Tanggal Rilis :19 November 1999 (Amerika Serikat)
Jenis Film : Fantasy | Mystery | Thriller
Diperankan Oleh : Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci dan Miranda Richardson
Ringkasan Cerita FILM SLEEPY HOLLOW :
Kisah horor klasik sering mengambil dari cerita rakyat atau legenda seperti kisah hantu penunggang kuda tanpa kepala. Legenda itulah yang menjadi basis dari film horor klasik karya penulis Irving Washington yang berjudul “Sleepy Hollow”.
Kisahnya dimulai pada tokoh detektif polisi muda di New York pada tahun 1799, yaitu Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp). Polisi muda itu lebih suka menggunakan pendekatan ilmu pengetahuan untuk membuktikan kejahatan daripada melakukan penyiksaan demi mendapat pengakuan dari tertuduh seperti yang biasa dilakukan sesama polisi pada zaman itu. Keyakinan dan kegigihan Crane untuk menggunakan ilmu pengetahuan forensik itu membuat para penegak hukum tidak suka padanya.
Seorang hakim New York yang brengsek sampai kehabisan kesabaran menghadapi Crane sehingga menyuruh polisi idealis itu untuk menyelidiki sederet pembunuhan aneh di daerah pedalaman Sleepy Hollow. Kepala para korban pembunuhan aneh itu dipotong dan dibawa pergi pembunuhnya sehingga para warga Sleepy Hollow yang hampir seluruhnya merupakan keturunan Belanda hanya menemukan para jasad korban tanpa kepala.
Teror kejahatan itu dipercayai oleh penduduk desa itu dilakukan oleh hantu penunggang kuda tanpa kepala, “Headless Horseman” yang merupakan legenda daerah itu. Kabarnya hantu itu membalas dendam atas pembunuhannya beberapa tahun lalu. Tentu saja Crane yang merasa sebagai orang rasionalis tidak percaya pada keyakinan para warga desa Sleepy Hollow itu.
Sayangnya kedatangan Crane disambut dingin oleh para warga Sleepy Hollow termasuk warga kelas elit seperti hakim ataupun Baltus Van Tassel, tuan tanah terbesar wilayah itu. Untunglah ada segelintir orang bersedia membantunya karena ingin teror itu berakhir seperti Katrina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci).
Crane dan Katrina saling jatuh cinta, namun membuat seorang pria muda, Brom Van Brunt (Casper Van Dien) yang mencintai Katrina, cemburu dan benci kepada Crane. Mampukah Crane menemukan pembunuh yang suka memotong dan membawa kepala korbannya? Mungkinkah memang ada hantu penunggang kuda tanpa kepala di Sleepy Hollow?
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RESENSI :
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 American period horror film directed by
Tim Burton. Based on the
Washington Irving story
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, the film stars
Johnny Depp,
Christina Ricci,
Miranda Richardson,
Marc Pickering,
Michael Gambon,
Jeffrey Jones,
Casper Van Dien,
Ian McDiarmid,
Michael Gough, and
Christopher Walken. The plot follows police constable
Ichabod Crane (Depp) sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village
Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman.
Plot
In 1799,
New York City police constable
Ichabod Crane is dispatched by his superiors to the upstate hamlet of
Sleepy Hollow, New York, to investigate a series of brutal slayings in which the victims have been found
decapitated. A frequent user of new, though so far unproven investigative techniques such as finger-printing and autopsies, Crane arrives in Sleepy Hollow armed with his bag of scientific tools only to be informed by the town's elders that the murderer is not of flesh and blood, rather a headless supernatural warrior from beyond the grave who rides at night on a massive black
steed.
Crane ignores the supernatural reports and begins his own investigation, until he encounters the
Headless Horseman. Boarding a room at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane develops an attraction to their daughter, the mysterious Katrina, even as he's plagued by nightmares of his mother's horrific torture when he was a child. Delving further into the mystery with the aid of the orphaned Young Masbeth, whose father was a victim of the Horseman, Crane discovers within the Western Woods both the Horseman's entry point between the both the natural and supernatural world, the gnarled Tree of the Dead, and his grave.
He finds the Horseman's skull is missing, though the murders continue until Crane uncovers a murky plot revolving around revenge and land rights with the Horseman controlled by Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, who sends the killer after her. Following a fight in the local windmill and a stagecoach chase through the woods, Crane eventually thwarts Lady Van Tassel by returning the skull to the Horseman, who regains his head and heads back to Hell along with her. His job in Sleepy Hollow over, Crane, Katrina and Young Masbeth return to New York, in time for the new century.
