Roses Red and White
An interesting exchange of roses takes place in the third draft of the Sleepy Hollow script.
INT. VAN TASSEL HOUSE, SECOND FLOOR -- MORNING
Ichabod exits his room, satchel in hand. He looks down the hall, then steps back in to take a white rose from a vase.
AROUND A CORNER, Ichabod comes to the last door. He bends, slipping the white rose under the crack of the door.
Later in the script, Katrina follows Ichabod and Young Masbath into the Western Woods - as she does in the film. However, in this version, aside from wishing to help Ichabod, she also wished to thank him for the gift of a white rose.
Afterwards, some distance into the script, Ichabod and Young Masbath visit the Notary Hardenbrook's office where they find documents which seem to indicate Baltus Van Tassel is responsible for the killings. Ichabod has yet to speak to Katrina when the following scene takes place.
INT. VAN TASSEL HOUSE, ICHABOD'S ROOM -- DAY
Young Masbath is seated, bored. Ichabod writes in his ledger. A KNOCK on the door. They both look up.
KATRINA (o.s.)
(from outside door)
Constable... Are you there?
(long pause)
Ichabod?
The knob is tried and found locked. Pause. At the bottom of the door, a red rose is passed under.
This saddens Ichabod.
Taking into account this abandoned idea, Katrina's apparent love of roses takes on a different meaning. Where her heart lies is made visible to those who care to look. The cape in particular, with its red roses, red cardinal roses, says without need of words that she did indeed love Ichabod that day when she followed him into the Western Woods. To have braved such peril.
In the language of flowers, red and white roses have the following meanings:
Red: Love, true love, respect.
White: Innocence, secrecy (sometimes new beginnings, a fresh start, heavenly, silence).
Red and white roses together stand for unity.
The gift of a single rose means: I love you; I still love you.
INT. VAN TASSEL HOUSE, SECOND FLOOR -- MORNING
Ichabod exits his room, satchel in hand. He looks down the hall, then steps back in to take a white rose from a vase.
AROUND A CORNER, Ichabod comes to the last door. He bends, slipping the white rose under the crack of the door.
Later in the script, Katrina follows Ichabod and Young Masbath into the Western Woods - as she does in the film. However, in this version, aside from wishing to help Ichabod, she also wished to thank him for the gift of a white rose.
Afterwards, some distance into the script, Ichabod and Young Masbath visit the Notary Hardenbrook's office where they find documents which seem to indicate Baltus Van Tassel is responsible for the killings. Ichabod has yet to speak to Katrina when the following scene takes place.
INT. VAN TASSEL HOUSE, ICHABOD'S ROOM -- DAY
Young Masbath is seated, bored. Ichabod writes in his ledger. A KNOCK on the door. They both look up.
KATRINA (o.s.)
(from outside door)
Constable... Are you there?
(long pause)
Ichabod?
The knob is tried and found locked. Pause. At the bottom of the door, a red rose is passed under.
This saddens Ichabod.
Taking into account this abandoned idea, Katrina's apparent love of roses takes on a different meaning. Where her heart lies is made visible to those who care to look. The cape in particular, with its red roses, red cardinal roses, says without need of words that she did indeed love Ichabod that day when she followed him into the Western Woods. To have braved such peril.
In the language of flowers, red and white roses have the following meanings:
Red: Love, true love, respect.
White: Innocence, secrecy (sometimes new beginnings, a fresh start, heavenly, silence).
Red and white roses together stand for unity.
The gift of a single rose means: I love you; I still love you.
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