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Captain Surprise said to Crass, "If you are good-looking, you may not be so depressed."

If this sentence is used to set off horror movies, it is more appropriate: "I just want to be ugly, that is, to cause the audience to scream with fear and arouse your inner anxiety and vigilance. This is my real purpose."

Therefore, horror movies are generally "unsightly" and many people are afraid to watch them. In fact, they are really a little wasteful.

The name sleepy hollow is scary enough to interest horror fans. This film is a combination of horror, suspense, thriller and fantasy, with many themes. Crowded in 105 minutes of movie time, people are overwhelmed, and indigestion is inevitable after watching it.

The suspense reasoning and scientific exploration of Sleepy Valley finally turned into a fantasy adventure. Witchcraft triumphs over science, the soul realizes self-redemption, and punishes greed. In the rich Gothic style, it is not very surprising and horrible to spread, which makes people recall.

To become a classic in the hearts of horror movie fans, we must appreciate it from the perspective of literary films and enjoy a beautiful and romantic visual feast, which has already surpassed the fairy tale plot of the American dream.

Cherry blossoms bloom every year. On the roadside, there are also woody seeds, peaches, plums and apricots ... and green grass, or the first branch of tender green. In the eyes of many people, natural things are as common as human beings and have no practical significance.

But if you understand the preciousness of the world, if you can appreciate their unique beauty and fragrance, feel the vitality of natural life and cheer for all the existence, then people themselves are precious and have the ability to perceive romance. What a happy thing.

Horror movies are not just violent aesthetics. An excellent film, in art, a clever director will fully grasp the sensitive characteristics of people.

Any theme of the film, the atmosphere of the rendering, can be rich in different levels, can withstand the scrutiny of different situational angles. It is not enough to have a theme to sing. A talented director like tim burton has applied the dark aesthetics to the extreme. Sleepless Valley won the 72nd Academy Award for Best Art Direction, which is well deserved.

Gothic art: also translated as Gothic art, it is an artistic style that originated in Europe and France. The word "Goth" originated from a tribe called Goth who lived in Teutonic countries in Northern Europe in the Middle Ages. This tribe is famous for its savage and bloodthirsty nature. After centuries of migration and vagrancy, it finally destroyed the western Roman empire and classical culture in the fifth century, so it was called "barbarians" by Greece and Rome. Therefore, the word "Goth" has the meaning of terror, ignorance and ignorance. Gothic film combines Gothic architecture, Gothic novels, Gothic music and Gothic painting, and has made its own unique style with the essence of each school.

Director Tim burton has a pale and gloomy Gothic face, which has also attracted countless China fans. His films are full of black humor, tenderness and sadness, autism and tension. The combination of cold and warm embodies the brilliance in darkness, the cruelty in warmth and the warmth in darkness. In short, this is a very strange world.

Gothic horror, grotesque, black humor and facing death are fully displayed in tim burton's lens, the most famous of which are Sleepless Valley and Barber Todd.

The scenery of the film comes from reality and strives for truth.

Black, the color of night, hides absurdity and despair, and hides infinite imagination and fantasy. There are sleepy hollow at night, and there can also be monsters.

People are curious about the fear of the unknown, just as people will look for the answer to death from time to time. Is there a soul after death? Where are you going? Heaven or hell? Do you have Yan Luowang? Is there reincarnation? And these are exactly what horror movies are trying to tell us.

In reality, we don't like the gloomy and depressing environment, so it rains, closes the window, sleeps in the dark, wakes up in the sun at dawn, and the mysterious and unknown things in life are gradually pulled into the edge of dreams.

The excitement brought by horror movies is precisely the weakness of human nature. Please close your eyes when it is dark. What if I don't close my eyes? What kind of scenery will you see?

Walking into the real night will make people lose their sense of direction and distance, and the familiar environment will become strange in an instant; There is only gray-black and thick ink between heaven and earth, or dim light and gray, which loses its bright luster. Everywhere is like a bottomless abyss. If you take one more step, you will have the fear of falling. Mysterious ghosts will fly in the sky at night, and the wind on the wings will shout, which will make people's hair messy and a cold will attack the heart and spleen. But as long as you have enough courage, you will find that the ultimate art of black is so unique that it is not lost to the romance during the day.

Sleepless Valley fully shows the dark elements: Halloween pumpkins, strange scarecrows, wind-eroded cemeteries, dark forests, branches like devil's arms, vines wrapped around branches, distant fog, sloping roofs, cloudy skies, lightning, pale and slightly neurotic people, and depressed music.

