document_title: Sleepy Hollow (film)

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text: Sleepy Hollow (film)

text: Plot[edit]

text: In 1799, New York City police constable Ichabod Crane is deployed to the Westchester County hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, which has been plagued by a series of brutal slayings in which the victims are found decapitated: Peter Van Garrett, a wealthy farmer; his son Dirk; and the widow Emily Winship. Crane learns that locals believe the killer is the undead apparition of a headless Hessian mercenary from the American Revolutionary War who rides a black steed in search of his missing head.

text: Crane begins his investigation, remaining skeptical about the paranormal elements until he actually encounters the Headless Horseman, who kills the town magistrate, Samuel Phillipse. Boarding at the home of the town's richest family, the Van Tassels, Crane is taken with their daughter, Katrina. Crane and Young Masbath, the son of one of the Horseman's victims, go to the cave dwelling of a reclusive witch. She reveals the location of the Tree of the Dead, which marks the Horseman's grave, as well as his portal into the natural, living world.

text: Crane discovers that the ground is freshly disturbed and the Horseman's skull is missing. That night, the family of the village midwife is killed by the Horseman and Katrina's suitor, Brom van Brunt is also killed trying to stop the Horseman. The Horseman doesn't attempt to interact with or harm van Brunt until he has no choice; from this, Crane hypothesizes that the Horseman is attacking select targets, and that whoever dug up and stole the skull is the person controlling the Horseman.

text: Crane starts to believe that a conspiracy links all the deaths together, so he looks into Van Garrett's last will. Van Garrett had made a new will just before he died, leaving all his possessions to his secret new bride, Emily Winship, whom Crane discovered was pregnant with Van Garrett's child. Crane deduces that all who knew about the new will, the marriage and the pregnancy were the victims of the Horseman and that Katrina's father Baltus Van Tassel, who would have inherited the fortune, is the person holding the skull. Katrina, finding out that Crane suspects her father, burns all the evidence that Crane has accumulated.

text: A council is held in the church. The Horseman seemingly kills Katrina's stepmother, Lady Van Tassel, and heads off to the church to get Baltus. Crane realizes the Horseman can't enter the church due to it being holy ground. A fight breaks out between the village elders in the church resulting in the deaths of Reverend Steenwyck and Doctor Lancaster, only ending when the Horseman harpoons Baltus through a window, dragging him out and acquiring his head. The next day, Crane believes Katrina to be the one who controls the Headless Horsemen.

text: Crane later becomes suspicious when he realizes the diagram made by Katrina he thought summoned the Horseman is really one of protection, and also that the corpse of Lady Van Tassel has a wound that seems to have been caused post-mortem. The corpse is revealed as that of a servant when Lady Van Tassel emerges alive to ambush Katrina. Lady Van Tassel tells Katrina that her family was driven from their ancestral home by the Van Garretts, who then sold it to the Van Tassels. She proceeded to pledge her soul to Satan and become a witch, summoning the Horseman to kill Van Garrett, his son, new wife, unborn child, every villager who knew about his new will, marriage, and child, and her own sister in order to be able to claim everything that she deemed to be rightfully hers uncontested. She then sends the Horseman after Katrina to remove the last obstacle to inheriting the combined Van Garrett and Van Tassel estates.

text: Following a fight and a stagecoach chase, Crane eventually thwarts Lady Van Tassel by throwing the skull to the Horseman, who reattaches his head to his body and breaks Lady Van Tassel's curse. The Horseman, no longer under her control, hoists Van Tassel up on his horse and gives her a bloody kiss against her will.[4] He then rides to Hell, taking her with a smile, fulfilling her end of the bargain. Crane returns home to New York City with Katrina and Young Masbath, just in time for the new century.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Johnny Depp as Ichabod Crane
Christina Ricci as Katrina Van Tassel
Christopher Walken and Ray Park as the Headless Horseman
Marc Pickering as Young Masbath
Casper Van Dien as Brom Van Brunt
Michael Gambon as Baltus Van Tassel
Miranda Richardson as Lady Mary Van Tassel and her sister
Jeffrey Jones as Reverend Steenwyck
Richard Griffiths as Magistrate Samuel Philipse
Ian McDiarmid as Dr. Thomas Lancaster
Michael Gough as Notary James Hardenbrook
Christopher Lee as the Burgomaster
Claire Skinner as Beth Killian, the Midwife
Steven Waddington as Killian, Beth's husband
Alun Armstrong as the High Constable
Martin Landau as Peter Van Garrett
Peter Guinness as Lord Crane, Ichabod's father
Lisa Marie as Lady Crane, Ichabod's mother
Jessica Oyelowo as Sarah
Michael Feast as Spotty Man
Jamie Foreman as Thuggish Constable
Sean Cronin as Prisoner

text: Production[edit]

text: Development[edit]

text: In 1993, Kevin Yagher, a make-up effects designer who had turned to directing with Tales from the Crypt, had the notion to adapt Washington Irving's short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" into a feature film. Through his agent, Yagher was introduced to Andrew Kevin Walker; they spent a few months working on a film treatment[5] that transformed Ichabod Crane as a schoolmaster from Connecticut to a banished New York City detective.[6] Yagher and Walker subsequently pitched Sleepy Hollow to various studios and production companies, eventually securing a deal with producer Scott Rudin,[5] who had been impressed with Walker's unproduced spec script for Seven.[7] Rudin optioned the project to Paramount Pictures in a deal that had Yagher set to direct, with Walker scripting; the pair would share story credit.[5] Following the completion of Hellraiser: Bloodline, Yahger had planned Sleepy Hollow as a low-budget production—"a pretentious slasher film with a spectacular murder every five minutes or so." Paramount disagreed on the concept and demoted Yagher's involvement to prosthetic makeup designer.[8] "They never really saw it as a commercial movie," producer Adam Schroeder noted. "The studio thinks 'old literary classic' and they think The Crucible. We started developing it before horror movies came back."[9]

text: Paramount CEO Sherry Lansing revived studio interest in 1998.[7] Schroeder, who shepherded Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands as a studio executive at 20th Century Fox in 1990, suggested that Burton direct the film.[10] Francis Ford Coppola's minimal production duties came from American Zoetrope; Burton only became aware of Coppola's involvement during the editing process when he was sent a copy of Sleepy Hollow's trailer and saw Coppola's name on it.[10] Burton, coming off the troubled production of Superman Lives, was hired to direct in June 1998.[11] "I had never really done something that was more of a horror film," he explained, "and it's funny, because those are the kind of movies that I like probably more than any other genre."[5] His interest in directing a horror film influenced by his love for Hammer Film Productions and Black Sunday—particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages.[9] As a result, Sleepy Hollow is a homage to various Hammer Film Productions, including Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde,[12] and other films such as Frankenstein, Bride of Frankenstein, various Roger Corman horror films,[13] Jason and the Argonauts, and Scream Blacula Scream.[7] The image of the Headless Horseman had fascinated Burton during his apprenticeship as a Disney animator at CalArts in the early 1980s.[13] "One of my teachers had worked on the Disney version as one of the layout artists on the chase, and he brought in some layouts from it, so that was exciting. It was one of the things that maybe shaped what I like to do."[5] Burton worked with Walker on rewrites, but Rudin suggested that Tom Stoppard rewrite the script[14] to add to the comical aspects of Ichabod's bumbling mannerisms, and emphasize the character's romance with Katrina. His work went uncredited through the WGA screenwriting credit system.[7]

