Tuesday, September 8, 2015

Costume Critique #5 -- Sleepy Hollow


Sleepy Hollow Movie came out in 1999. Tim Burton directed, and Johnny Depp played Ichabod, a police constable from New York. Ichabod, who does not believe any spiritual being but only scientifically assured facts, was sent to the village of Sleepy Hollow to solve a series of murders caused by a ghost in the village. Costume designing for this movie was done by Coleen Atwood, and she won an award "Excellence in Period/Fantasy Costume Design for Film" from Costume Designers Guild and the Best Costume Design Award from Satellite Awards in 2000 for this movie.
I found 2 favorite costuming in this movie.
  First: Ichabod's original scientific items.
In the movie, Ichabod mentions that he designed and built all his items for scientific inspections, including those glasses in the picture. Those look very unique. For example, the glasses, audience can tell that they work as something like glasses we use in our day; doctors at a hospital might even use very similar kind of glasses. But, those glasses do not look too modern. I felt it is very Tim Burton-like design.
Second: the ghost without his head.
I feel like it does not seem to be alive because the color blends with background very well (it is almost fading into the background.) I really want to learn how they hid the head.

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