Sleepy Hollow
Just saw Sleepy Hollow. The fights kick ass. They were choreographed
by the Darth Maul guy. The effects were also very very ILM. More need not be said.
I had just read the book version like 1 hour before I saw the movie -
and I would like to say Where is the food!
The food in the book took center stage easily commanding 10% of all
the description. Apples, apricots, cakes, pies... all in lucious
detail - but we only see ONE APPLE in the film. Tim Burton - where is
your sense of food!
Also there were a few characters I was assuming they would develop
more, like the 'Bram' guy.
Anyway there were a lot of differences between the two.
From what I hear, the Disney version of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow was actually closer to the story
than the new movie.
Here's a handy chart of the differences:
| Tim Burton Movie |
Short Story |
| Everyone Dies - like 10 people, but not the main character. |
No one dies, except for possibly the main character. |
| Bram dies. |
Katrina marries Bram - who is not dead. |
| Very little mention of food. |
Lots of food mentions. |
| No Ichabod singing or dancing. |
Ichabod sings and dances. |
| Ichabod is a forward-looking constable sent from New York to investigate murders. |
Ichabod is a school teacher, who is neither forward-looking, nor investigatory. |
| Ichabod beaned with a pumpkin. |
Ichabod beaned with a pumpkin. |
| Actual supernatural juju. |
Implied supernatural juju. |
| Lots of violence, and gore, and blood, and more gore. There's some gore for the sake of gore. |
Only violence is contained entirely within the "Pumpkin Beaning Incident". |
| Gratuitous building explosion. |
Gratuitous food explanation. |
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