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The horror of the Scarecrow that connects the Dark Knight and the Headless Knight [Mizumaru Kawahara's CINEMONOLOGUE Vol.10]
two cranes and two knights
The fear gas that Scarecrow uses as a weapon causes people who breathe it to experience terrifying hallucinations. After hearing the ghost story, Ichabod is trudging home through the autumn night, hearing the sound of the wind as if someone was answering his whistle, and seeing a tree whose bark has been peeled back to expose its white wood. , I thought something white was hanging down, and when the branches were swaying in the wind I could hear it growling. Anyone who has ever felt lonely on a lonely road at night has probably experienced it. Because he knows that feeling, Ichabod's fear is endearing, and he empathizes with his fear. The night road's promise of making ordinary things seem terrifying may be connected to the Scarecrow's fear gas.
The head thrown at poor Ichabod by the Headless Horseman was, of course, a pumpkin. Since it was revealed to be a head in the dark, it must have been a Halloween lantern pumpkin with a face carved and lit (as depicted in the aforementioned anime). Burton's film version begins with a terrifying scarecrow whose head is a Halloween pumpkin with its face carved out. This can be said to be a familiar motif for the Burton seal, and of course the pumpkin that looks like a ghost's head, as well as the scarecrow that stands alone in a lonely farmland and can be mistaken for a suspicious figure if you see it on the road at night, are from the ghost story "Sleepy Hollow". It can be said to be a symbol of
The Scarecrow in `` Beginnings '' appears at the end of the story, riding on a horse stolen from a mounted police officer, as fear gas flows into the city and chaos ensues. The horse seen through a gas hallucination spews flames from its nostrils, and the picture is very similar to that of ``Sleepy Hollow.''
Ichabod Crane, a scarecrow-like man who has experienced the ultimate fear, and Jonathan Crane, a scarecrow man who is obsessed with fear and tries to control it. The two cranes unite two knights, Batman and the Headless Horseman. Batman, who appears in the city like a ghost every night and goes around punishing villains in order to eradicate the crime that killed his parents, may be similar to the knight who continues to wander in search of his own head. American comics, as a modern myth, may also be the successor to American folklore, ``Sleepy Hollow.''
Illustrations and text: Mizumaru Kawahara
Born in 1991. Illustrator. In addition to illustrations and covers for magazines and books, there are also illustration columns for movies and books. New movie reviews are currently being serialized in "SPUR" (Shueisha).
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