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Summary: It's a book! Remember what book is?
Review: Yes, it's not The Making Of... publication in the strict sense. Yes, the Paramount's movie site is awesome.So what? In the Web age when you can consume just anything electronically holding that book is such a joy! To leaf through these beautiful pages nicely bound in a hardcover instead of staring in a blinking computer screen! The book represents the strongest points of Tim Burton's latest movie - the words and the design. He always excelled in these. It's evident Mr.Burton gone a bit mainstream with all these foolish action sequences (see my review of the film). But you will not notice it in the book. That stupid galloping translates in just a few words! Looking at the film frame by frame you have an impression that the book came alive! Not in a sense that Tim Burton recreated Washington Irving's classic precisely as it was written- he certainly did not - but the process of watching is very tactile, like turning the pages of the best picture book ever. So it is just perfect that The Art Of Sleepy Hollow contains only the slight traces of Tim Burton's big production\common taste compromise and is just a story of Sleepy Hollow seen by the Burton's crew with a very beautiful pictures on a very good paper. Do you really need all these behind-the-scenes technicalities, to know exactly where the rabbit was before it was pulled out of a hat? Buy the book and enjoy the magic!
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