But I want to know what happened to Johanna and Anthony. And Toby. It was kinda incomplete.
Antony and Johanna --Presumably live happily ever after. Tobi (Toby) --Goes mad, in the original Sondheim-play, his hair turns pure white.
In both cases, we're not meant to specifically know what happens to them, mostly because the story isn't *about* them. The story is about Todd primarily and Lovett secondarily.
For me, the movie was incomplete, but not because of the ending --it left out songs from the traditional stageplay, because it had to go from close to three hours to two hoursish.
Burton did a damn fine job with cutting it down, IMO. The story still makes perfect sense without "Kiss Me" or the Judge's "Johanna", and while I love both those songs, I'm fine with them not being in there. The ending was perfectly true to the musical.
Cause when you stop and think about it, the musical is really really really sick. On so many different levels.
....eh. *shrugs*
The blood was obviously very fake. It looked more like paint. And I'm no expert, but I have seen quite a few gory movies, and TV shows (ER. Hello) and our technology is sufficient enough to make fake blood look real.
I'll reccomend seeing it again, possibly at a different theatre. The blood colouration can vary greatly from place to place, when my clone saw it the first time, the blood was very nearly pink in colour.
In addition, the blood is meant to look slightly fake, because the musical was deemed too gory originally, and had to be gentrified somewhat.
Oh. And I found it quite amusing in the scene where Mrs. Lovett presents Todd with his razors and how he sings a very long song, crooning them and calling them his friends. Quite mad. But amusing (meaning ironic) because of Johnny's previous struggles with SI.
I mean. Just a thought... But I know several people who were in fact portrayed in that scene.
Ah, and see, that's a connection I never have and never would make. For me, the scene has nothing to do with SI and everything to do with the fact that the razors are one of the few things that will never leave Todd or try to hurt or betray him. They are something that can't be taken away, his friends.
In the musical, his chair is also a friend --again, because it won't leave him.
(After all, after fifteen years away from home, the razors are the only things he has left waiting for him, and they're the way he can make his livelihood --they take care of him. A barber without a razor blade is a pretty shit barber.)
Mmmmyep. Sorry, you just happened to be reviewing my favourite musical, ever. F'rserious, I've seen it three times onstage and twice as a movie sofar. And we're not going to go into how many times I've listened to the CD(s)
To quote the clone-person: "Shit man, we performed it in the theatre!" Which is true, and was awesome.
Don't be sorry. As I said I am completely ignorant when it comes to famous musicals. I might have heard the name Sondheim before, but the first place I can really say I recognized it was from "La Vie Boheme" in Rent.
Which I have only seen as a movie.
I hope you didn't get the wrong idea though. I loved ST. And I'm going to see it again on Tuesday.
I really do like this latest fad of turning musicals into movies.. it's alot cheaper to see if I like it or not. And I can also see it at my leisure.
It is on my to-do list to see them all how they are supposed to be performed though... but I lack money at the mo. I have an addiction to traveling. (as in I haven't even finished planning one long-term trip to a foreign country before starting on the next...) Which, in case you didn't know, costs money. Alot.
I wasn't so much referring to the color of the blood. It was it's texture and consistency. It just congealed too much to be real blood. Perhaps real blood with mismatched types... then there was the brightness.
Maybe I'm just sick, but I burst out laughing whenever the throat was slit and the artery would make it go *squirt* *squirt* *squirt* (I won't make a business of pointing out that Todd's throat didn't do the squirt squirt thing, but simply ran... I guess it was supposed to add to the effect..) And yes, I do agree that "dumbing it down" would probably make it easier for people to watch. I have an incredibly strong stomach, but I still couldn't help turning away really quickly the first time he slit a throat.
Of course, that is one of my greatest fears. I always get panicky when my head is hyper? extended and my neck is exposed. And if I was a guy I would never ever let anyone near my throat with a straight razor. Just seems like a death wish to me.
Oh yes, I did understand the true point of the song, and even understand Todd a bit. But I can't help thinking about the actor and what exactly he is singing. And I guess a bit of me is wondering/hoping how he managed emotionally. It's a bit like having an actor who is struggling to quit smoking have to smoke in a scene. Especially if there were many takes...
