One of the many differences between the sleepy Harlow book and movie was the style that Washington Irving’s uses, he uses varies from enchanted and mysterious, to downright jovial type of writing. He also uses rich language when describing sleepy Harlow. Another big difference between the book and movie was the difference within the lavish detail of the scenery and even the food. Burton’s film on the other hand starts creepy and progresses onward from there. Where Irving fills his tale with vibrant descriptions of color, Burton chose to make everyone and everything starkly pale, contrasting while on dark clothing and trees. All the source of color comes from flickering firelight or splattered blood.
One of the major differences between the story and the book is
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No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.” This differs completely from Tim
Burton’s Ichabod Crane, a cynical scientist who disregards all “spiritual” explanations in favor of provable ones. Ironically, the end and explanation of the
Headless Horseman is different in the two sources. In the story, with Crane hungry for the supernatural, Irving implies with his ending that Brom Bones was the
Horseman and that what happened could have a reality-based explanation. In the movie, where Johnny Depp’s Ichabod Crane adamantly rejects any supernatural ideas, Tim Burton creates an entire back-story of witchcraft to explain the Headless
Hessian. In one similarity, both contrasted their main character’s belief with what
“really happened.”
Tim Burton creates more than just a back-story for Sleepy Hollow. He creates an entire story, complete with an elaborate murder plot. He even kills off Brom Bones, who Irving ends up pairing with Katrina von Tassel. Early in the story, he leaves the written story, with only a small “dream montage” of the iconic pumpkin