text: While Johnny Depp was Burton's first choice for the role of Ichabod Crane, Paramount required him to consider Brad Pitt, Liam Neeson and Daniel Day-Lewis.[9][15] Depp was cast in July 1998 for his third collaboration with Burton.[16] The actor wanted Ichabod to parallel Irving's description of the character in the short story. This included a long prosthetic snipe nose, huge ears, and elongated fingers. Paramount turned down his suggestions,[17] and after Depp read Tom Stoppard's rewrite of the script, he was inspired to take the character even further. "I always thought of Ichabod as a very delicate, fragile person who was maybe a little too in touch with his feminine side, like a frightened little girl," Depp explained.[7] He did not wish to portray the character as a typical action star would have, and instead took inspiration by Angela Lansbury's performance in Death on the Nile.[7] "It's good," Burton reasoned, "because I'm not the greatest action director in the world, and he's not the greatest action star."[10] Depp modeled Ichabod's detective personality from Basil Rathbone in the 1939 Sherlock Holmes film series. He also studied Roddy McDowall's acting for additional influence.[17] Burton added that "the idea was to try to find an elegance in action of the kind that Christopher Lee or Peter Cushing or Vincent Price had."[10] Christina Ricci, who worked with producer Scott Rudin on The Addams Family, was cast as Katrina Van Tassel.[9] Sleepy Hollow also reunited Burton with Jeffrey Jones (from Beetlejuice and Ed Wood) as Reverend Steenwyck, Christopher Walken (Max Schreck in Batman Returns) as the Hessian Horseman, Martin Landau (Ed Wood) in a cameo role, and Hammer veteran Michael Gough (Alfred in Burton's Batman films), whom Burton tempted out of retirement.[10] The Hammer influence was further confirmed by the casting of Christopher Lee in a small role as the Burgomaster who sends Crane to Sleepy Hollow.[18]

text: Filming[edit]

text: The original intention had been to shoot Sleepy Hollow predominantly on location with a $30 million budget.[19] Towns were scouted throughout Upstate New York along the Hudson Valley,[5] and the filmmakers decided on Tarrytown[11] for an October 1998 start date.[16] The Historic Hudson Valley organization assisted in scouting locations, which included the Philipsburg Manor House and forests in the Rockefeller State Park Preserve.[6] "They had a wonderful quality to them," production designer Rick Heinrichs reflected on the locations, "but it wasn't quite lending itself to the sort of expressionism that we were going for, which wanted to express the feeling of foreboding."[20] Disappointed, the filmmakers scouted locations in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, and considered using Dutch colonial villages and period town recreations in the Northeastern United States. When no suitable existing location could be found, coupled with a lack of readily available studio space in the New York area needed to house the production's large number of sets, producer Scott Rudin suggested the UK.[5]

text: Rudin believed Britain offered the level of craftsmanship in period detail, painting and costuming that was suitable for the film's design.[21] Having directed Batman entirely in Britain, Burton agreed, and designers from Batman's art department were employed by Paramount for Sleepy Hollow.[10] As a result, principal photography was pushed back[22] to November 20, 1998 at Leavesden Film Studios, which had been recently vacated by Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.[19] The majority of filming took place at Leavesden, with studio other work at Shepperton Studios,[5] where the massive Tree of the Dead set was built using Stage H.[7] Production then moved to the Hambleden estate at Lime Tree Valley for a month-long shoot in March, where the town of Sleepy Hollow was constructed.[5] "We came to England figuring we would find a perfect little town," producer Adam Schroeder recalled, "and then we had to build it anyway." Filming in Britain continued through April,[5] and a few last minute scenes were shot using a sound stage in Yonkers, New York the following May.[6][23]

text: Design[edit]

text: Responsible for the film's production design was Rick Heinrichs, who Burton intended to use on Superman Lives. While the production crew was always going to build a substantial number of sets, the decision was taken early on that to fulfill Burton's vision best would necessitate shooting Sleepy Hollow in a totally controlled environment at Leavesden Film Studios.[25] The production design was influenced by Burton's love for Hammer Film Productions and Black Sunday—particularly the supernatural feel they evoked as a result of being filmed primarily on sound stages. Heinrichs was also influenced by American colonial architecture, German Expressionism, Dr. Seuss illustrations, and Hammer's Dracula Has Risen from the Grave.[9] One sound stage at Leavesden was dedicated to the "Forest to Field" set, for the scene in which the Headless Horseman races out of the woods and into a field. This stage was then transformed into, variously, a graveyard, a corn field, a field of harvested wheat, a churchyard, and a snowy battlefield. In addition, a small backlot area was devoted to a New York City street and waterfront tank.[19]

text: Cinematography[edit]

text: Burton was impressed by the cinematography in Great Expectations, and hired Emmanuel Lubezki as Sleepy Hollow's director of photography. Initially, Lubezki and Burton contemplated shooting the film in black and white and in old square Academy ratio. When that proved unfeasible, they opted for an almost monochromatic effect which would enhance the fantasy aspect.[10] Burton and Lubezki intentionally planned the over-dependency of smoke and soft lighting to accompany the film's sole wide-angle lens strategy. Lubezki also used Hammer horror[26] and Mexican lucha films from the 1960s, such as Santo Contra los Zombis and Santo vs. las Mujeres Vampiro.[9] Lighting effects increased the dynamic energy of the Headless Horseman, while the contrast of the film stock was increased in post-production to add to the monochromatic feel.[26]

text: Leavesden Studios, a converted airplane factory, presented problems because of its relatively low ceilings. This was less of an issue for The Phantom Menace, in which set height was generally achieved by digital means. "Our visual choices get channeled and violent," Heinrichs elaborated, "so you end up with liabilities that you tend to exploit as virtues. When you've got a certain ceiling height, and you're dealing with painted backings, you need to push atmosphere and diffusion."[19] This was particularly the case in several exteriors that were built on sound stages. "We would mitigate the disadvantages by hiding lights with teasers and smoke."[19]

text: Visual effects[edit]

text: The majority of Sleepy Hollow's 150 visual effects shots were handled by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM),[27] while Kevin Yagher supervised the human and creature effects. Framestore also assisted on digital effects, and The Mill handled motion control photography.[28] In part a reaction to the computer-generated effects in Mars Attacks!, Burton opted to use as limited an amount of digital effects as possible.[10] Ray Park, who served as the Headless Horseman stunt double, wore a blue ski mask for the chroma key effect, digitally removed by ILM.[14] Burton and Heinrichs applied to Sleepy Hollow many of the techniques they had used in stop motion animation on Vincent—such as forced perspective sets.[25]

text: The windmill was a 60-foot-tall forced-perspective exterior (visible to highway travellers miles away), a base and rooftop set and a quarter-scale miniature. The interior of the mill, which was about 30-feet high and 25-feet wide, featured wooden gears equipped with mechanisms for grinding flour. A wider view of the windmill was rendered on a Leavesden soundstage set with a quarter-scale windmill, complete with rotating vanes, painted sky backdrop and special-effects fire. "It was scary for the actors who were having burning wood explode at them," Heinrichs recalled. "There were controls in place and people standing by with hoses, of course, but there's always a chance of something going wrong."[29] For the final shot of the burning mill exploding, the quarter-scale windmill and painted backdrop were erected against the outside wall of the "flight shed", a spacious hangar on the far side of Leavesden Studios. The hangar's interior walls were knocked down to create a 450-foot run, with a 40-foot width still allowing for coach and cameras. Heinrichs tailored the sets so cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki could shoot from above without seeing the end of the stage.[29]

text: Actor Ian McDiarmid, who portrayed Dr. Lancaster, had just finished another Leavesden production with Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. He compared the aesthetics of the two films, stating that physical sets helped the actors get into a natural frame of mind. "Having come from the blue-screen world of Star Wars it was wonderful to see gigantic, beautifully made perspective sets and wonderful clothes, and also people recreating a world. It's like the way movies used to be done."[21]

text: Musical score[edit]

text:
Sleepy Hollow: Music from the Motion Picture

Soundtrack album by Danny Elfman

Released
November 16, 1999 (1999-11-16)

Length
67:52

Label
Hollywood Records

text: The film score was written and produced by Danny Elfman. It won the Golden Satellite Award and was also nominated by the Las Vegas Film Critics.

text: Track listing[edit]

text: Tracks marked with ♦ are only available as a bonus track on disc 8 of the Danny Elfman / Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music Box.

text: The track numbers listed here do not therefore correspond to the original 1999 album.

text:
Introduction
Main Titles
Young Ichabod
The Story...
Masbath's Terrible Death
Young Masbath ♦
Phony Chase ♦
Sweet Dreams
A Gift
Phillipse's Death ♦
Into the Woods / The Witch
Mysterious Figure ♦
More Dreams
The Tree of Death
Bad Dreams / Tender Moment
Evil Eye
The Church Battle
Love Lost
The Windmill
The Chase
The Final Confrontation
A New Day!
End Credits

