Word: legend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...nearly 200 years the tale has kept children awake and atremble--or lulled them to sleep with Washington Irving's drolly orotund style. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is still a bedtime staple in tonier households, and with its Headless Horseman hurling a grimacing pumpkin at the head of Ichabod Crane, the story helped create the American giddying-up of Halloween as a funny fright night. But like so many old fables, Sleepy Hollow is chiefly remembered in its Disney version. That 1958 cartoon short, a genial mix of comedy and anxiety, took its tone from the voice...
...headless horseman haunts the outskirts of the town and chops off people's heads in revenge for having lost his own --or so goes the rumor in town. When lanky, schoolteaching Ichabod Crane comes to town, alienating the locals with his intellectual pretentiousness, he scoffs at the legend and further ruffles burly townsman Brom Bones' feathers by flirting with his girlfriend, Katrina Van Tassel. Riding home after being rebuffed by Katrina at a quilting party one night, Ichabod begins to take the town's superstition more seriously when he hears the clippety-clop of a following horse. His fears getting...
...Talk is cheap, nowadays, so cheap you'd be amazed at the level of conversation which the remake thinks is worth your time. Forced to be expressive in a medium in which dialogue could only be written on intermittent frames, Buster Keaton, film pioneer and comedy legend, relied instead on visual complexity and sophistication: carefully wrought facial reactions, exquisitely timed double takes, graceful slapstick and outrageous acrobatics. He was a master of both subtlety and extravagance--he was called "Old Stoneface" for his constant deadpan which could somehowwhere the facade of a house falls over on him but doesn...
...Faust legend has been reincarnated in myriad forms: Faust as 16th century necromancer, Faust damned to hell, Faust saved by the grace of God, Faust as 20th century composer. The latest adaptation of Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Fautus, performed at the Loeb Ex last weekend, added a refreshing sense of vitality and humor to the tried and true theme. Director Cary McClennand '02 admitted that one of his main concerns has been adapting the religious theme for the modern-day audience. He feels that Marlowe's play is "timeless," but found it necessary to remove the few historical references that...
...might have viewed this aesthetic exhibition as more of a reliance than a means to an end. Admittedly, the very hipness of the event did at times seem incongruous with the apparent simultaneous desire for austerity, which is difficult to completely discount with Marlowe's text and the Faust legend in general...