Comparing Ichabod Crane And The Tale Of Sleepy Hollow
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It’s no surprise when Hollywood decides to get the rights to make a film out of a popular piece of literature. It’s quite a trend now to make a movie out of a book or short story that people feel like “deserves it’s own movie or franchise”. And as awesome (or terrible) as some of the book-to-movie adaptations tend to be, filmmakers aren’t ever one hundred percent true to the original text. Sometimes it’s a drastic change of the plot or characters. The reasons the filmmakers that make these movies do this are all based on what makes for a more enjoyable story, what does the viewing audience want to see, and what ways the filmmakers can please the fans of the stories that they are entitling themselves to bring to life on the cinema screen.…show more content… The characters have to obviously follow along with the plot of the story, so if the plot is changed drastically, like in “Sleepy Hollow”, surely the characters are going to change quite a bit as well. Such as in “The Tale of Sleepy Hollow”, Ichabod Crane is a jittery coward, yet confident with the ladies. His charm is half the reason that he initially won the hand of his bride to be, Katrina, when competing for her against the man of the village, Brom. But Brom would tell of the headless horseman, and play cruel tricks on Ichabod, leaving him dearly frightened at night. But the Ichabod Crane in the short story is not the Ichabod Crane of the movie. Actor Johnny Depp’s interpretation of the famed protagonist of this horror story is an intelligent constable who isn’t necessarily afraid to help fight off a ghost of a murderous Hessian when push comes to shove, and very little can make him squeamish, especially when investigating corpses. He also isn’t so upfront about wanting to abide to Katrina’s affection for him, because his head was at first to his initial reasoning for coming to the town of Sleepy Hollow: To investigate murders and help bring the community of the town to peace. But, nevertheless, filmmakers don’t always stray too far away from what their characters do in the books that their tales are based off of. It may just be a slight change, like in the short story “Rappaccini’s Daughter”, Rappaccini was afraid of even touching the flowers in his garden, because of their toxin, and he made that abundantly clear to anyone who may have seen him in his garden. However, in the film adaptation, he took care of his garden, and would call upon his daughter calmly to take care of the deadly