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text: Release[edit]

text: To promote Sleepy Hollow, Paramount Pictures featured the film's trailer at San Diego Comic-Con International in August 1999.[30] The following October, the studio launched a website, which Variety described as being the "most ambitious online launch of a motion picture to date."[31] The site (sleepyhollowmovie.com) offered visitors live video chats with several of the filmmakers hosted by Yahoo! Movies and enabled them to send postcards, view photos, trailers and a six-minute behind-the-scenes featurette edited from a broadcast that aired on Entertainment Tonight. Extensive tours of 10 sets where offered, where visitors were able to roam around photographs, including the sets for the entire town of Sleepy Hollow, forest, church, graveyard and covered bridge. Arthur Cohen, president of worldwide marketing for Paramount, explained that the "Web-friendly" pre-release reports[31] from websites such as Ain't It Cool News and Dark Horizons[32][33] encouraged the studio to create the site.[31] In the weeks pre-dating the release of Sleepy Hollow, a toy line was marketed by McFarlane Toys.[34] Simon & Schuster also published The Art of Sleepy Hollow (ISBN 0671036572), which included the film's screenplay and an introduction by Tim Burton.[35] A novelization, also published by Simon & Schuster, was written by Peter Lerangis.[36]

text: Sleepy Hollow was released in the United States on November 19, 1999 in 3,069 theaters, grossing $30,060,467 in its opening weekend[2] at the #2 spot behind The World Is Not Enough.[37] Sleepy Hollow eventually earned $101,071,502 in domestic gross, and $105 million in foreign sales, coming to a worldwide total of $206,071,502.[2] David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family criticized the film's financial success from the exaggeration of gore. "The real impact is not so much that violent images create violent behavior," Walsh explained, "but that they create an atmosphere of disrespect." Burton addressed the concerns as a matter of opinion. "Everyone has a different perception of things. When I was a kid," Burton continued, "I was probably more scared by seeing John Wayne or Barbra Streisand on the big screen than by seeing violence."[38]

text: Paramount Home Video first released Sleepy Hollow on DVD in the United States on May 23, 2000.[39] The HD DVD release came in July 2006,[40] while the film was released on Blu-ray Disc two years later, in June 2008.[41]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 67% of critics gave the film a "Certified Fresh" rating, based on 126 reviews with an average score of 6.2/10, with the site's consensus stating, "Sleepy Hollow entertains with its stunning visuals and creepy atmosphere." [42] Metacritic, another review aggregator, assigned the film a weighted average score of 65 (out of 100) based on 35 reviews from mainstream critics, considered to be "generally favorable".[43] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.[44]

text: Roger Ebert praised Johnny Depp's performance and Tim Burton's methods of visual design. "Johnny Depp is an actor able to disappear into characters," Ebert continued, "never more readily than in one of Burton's films."[45] Richard Corliss wrote, in his review for TIME Magazine, "Burton's richest, prettiest, weirdest [film] since Batman Returns. The simple story bends to his twists, freeing him for an exercise in high style."[46]

text: David Sterritt of The Christian Science Monitor highly praised Burton's filmmaking and the high-spirited acting of cast, but believed Andrew Kevin Walker's writing was too repetitious and formulaic for the third act.[47] "You go into a Tim Burton film wanting to be transported, but Sleepy Hollow is little more than a lavish, art-directed slasher movie."

text: Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Weekly wrote Sleepy Hollow is "a choppily plotted crowd-pleaser that lacks the seductive, freakazoid alchemy of Burton's best work." Gleiberman compared the film to The Mummy, and said "it feels like every high-powered action climax of the last 10 years. Personally, I'd rather see Burton so intoxicated by a movie that he lost his head."[48]

text: Andrew Johnston of Time Out New York wrote: "Like the best of Burton's films, Sleepy Hollow takes place in a world so richly imagined that, despite its abundant terrors, you can't help wanting to step through the screen."[49]

text: Mick LaSalle, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, criticized Burton's perceived image as a creative artist. "All Sleepy Hollow has going for it is art direction, and even in that it falls back on cliché."[50] Doug Walker linked the film to the Hammer Films style of horror cinematography, considering it an homage to those movies, comparing the usage of dignified British actors, choices in color and movie sets and character relations. Walker gave it the merit of recreating the "very specific genre" of Hammer Films, citing the skill and "clever casting" Burton used to manage this.[51]

text: Jonathan Rosenbaum from the Chicago Reader called Sleepy Hollow "a ravishing visual experience, a pretty good vehicle for some talented American and English actors," but concluded that the film was a missed opportunity to depict an actual representation of the short story. "Burton's fidelity is exclusively to the period feeling he gets from disreputable Hammer horror films and a few images culled from Ichabod and Mr. Toad. When it comes to one of America's great stories, Burton obviously couldn't care less."[52]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Awards

Award
Date of ceremony
Category
Recipients and nominees
Result

Academy Awards[53]
March 26, 2000
Best Art Direction
Rick Heinrichs, Peter Young
Won

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

British Academy Film Awards[54]
April 9, 2000
Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Visual Effects
Jim Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films[55]
June 6, 2000
Best Horror Film
Scott Rudin, Adam Schroeder
Nominated

Best Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Best Writing
Andrew Kevin Walker
Nominated

Best Actor
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Actress
Christina Ricci
Won

Best Supporting Actor
Christopher Walken
Nominated

Best Supporting Actress
Miranda Richardson
Nominated

Best Music
Danny Elfman
Won

Best Costume
Collen Atwood
Nominated

Best Make-up
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen
Nominated

Best Special Effects
Jim Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

American Society of Cinematographers[56]
February 20, 2000
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Art Directors Guild[57]
February 8, 2000
Excellence in Production Design for a Feature Film
Rick Heinrichs, Les Tompkins, John Dexter, Kevin Phipps, John Wright Stevens, Ken Court, Andrew Nicholson, Bill Hoes, Julian Ashby, Gary Tompkins, Nick Navarro
Won

BMI Film & Television Awards[58]
December 8, 2014
BMI Film Music Award
Danny Elfman
Won

Blockbuster Entertainment Awards[59]
May 9, 2000
Favorite Actor - Horror
Johnny Depp
Won

Favorite Actress - Horror
Christina Ricci
Won

Favorite Supporting Actress - Horror
Miranda Richardson
Won

Favorite Supporting Actor - Horror
Marc Pickering
Nominated

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards[59]
December 12, 1999
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Chicago Film Critics Association[59]
March 13, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Costume Designers Guild[60]
February 25, 2000
Excellence in Period/Fantasy Costume Design for Film
Colleen Atwood
Won

Hollywood Makeup Artist and Hair Stylist Guild Awards[61]
March 19, 2000
Best Character Makeup - Feature
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen, Liz Tagg, Paul Gooch
Won

International Film Music Critics Association[62]
February 23, 2012
Best Archival Release of an Existing Score
Danny Elfman (also for Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride and Alice in Wonderland)
Won

International Film Music Critics Association[63]
February 4, 1999
Film Score of the Year
Danny Elfman
Nominated

International Horror Guild[64]
May 12, 2000
Best Film

Nominated

Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists[65]
May 12, 2000
Best Foreign Director
Tim Burton
Nominated

Las Vegas Film Critics Society Awards[66]
January 18, 2000
Best Score
Danny Elfman
Nominated

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards[67]
December 12, 1999
Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs
Won

MTV Movie Awards[68]
June 5, 2000
Best Villain
Christopher Walken
Nominated

Motion Picture Sound Editors[69]
December 15, 1999
Best Sound Editing - Effects & Foley
Skip Lievsay, Thomas W. Small, Sean Garnhart, Lewis Goldstein, Paul Urmson, Craig Berkey, Richard L. Anderson, John Pospisil, Michael Dressel, Scott Curtis, Matthew Harrison, Tammy Fearing
Nominated

National Society of Film Critics[70]
January 8, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

New York Film Critics Circle Awards[71]
January 9, 2000
Best Cinematographer
Emmanuel Lubezki
Runner-up

Online Film & Television Association[72]
January 12, 2000
Best Original Score
Danny Elfman
Nominated

