The horror of the Scarecrow that connects the Dark Knight and the Headless Knight [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.10]

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and the Scarecrow

`` Sleepy Hollow, '' directed by Tim Burton at the end of the 20th century, is a film adaptation of an American ghost story with an outstanding visual sense. It was the end of the 18th century, when superstition was still more respected than science. Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp), an eccentric investigator who was one of the first to practice forensics, said, ``If your science is so great, why don't you solve this case?'' Ordered by the spiteful Mayor of New York (Christopher Lee), he heads to the village of Sleepy Hollow, where ghosts roam and beheadings have occurred, and he confronts the Headless Horseman...

The original story is ``The Legend of Sleepy Hollow: From the Posthumous Papers of the Late Diedrich Knickerbocker,'' which was included in Washington Irving's short story collection ``Sketch Book.'' It is based on American folklore in which the ghost of a Tahesian mercenary wanders around in search of his lost head, and is completed by incorporating the legend of the headless fairy Dullahan, which Irving heard on a trip to Europe.

In the original story, Ichabod Crane is a handsome schoolteacher who fights with a powerful rival over the daughter of a prominent village family. On his way home after hearing a terrifying ghost story at a party at his daughter's mansion, Professor Ichabod is chased by the headless horseman he had just heard about, and the head of the ghost knight is thrown at him, causing him to collapse, and then mysteriously disappearing. I end up. When the villagers investigate the scene the next morning, they find a crushed pumpkin, but when the love rival hears the story, he tries his best to hold back his laughter, a story that is both scary and a little funny. It's kind of like rakugo.

Burton's film version is now famous, but there was also an animated version produced by Disney in 1949 called Ichabod and Mr. Toad, which also influenced Burton's version. The story is faithful to the original work, and is a beautiful animation of Irving's short story. The concept art for the Headless Horseman by Mary Blair, best known as the artist behind ``It's a Small World,'' is also amazing.

Irving describes Ichabod's appearance as a crane, as his name suggests, and he is tall and slender with unusually long limbs, narrow shoulders, and a small head with a long beak-like nose that makes him look exactly like The Birds. The author also adds that he looks like a scarecrow running away from a field. Kakashi. Jonathan and Ichabod, the two cranes seem to be connected.

two cranes and two knights