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Director:
Tim Burton
Producers: Richard D
Zanuck, John Logan & Walter F Parkes
Writer:
John Logan (screenplay) & Stephen Sondheim
(musical)
Music:
Stephen Sondheim
Release Date:
Jan 31, 2008 (HK) Running Time:
116 min. Budget:
US$50 million |
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After 15 years in exile (in Australia) for a crime he didn't
commit, Benjamin Barker now Sweeney Todd,
returns to London to find his wife poisoned herself and his
daughter in the hands of the evil Judge Turpin. In his anger,
Sweeney goes on a murderous rampage on all London, with the help
of Mrs. Lovett, he opens a barber shop in
which he lures his victims in with a charming smile before
casually ending their life with a flick of his razor across their
neck. But not one man killed, nor ten thousands men can satisfy
Sweeney's lust for revenge on those who've caused his years of
pain. The one and only -
Johnny Depp... I like Johnny
Depp since Sleepy Hollow. And then I started watching his
movies, including those before Sleepy Hollow. He has got
this silence charm and one would simply fall for him. This
movie is an excellent movie. I read a lot of information and
details about the making of this film.
Johnny Depp first learned of Sweeney Todd
in 2000, when he was given an original cast recording of the
musical by Burton. Depp was not a fan of the musical genre, but
liked the musical. Depp asked rhetorically when he signed on, "How
many chances do you get at a musical about a serial killer?"
Depp recorded demo tapes of himself in West Hollywood, working
with an old friend and music producer Bruce Witkin to shape his
own vocals without a voice coach. Depp said, "We focused on
the dangerous and unsettling idea of stillness, that he doesn¡¦t
look many people in the eye, or say much", an idea Burton compared
to Boris Karloff and other actors in classic horror films, where
"his eyes and the music tell the story."
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