HALLOWEEN FILM

HALLOWEEN FILM

WATCHING SLEEPY HOLLOW

Vocabulary: write 1O new words

gnarled------------------------------------ nuós

hamlet------------------------------------ poble

slayings----------------------------------- assasinats

techniques-------------------------------- tècniques

such-------------------------------------- tal

fingerprinting and autopsies-------------- presa d'empremtes dectilars i les autòpsies

tools------------------------------------- istruments

elders------------------------------------ la gent gran

warrior---------------------------------- guerrer

massive black steed---------------------- cavall negre massiu

the Headless Horseman------------------ el cavall-home sense cap

plagued---------------------------------- ple

nightmares------------------------------ malsons

murky----------------------------------- tèrbol

revolving-------------------------------- giratori

1. Characters. A description.

Chareters

• Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane: His belief in improved methods of justice, new investigative 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.

• Marc Pickering as Young Masbath: An orphan who looks towards Ichabod as a father figure after his own father is murdered by the Horseman.

• Sir Michael Gambon as Sir Baltus Van Tassel: Katrina's father. After Peter Van Garret is murdered, he is placed as the leader of the city.

• Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck: The town priest.

• Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt: A strong and arrogant aristocratic man who is somewhat romantically involved with Katrina.

• Ian McDiarmid as Doctor Lancaster: The town doctor and surgeon in the village.

• Michael Gough as Notary Hardenbrook: The town banker and possibly the oldest citizen in the town.

• Christopher Walken as The Headless Horseman: A brutal and sadistic Hessian mercenary sent to America during the American Revolutionary War.

• Claire Skinner as the Midwife Beth Killian: The town's Midwife.

• Richard Griffiths as Magistrate Philipse: The town's magistrate.

• Sir Christopher Lee as the Burgomaster: who sends Ichabod to investigate the murders at Sleepy Hollow.

• Martin Landau portrays Peter Van Garrett with no dialogue; and is murdered by the Headless Horseman in the opening scene.

• Lisa Marie as Lady Crane, Ichabod's mother who was involved in witchcraft and later painfully murdered by his strict religious father.

• Peter Guiness as Lord Crane, Ichabod's father who was a devoutly religious man who tortured and killed his wife after he found her practising witchcraft.

2. Plot: The conspiracy. WRITE ABOUT THE PLOT.

Plot

In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is dispatched by his superiors to the Westchester County 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 begins his own investigation, still remaining highly skeptical about the supernatural elements in the case until he encounters the Headless Horseman himself. 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 the Horseman's grave, as well as his entry point into the natural world from the supernatural — the gnarled Tree of the Dead.

Crane 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 Katrina now to solidify her hold on what she considers her property, a piece of land unjustly claimed by Katrina's father. 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 his enslaver. With his job in Sleepy Hollow over, Crane, with Katrina and Young Masbeth, returns to New York (where he describes as where "the Bronx is up and the Battery is down..." - Tim Burton's nod to the song New York, New York (On the Town) by Leonard Bernstein), in time for the new century.

PERSONAL OPINION: Did you like the film? Why?/Why not?

Yes, I liked the film because it was a terror and interesting film. The plot of the film was original and exciting

HALLOWEEN HISTORY

Halloween (also spelled Hallowe'en) is an annual holiday celebrated on October 31. It has roots in the Celtic festival of Samhain and the Christian holy day of All Saints.

Originally Halloween was a pagan festival, around the idea of linking the living with the dead, when contact became possible between the spirits and the physical world, and magical things were more likely to happen. Like most pagan festivals, long ago it was absorbed into the festivals of the expanding Christian church, and became associated with All Hallows Day, or All Saints Day, which eventually fell on November 1.
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits. Children would go from door to door in disguise as creatures from the underworld to collect treats, mainly fruit, nuts and the like for the festivities. These were used for playing traditional games like eating an apple on a string or bobbing for apples and other gifts in a basin of water, without using your hands. Salt might be sprinkled on the visiting children to ward off evil spirits. Carving turnips as ghoulish faces to hold candles became a popular part of the festival, which has been adapted to carving pumpkins in America.

The day is often associated with the colours black and orange, and is strongly associated with symbols like the jack-o'-lantern. Halloween activities include trick-or-treating, wearing costumes and attending costume parties, ghost tours, bonfires, visiting haunted attractions, telling scary stories, and watching horror films.

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WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT HALLOWEEN?
Halloween (a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening), also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve,is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day. Much like Day of the Dead celebrations, the Christian feast of All Hallows' Eve, according to some scholars, incorporates traditions from pagan harvest festivals and festivals honouring the dead, particularly the Celtic Samhain; other scholars maintain that the feast originated entirely independently of Samhain.Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating (also known as "guising"), attending costume parties, carving jack-o'-lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, watching horror films, as well as the religious observances of praying, fasting and attending vigils or church services.

When and where is it celebrated?
Halloween (a shortening of All Hallows’ Evening), also known as Hallowe'en or All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly holiday observed around the world on October 31, the night before All Saints' Day.

Is it a religious celebration?
Yes, a little beat. The celebration it's catholic from the celtic tribus, but at the night when the monsters comes out, it's not.

What does the word 'Halloween' mean?
The name Halloween is a contraction of All Hallows Even, meaning the day before All Hallows Day, a Catholic holiday commemorating Christian saints.

Name 2 typical games.
-There are several games traditionally associated with Halloween parties. One common game is dunking or apple bobbing, which may be called "dooking" in Scotland in which apples float in a tub or a large basin of water and the participants must use their teeth to remove an apple from the basin. A variant of dunking involves kneeling on a chair, holding a fork between the teeth and trying to drop the fork into an apple.

-Another common game involves hanging up treacle or syrup-coated scones by strings; these must be eaten without using hands while they remain attached to the string, an activity that inevitably leads to a very sticky face.

When did it become a dangerous celebration?Why?
The celebration of Halloween survived most strongly in Ireland. It was an end of summer festival, and was often celebrated in each community with a bonfire to ward off the evil spirits.

How do people celebrate it today?
Children go in costume from house to house, asking for treats such as candy or sometimes money, with the question, "Trick or treat?" The word "trick" refers to a (mostly idle) "threat" to perform mischief on the homeowners or their property if no treat is given. In some parts of Scotland children still go guising. In this custom the child performs some sort of trick, i.e. sings a song or tells a ghost story, to earn their treats.