Chatty Hollywood

If you ask the audience who watched the premiere of "Sleepy Hollow" whether the scene where the headless horseman attaches his head and flesh and blood gradually grows on the skull is scary or not, most viewers will probably say it is scary.

But Alexis knew that if that picture did not appear in the movie, but was actually shown in front of people, it would be far from being as simple as horror.

——She just witnessed such a scene with her own eyes.

First, the white bones were covered with blood threads like worms;

Then the blood threads gradually condensed and turned into ferocious muscles;

The muscles gradually become denser, and finally they are covered with skin and hair...

Alexis had a hard time describing what it looked like, but she was sure that she didn't want to see it a second time.

——Of course, what finally appeared in front of her was not the face of Christopher Walken, who played the headless horseman in "Sleepy Hollow".

——Not even River Phoenix.

It was a gentle man's face, coupled with his full head of brown hair, which reminded Alexis of her literature teacher in elementary school.

"It won't be allowed, come back from the dead!"

There was something strange about the way the man broke up his sentences. Although he also spoke English, Alexis always felt that something was wrong.

"He spoke Old English!"

Charlotte looked at each other,

"Hey, am I right? When you talk like this, you must have been born a long time ago, right? You can't be a contemporary of Shakespeare, right?"

"Earlier, Shakespeare!"

The man shook his head. This makes Charlotte feel a little sorry,

"I also hope to meet a ghost who met Shakespeare!"

"No chance, you!"

The man still uses the old English way of speaking,

"You're going to die if you don't stop."

"Yeah?"

Faced with the opponent's threat, Charlotte didn't take it seriously.

"Unfortunately, it's past 12 o'clock at night, and it's no longer Halloween - your strongest days, both as a ghost and as the Headless Horseman, are over!"

"so what?"

Men were equally unimpressed. It seems that in his opinion, there is no need to use all his strength to deal with Charlotte.

Charlotte also saw this,

"You seem very confident! But don't forget, after Halloween, today is Wednesday!"

As she spoke, Charlotte hooked her toes on the tree branch and suddenly hung upside down on the tree of death.

"Woden`s day!"

Looking at Charlotte's hanging figure, the face of the brown-haired man transformed into the Headless Horseman suddenly became serious.

On the other side, Alexis also understood——

Wednesday (Wednesday) actually means Woden`s day. Woden is the Germanic name of the Nordic god Odin.

——Charlotte had explained this knowledge to Alexis and Charlize before when filming "Sleepy Hollow".

According to Charlotte's theory that magic originates from the human heart, Odin's power is at its strongest on Wednesdays of every week. And Charlotte's current posture of hanging upside down is obviously intended to borrow Odin's power.

——After all, Odin is also known as the Hanged Man.

——As the main god of the Nordic system, Odin once hung himself upside down on a tree for nine days and nine nights, thus creating the ancient Runes.

Looking at Charlotte's figure hanging upside down on the tree of death, Alexis realized that this guy must have made a plan a long time ago.

"Actually, when it was confirmed that "Sleepy Hollow" would be released on Halloween in the UK, which is Tuesday, October 31st, I had already made up my mind——"

Charlotte still maintained her hanging posture. He waved his hand, and suddenly a large number of shining ancient words appeared on the trunk of the Tree of Death.

"I delayed the premiere;

Not only to avoid the local Halloween in the UK, but also to wait for Wednesday! "

"Borrow Odin's power, you want!?"

The man in the form of the Headless Horseman looked remorseful, obviously not expecting Charlotte to be able to pull off such a trick.

"When in trouble, pull out your biggest gun first!"

Charlotte smiled evilly,

"After all, the system of local British myths and legends is essentially a variation of Nordic or Germanic mythology. So, no matter what kind of local ghosts in Britain, when faced with Odin's power-"

——will be suppressed by instinct!

Alexis suddenly understood.

This is similar to how a British person, no matter how powerful he is, will always be a head shorter when meeting the Queen of England.

