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molokov_au

Shave and a meat pie, with blood!

Feb 06, 2008 17:14

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

After a bit of a communication mixup last week, quuux and I managed to get down to Mitcham to see Sweeney Todd this week. (reverancepavane went last week). I had wanted to see this film, because - well, Tim Burton's films are generally pretty good, I like musicals (and Sondheim is good!), and I didn't really ( Read more... )

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idavid February 6 2008, 11:18:09 UTC

So is the actual opera / musical filmed ? I don't remeber that being that long (about 2 hours I seem to recall) Is the movie shorter ?

molokov_au February 6 2008, 22:44:20 UTC

Movie is about 2 hours as well.

As I said, I'm not that familiar with the musical, so I don't know how much was cut/never filmed - apart from the signature title theme song, which isn't in the film. To me, it *felt* like the Antony/Johanna part of the story was somewhat reduced, but without knowing the source material, I can't say I know what was cut.

Then again, Anthony Stewart Head was in it for a single line, and that was all. And he has such a nice singing voice.... (I had heard he had a little more than that, but it was trimmed during editing)

idavid February 7 2008, 13:53:08 UTC

That's a pity about the Theme song, it was one of my favourites form the musical. Mind you I counted and its 20 years since I've seen it, so maybe I should refresh my memory with this movie anyway.

My blog's broken, so I thought I'd opine on yours... h_u_m_p_y February 6 2008, 11:22:23 UTC

I went & saw Sweeney Todd last week at the Electric Cinema in Notting Hill (which is like the cinematic equivalent of First Class flight), and came out with the following to say ( ... )