Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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“Sweeney Todd is as much a horror film as a musical. It is also something close to a masterpiece.”—New York Times
Everything comes together in Tim Burton’s masterwork: a strong adaptation of the blood-drenched, Tony Award-winning musical; Oscar-winning art direction; and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter leading a talented cast. The famous story of the psychotic, vengeful barber (Depp) and his demented foil, the pie-maker Mrs. Lovett (Carter), is ideal material for Burton’s vividly Gothic imagination; he proves equally adept at realizing the intricate musicality of Sondheim and Wheeler’s original production.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 thriller/musical comedy horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical thriller. It re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it...
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Sam Mendes was originally attached to direct with Russell Crowe in the title role.
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