Yo, minna!
It's been a while, gomen! It's raining a lot here. Don't get me wrong, I like the rain, with the chilly air and shady atmosphere... And what goes well with the gloomy weather? A Tim Burton movie!!
So Sweeney Todd just aired at home and I took the time to watch it. And I absolutely love it! A friend of mine recommended it to me and both of us like the macabre and Tim Burton, so why not? Simple synopsis of this movie is that Benjamin Barker, a renowned barber returns to London from 15 years of imprisonment on false charges and wants to take revenge on his family and becomes a demon barber... Tadaa! Simple, isn't it? I wanna talk more about the story but you guys might not wanna hear it. You should go check it out someday!
I'm a huge fan of Tim Burton, so I expected a lot from this movie and of course, it didn't disappoint. I didn't think I was going to watch a musical though ¯\_〳 •̀ o •́ 〵_/¯. But I love musicals, win-win, hehe. The thing I love about Tim Burton is the whole style and atmosphere of it all... I mean, look at The Corpse Bride! It's all so gloomy and monochromatic colour palette, what every movie set in the 1800s should look, with the smog and all that. I've always had a thing for the dark and macabre, so it suits me very well if I do say so myself ₍₍ (ง ˙ω˙)ว ⁾⁾.
And what's an awesome movie without an awesome cast? There's Johnny Depp who plays Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber himself; there's Helena Bonham Carter portraying Mrs Lovett; Judge Turpin played by the awesome Alan Rickman, and there's Timothy Spall who plays Beadle Bamford. I squealed at the ensemble since there are so many familiar names, from of course, the Harry Potter saga!!! It's great to see Bellatrix Lestrange (Bonham Carter), Snape (Rickman) and Peter Pettigrew (Spall) all in the same movie outside of the Potterverse.
A movie of eccentricity should have the King and Queen of Disguise in it, eh eh? Well, either one should do the trick, as what Depp did with Edward Scissorhands, Alice in Wonderland, The Corpse Bride... If you don't notice him anywhere in either of those movies, that means he's doing a jolly good job of acting hehe. So anyway, Depp portrays the main role of Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber himself. Can he sing? Of course he can! And he does it well too! I'm no movie critic but whenever I hear him sing, there's a hint of sadness to it even though he's well lost his marbles. Why wouldn't it be sad? He's thrown into jail for years and comes back only to find out his wife 'dead' and daughter becoming the ward of the one who stole Lucy (his wife), Judge Turpin.
Oh, oh! There's Jamie Campbell Bower too, playing the sailor that helped Todd, Anthony Hope! If you don't know him there, then you might recognise him as Jace Wayland from the movie The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. And he could sing very well too (Johanna)!
The soundtracks? I particularly took fondness in those sung by Johnny Depp, like My Friends, Epiphany, Johanna (reprise).... Helena Bonham Carter also has a good singing voice too, with The Worst Pies in London, haha... Of course there's going to be gore and horror here and there, but oh come on... It's a nice musical! You should go watch it!
.:MIMI TACHIKAWA:.