The black romantic beauty of Sleepless Valley lies in the details: through the forest, the leaves are colorful, like a painting, desolate and beautiful; Carriage running in the night, black and white background, shadows of trees and cars, exquisite black and white silhouette painting; The gloomy towns, cemeteries and muddy roads show death and poverty, with a simple European style; Women's tights, exaggerated skirts and lace show the classical beauty of Europe in the18th century, and men's wigs and exquisite dresses also depict the stability and dignity of men in this period in the conflict between chastity and sexiness. The dark forest, bared its teeth in the fog, is like an elusive sleeping valley, with ancient sadness in desolation, a sketch of the night, dreamlike, simple and profound; Black has a strong sense of coldness and quietness, and its beauty is breathtaking.

Sleepless Valley is not only about the fear of death, but also about galloping horses, sharp axes, bright red blood, evil witchcraft and burning windmills. And a beautiful dream. In the dream, Master Klein saw sunshine and flowers. In the colorful world, his gentle and intellectual mother was killed by his father, depriving him of his love in the sun. The nightmare of childhood is the cruelty of family, the contrast between hot and cold, and the killing of human nature is more ruthless than the night knight.

Horror movies not only bring thrilling excitement, but also a visual journey through time and space, into history, into the night and see the beautiful scenery.

Burton said that Sleepy Hollow was highly faithful to washington irving's original book The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, which was actually an exaggeration. Maybe he just absorbed creative inspiration from comics! Disney cartoon The Adventure of ichabod and Mr. Todd has nothing to do with the original except that the language style retains Owen's style.

However, Burton's directing ability and Depp's meticulous control over the characters make this film unique.

The conflict between Irving and Burton: the difference between culture and art Irving is a famous American writer in the19th century and is known as the father of American literature. He realized that American literature lacked subjectivity, and believed that American writers should constantly resist the dependence on European literary forms based on experience. Only by creating a unique narrative style can great national literature be produced in the United States.

Sleepy Valley is an ancient village where early Dutch immigrants settled in the Hudson River. The pastor of the church still preaches in Dutch, and the villagers have hated the British for generations and tried their best to maintain the traditional customs of the Netherlands. The protagonist of the story is actually a poor rural teacher.

Owen described his legendary hero as follows: Ichabod Crane is thin and tall, with long legs and ape arms. His big hands hang down under his sleeves for more than a mile, with big fan ears, cockfighting green eyes, a small head stuck around his slender neck, and all parts of his body hang loosely on his narrow shoulders, standing on the ground like a weather vane, which makes people worry that he will be in a strong wind. This is completely different from the image of the handsome new york detective Depp in the movie, and also completely different from the people in the town who dare to speak English all the time. What is even more rebellious is that the film is indifferent to the scenery and vegetation in the United States and cannot reflect the traditional attachment to the past. Complex and diverse human nature is reduced to moral judgment of good and evil in the film, and well-meaning humor has also become bitter ridicule.

The film only has a delicious Gothic style and a strong black aesthetic art. The rhythm brought by horror movies is different from the literary style of novels, and it is adapted, changed and re-edited.

So, what kind of wonderful beauty would it be if Owen's landscape could be restored by a ghost? At the beginning of Sleepy Valley, Owen described his boyhood dream, an idyllic scene of an ancient Dutch farm:

"Not far from Tali Town, about two miles away, there is a small valley, or a canyon in the middle of a high mountain, which is the most peaceful place in the world. A stream passes through a ravine, and the sound of the gurgling water makes people sleepy. Even the occasional quail cry or the knocking of woodpeckers will break the deep silence here. I still remember the first time I came here to hunt squirrels when I was a child. The tall walnut trees covered half the valley. At about noon, all was silent. I broke the Sabbath silence with a gunshot, and the roaring echo echoed in the distance. If I want to steal a moment's peace from the noise of the world, or find a place to sleep in my troubles, there is no better place than this valley. "

In his novel, Owen truly describes the landforms and ancient village buildings in the Hudson Valley, and how the tranquility and aestheticism of the countryside make people yearn for it.

The movie Sleepy Hollow needs a dark and weird Gothic style. Therefore, the master can't find the desired artistic conception in the local area. At the suggestion of producer Scott Rudin, the film crew rushed to London to artificially build a mysterious forest in the northern hamburton manor. The construction team, consisting of 80 construction workers, engineers and various skilled craftsmen, spent four months to complete the 12 building in the town, becoming the largest scenic spot in Britain.

Even if the ghost in Sleepy Hollow doesn't come out, someone will pretend to be Sleepy Hollow and play a trick on Klein who wants to know the truth. Man-made fantasy, until the ghost really appears, the plot is confusing and dramatic. There are two modes in the novel: fighting giants, killing dragons, taking monsters and dealing with rude and difficult bastards.

Film is a modern comprehensive art, constantly absorbing the achievements and experiences of literature, drama, painting, music, dance, sculpture, architecture, photography and other arts. Horror movies, like war movies, cannot avoid violence, blood and other elements, but the aesthetic height of art is the same.

Movies are never as rich and beautiful as novels, but the less beautiful they are, the more attractive they are. Night and day have their own beauty. As long as you understand and appreciate, it is also a different kind of growth and enjoyment.