Both strong and indifferent, gorgeous and simple at the same time

Cortez 2022-03-15 09:01:02

The film begins with its gloomy tone, including the ancient carriage galloping in the dark, the pumpkin-headed scarecrow with a fierce and strange expression in the field, and the branches of the 18th-century American village that meander like a devil’s arm into a weird posture. With intense rhythm and deep gloomy music, a depressive environment was rendered from the beginning with some bad omens. When the depressive atmosphere reached its climax, the headless knight suddenly appeared and chopped off the heads of two people and then stretched out. go with. Here has left enough suspense and imagination for the audience.
Klein is an ordinary rookie police officer who treats work according to his own standards. In the 18th century in New York, this attitude was ridiculed by other police officers, and was sent to Duantou Valley to handle the recent successive homicide and decapitation cases... The
plot ends here, and the whole movie is panic. The atmosphere of horror was very successful. Everyone was afraid of the legendary headless knight with a murderous breath and sinful crimes driving his horse and wielding a great sword galloping to take down his head. The lines of the characters appearing in black and white and their distinct tones are clear, the effect of the horror film is aggravated, and the tone of the whole film is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. The effect of ordinary black-and-white mapping can better reflect the complex hearts of people, spreading out the hearts of fear, suspicion, and profiteering, and showing us a diversified world.
Like Tim Burton's other films, he also makes extensive use of fairy tales and even some legendary colors in this film: witches, sacred rituals, legendary knights, and mysterious spell patterns. The whole story is tightly wrapped, with some memories of the protagonist’s childhood interspersed with the experience of the protagonist, which constantly intersects with the present experience, which is also a kind of spiritual hint, creating a feeling of anxiety and anxiety that the audience is getting closer and closer to the truth.
Although the headless horseman is just a tool for killing people after the final mystery is revealed, it makes people feel unsatisfactory, but it does not affect its excitement. The stepmother tells us that benefits will always kill people. Sound and image, light and shadow, in terms of style, "Guillotine Valley" can be regarded as a work of Tim Burton and a very personal style, and the Headless Horseman can also make us remember him long enough.

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  • Deon 2021-10-20 19:01:41

    It turns out that the city is full of big girls who copied this

  • Aimee 2022-04-24 07:01:02

    In the English class, edgar allan poe seems to have a novel written by him. It is said that the original work of this movie is the stepmother at the end, right? I thought loli was going to be black

Sleepy Hollow quotes

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    Katrina Anne Van Tassel: Female company?

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    Ichabod Crane: None other... Not only me... I have found something, which was lately a man.