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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Washington Irving (1819)

Sleepy Hollow Tim Burton (1999)

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Washington Irving (1783-1859)

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The American war of Independence

(1775-83)

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Knickerbocker :The fiction of Irving's history is

that it was written by a Diedrich Knickerbocker 

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Note the deliberate “silent movie quality” of the beginning of the

film…- In the absence of a narrative voice, emphasis on “camera-

telling”…

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Thick red liquid dripping onto a parchment….. Bec the audience expects the film to be a horror film, they automatically think the liquid is blood…. Seeing this image makes the audience assume someone has been murdered or at least injured.

View that triggers questions:•who does the blood belong to?• has someone been killed?‘, etc. As the audience will want these questions answered, they will continue to watch. •However, a little later, we realize that the “dripping blood” is nothing more than sealing wax dripping onto a page... • This does not prevent the theme of blood from being continued or recycled throughout film

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To To superimposesuperimpose : to place something such as a transparent image on or over sth else, often with the result that both things appear simultaneously,

although one may partially obscure the other…

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DISSOLVEDISSOLVE

A A transitiontransition between 2 shots during which between 2 shots during which the 1the 1stst (gradually) disappears while the 2 (gradually) disappears while the 2ndnd image (gradually) appears; for a moment image (gradually) appears; for a moment the 2 images blend in the 2 images blend in superimpositionsuperimposition. .

DissolvesDissolves can be used as an editing device can be used as an editing device to to linklink any 2 scenesany 2 scenes, or in more creative , or in more creative

ways, for instance to ways, for instance to suggest suggest

hallucinatoryhallucinatory states states. (= a perception . (= a perception of objects with no reality usually arising from of objects with no reality usually arising from

disorder of the nervous system, or in disorder of the nervous system, or in response to drugs…)response to drugs…)

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N.B. : a superimposition does not necessarily signify a transition from one scene to another.

The technique often used to allow the same performer to appear simultaneously as 2 characters on the screen to express subjective or intoxicated vision, or simply to introduce a narrative element from another part of the narrative into the scene.

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VOICE OVER VOICE OVER (or (or off-camera or off-stage commentary))When a voice (often that of a character in the film) heard

while the spectator sees an image of a space & time in which that character is NOT actually speaking.

Often used to give a sense of a character's subjectivitysubjectivity or

to narratenarrate an event told in flashback.

A common & useful device, to express a character's thoughts

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A feather pen scribbles down words on a blank sheet of paper. A name is signed. The paper is sealed and then put into a briefcase…

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SETTING (Reader p.87)The man holding the briefcase – now in a fast-

moving carriage pulled by fiercely pulling horses – is taken across a desolate landscape plunged in fog

marked by dead crops. Gloomy countryside, bleak colors... Creation of a particular (Gothic?)

atmosphere…The close-up close-up on fast wheels : reinforces the

impression of acceleration… (time).