Cast
- Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane: His belief in improved methods of justice, new investigate techniques and scientific procedures is resented by his superiors, who dispatch him north to the Hudson Valley and the small town of Sleepy Hollow.
- Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel: Ichabod's love interest and only heir to one of the neighborhood's richest farmers.
- Miranda Richardson as Lady Van Tassel / Crone Sister: Wife of Baltus and stepmother of Katrina, the true main villain of the film, she is the one controlling the horseman as she has his head, which he is looking for; she dies when the Horseman takes her back to hell with him.
- Marc Pickering as Young Masbath: An orphan who looks towards Ichabod as a father figure after his own father is murdered by the Horseman. In the act, he helps him investigate the murders of the Headless Horseman alongside Katrina.
- Sir Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel: After Peter Van Garret is murdered, he is placed as the leader of the city. He dies when the horseman drives a fence post through his body. Initially, he is inside a church - which the Horseman cannot enter - so the Horseman simply pulls him out of the church window to behead him.
- Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck: The reverend of the village is shot by Baltus Van Tassel after he kills Lancaster with the wooden cross.
- Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt: A strong man who is somewhat romantically involved with Katrina. He's hostile to Ichabod upon meeting him, and later ends up dying at the hands of the horseman by being cut in half through the waist while attempting to stop him.
- Ian McDiarmid as Doctor Lancaster: The only doctor and surgeon in the village and murdered by Steenwyck in the church when he is struck on the head with a cross to prevent him revealing the plot. He was having an affair with servant girl Sarah (Jessica Oyelowo) who was murdered by Lady van Tassel.
- Michael Gough as Notary Hardenbrook: The local banker and possibly the oldest citizen in the village, he hangs himself.
- Christopher Walken as The Headless Horseman: A brutal and sadistic Hessian mercenary sent to America during the American Revolutionary War. He is killed though his spirit lives on through The Headless Horseman (portrayed by Ray Park and stuntman Rob Inch); in this form he is seemingly indestructible since there are no ill effects after getting shot, stabbed, and trapped in a burning mill, although he cannot walk on consecrated ground such as the ground around a church.
- Richard Griffiths as Magistrate Philipse: The town's magistrate who is the sixth victim of the Headless Horseman.
Christopher Lee,
Martin Landau (previously won an
Academy Award on Tim Burton's
Ed Wood) and Burton's then fiancée
Lisa Marie are all involved in cameos. Lee is credited as the
Burgomaster who sends Ichabod to investigate the murders at Sleepy Hollow. Landau portrays Peter Van Garrett with no dialogue; and is murdered by The Headless Horseman in the opening scene. Marie is featured as "Lady Crane," Ichabod's mother in flashbacks who was involved in
witchcraft and later painfully murdered by his strict religious father.
Production
Development
Paramount CEO
Sherry Lansing revived studio interest in 1998.
[1] Schroeder, who shepherded
Tim Burton's
Edward Scissorhands as a studio executive at 20th Century Fox in 1990, suggested that Burton direct the film.
[6] Francis Ford Coppola's minimal production duties came from
American Zoetrope; Burton only became aware of Coppola's involvement during the editing process when he was sent a copy of
Sleepy Hollow's
trailer and saw Coppola's name on it.
[6] Burton, coming off the troubled production of
Superman Lives, was hired to direct in June 1998.
[7] "I had never really done something that was more of a horror film," he explained, "and it's funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre."
[2] His interest in directing a horror film influenced by his love for
Hammer Film Productions and
Black Sunday - particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on
sound stages.
[5] As a result,
Sleepy Hollow is a
homage to various Hammer Film Productions, including
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,
[8] and other films such as
Frankenstein,
Bride of Frankenstein, various
Roger Corman horror films,
[9] Jason and the Argonauts, and
Scream Blacula Scream.
[1] The image of the
Headless Horseman had fascinated Burton during his apprenticeship as a Disney animator at
Cal Arts in the early 1980s.
[9] "One of my teachers had worked on the
Disney version as one of the layout artists on the chase, and he brought in some layouts from it, so that was exciting. It was one of the things that maybe shaped what I like to do."
[2] Burton worked with Walker on rewrites, but Rudin suggested that
Tom Stoppard rewrite the script
[10] to add to the comical aspects of Ichabod's bumbling mannerisms, and emphasize the character's romance with Katrina. His work went uncredited through the
WGA screenwriting credit system.
