Wadsworth- Sleepy hollow

Burton changes a lot of things in the movie from the story. Some things he keeps the same. One thing that Burton kept was that someone who didn't like Ichabod dressed up as the headless horseman and threw a flaming pumpkin at him. This part of the story is where Ichabod (the school teacher) decides to leave the town. While in the movie, Burton chose to make this a scene where Ichabod hears the boys laughing at him and makes it oblivious that someone was just playing a trick on him. Now even though in that scene it was just a trick, later in the movie Ichabod actually does have an encounter with the actual headless horseman and he still doesn't decide to leave. Well Burton made Ichabod a constable in the movie. He showed that Ichabod was scared by how he passed out and made it seem like Ichabod might leave because he was terrified and wouldn't move from his bed for a while; but then Ichabod overcame this fear and wanted more than ever to help the town out.
I don't believe Burton just used the title and characters to enhance a horror story. I believe that Burton had to enhance it for it to be the way Burton makes all his movies. He had to enhance it to the way he sees things. As you can see in some scenes where you would expect something really gruesome and really disgusting, Burton does a almost silly face with their eyes popping out. This is a signature thing of Burton. The most common or famous movie for these crazy faces would be Betelgeuse. Burton may have gotten some of the characters from Washington Irving's short story "Sleepy Hollow", but he made the movie very different and very much so his own. One thing that Burton made in common with the movie and the story is that both Ichabod characters where men of reason. In the story he was a school teacher, so he went by the books. While in the movie he was a constable. He said that everything has a reason and scientific reason behind it. Burton does this because he obviously likes Washington's thoughts of this part of Ichcabod. Burton made the movie one of his own and didn't do it just to make a horror movie. Burton did it so that he could embrace Irving's story.