i saw the play first(yes, there is a play)and then saw this movie. It was disappointing because the play did things unfit for the film.
In this Movie-Musical, Benjamin Barker(Johnny Depp) returns to England after he was framed and sent off in order of the remarrying of his Wife. He gets a new identity and sets off for his new revenge involving A Pie shop Owner(Helena Bonham Carter), meat and a barbershop.
6 out of 10. The play was way better.
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I also give this a 6/10. It was gory and dark but I liked those parts. I liked the darkness of Helena Bonham Carter but I preferred the manic touches as done by Angela Lansbury (or Patti Lupone). I thought the daughter/love interest was more believable in the movie (how old was that actress in the play?).
ReplyDeleteI think what I didn't like about the movie was that under the theme of poor people rebelling about being held down and manipulated by the powerful and rich was a sense of "oh well, we'll just slaughter them because that's what poor rebellious people would do" where in the play I felt a real anger at the injustice and the overwheling frustration at how the structure of society not only allowed but supported thsese injustices. In the play I felt Sweeney Todd killed out of a fury that opverwhelmed while in the play he was a sick, sad, manipulated man.