Post subject: Film: Sweeney Todd (The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:38 am
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can't wait for this...
Sweeney Todd
Director: Tim Burton
Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Plot: Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells the infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Barker slices and dices, and Mrs. Lovett makes human meat pies.
Post subject: Re: Film: Sweeney Todd (The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:30 am
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This is a great musical. Probably the most socially important and groundbreaking musical of the 70's. I think Johnny Depp is perfect for teh part. I hope this is good.
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Post subject: Re: Film: Sweeney Todd (The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 2:44 pm
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bondcfh007 wrote:
me too... burton has been more miss than hit in the past few years though
Burton seems to get caught up in visuals and loses touch with the story. Of his last couple of films Big Fish was the exception.
It’s like there’s a throw away dinner scene but he thinks: we’ll make the table incredibly small for all these people and very slanted. Now, we have the basis for an extended scene because it’s crazy.
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Post subject: Re: Film: Sweeney Todd (The Demon Barber of Fleet Street)
Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:41 pm
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jwfocker wrote:
bondcfh007 wrote:
me too... burton has been more miss than hit in the past few years though
Burton seems to get caught up in visuals and loses touch with the story. Of his last couple of films Big Fish was the exception.
It’s like there’s a throw away dinner scene but he thinks: we’ll make the table incredibly small for all these people and very slanted. Now, we have the basis for an extended scene because it’s crazy.
yeah, he's definitely got a case of style over substance
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Sometimes I don't mind style over substance. I bought "sleepy hollow" just because of Depp and the atmosphere of the town
i bought that dvd too, i don't see what everyone's problem is with that movie.
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You kinda have to wonder what exactly Warner Bros. thought it was going to get in a film about a brutal serial killer helmed by goth-minded director Tim Burton. But the London Daily Mail is reporting that execs are so freaked about the superbloody content of Burton's Sweeney Todd that they've asked him to make cuts to his flick about slasher Todd (Johnny Depp), who slits the throats of his barber-shop clients, then drops them down a hole and into the pastry shop of Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), who grinds them up and uses them as filling for her mince pies. Piles and piles of prosthetic limbs were used during filming, while four crew members pumped fake blood as Todd hacked his way through his victims, singing along while he worked. The Daily Mail reports that some crew members had to take "fresh air" breaks during bloody filming, and Warner Bros. execs were reportedly particularly creeped out by a scene in which a 10-year-old boy does the grinding for Mrs. Lovett's pie filling. "Tim's not happy that the studio is asking for so many cuts to the cutting, as it were," a source says. "The thing is, the studio really likes the film, and they want to make it accessible to as big an audience as possible — which means stemming the blood flow." The movie hits theaters on Dec. 21.
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