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Nominated

Best Production Design
Rick Heinrichs, Ken Court, John Dexter, Andy Nicholson, Kevin Phipps, Leslie Tomkins, Peter Young
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Nominated

Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Kevin Yagher, Peter Owen, Liz Tagg, Paul Gooch, Susan Parkinson, Bernadette Mazur, Tamsin Dorling
Nominated

Best Sound Mixing
Lee Dichter, Robert Fernandez, Skip Lievsay, Frank Morrone
Nominated

Best Sound Effects
Skip Lievsay
Nominated

Best Visual Effects
James Mitchell, Kevin Yagher, Joss Williams, Paddy Eason
Nominated

Best Official Film Website
www.sleepyhollow.com
Nominated

Online Film Critics Society[73]
January 2, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Santa Fe Film Critics Circle Awards[74]
January 9, 2000
Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Satellite Awards[75]
January 16, 2000
Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
Johnny Depp
Nominated

Best Original Score
Danny Elfman
Won

Best Cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki
Won

Best Art Direction
Ken Court, John Dexter, Rick Heinrichs and Andy Nicholson
Won

Best Costume Design
Colleen Atwood
Won

Best Editing
Chris Lebenzon
Nominated

Best Sound
Gary Alpers, Skip Lievsay, Frank Morrone
Won

Best Visual Effects
Jim Mitchell, Joss Williams
Nominated

Teen Choice Awards[76]
August 6, 2000
Film - Choice Actress
Christina Ricci
Nominated

Young Artist Awards[77]
March 19, 2000
Best Performance in a Feature Film: Leading Young Actress
Christina Ricci
Nominated

text: American Film Institute recognition:

text:
AFI's 100 Years...100 Thrills – Nominated
AFI's 100 Years...100 Heroes and Villains:

The Headless Horseman – Nominated Villain[78]


document_title: Dumb and Dumber

question_text: where was the airport scene in dumb and dumber filmed

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text: Dumb and Dumber

text: Plot[edit]

text: Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne, two kindly but dimwitted men, are best friends and roommates living in Providence, Rhode Island. Lloyd, a chip-toothed limousine driver, immediately falls in love when he meets Mary Swanson, a woman he is driving to the airport. She leaves a briefcase in the terminal; Lloyd, unaware that it contains ransom money for her kidnapped husband, Bobby, and that she was supposed to leave it there for the kidnappers to pick up, retrieves it and tries to return it to her before the kidnappers can get it. Her Aspen-bound plane has already departed, leading to Lloyd running through and falling out of the jetway.

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text: Fired from his job, Lloyd returns to his apartment and learns that Harry has also been fired from his dog-grooming job after delivering dogs late to a show and accidentally getting them dirty. Bobby's kidnappers, Joe "Mental" Mentalino and J. P. Shay, follow Lloyd home from the airport in pursuit of the briefcase. Mistaking the crooks for debt collectors, the duo flee the apartment and return later to find that Mental has decapitated Harry's parakeet. Lloyd suggests they head to Aspen to find Mary and return the briefcase, hoping she can "plug them into the social pipeline." At first, Harry opposes the idea, but he eventually agrees and the duo leaves the next day.

text: Mental and Shay catch up to the duo at a motel that night. Posing as a hitchhiker, Mental is picked up by Harry and Lloyd while Shay secretly follows them. During a lunch stop, the duo prank Mental with chili peppers in his burger, not knowing of his ulcer. When Mental reacts adversely, they accidentally kill him with rat poison pills (which he planned to use on them) after mistaking it for his medication. Nearing Colorado, Lloyd takes a wrong turn and ends up driving all night through Nebraska, while the police waiting on the road to Colorado expect them to show up after finding out about Mental's death. Upon waking up and realizing Lloyd's mishap, Harry gives up on the journey and decides to walk home, but Lloyd later persuades him to continue after trading the van for a minibike.

text: The two arrive in Aspen, but are unable to locate Mary. After a short scuffle over some gloves that night, the briefcase breaks open and they discover the money; they spend it for a hotel suite, clothes and a Lamborghini Diablo. They learn that Mary and her family are hosting a gala and prepare to attend. At the gala, Harry, attempting to lure Mary over to Lloyd, reluctantly agrees to go skiing with her the next day and lies to Lloyd that he got him a date. The next day, Lloyd finds out Harry lied to him after waiting all day for Mary at the hotel bar.

text: In retaliation, Lloyd pranks Harry by serving him a coffee laced with laxative, causing Harry to spontaneously defecate in a broken toilet at Mary's house. Lloyd arrives at Mary's house and informs her that he has her briefcase. He takes her to the hotel, shows her the briefcase, and confesses his love after some initial struggle; she rejects him, as she is already married. Nicholas Andre, an old friend of the Swansons and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping, arrives with Shay and, upon learning that Lloyd and Harry had spent all of the ransom money and replaced it with IOUs, takes Lloyd and Mary hostage, as well as Harry when he returns. An argument leads Nicholas to shoot Harry. Before Nicholas can kill them, an FBI team led by Beth Jordan (whom Harry met earlier at a gas station) raids the suite and arrests him and Shay. Harry is revealed to be alive thanks to a bulletproof vest that was strapped on him earlier. Mary and Bobby are reunited. Lloyd, jealous that he can never be with Mary because she is married, fantasizes about shooting Bobby dead.

text: The next day, Harry and Lloyd begin walking home. All of the items they bought were confiscated and their minibike has broken down. The two unknowingly decline the chance to be oil boys for a group of bikini girls, after which Harry tells Lloyd that they will get their "break" one day. Harry and Lloyd then play a friendly game of tag as they walk back home.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Jim Carrey as Lloyd Christmas  A chip-toothed, deranged slacker who has been fired from several jobs. He has a crush on Mary Swanson, unaware that she is married.
Jeff Daniels as Harry Dunne  Lloyd's best friend and roommate. Though dim-witted, Harry is slightly more intelligent than Lloyd and can be said to be the "Dumb" of the title to Lloyd's "Dumber".
Lauren Holly as Mary Swanson  A wealthy but troubled heiress whose husband Bobby has been kidnapped.
Karen Duffy as J.P. Shay  A henchwoman of Nicholas Andre.
Mike Starr as Joe "Mental" Mentalino  A henchman for Nicholas Andre. He has a stomach ulcer and regularly takes medication for it.
Charles Rocket as Nicholas Andre  A greedy, wealthy resident of Aspen, Colorado and the mastermind behind Bobby's kidnapping.
Teri Garr as Helen Swanson  Mary's stepmother.
Victoria Rowell as Beth Jordan (credited as "Athletic Beauty")  An FBI agent masquerading as a talkative young woman moving to Aspen to get away from her boyfriend.
Cam Neely as Sea Bass  A hot-tempered trucker who gets into frequent confrontations with Lloyd and Harry on their way to Aspen. Their first encounter was at a Pennsylvania diner.
Joe Baker as Barnard
Harland Williams as the motorcycle police officer
Brad Lockerman as Bobby Swanson  Mary's kidnapped husband
Lin Shaye as Mrs. Neugeboren (referred to by Harry as "Mrs. Noogieburger")  A dog owner and client of Harry's.
Hank Brandt as Karl Swanson  Mary's father
Felton Perry as Detective Dale
Brady Bluhm as Billy  a blind and young boy who uses a wheelchair, to whom Lloyd sold some of his and Harry's belongings, including Harry's decapitated parakeet.
Connie Sawyer as elderly lady

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text: Production[edit]

text: The Farrelly Brothers had been trying for years to get their first movie made, and it was only when Director Peter Farrelly's agent encouraged him to make a movie himself along with his brother Bobby.

