The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, 1820 was inspired by "A real Hessian soldier decapitated by a cannonball at the Battle of White Plains around Halloween in 1776."
Irving wrote a legend while living in England. Some scholars suggest that Irving's story may have been inspired by the folk tales he heard abroad. German, English and Scandinavian folk tales of headless knights chasing unhappy travelers have been told for generations.
The lesson of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is to keep superstitions from shaking you and overwhelming your reason.
The moral of the story is a small town, and the romantic competition between local bullies and school teachers culminates in horrifying night rides. In a small town called Sleepy Hollow, a skinny school teacher named Ichabod Crane comes to town.
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Doane Hoag and Jules Dassin were very faithful to Poe's narrative and presented the work as Poe wrote, but with visual and auditory effects that may have changed the meaning of the work for other people. I don't particularly believe that they added new meanings, but they intensified those reported by Poe. That's because the soundtrack, the play of light and shadow, the expression of the actors show the madness, the insanity, the cruelty, the torture and the folly of the story. In the film, the meaning of these things gets much stronger, because we can see Poe's words come to life and leave the role becoming something real. This was masterfully done by Doane Hoag and Jules Dassin.
False, it was Paul Robeson.