[1]
While
Johnny Depp was Burton's first choice for the role of Ichabod Crane, Paramount required him to consider
Brad Pitt,
Liam Neeson, and
Daniel Day-Lewis.
[5][11] Depp was cast in July 1998 for his third collaboration with Burton.
[12] The actor wanted Ichabod to parallel Irving's description of the character in the short story. This included a long
prosthetic snipe nose, huge ears, and elongated fingers. Paramount turned down his suggestions,
[13] and after Depp read Tom Stoppard's rewrite of the script, he was inspired to take the character even further. "I always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl," Depp explained.
[1] He did not wish to portray the character as a typical action star would have, and instead took inspiration by
Angela Lansbury's performance in
Death on the Nile.
[1] "It's good," Burton reasoned, "because I'm not the greatest action director in the world, and he's not the greatest action star."
[6] Depp modeled Ichabod's detective personality from
Basil Rathbone in the
1939 Sherlock Holmes film series. He also studied
Roddy McDowall's acting for additional influence.
[13] Burton added that "the idea was to try and find an elegance in action of the kind that
Christopher Lee or
Peter Cushing or
Vincent Price had."
[6] Christina Ricci, who worked with producer Scott Rudin on
The Addams Family, was cast as Katrina Van Tassel.
[5] Sleepy Hollow also reunited Burton with
Jeffrey Jones (from
Beetlejuice and
Ed Wood) as Reverent Steenwyck,
Christopher Walken (Max Schreck in
Batman Returns) as the Hessian Horseman, Martin Landau (
Ed Wood) in a cameo role, and Hammer veteran
Michael Gough (Alfred in Burton's
Batman films), whom Burton tempted out of retirement.
[6] The Hammer influence was further confirmed by the casting of Christopher Lee in a small cameo.
[14] Filming
Supervised by Heinrichs, the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed around a small duck pound. At a cost estimated at $1.3 million, and over a period of four months, 12 structures were built, several with detailed interiors as well as exteriors.
[2] The original intention had been to shoot
Sleepy Hollow predominately on location with a $30 million budget.
[15] Towns were scouted throughout
Upstate New York along the
Hudson Valley,
[2] and the filmmakers decided on
Tarrytown[7] for an October 1998
start date.
[12] The
Historic Hudson Valley organization assisted in scouting locations, which included the
Philipsburg Manor House and forests in the
Rockefeller State Park Preserve.
[3] "They had a wonderful quality to them," production designer
Rick Heinrichs reflected on the locations, "but it wasn't quite lending itself to the sort of
expressionism that we were going for, which wanted to express the feeling of foreboding."
[16] Disappointed, the filmmakers scouted locations in
Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and considered using Dutch colonial villages and period town recreations in the
Northeastern United States. When no suitable existing location could be found, coupled with a lack of readily available studio space in the New York area needed to house the production's large number of sets, producer Scott Rudin suggested England.
[2]
Rudin believed England offered the level of craftsmanship in period detail, painting, and costuming that was suitable for the film's design.
[17] Having directed
Batman entirely in England, Burton agreed, and designers from
Batman's art department were employed by Paramount for
Sleepy Hollow.
[6] As a result,
principal photography was pushed back
[18] to November 20, 1998 at
Leavesden Film Studios, which had been recently vacated by
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.
[15] The majority of filming took place at Leavesden, with studio other work at
Shepperton Studios,
[2] where the massive Tree of the Dead set was built using Stage H.
[1] Production then moved to the
Hambleden Estate at Lime Tree Valley for a month-long shoot in March, where the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed.
[2] "We came to England figuring we would find a perfect little town," producer Adam Schroeder recalled, "and then we had to build it anyway." Filming in England continued through April,
[2] and a few
last minute scenes were shot using a
sound stage in
Yonkers, New York the following May.
[3][19] Design
The Tree of the Dead, designed by
Keith Responsible for the film's
production design was
Rick Heinrichs, who Burton intended to use on
Superman Lives. While the production crew was always going to build a substantial number of sets, the decision was taken early on that to fulfill Burton's vision best would necessitate shooting
Sleepy Hollow in a totally controlled environment at Leavesden Film Studios.
[21] The production design was influenced by Burton's love for
Hammer Film Productions and
Black Sunday - particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages. Heinrichs was also influenced by
American colonial architecture,
German Expressionism,
Dr. Suess illustrations, and Hammer's
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.