text: The Farrelly Brothers didn't know who Jim Carrey was, they were only told that he was known as "The White Guy" in In Living Color, it was only after when the Brothers were invited to watch the screening of Carrey's first major acting role and the first of his 1994 hits Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, they realized they had struck gold, and based on the box-office success of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994), received a salary of $7 million for this film.[7]

text: Jeff Daniels was only paid around $50,000. New Line Cinema originally did not want Daniels in the film, as he was known only for his dramatic work at the time. The Farrelly Brothers and Carrey fought to have him cast and won out, but the studio offered Daniels the low salary in the hopes it would discourage him from signing on to the film. Daniels ultimately accepted the role, despite his agent reportedly dissuading him from accepting the role out of fears it would have killed his career.[8]

text: Steve Martin and Martin Short both turned down the role of Lloyd.[9]  According to Splitsider, Nicolas Cage and Gary Oldman were the original choices for Harry and Lloyd.[10] Chris Elliott and Rob Lowe were both also considered for the role of Harry.[10]

text: Jim Carrey's chipped tooth is genuine, resulting from a fight with a classmate in his childhood, but he had since had it capped. He simply had the crown temporarily removed from that tooth to portray Lloyd.[11]

text: Location[edit]

text: Scenes taking place in Aspen were filmed in Breckenridge, Colorado and Park City, Utah. The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, Colorado was transformed into the "Danbury Hotel" for the filming of the movie. The "Danbury Hotel" bar scene and staircase shot were the shots filmed there. The scenes filmed in the snow were shot at Copper Mountain Resort, Colorado.[12]

text: The truck stop shots, salt shaker Sea Bass diner scene, leg on fire at the gas pump, restroom assault scene, and two-lane country road scenes were filmed in and around Fort Morgan, Colorado with a number of locals filling the extra roles.[citation needed]

text: Some of the external street scenes were filmed in Salt Lake City, and the airport scene was filmed at Salt Lake City International Airport.[13]

text: Some scenes from the beginning of the film were shot on location in the Providence, Rhode Island, metropolitan area, including shots of the skyline and The Big Blue Bug; scenes from the beginning of their road trip were shot in locations in Cumberland, Rhode Island.[14][better source needed]

text: Parts of the film were also shot in Ogden, Utah and American Fork Canyon.[15]

text: Soundtrack[edit]

text:
Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture SoundtrackSoundtrack album by Various ArtistsReleased
November 22, 1994Genre
SoundtrackLength
46:51Label
RCA RecordsProducer
Various Artists
Singles from Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

"New Age Girl"Released: June 6, 1994
"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead"Released: January 1995

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text: Professional ratingsReview scoresSourceRatingAllmusic Dumb and Dumber at AllMusic. Retrieved 9-28-2014.

text: Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original soundtrack to the film and was released by RCA Records on November 22, 1994.[16]

text: Track listing[edit]

text: No.TitleArtistLength1."The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" (featuring Ellen Reid)Crash Test Dummies3:462."New Age Girl"Deadeye Dick3:283."Insomniac"Echobelly4:154."If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)"Pete Droge3:335."Crash (The '95 Mix)"The Primitives3:146."Whiney, Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)"Willi One Blood3:367."Where I Find My Heaven"Gigolo Aunts3:258."Hurdy Gurdy Man"Butthole Surfers3:579."Too Much of a Good Thing" (featuring Bret Reilly)The Sons5:1510."The Bear Song"Green Jellÿ2:4111."Take"The Lupins3:0112."You Sexy Thing"Deee-Lite4:0713."Get Ready"The Proclaimers3:02Total length:46:51

text: Omissions[edit]

text: "Love Theme" by Todd Rundgren, the track played during one of the earliest scenes when Lloyd Christmas falls in love for the first time with Mary Swanson, was omitted from the official release. The song "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" by The Cowsills was not on the soundtrack, although it was played quite prominently in the montage of Lloyd fantasizing about Mary, nor was "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison, though it was featured prominently in the make-over montage.

text: Also missing are "Can We Still Be Friends" by Todd Rundgren (who also wrote the original soundtrack), "Rollin' Down the Hill" by The Rembrandts, "Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm" by the Crash Test Dummies, "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Boom Shack-A-Lak" by Apache Indian, "The Love Affair" by Dick Walter, and "Make Love Now" by Patrick Wilson.  "2 Ft. 0' Butt Crack" by Circle The Wagons (ft. Bruce Greenwood) was also omitted from the soundtrack.[17]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: Rotten Tomatoes, a review aggregator, reports that 67% of 52 surveyed critics gave the film a positive review; the average rating is 5.9/10.  The site's consensus reads: "A relentlessly stupid comedy elevated by its main actors: Jim Carrey goes bonkers and Jeff Daniels carries himself admirably in an against-type performance."[18] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from film critics, it has a score of 41 based on reviews from 14 critics, which indicates mixed or average reviews.[19]

text: Roger Ebert gave the film two of four stars (despite praise for the performances of Carrey and Daniels, dubbing the former a "true original", and the dead parakeet joke).[20] Stephen Holden of The New York Times called Carrey "the new Jerry Lewis",[21] and Peter Stack of the San Francisco Chronicle called it "riotous", "rib-splitting", and gave the film praise for being both a crude and slapstick comedy and a "smart comedy" at the same time.[22] Carrey was nominated for a Razzie Award for "Worst New Star".[23]

text: It has since become a cult film.[5]

text: Awards[edit]

text: Although the film did not secure any major American film awards, it was successful at the 1995 MTV Movie Awards. Carrey won for Best Comic Performance, Carrey and Holly (a couple who would later endure a short-lived marriage) won for Best Kiss, and Carrey and Daniels were nominated for Best On-Screen Duo.

text:
In 2000, readers of Total Film magazine voted Dumb and Dumber the fifth greatest comedy film of all time.[citation needed]
The film ranks 445th on Empire Magazine's 2008 list of the 500 greatest movies of all time.[24]

text: Box office[edit]

text: The film opened at No. 1 in its opening weekend earning $16.4 million.[25] It went on to gross $127,175,374 in the United States, and $247,275,374 worldwide, and topping the holiday season film gross.[26]

text: Legacy[edit]

text: Animated series[edit]

text: In 1995, a Hanna-Barbera-produced animated series aired on ABC, as part of its Saturday morning cartoon lineup; Matt Frewer provided the voice of Lloyd, while Bill Fagerbakke voiced Harry. In the cartoon, Harry and Lloyd have reacquired their van, now named "Otto". The cartoon also features a new character, Kitty, a female pet purple beaver who appears to be smarter than both men. The animated series was written by Bennett Yellin, co-writer of the film. The show was short-lived and was shelved after one season.[citation needed]

text: Prequel[edit]

text: In 2003, a prequel was theatrically released, entitled Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. The film featured a cast and crew different from the previous film, and the Farrelly brothers had no involvement in the film's production. It was heavily panned by critics, receiving a 10% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It grossed approximately $39.2 million worldwide against a $19 million budget, as opposed to the original film's far greater $247 million worldwide gross against a $17 million budget.[27][28]

text: Sequel[edit]

text: In October 2011, the Farrelly brothers confirmed that they would make a sequel to Dumb and Dumber.[29] The sequel, titled Dumb and Dumber To, was shot in the fall of 2013. Carrey and Daniels returned to lead the film, and Bobby and Peter Farrelly returned to direct along with original screenwriter Bennett Yellin, and actors reprising their roles from the first film include Brady Bluhm, who played Billy in (Apartment) 4C, and Cam Neely, who played Sea Bass. Dumb and Dumber To was released on November 14, 2014.[30]

text: Unlike the original film, Dumb and Dumber To was not released by Warner Bros. Pictures but rather by Universal Pictures.[31] Despite Warner Bros. having no involvement in the film, its New Line Cinema division, which produced the first film and the prequel, was still given studio credit from Universal.[32][33]


document_title: Adventure Time (season 9)

question_text: who was the guy at the end of three buckets

text: Adventure Time (season 9)

text: Development

text: Concept

text: The series follows the adventures of Finn the Human, a human boy, and his best friend Jake, a dog with magical powers to change shape, grow, and shrink at will. Finn and Jake live in the post-apocalyptic Land of Ooo, wherein they interact with the other major characters, including: Princess Bubblegum, The Ice King, Marceline the Vampire Queen, Lumpy Space Princess, BMO, and Flame Princess. Common storylines revolve around Finn and Jake discovering strange creatures, dealing with the antagonistic but misunderstood Ice King, and battling monsters in order to help others.[4] Multi-episode story arcs for this season include Finn and Jake undoing extreme elemental magic that had transformed Ooo into a dystopia while they were away at sea.[5]

