Sweeney Todd

[thescarletwoman]

So, here comes the unpopular opinion time.

I'm DREADING the release of Sweeney Todd this christmas. Absolutely dreading it.

I don't know when The Trailer was released, but I just saw it today. And I've been weeping since I saw it.

There's dialog. What there hell is dialog doing in Sweeney Todd? The musical is basically an opera, even if Sondheim refuses to apply the name to said show. He looks like, IMO, Edward Scissorhands, only without the scissors. HBC, while I loved her in HP... is no Mrs Lovett. Hell, I don't even care for Patti LuPone as Mrs Lovett to be perfectly honest.

The only good thing about this movie, to be honest, is Alan Rickman.

I lived with this musical for... over a year when I wrote my thesis. It's near and dear to my heart, not only as a pit musician but as a Sondheim fanatic.

It doesn't mean I don't love Johnny Depp. But seriously... he's not Sweeney.

Give me Len Cariou or George Hern ANY day.

And there's no Mrs Lovett but Angela Lansbury.

Comments

[thescarletwoman.livejournal.com]

I know what he's said about said movie... and I will not wonder if he was out of his right mind.

I like the LOOK of it (well, save Johnny's white streak in his hair) and I love the dingy quality because that fits. It's just... I don't know. Hearing dialogue makes me wibble. :/

[niko-hime.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna get brained for saying this, but I've not ever really seen Sweeney Todd before. So I'm very unfamiliar with Sondheim's version, though I am fairly well versed in the general story of Ben Barker/Todd and all that oldness. I've got that unfortunate disease of anything Burton making me flail a little (save for Mars Attacks and Planet of the Apes, wtf) so... I suck, I know :P

When I first saw the behind the scenes pics of Depp's hair back... whenever that was, I know they'd just released the Order of the Phoenix trailer and in some shots it looked as though Helena's Bellatrix wig had a white streak in it. I remember showing my roomie at the time the two images side by side and saying something like "Look, they just re-styled her wig for Sweeney. Now Johnny and Helena are wig buddies!" So yeah, I do feel you on the hair. I know it is Burton, and Burton = strange hair, but the Ben Barker in my head was always... not frizzy.