Am I wrong or is the origanal story line have Crane meeting his doom and why didn't it happen in this version. Seems to me that this ending was very different then all the others I remember.
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In the Washington Irving story Crane disappears and nobody knows what happened to him. So it is only implied that headless horseman even exists to begin with. And, on the other, the text ends with the man who is telling the story saying, "I don't believe one half of it myself." So he makes a point to say that it's just a legend and these people don't necessarily even exist. In reading the story, you can see that it's really not possible to make a 'faithful' film adaptation due to the way it is written, so this version as most others just uses the basic story and adds it's own elements along the way...But it is a different ending I suppose.
shareWell, at least it was a happy one.
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" I don't know a lot about anything, but I know a little about practically everything"
Actually, at the end of the story, Ichabod Crane is run out of town by the headless horseman, who is Brom Bones in a disguise. He wasn't killed, and there was no actual headless horseman.
shareRecently re-read the original story. Ichabod is never seen again, but somebody hears that he became a lawyer and is living elsewhere. Folks noticed that Brom Bones always laughs when someone brings up the flaming pumpkin, so they figure Brom knows more than he's letting on.
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