text: Production

text: On July 21, 2016, Kent Osborne posted an image on Twitter that suggested Adventure Time had been renewed for a ninth season.[6] The main storyline writers for the season included Jack Pendarvis, Adam Muto, Ashly Burch, Osborne, and Julia Pott.[7] According to Pendarvis, after Burch left following the eighth season, "Julia parachuted in at perhaps the most mind boggling moment in the sweeping arc of the series just totally undaunted, and showed incredible spirit and ingeniousness that encouraged us to press forward.".[8]

text: This season's episodes were produced in a process similar to previous seasons' episodes. First, all of the episodes begin as simple two-to-three-page outlines that contain the necessary plot information.[9] These outlines are then handed off to storyboard artists, who then expand the rough outline into a full storyboard.[10] The episodes' design and coloring are done in Burbank, California. Animation is handled overseas in South Korea, either by Rough Draft Korea or by Saerom Animation.[11][12][13] Continuing a tradition that first started with the fifth season episode "A Glitch Is a Glitch", this season also features the work of guest animators. The upcoming episode "Ketchup" will feature animation courtesy of Alex & Lindsay Small-Butera, a husband and wife duo perhaps best known for their web series Baman Piderman.[14][15] The Small-Buteras had previously contributed animation to the eighth-season episode "Beyond the Grotto".[16]

text: Storyboard artists who worked on this season include (but are not limited to) Adam Muto, Aleks Sennwald, Sam Alden, Polly Guo, Seo Kim, Somvilay Xayaphone, Laura Knetzger, Steve Wolfhard, Tom Herpich, Graham Falk, Kent Osborne, Hanna K. Nyström, and Aleks Sennwald.[nb 1] In regards to other aspects of production, Ghostshrimp—the series' former lead background designer—returned to the series to work on background pieces for "Abstract", "Whispers", "Fionna and Cake and Fionna", "Whispers", as well as the episodes comprising the "final story arc of Adventure Time".[nb 2][17] Ghostshrimp had retired from the show after the fourth season, but had previously returned to draw backgrounds for the seventh-season miniseries Stakes.[18][19]

text: Series conclusion

text: On September 29, 2016, it was confirmed by Cartoon Network that this season would be the show's last.[2] When asked in an interview with Skwigly about his feelings concerning the end of the series, Osborne explained:

text: It's weird because I've never been on a show this long, and I don't think Cartoon Network has done a show with this many episodes—for the past few seasons we’ve been surprised I think every time it gets picked up. And I think a lot of us were thinking in the back of our minds, 'When is this going to end? Am I gonna be 80 and still writing this?!' It is sad, and everyone's kind of grieving, but it's hard to feel too bad about it, because [...] they have so many episodes in the bank that it's gonna play for another couple years.[20]

text: Osborne did note that Cartoon Network provided the writers with "an opportunity to spend a lot of time thinking about the finale."[20] According to a speech given by Pendarvis, storyline writing for the series wrapped up mid-November 2016;[21] and the last storyline meeting was on November 21.[22] A tweet by Osborne revealed that the show's final script was pitched to storyboarders Sam Alden and Hanna K. Nyström on November 28,[23][24][25] which was pitched to the show's producers during the third week of December 2016.[26][27] Voice recording for the season and series ended on January 31, 2017, as confirmed by a number of voice actors, including Maria Bamford and Andy Milonakis.[28][29][30]

text: Following the season's completion, several of its' crewmembers have gone on to work on the upcoming Cartoon Network series Summer Camp Island, created by staff writer Julia Pott.[31]

text: Miniseries

text: During the ninth season of Adventure Time, a miniseries entitled Elements, aired during late April 2017.[32] News of this miniseries was first announced on March 31, 2017 by Cartoon Network during the unveiling of their 2017–18 programming lineup.[32] Elements follows Finn, Jake, and BMO after they return home to discover that Ooo has been turned into a veritable dystopia thanks to extreme elemental magic. Finn and Jake team up with Ice King (voiced by Tom Kenny), Betty (voiced by Felicia Day), and Lumpy Space Princess (voiced by Pendleton Ward) to set things straight.

text: Cast

text: The voice actors for the season include: Jeremy Shada (Finn the Human), John DiMaggio (Jake the Dog), Tom Kenny (The Ice King), Hynden Walch (Princess Bubblegum), and Olivia Olson (Marceline the Vampire Queen). Ward himself provides the voice for several minor characters, including Lumpy Space Princess. Former storyboard artist Niki Yang voices the sentient video game console BMO in English, as well as Jake's girlfriend Lady Rainicorn in Korean.[33] Polly Lou Livingston, a friend of Pendleton Ward's mother, Bettie Ward, plays the voice of the small elephant Tree Trunks.[34][35] Jessica DiCicco voices Flame Princess, Finn's ex-girlfriend and the sovereign of the Fire Kingdom.[36] Andy Milonakis voices N.E.P.T.R., a sentient robot who makes and throws pies.[37] The Lich, the series' principal antagonist, is portrayed by Ron Perlman in his demonic form,[38] and by Ethan Maher when portrayed as Sweet P.[39] The Adventure Time cast records their lines together as opposed to doing it individually. This is to capture more natural sounding dialogue among the characters. Hynden Walch has described these group session as akin to "doing a play reading—a really, really out there play."[40]

text: In addition to the regular cast members, episodes feature guest voices from many ranges of professions, including actors, musicians, and artists. In "Orb", Tom Scharpling reprises his role of Jake's brother Jermaine, and Thu Tran returns as AMO.[41] The Elements miniseries prominently features Felicia Day playing the role of Ice King's fiancée, Betty Grof (in previous episodes, this role had been played by Lena Dunham).[5][42] In the same miniseries, Hayden Ezzy voices Fern, Ethan Maher voices Sweet P, Ron Lynch returns as Mr. Pig, Lauren Lapkus reprises her role as Patience St. Pim, Dana Snyder lends his voice to the Life-Giving Magus, Cameron Esposito appears as Carroll the cloud woman, storyboard artist Tom Herpich voices Mr. Fox, Jeff Bennett plays Choose Goose, John Hodgman reprises his role as Elder Plops, Andy Samberg returns to voice Party Pat, and Andrew Daly voices Wyatt.[5][43] Scharpling returned again in "Abstract", and the episode also featured Andy Merrill, who reprised his role as James.[44] In "Ketchup", J. G. Quintel voiced an unnamed blue bird.[45] "Fionna and Cake and Fionna" saw the return of Madeleine Martin as Fionna and Roz Ryan as Cake. In the same episode, Chelsea Peretti voiced the Queen of Ooo and Charlotte Newhouse voiced a fake Fionna.[46] Fred Melamed has an unnamed role in "Three Buckets".[47]

text: Future episodes will guest star Jenny Slate, Open Mike Eagle, Keith David, Paul Scheer, Livvy Stubenrauch, Rekstizzy, and Dumbfoundead.[48]

text: The upcoming episode "Marcy & Hunson" will feature Martin Olson reprising his role as Hunson Abadeer, father of Marceline.[49][50]

text: Various other characters are voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, Maria Bamford, Steve Little, and Melissa Villaseñor.[33]

text: Broadcast and reception

text: Broadcast

text: Much like the sixth, seventh, and eighth seasons,[51][52][53] the ninth season featured several episode "bombs", or instances wherein large amounts of episodes debuted within a relatively short timeframe. The first of these strings of new episodes occurred between January 30 and February 2, 2017, during which the entirety of Elements aired.[54] The second started on July 17, 2017 with "Abstract" and concluded on July 21, 2017 with "Three Buckets".[55] The third occurred on September 17, 2017, when four episodes (viz. "The Wild Hunt", "Always BMO Closing", "Son of Rap Bear", and "Bonnibel Bubblegum") aired the same day.[56]

text: Ratings

text: The season debuted on April 21, 2017, with the episode "Orb". It was watched by 0.71 million viewers and scored a 0.19 Nielsen rating in the 18- to 49-year-old demographic. Nielsen ratings are audience measurement systems that determine the audience size and composition of television programming in the United States, which means that the episodes were seen by 0.19 percent of all households aged 18 to 49 years old were watching television at the time of the episode's airing.[3] In terms of viewers, this marked a decrease when compared to both the season eight finale, "Islands Part 8: The Light Cloud" (which was seen by 1 million individuals), as well as the previous season's premiere, "Broke His Crown" (which was viewed by 1.13 million).[3][57][58] Elements saw a slight uptick in terms of viewership, with each episode being watched by just under 1 million individuals.[59][60][61][62]

