Coby- Wide Awake Hallow

 Sleepy Hollow was meant to be a ghost story , of course if a viewer or the reader wasn't quite familiar with modern day special effects the tale wouldn't have scared even a fly. Tim Burton delivers a brilliant work of horror/mystery and without a doubt capped the horror meter father than Irving did. Interesting enough , but typical , Burton  takes takes Iriving's work and transforms the original story into something that doesn't seem like it was based on a literary work . 
Irving took more of a enchanted/suspenseful route making the tale seem more jovial, but the way he conveyed his language was more on the detail of the scenery and even the food. Burton’s version of tale , takes more of a creepy approach and he utilizes his own prospective of characters,setting, scenery, etc.. making evolve from being creepy to downright horrifying in the most majestic way possible. Burton made the characters stand out with their pale skin and dark clothing, articulate dialog , along with disturbing but true to nature gore. 
In discussion we concentrated more on the main difference between the movie and the story, which was Ichabod Crane.  In the story, he is a children's  schoolteacher who acts more on his gut. “His appetite for the marvellous, and his powers of digesting it, were equally extraordinary; and both had been increased by his residence in this spellbound region. No tale was too gross or monstrous for his capacious swallow.” Tim Burton uses a polar opposite approach with Ichabod, making him a cynical scientist with the idealation that logic and reason can solve any mystery. BUT in turn the explanation of the horseman was different from each versions. 
Tim Burton creates more than just a back-story for Sleepy Hollow. He created a back story with an elaborate murder plot that didn't stray the viewer from the true horror aspect with the suspense. Even though Burton utilized one aspect of the  written story, with only a small “dream montage” of the iconic pumpkin smash, His interpretation of the story cannot be said to be accurate, but he does achieve one thing Irving was aiming for. That achievement was the Sleepy Hollow was a story to be read aloud by a warm fire on a chilly Halloween night , leaving listeners spooked with the plot and the horrifying aspect of a horseman that rides through the cutting the heads of helpless humans. In the same way, Sleepy Hollow is intended to be dark, though in typical Tim Burton fashion, it pushes spooky to a new level.