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Every country with Halloween
celebration must be familiar with Sleepy Hollow, the horseman without head,
which maybe have an interest to your beloved head. The original author is an
American writer’s Washington Irving while he was living abroad in Birmingham. The
original story titled “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, first published in 1820. It
a “must read” if you’re a classic mystery stories fanatic. The story is started
with impressive classical romance: a humble man (hero), princess, and a rival. Located
at Sleepy Hollow (oh, it’s a place name for sure), New York, a village of Dutchmen,
and from its topography (valley) and unique mist, it have a spine-chilling aura
that ghost stories are easily spreads like a pandemic.
Our humble star is Ichabod Crane,
a humble teacher who attempt to win the heart of village: Katrina van Tassel. The
rival, local hero with perfect background is Brom van Brunt. Well known as ‘Brom
Bones’. And of course the infamous Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian
trooper who lost his head in a nearby battle, each night he roams the
countryside in search of it.
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Although “The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow” is as familiar a tale as “Rip Van Winkle” to generations of schoolchildren,
it has not had much success on the stage because of the difficulty of staging
the thrilling chase scene at the end between Ichabod and the Headless Horseman.
It has, however, been turned into at least three motion pictures. In 1922 the
great cowboy humorist Will Rogers starred in a silent-screen version retitled
The Headless Horseman. For the second, in 1949, Walt Disney created a
full-length animated feature with Bing Crosby as narrator. In 1999 Tim Burton’s
version, Sleepy Hollow, made Ichabod Crane into a constable sent to investigate
a number of murders attributed to the Headless Horseman. The tale was also made
into a television film in 1980.
The latest adaption is Sleepy Hollow (2013), a fantasy mystery drama series co-created by Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Phillip Iscove and Len Wiseman airing on the Fox network. In the series, Ichabod Crane is an English professor and turncoat during the American Revolutionary War, who awakens in the 21st century and encounters the Headless Horseman, a fellde mercenary Crane had decapitated 250 years prior. Crane teams up with Abbie Mills, a lieutenant in the town of Sleepy Hollow's sherrif's department, and together they try to stop the murderous Horseman (which is purportedly Death).
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