Sleepy Hollow |
'Sleepy Hollow' is one of the entertaining movies of Tim Burton. It combines funny and scary scenes. It stars Johnny Depp as a crazy scientist and Christopher Walken as the figure of the Devil, the Headless Horseman.
The film is set in 1799, in a New York scared by superstitions and legends. An extremely rational scientist, Ichabod Crane, is dispatched to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of brutal slayings in which the victims have been found decapitated. When he arrives, the town's elder informs him that the murderer is not of flesh and blood, rather a headless horseman from beyond the grave. The plot focuses on the fight between supernatural and rationality in a period when the scientific methods of investigations are rejected and the superstitions and legends dominated. I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes Tim Burton's universe. This movie represents the dark side of this universe but without forgetting the funny touch that makes it fantastic. By Melina Cartelet |
Vocabulary corner
There are some interesting new words in this article, do you know what they mean?
- superstition - a belief that something bad will happen to you if you do not follow a certain tradition.
- dispatched - sent
- slayings - murders (especially violent ones)
- rationality - a belief in science and logic rather than faith