I still would never have expected any of them to sing. I can't get over that.
Johnny just gained a few more notches of hotness in my book.
Antony and Johanna --Presumably live happily ever after.
Tobi (Toby) --Goes mad, in the original Sondheim-play, his hair turns pure white.
In both cases, we're not meant to specifically know what happens to them, mostly because the story isn't *about* them. The story is about Todd primarily and Lovett secondarily.
For me, the movie was incomplete, but not because of the ending --it left out songs from the traditional stageplay, because it had to go from close to three hours to two hoursish.
Burton did a damn fine job with cutting it down, IMO. The story still makes perfect sense without "Kiss Me" or the Judge's "Johanna", and while I love both those songs, I'm fine with them not being in there. The ending was perfectly true to the musical.
Cause when you stop and think about it, the musical is really really really sick. On so many different levels.
....eh. *shrugs*
The blood was obviously very fake. It looked more like paint. And I'm no expert, but I have seen quite a few gory movies, and TV shows (ER. Hello) and our technology is sufficient enough to make fake blood look real.
I'll reccomend seeing it again, possibly at a different theatre. The blood colouration can vary greatly from place to place, when my clone saw it the first time, the blood was very nearly pink in colour.
In addition, the blood is meant to look slightly fake, because the musical was deemed too gory originally, and had to be gentrified somewhat.
Oh. And I found it quite amusing in the scene where Mrs. Lovett presents Todd with his razors and how he sings a very long song, crooning them and calling them his friends. Quite mad. But amusing (meaning ironic) because of Johnny's previous struggles with SI.
I mean. Just a thought... But I know several people who were in fact portrayed in that scene.
Ah, and see, that's a connection I never have and never would make. For me, the scene has nothing to do with SI and everything to do with the fact that the razors are one of the few things that will never leave Todd or try to hurt or betray him. They are something that can't be taken away, his friends.
In the musical, his chair is also a friend --again, because it won't leave him.
(After all, after fifteen years away from home, the razors are the only things he has left waiting for him, and they're the way he can make his livelihood --they take care of him. A barber without a razor blade is a pretty shit barber.)
Mmmmyep. Sorry, you just happened to be reviewing my favourite musical, ever. F'rserious, I've seen it three times onstage and twice as a movie sofar. And we're not going to go into how many times I've listened to the CD(s)
To quote the clone-person: "Shit man, we performed it in the theatre!" Which is true, and was awesome.
Ta!
~Sor
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Which I have only seen as a movie.
I hope you didn't get the wrong idea though. I loved ST. And I'm going to see it again on Tuesday.
I really do like this latest fad of turning musicals into movies.. it's alot cheaper to see if I like it or not. And I can also see it at my leisure.
It is on my to-do list to see them all how they are supposed to be performed though... but I lack money at the mo. I have an addiction to traveling. (as in I haven't even finished planning one long-term trip to a foreign country before starting on the next...) Which, in case you didn't know, costs money. Alot.
I wasn't so much referring to the color of the blood. It was it's texture and consistency. It just congealed too much to be real blood. Perhaps real blood with mismatched types... then there was the brightness.
Maybe I'm just sick, but I burst out laughing whenever the throat was slit and the artery would make it go *squirt* *squirt* *squirt* (I won't make a business of pointing out that Todd's throat didn't do the squirt squirt thing, but simply ran... I guess it was supposed to add to the effect..) And yes, I do agree that "dumbing it down" would probably make it easier for people to watch. I have an incredibly strong stomach, but I still couldn't help turning away really quickly the first time he slit a throat.
Of course, that is one of my greatest fears. I always get panicky when my head is hyper? extended and my neck is exposed. And if I was a guy I would never ever let anyone near my throat with a straight razor. Just seems like a death wish to me.
Oh yes, I did understand the true point of the song, and even understand Todd a bit. But I can't help thinking about the actor and what exactly he is singing. And I guess a bit of me is wondering/hoping how he managed emotionally. It's a bit like having an actor who is struggling to quit smoking have to smoke in a scene. Especially if there were many takes...
I still would never have expected any of them to sing. I can't get over that.
Johnny just gained a few more notches of hotness in my book.
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