[5] One sound stage at Leavesden was dedicated to the "Forest to Field" set, for the scene in which the Headless Horseman races out of the woods and into a field. This stage was then transformed into, variously, a graveyard, a corn field, a field of harvested wheat, a churchyard, and a snowy battlefield. In addition, a small
backlot area was devoted to a New York City street and waterfront tank.
[15]
[edit] Cinematography
Leavesden Studios, a converted airplane factory, presented problems because of its relatively low ceilings. This was less of an issue for
The Phantom Menace, in which set height was generally achieved by digital means. "Our visual choices get channeled," Heinrichs elaborated, "so you end up with liabilities that you tend to exploit as virtues. When you've got a certain ceiling height, and you're dealing with painted backings, you need to push atmosphere and diffusion."
[15] This was particularly the case in several exteriors that were built on sound stages. "We would mitigate the disadvantages by hiding lights with teasers and smoke."
[15]
[edit] Visual effects
The windmill was a 60-foot-tall forced-perspective exterior (visible to highway travelers miles away), a base and rooftop set and a quarter-scale miniature. The interior of the mill, which was about 30-feet high and 25-feet wide, featured wooden gears equipped with mechanisms for grinding flour. A wider view of the windmill was rendered on a Leavesden soundstage set with a quarter-scale windmill, complete with rotating vanes, painted sky backdrop and special-effects fire. "It was scary for the actors who were having burning wood explode at them," Heinrichs recalled. "There were controls in place and people standing by with hoses, of course, but there's always a chance of something going wrong."
[25] For the final shot of the burning mill exploding, the quarter-scale windmill and painted backdrop were erected against the outside wall of the "flight shed," a spacious hangar on the far side of Leavesden Studios. The hangar's interior walls were knocked down to create a 450-foot run, with a 40-foot width still allowing for coach and cameras. Heinrichs tailored the sets so cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki could shoot from above without seeing the end of the stage.
[25]Actor Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed Dr. Lancaster, had just finished another Leavesden production with
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. He compared the aesthetics of the two films, stating that physical sets helped the actors get into a natural frame of mind. "Having come from the
blue-screen world of
Star Wars it was wonderful to see gigantic, beautifully made perspective sets and wonderful clothes, and also people recreating a world. It's like the way movies used to be done."
[17]Musical score
Release
To promote
Sleepy Hollow, Paramount Pictures featured the
film's trailer at
San Diego Comic-Con International in August 1999.
[26] The following October, the studio launched a website, which
Variety described as being the "most ambitious
online launch of a motion picture to date."
[27] The site (sleepyhollowmovie.com) offered visitors live video chats with several of the filmmakers hosted by
Yahoo! Movies and enabled them to send postcards, view photos, trailers and a six-minute behind-the-scenes featurette edited from a broadcast that aired on
Entertainment Tonight. Extensive tours of 10 sets where offered, where visitors were able to roam around photographs, including the sets for the entire town of Sleepy Hollow, forest, church, graveyard and covered bridge. Arthur Cohen, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, explained that the "Web-friendly" pre-release reports
[27] from websites such as
Ain't It Cool News and
Dark Horizons[28][29] encouraged the studio to create the site.
[27] In the weeks pre-dating the release of
Sleepy Hollow, a toy line was marketed by
McFarlane Toys.
[30] Simon & Schuster also published
The Art of Sleepy Hollow (
ISBN 0671036572), which included the film's screenplay and an introduction by Tim Burton.
[31] A
novelization, also published by Simon & Schuster, was written by
Peter Lerangis.
[32]
Sleepy Hollow was released in the United States on November 19, 1999 in 3,069 theaters, grossing $30,060,467 in its opening weekend
[33] at the #2 spot behind
The World Is Not Enough.
[34] Sleepy Hollow eventually earned $101,071,502 in domestic gross, and $105 million in foreign sales, coming to a worldwide total of $206,071,502.
[33] David Walsh of the
National Institute on Media and the Family criticized the film's financial success from the exaggeration of gore. "The real impact is not so much that violent images create violent behavior," Walsh explained, "but that they create an atmosphere of disrespect." Burton addressed the concerns as a matter of opinion. "Everyone has a different perception of things. When I was a kid," Burton continued, "I was probably more scared by seeing
John Wayne or
Barbra Streisand on the big screen than by seeing violence."
[35]
Paramount Home Video first released
Sleepy Hollow on DVD in the United States on May 23, 2000.
[36] The
HD DVD release came in July 2006,
[37] The film was released on
Blu-ray Disc in June 2008.
[38]
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