text: The finale episode of the series is scheduled to air sometime in 2018.[2]

text: Reviews and accolades

text: Elements was met with mostly positive comments. Sava argued that the limited series helped to return the viewers to the land of Ooo and also to resituate and reconfigure the characters' central relationships.[63] Smith argued that the use of the miniseries format allowed for "a stronger sense of focus [...] with every episode giving the sense that the story is building to a larger conclusion".[64] Blumenfeld praised the miniseries, declaring that Elements "is superior to and more cohesive than both Stakes and Islands, simultaneously a return to Adventure Time’s surrealist roots and an emotional step forward."[65]

text: Episodes

text:
No.
overall
No. in
season
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Supervising
direction by
Written and storyboarded by
Original air date [nb 3]
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code [68]
U.S. viewers
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253
1
"Orb"
Elizabeth Ito
Adam Muto & Aleks Sennwald
April 21, 2017 (2017-04-21)
1042-259
0.71[3]

While returning home from their adventure in Islands, Finn, Jake and BMO take a nap after eating a lot of bananas. A mysterious black orb in the sky begins to subject the three to strange dreams that quickly become nightmarish. Their nightmares begin to intertwine as they realize that they are dreaming and come in contact with a being that Finn dubs Nightmare Princess. This entity simply wants their bananas, but BMO strikes a bargain so that they get something in return. The group wake up to the orb taking some of their bananas and leaves a pink vial of nightmare juice. BMO looks through the telescope to discover that Ooo has changed radically.

254
2
"Elements Part 1: Skyhooks"
Cole Sanchez
Sam Alden & Polly Guo
April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)
1042-260
0.83[59]

Finn, Jake and BMO arrive back in Ooo and discover that their home and the areas surrounding it have been entirely converted into candy. They also encounter Fern, N.E.P.T.R., Shelby, Lemongrab, Tree Trunks, Mr. Pig and Marceline who have been converted into happily brainwashed candy people. A frightened Sweet P is the only person who is still normal and directs the gang to a mysterious candy tower. The tower turns out to be Princess Bubblegum who has become a large candy being and attempts to convert the gang into candy people as well. While BMO is completely transformed, Finn and Jake are rescued by Ice King who takes them to the Sky Kingdom. As Finn and Jake look down, they discover that Ooo has been divided into four completely corrupted sections.

255
3
"Elements Part 2: Bespoken For"
Elizabeth Ito
Seo Kim & Somvilay Xayaphone
April 24, 2017 (2017-04-24)
1042-261
0.83[59]

Ice King explains what happened to Ooo while Finn and Jake were away. After the group left on their adventure, Ice King was visited by Betty (voiced by Felicia Day) who, frustrated over Ice King not remembering her, asks him out on a date. Betty recreates a restaurant from Ice King's previous life as Simon. When Ice King still can't remember his old life Betty drops him off back home and leaves him. Tiny Manticore gives Betty some advice; rather than trying to adhere to Simon, she should just reach out to him as Ice King due to her having changed as well. Betty returns to Ice King and they start playing together. Suddenly, Patience St. Pim (voiced by Lauren Lapkus) kidnaps Betty and begins using her magic to empower mind controlled Princess Bubblegum, Flame Princess and Slime Princess while Ice King flees with Gunter.

256
4
"Elements Part 3: Winter Light"
Cole Sanchez
Laura Knetzger & Steve Wolfhard
April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)
1042-262
0.98[60]

Finn, Jake and Ice King travel to the Ice World and break through the large ice dome covering the center of the land. They encounter Carroll (voiced by Cameron Esposito), from "The Tower", who was converted to Ice and is genuinely pleased with her new appearance. The gang eventually encounter a powered up, and rather withheld, Patience who seems disappointed with the outcome of the new Ooo. While she succeeded in empowering the other elementals they have relegated themseleves to their sections of Ooo as Patience had forced them to power up rather than allow them to do so themseleves. The gang rescue Betty and leave while Patience bemoans the new world to an iced Choose Goose. Betty reveals that she can help them with the power of the Enchiridion which Finn has, causing Betty to ominously laugh.

257
5
"Elements Part 4: Cloudy"
Elizabeth Ito
Graham Falk & Kent Osborne
April 25, 2017 (2017-04-25)
1042-263
0.98[60]

In order to calm Finn down, Jake tucks him and himself into a cloud, but it floats away from Ice King and Betty. The two find themselves floating in the middle of endless sky while another cloud with a door flies past them. The two play pretend barber to pass the time and end up getting to the roots of their worries. The cloud flies past again and discover that it is actually a lard. They use the lard to fly back to Betty and Ice King where the former has discovered a way to return the land of Ooo to normal.

258
6
"Elements Part 5: Slime Central"
Elizabeth Ito
Hanna K. Nyström & Aleks Sennwald
April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)
1042-264
0.92[61]

Finn and Jake arrive in the transformed Slime Kingdom to retrieve Slime Princess' crown for her jewel. They run into Lumpy Space Princess who is attending Slime Princess's roller skating party. The winners of the skating competition get absorbed into Slime Princess's whole being while the losers are caged up. Finn, Jake and Lumpy Space Princess enter, but lose, only to learn that by losing they still get absorbed. While Finn manages to grab the crown, Jake gets fully absorbed into Slime Princess forcing Lumpy Space Princess to save Finn, revealing in the process that 'her lumps' protect her from corruption. They are ejected from Slime Princess and forced to leave. Finn is saddened at the loss of Jake, but Lumpy Space Princess explains that Finn and Jake always win which inspires Finn to continue his mission.

259
7
"Elements Part 6: Happy Warrior"
Cole Sanchez
Sam Alden & Polly Guo
April 26, 2017 (2017-04-26)
1042-265
0.92[61]

Finn, Lumpy Space Princess, and Gunter arrive in a radically altered Fire Kingdom. The inhabitants, which include Wyatt (voiced by Andrew Daly) and Lady Rainicorn, attack the heroes. Finn and Gunter try desperately to restrain their violent tendencies as it would allow the kingdom to corrupt them. Eventually the group find Flame Princess who has transformed into a dragon. When she swallows the jewel necessary to save Ooo, Finn gives into his violence and begins attacking Flame Princess, thus transforming into a fire person. Lumpy Space Princess, angered by the violence, yells at everyone to stop their fighting. The kingdom misinterprets her anger and decide to start a war with the Candy Kingdom. Cinnamon Bun, who was unaffected by the corruption, frets that this is the end of Ooo.

260
8
"Elements Part 7: Hero Heart"
Elizabeth Ito
Seo Kim & Somvilay Xayaphone
April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27)
1042-266
0.90[62]

Lumpy Space Princess chases Finn and attempts to turn him back to normal, but to no avail. Ice King and Betty try to intervene, but are swatted away by Flame Princess. The Fire Kingdom inhabitants 'fight' the Candy Kingdom inhabitants making Lumpy Space Princess upset. After eating some of Marceline, who is made of marshmallows, Lumpy Space Princess reaches out to Finn's hero heart by placing some of Princess Bubblegum onto him. Recalling happier times with Bubblegum, Finn returns to normal. Bubblegum then fires her candy powers into the air and converts everyone into obedient candy people, except for Finn who was protected by Lumpy Space Princess. Finn nabs the three jewels and gives them to Betty, but she betrays him and leaves him behind. Finn finds himself surrounded by the citizens of the Candy Kingdom.

261
9
"Elements Part 8: Skyhooks II"
Cole Sanchez
Steve Wolfhard
April 27, 2017 (2017-04-27)
1042-267
0.90[62]

Betty knocks out Ice King and reveals that she wants to use the jewels to go back in time and stop Simon from transforming into Ice King. Ice King, still oblivious to her plans accidentally ruins her spell causing her to get transported to Mars where she meets Normal Man. Lumpy Space Princess rescues Finn from the candy inhabitants as Princess Bubblegum enacts her plan to convert the rest of Ooo into candy while Patience freezes herself again. Finn realizes that LSP's immunity means that she is the anti-elemental. Ice King arrives with the gems and Lumpy Space Princess is able to transform all of Ooo back to normal. However, Jake comes back resembling his shapeshifter parent. Despite this, Finn is glad that he is reunited with his brother.

