. The dynamic duo first teamed up for Edward Scissorhands in 1990 and then again in 1994 for Ed Wood. Depp seems to be Burton’s go-to guy for whimsical characters, and one of the biggest appeals of Sleepy Hollow for Burton was getting to work with Depp again.
There is no denying that the buildings in Sleepy Hollow are creepy and no doubt have a Burton-esque vibe to them. Production designer Rick Heinrichs explained in the featurette Behind Sleepy Hollow that, “One of the things we were trying to do was inspire a sense of apprehension in the architecture of the place and there is something wrong here, and there’s a sense of foreboding and fear”.
Burton was impressed by the cinematography in Great Expectations (1998) and hired Emmanuel Lubezki as Sleepy Hollow ' s director of photography. Initially, Lubezki and Burton contemplated shooting the film in black and white, and in old square Academy ratio.
Responsible for the film's production design was Rick Heinrichs, whom Burton intended to use on Superman Lives. While the production crew was always going to build a substantial number of sets, the decision was made early on that optimally fulfilling Burton's vision would necessitate shooting Sleepy Hollow in a totally controlled environment at Leavesden Film Studios. The production design was influenced by Burton's love for Hammer Film Productions and the film Black Sunday (1960)—particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages. Heinrichs was also influenced by American colonial architecture, German Expressionism, Dr. Seuss illustrations, and Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.
Burton and Heinrichs applied to Sleepy Hollow many of the techniques they had used in stop motion animation on Vincent —such as forced perspective sets. The windmill was a 60-foot-tall forced-perspective exterior (visible to highway travellers miles away), a base and rooftop set and a quarter-scale miniature.
Supervised by Heinrichs, the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed around a small duck pond. At a cost estimated at $1.3 million, and over a period of four months, 12 structures were built, several with detailed interiors, as well as exteriors.
Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 69% of critics gave the film a positive review based on 122 reviews with an average rating of 6.3/10. The site's critics consensus states, "It isn't Tim Burton's best work, but Sleepy Hollow entertains with its stunning visuals and creepy atmosphere." Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 65 out of 100 based on 35 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.
It grossed approximately $207 million worldwide. Sleepy Hollow won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction .
The majority of Sleepy Hollow ' s 150 visual effects shots were handled by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), while Kevin Yagher supervised the human and creature effects. Framestore also assisted on digital effects, and The Mill handled motion control photography. In part a reaction to the computer-generated effects in Mars Attacks!, Burton opted to use as limited an amount of digital effects as possible. Ray Park, who served as the Headless Horseman stunt double, wore a blue ski mask for the chroma key effect, digitally removed by ILM. Burton and Heinrichs applied to Sleepy Hollow many of the techniques they had used in stop motion animation on Vincent —such as forced perspective sets.