"But first, you tell me about the Headless Horseman."
Ichabod has come a long way from being the stupid, boring, and superstious school teacher that he is portrayed as being in every other version of this film I have seen before.
"Our first night watch is adequate against fire and some violence, but if we were more often able to ensure justice, after the fact, then criminals would truly have something to fear from law enforcement."
In the new version of this film, Ichabod is a pathologist in New York city who is determined to change the way the police conduct their business. He is convinced that with the coming of the 19th century, all 'medival' forms of punishment should be done away with. He wants all dead bodies to be examined to find the exact cause of death.
Needless to say, most of his superiors are pretty annoyed with him by the time the film has begun.
In an attempt to be rid of him for a while, they send him up to the small town of Sleepy Hollow. They want him to investigate a case of several beheadings and to bring the mudererer back to New York for them to....perform justice on him.
"There is no such thing as magic."
Ichabod is very skeptical about the whole Headless Horseman thing when he first arrives, but once he views it firsthand, he is determined to help save the remaining townsmen from this demon killer.
Ichabod is a bit odd in his own way. There are tiny little pinprick scars on both of his hands. He jumps onto chairs at the sight of spiders. He doesn't like blood, which makes his job choice seem very odd. He is very literal minded, only believing in actions and then their consequences. But this factor of his personality is a result of an incident that happened to him in early childhood, and as the movie progresses, the secrets of his past are slowly uncovered.
I really liked the end of this movie. That's all I'm going to say.
