Sleepy Hollow Movie Details
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| Directors: Tim Burton | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| IMDB Rating: 7.5/10 out of 101,526 votes |
“Sleepy Hollow” 1999 by Tim Burton – Movie Goofs
“Sleepy Hollow” Plot Summary
Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of 3 people with the culprit being the legendary apparition, the Headless Horseman.
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“Sleepy Hollow” Goofs List
- Continuity: SPOILER: At the end of the movie, Lady Van Tassel has a scar on her left hand from when she cut herself. After she is knocked out by Ichabod’s helper, and then wakes up in the horseman’s lap, we see that her left hand bears no scar.
- Miscellaneous: SPOILER: Van Garret is not the only victim who bleeds after having his head chopped off by the Horseman. Blood can clearly be seen on Van Garrett’s son’s collar.
- Continuity: Ichabod, Katrina, and young Masbath bar the door of the windmill with a shovel and put two sacks on the left side of the door and one on the right. However, when Ichabod says “To the roof; I’ve got an idea!”, there is only one sack on the left side of the door. When the horseman cuts the shovel with his sword, there are again two sacks on the left side of the door.
- Continuity: In the climax of the carriage chase, the scene begins with two brown horses drawing the carriage, then it goes to one brown and one white, and then it goes back to two brown horses.
- Factual errors: The closing credits thank “The Town of Hertsfordshire”. The correct spelling is Hertfordshire (commonly abbreviated to “Herts”), and Hertfordshire is not a town, it is a county. There is a town but it is just called Hertford.
- Anachronisms: At Van Tassel’s party, carved pumpkins decorate the mantelpiece. The tradition of carving pumpkins was not commplace in America until the great Irish immigrations of the 1840s.
- Continuity: When Ichabod Crane is playing the bird in the cage game while in the carriage, he removes it from his pocket twice. Once when he first gets in the carriage then again after he looks out of the window at the men removing the woman’s body from the back of the wagon.
- Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): In 1799, Ichabod declares “The millennium is upon us. In a few months we will be living in the 19th century.” The millennium – the start of a thousand calendar years – was, of course, more than 200 years away.
- Factual errors: In the opening scene, when the little boy is lighting his candle to see the figures on the wall, he sits very close to the candle. So the light from the figures should be visible not only on the wall behind the boy, but also on the boy himself. This does not happen.
- Errors in geography: When the carriage brings Ichabod between New York City and Sleepy Hollow, it appears to be on the left side of the river. However, Sleepy Hollow is located on the right side of the Hudson relative to New York City, just above the Tappan Zee. No other similar river exists that would be a logical replacement.
- Continuity: In the scene where Ichabod is brainstorming the connections between various events and writing them in his notebook, the individual words that are shown being written are in a different handwriting than when they appear all together on the page.
- Continuity: When Icabod cuts up the tree and is splatted with blood, it is on his face and down his neck and white shirt. During the cutting of the tree, the blood splatter on his face changes position with each shot. While digging the hole and following the headless horseman, there is no evidence of blood on his shirt.
- Audio/visual unsynchronized: When Ichabod is investigating Jonathon’s Masbath’s death, he says to Phillips “and the head?” Phillipse replies “Taken” but in the gap preceding his answer you can see his lips uttering several other words but the sound has been removed
- Anachronisms: When Ichabod Crane embraces Katrina van Tassel, the sleeve on his arm is pulled back slightly, revealing Depp’s modern metal watch.
- Revealing mistakes: When the Headless Horseman is about to kiss Catrina’s stepmother, you can see his actual teeth behind the filed ones. Christopher Walken’s teeth are blacked out and their outline is visible against his tongue during the closeup of his face.
- Anachronisms: The costumes worn by Katrina and Lady Van Tassel were from an earlier decade, circa 1785. Colleen Atwood, the costume designer, stated she wanted the costumes to reflect the period 1794. Atwood’s rationale was that the residents of Sleepy Hollow were five years behind the latest fashion trends. By 1794, women’s dresses were being to reflect the beginning of the Regency period: closer to the body with a higher waist and much less elaborate than those displayed in the film.
- Anachronisms: The small toy (with string and the picture of cardinal and a cage) that Ichabod plays with in the film is known as a thaumatrope. The thaumatrope was not invented until 1826, several years after the events in the story.
- Continuity: Ichabod deduces that the headless body in one of the coffins he rips open cannot be that of Lady Van Tassel because the cut in the palm of the hand was done after death, without, he says, any bleeding. Later, when we see, in flashback, the cut being made, it bleeds profusely.
- Continuity: The Headless Horseman is seen to have teeth filed to a point, yet his disembodied skull has teeth that are not filed.
- Revealing mistakes: When Ichabod unearths the Horseman, the earth is neatly removed from the grave and from underneath the bones.
- Factual errors: Ichabod Crane performed autopsies on cadavers and these bleed in spurts. When a person dies, all the blood inside the body quickly coagulates.
- Revealing mistakes: When the town are performing the exhumation of bodies, despite being buried for several months, are still fresh.
- Anachronisms: In the movie, they talk about embalming, but the embalming process began to make to the corpses in the 1860s.
- Factual errors: When Ichabod is in the carriage and about to leave town he is playing with the cardinal/cage optical illusion toy. When the camera faces him the image of the cardinal and cage are right side up, but when shown from Ichabod’s view they still appear right side up – one of these two shots should show the images upside down.
- Continuity: Ichabod’s hairstyle when he is in bed after being wounded by the horseman.
- Incorrectly regarded as goofs: At the end of the movie Crane says, “The Bronx is up, the Battery’s down, and home is this way.” What’s now the Borough of the Bronx did not exist as a community in 1799, but the Bronx River, which it was named after, did. Crane is referring to two landmarks, not one landmark and one district as in the 20th century song.
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