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10
"Abstract"
Adam Muto
Graham Falk & Laura Knetzger
July 17, 2017 (2017-07-17)
1042-268
0.77[69]

Finn, BMO and Lady Rainicorn are slightly disturbed by Jake's new alien appearance while Jake himself seems oblivious, or rather in denial about it. After having a bizarre dream about Jermaine (voiced by Tom Scharpling) painting abstract art, which according to Jake he hates, he decides to go look for him. Jake traverses the wasteland until he comes across Jermaine's studio. He tries to "rescue" Jermaine from changing, but Jermaine convinces Jake that change is a good thing as long as you remain the same on the inside. After examining and taking home one of Jermaine's paintings, Jake discovers that he has returned to normal and is greeted by a very pleased Finn.

263
11
"Ketchup"
Elizabeth Ito[nb 4]
Seo Kim & Somvilay Xayaphone
July 18, 2017 (2017-07-18)
TBA
0.67[70]

Marceline is unexpectedly visited by BMO causing the former to ask BMO to download a USB drive. While they wait, BMO tells the story of when it, Finn and Jake traveled the seas. However, the story is mostly inaccurate and involves a cat named Ted and a blue jay that says "OOOOOOHH!" (voiced by J. G. Quintel). Marcy then tells the story of "Lollipop Girl" and "Rock Star Girl" and their encounter with a "Blue Tranch" that resulted in "Weekend Island" getting taken over by potatoes. When the USB drive finally downloads, it reveals pictures of young Marcy with her mother. She feigns knowing them and asks BMO to tell their story resulting in a tale about "the Child and the Moon Girl" which Marcy thanks BMO for.

264
12
"Fionna and Cake and Fionna"
Elizabeth Ito
Hanna K. Nyström & Aleks Sennwald
July 19, 2017 (2017-07-19)
TBA
0.69[71]

At a Fionna and Cake book reading by Ice King, an old woman claiming to be Fionna (voiced by Charlotte Newhouse) arrives with a tape of an early Fionna and Cake adventure. Ice King is enamored by "Fionna" and invites her to stay with him. At night Ice King watches the remainder of the tape where Fionna and Cake find a mummy (voiced by Chelsea Peretti) only to learn that the mummy is really the Queen of Ooo. Ice King misinterprets the video and thinks that "Fionna" is a mummy. He confronts her and discovers that she was looking for more Fionna and Cake tapes only to find that Ice King doesn't have any. "Fionna" is really a bunny who picked up signals that played Fionna and Cake and wanted more. When she realizes what she has done she flees. Later that night, a mysterious beam containing clips of Fionna and Cake adventures are sent into Ice King's head.

265
13
"Whispers"
Cole Sanchez
Sam Alden & Polly Guo
July 20, 2017 (2017-07-20)
TBA
0.76[72]

While fishing, Finn and Fern encounter Sweet P who was running away from home after having a nightmare. Sweet P reveals that he has been having visions of a "whisper monster" trying to tell him he is evil. Finn and Fern decide to camp with Sweet P when they encounter the hand of the Lich that was cut off in "Crossover". Finn and Fern fight the Lich's hand, but it escapes. Finn gives chase and follows it into an underground tunnel where he ends up getting rescued by Sweet P (he had knocked out Fern so he could escape) who slays the hand. Fern feeling useless for not being able to help, plots to become the true Finn.

266
14
"Three Buckets"
Cole Sanchez
Tom Herpich & Steve Wolfhard
July 21, 2017 (2017-07-21)
TBA
0.85[73]

Fern reveals his ability to change his appearance to look just like Finn. Impressed, Finn joins Fern to a dungeon hidden away in a mountain. While there, Fern traps Finn in one of the rooms and reveals his plan to replace him. Finn finds out that his robotic arm can do a variety of things and drills his way out of the dungeon. Finn and Fern fight out in the field where Finn attempts to reason with Fern, however his robot arm misinterprets the word "finality" with "fatality" and he ends up destroying Fern. Finn returns home traumatized with Jake and BMO comforting him. Meanwhile, a mysterious man (voiced by Fred Melamed) scoops up Fern's still living remains in a bucket.

267
15
"The Wild Hunt"
Cole Sanchez
Sam Alden, Erik Fountain & Polly Guo
September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)
TBA
TBD

Still feeling guilty over Fern's death, Princess Bubblegum tasks Finn to protect the banana guard from a monster later dubbed the Grumbo. Finn can't bring himself to slay the monster as he keeps seeing Fern's face materialize when he's close to defeating it. Later, Finn meets up with Huntress Wizard who is also trying to slay the Grumbo and she tries to give encouraging words to Finn. They find the Grumbo's cave and Finn once again stalls. Huntress Wizard puts herself in harm's way and Finn imagines Fern in her place and finally slays the Grumbo. They realize that the Grumbo was artificially created and the mysterious man, revealed to be Uncle Gumbald, plots to create another monster.

268
16
"Always BMO Closing"
Diana Lafyatis
Graham Falk & Kent Osborne
September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)
TBA
TBD

BMO and Ice King become door-to-door salesmen by posing as one body (Ice King as the body and BMO as the head). After selling a stick to Tree Trunks, the two get lost and end up at the dungeon where Gumbald is staying. They sell him Finn's baby teeth which he happily pays for with a silver cup. Finn is outraged that his baby teeth were sold and is further mortified when Baby Finns made of teeth begin attacking the tree house. Through Ice King's encouragement, BMO "sells" two mallets to Finn and Jake and they successfully defeat the teeth babies. Afterwards, Gumbald admits that his current plan was a bad idea.

269
17
"Son of Rap Bear"
Diana Lafyatis
Seo Kim & Somvilay Xayaphone
September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)
TBA
TBD

While at a party, Flame Princess accidentally signs a contract from Toronto stating that if she loses in a rap battle against Son of Rap Bear (voiced by Dumbfoundead) her kingdom will be forfeited to Toronto. She and Finn go meet Rap Bear who explains that his son literally blew his legs off, frightening them. Despite training, Phoebe feels ill prepared so she visits her father to amend things. However, Flame King is shown to be completely passive with things upsetting Phoebe. At the rap off Phoebe chokes, but sees her father, only to be upset that he is still passive. She angrily puts out a rap that defeats Son of Rap Bear and Flame King acknowledges that Phoebe is "pretty good".

270
18
"Bonnibel Bubblegum"
Diana Lafyatis
Hanna K. Nyström & Aleks Sennwald
September 17, 2017 (2017-09-17)
TBA
TBD

When Finn presents the silver cup from "Always BMO Closing", Princess Bubblegum decides to tell him, Marceline and Jake some more of her history. 800 years ago, a child version of Bonnibel discovers a family photo and decides to create a gum family. She creates Uncle Gumbald, Aunt Molly and Cousin Chicle to help farm the area. However, her family quickly turn on her with the prospect of "branding" their family. Gumbald creates a juice that transforms those into low minded candy people. Bonnibel fights back, transforming them into her eventual candy civilians and deciding on the title of princess. In the present, BMO reveals where it got the cup.

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"Marcy & Hunson"[49][50]
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1054-278
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text: Notes

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Jump up ^ Information regarding story development and storyboard artists is taken from the opening credits of the season's episodes.
Jump up ^ Information regarding background art is taken from the end credits of the episodes "Abstract", "Whispers", "Fionna and Cake and Fionna", and "Whispers".
Jump up ^ "Orb" was released via Cartoon Network phone App on April 14,[66] the Elements miniseries was released for download via iTunes on April 18,[67] and "Abstract" through "Three Buckets" were released via Cartoon Network phone app on July 14.[14] However, because this field specifically refers to episode airdates, the information here will denote when these fourteen episodes first aired on Cartoon Network.
Jump up ^ Three sequences in this episode were animated and directed by Alex & Lindsay Small-Butera.[14]