A long waiting movie…
when I know this…
Johnny Depp…Tim Burton..
alright, I want to..I have to..I must watch this…
Sweeney Todd…
I don’t care about the awards or how many awards that got by this…
frankly..Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are the drivers for me to watch this..
Before watching: I rated it as ‘U’.. everybody should watch it…
After watching: This is only suitable for those who like horror film…hehehe…
Base on my knowledge (common sense)
Tim Burton,
An auteur director.
Gothic style is the main focus of almost of his films that he had produced.
(Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride…)
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter are his favourite actor and actress.
(Charlie Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride)
Actually I know Tim Burton when he was releasing one of his movie <Big Fish>
That was introduced by my bro.
At that time, I was not really watch movie that often and I not even able to recognise the film director.
<Big Fish> is describing the relationship between father and son.
Tim used a lot of cartoon-ish elements..like funfair, colorful scenes, static but artistic that seems like for children.
I like <Big Fish> as well.
After <Big Fish>,I had watch <Charlie and the Chocolate Factory> and <Corpse Bride>
those I watched from DVD and not cinema..hehe…
The style always seems like is make for kids, but it included the hidden meaning that we do not know if we did not explore it.
like <Charlie..>, it was meant to be critic those kids are become realistic in the current society.
It was well packaged that even we did not know Tim is bringing out this message.
Sweeney Todd,
before watching i just read the basic storyline like
he is looking for his wife
the pie shop owner had lied to him actually his wife is still alive
thats it..
add one more from my friend before entering into cinema
it is a musical movie.
As not surprising…
it was start as what I thought..
Gothic..her wife lost and etc…
everything was arranged nicely…
I was thinking that lack of lighting is still able to produce a good film..
hahaha..what a innocent me…
it has the meaning of dark in this film…
i have to reveal this…
every single frame is just nice to be a wallpaper…
in short, u can pause in any second and save it as a picture…
all frames are just nice and artistic enough…
please do not be misunderstanding…
this is not a romance movie…but…it is a horror artistic film that I ever watch
I do not even know this is a horror film until Sweeney Todd and Mrs.Lovette’s are making the pie from the human…its disguising!!
every razor is so damn cruel…
it showed like what the crime movie did…
and even showed the dropping the corpse from top to bottom…
the brain was spread widely…ish!!
I think there is a meaningful scene that tell us…
the characteristics of the society…
like priests’ meat are nice because they are kind…
lawyer’s meat not really nice because their thinking not that good and so on..
One of the colorful scene is when Mrs.Lovette imagine that she is going to live together with Sweeney and Toby…
only that part I can see the other colours…
the rest are…black..grey..blue…
I like the concept that he wants to open a barber shop that to kill the judge that had caught his daughter and wife couple of years before.
He was being famous after he had beaten a barber on the street.
(In this scene, the barber is keep singing and boosting that he is a best barber and so on…it was so irritating) and Sweeney Todd was sharpen his razor and use seconds to complete the shaving.
I notice this, a equipped people doesn’t need to boost…it needs to show it…
When Sweeney become famous, the judge visit to his shop…
this is a great chance to kill him…
but…
when Sweeney Todd ‘duet’ with him and placing the razor on the neck…
my godness! It was like watching an horror drama and even being anxious than it..
In this time he failed to kill him..
Before the arriving of Sweeney Todd, Mrs.Lovett’s meat shop’s meat is made by cat meat…it was the worst pie shop in London…
after the source is from human…their business is being well…
I still able to accept he had killed all of them..
although they are innocent (I don’t have criminal mind..hehe)
when he was killed his wife..oh gosh..I felt like…
he had killed his hope by his own…I really cant accept it!!
Its cruel…until this I only will consider him as seriously damn evil!! (although before that he already is)
In the ending,
when he knows that he was killing his wife accidentally…
when Toby know the pie is made by human…
Sweeney is trying to kill Toby…but he failed
but lastly Toby was killed him when he is hugging his wife’s corpse
when Sweeney Todd knows that Mrs.Lovett is lying to him…
he is killing him in surprising way…is kind of funny
he is dancing with him in peacefully but suddenly he was throwing her to the oven…
my godness!!
I suggest that Hollywood can produce
<Sweeney Todd:Toby’s meat shop> (or anyone can think a better name)
the reason is Toby killed Sweeney and he can be (potential to be)the next of Sweeney..hahaha…
the story of Johana(Sweeney Todd’s daughter) and Anthony are supposed to be revealed…
in facts, Johana knows Sweeney is his father but Sweeney is nearly kill her but luckily he did not (sweat~)…this is what I discover the kindness of him (only this).
As overall I like this film…
inspects of the artistic, the storytelling and the surprises…
and..
it makes me wana collect all of Tim Burton’s movie..(jz hv this kind of thinking)
Something I’m not going to say:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/synopsis
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/trivia
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0408236/goofs
watch at 17.1.2008
written at 30.1.2008
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