Ichabod Crane

Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The main character in Irving’s short story, Ichabod Crane, is painted as a “well-intentioned petty tyrant lording it over the children at a poorly maintained single-room schoolhouse through the generous use of a birch rod” (p. 24). One critical element of most moral panics is their tendency to focus on single stories to incite the largest reaction possible. Though Ichabod Crane was a purely fictional character, the notions he represented were something…

Loathing in Las Vegas (1998), directed by Terry Gilliam; and then, in 1999, he appeared in the sci-fi/horror film El engendro (1999). The same year he teamed up again with Burton in La leyenda del jinete sin cabeza (1999), brilliantly portraying Ichabod…

First published in 1820, the story follows the encounter between schoolteacher Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman, likely Ichabod's rival Brom Bones in disguise. The use of a pumpkin as a weapon by the Headless Horseman has contributed to the pumpkin's association with Halloween. Irving's classic may have played a role in elevating…

already exists. Back in the 19th century writers would create many imaginative short stories, one of the most popular short stories of the time was “Sleepy Hollow”, written by Washington Irving. “Sleepy Hollow” is the tale of a man who goes by Ichabod Crane trying to win over a lady and…

In “The legend of sleepy hollow”, some of the characters such as Ichabod Crane were in different, as the short story had him presented as a school teacher in the town of Tarrytown (Washington Irving page 19), and in the film he was a constable from New York who goes to Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of murders. The reason for the change of roles of the character Crane, was so that the story could have more of that serious, scary feeling to it as he is going to…

Davidson referenced Ichabod Crane, a schoolmaster in a 1820 novel, to show how similar today’s education is to the 19th century education. America has fallen behind in education, stuck on traditional ways of teaching while many countries around the world rise above United States’…

different from the original. That same year, Burton developed and directed the story Corpse Bride (2005), which originally was a folktale. Burton, who is no stranger to stop-motion and Claymation tasks Depp with a role very similar to that of Ichabod Crane. Victor Van Dort is a wispy man, who could fall over from a light breeze and every aspect of his character portrays this from his physical appearance to the usually strong timber of Depp's voice which takes on a light and squeakish…