What's more, Odin's power, unlike the Queen of England, has only symbolic meaning.

and--

"In order to cope with the Twilight of the Gods, Odin would have collected the souls of the dead in battle, so he also has the title of King of the Undead."

Charlotte pointed at the Headless Horseman,

"A war dead like you cannot resist Odin's power."

"Dead in battle, I am not!"

The Headless Horseman's answer was somewhat beyond Charlotte's expectations.

After all, in his opinion, except for the case of River Phoenix who was artificially induced to become the Headless Horseman, most ghosts who can become the Headless Horseman are very powerful.

When they were alive, these ghosts could be said to be mighty warriors or invincible commanders.

Only those who kill countless enemies and are beheaded in the end are qualified to become the truly powerful Headless Horseman.

The headless horseman in front of him clearly had boundless murderous intent and destructive aura, but he was not killed in battle.

——If you don’t die in battle, how can your head be cut off?

Charlotte doesn’t think that people whose heads are chopped off by the guillotine or executioner can become the Headless Horseman, unless their heads are completely lost later...

etc--

Charlotte suddenly thought of a possibility,

"Knight, after your head was cut off, it was hung on the spire of Westminster Abbey, right?"

The Headless Horseman's face suddenly turned ugly.

"Oh, it seems I guessed it right!"

Charlotte bowed while hanging upside down;

"How disrespectful, Lord Protector!"

Oliver Cromwell was the leader of the independent faction during the British bourgeois revolution in the 17th century.

In the two civil wars from 1642 to 1648, he successively led the "Cavalry Army" and the New Model Army, defeating the royal army.

In June 1645, he won a decisive victory over the royal party in the Battle of Nasibi.

In 1649, under pressure from urban civilians and yeoman farmers, King Charles I was executed and a republic was proclaimed.

In 1653, he established a military dictatorship and appointed himself "Lord Protector".

——Cromwell can be said to be a figure who had a profound influence on the course of British history.

The reason why Charlotte guessed that the Headless Horseman was him was, of course, a combination of his habit of using Old English and the clue that he lived in a time later than Shakespeare, but more importantly because Cromwell's head was indeed Cut off.

-- after death.

After Cromwell's death, Charles II was restored. He exhumed Cromwell's body from Westminster Abbey, London, where it was buried, and symbolically hanged him.

Cromwell's head hung on the spire of Westminster Abbey for a long time.

——So, Cromwell was indeed not killed in battle.

But he was a powerful commander, but in the end he lost his head.

——In Charlotte's view, this kind of experience, if transformed into the Headless Horseman, would be absolutely suitable and extremely powerful.

In fact, Charlotte felt that he might be the most powerful headless horseman in Britain.

——This is the reason why Charlotte made the guess.

For a movie about the Headless Horseman like "Sleepy Hollow" to be screened in the UK, it makes sense to recruit the strongest Headless Horseman!

Of course, even if the guess is wrong, it will actually have no impact on Charlotte.

——This is the reason why he really dares to make random guesses.

However, now that she had guessed correctly, Charlotte felt that the situation was suddenly favorable to her——

After all, knowing the ghost's true name still has a great impact on it.

Charlotte felt it was time to share her solution——

PS1: "Ash Wednesday" is an American film released in 1973, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Henry Fonda. PS2: For the Old English spoken by the Headless Horseman, I directly used the method of speaking Master Yoda in the Star Wars series and expressed it in inverted sentences. But the actual Old English is not like that, don’t get me wrong. PS3: always use the big gun. This is an American slang. To understand it simply, don’t hide it all the time. Use your special skills when you get up. It’s best to solve the problem quickly. PS4: The stories about Cromwell are basically true. . Regarding his head, I specifically mentioned it before, which can be considered a foreshadowing! PS5: In the same way, Odin’s story, as mentioned before, is also foreshadowing. PS6: Finally, my Wednesday settings are pretty good, right? It just so happens that today is also Wednesday.