God That’s Good!
- Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
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“There’s a whole in the world like a great black pit, and the vermin of the world inhabit it, and its morals aren’t worth what a pin can spit, and it goes by the name of London.”
When I heard Tim Burton was set to direct Sweeney Todd my initial response was to expect a great looking but overproduced and underwhelming film (like say Sleepy Hollow). I was dead wrong. In another director’s hands the bloody tale would have been cut, trimmed, and made to look nice enough to earn a PG-13 rating. Burton however embraced the story of vengeance and loss and gives us a Sweeney Todd worthy of the name. How good is Sweeney Todd? It’s arguably Tim Burton’s best film.
For those unfamiliar with the original story and the Broadway musical, the plot involves a young barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) whose wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) and infant daughter Johanna are taken from him by Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Turpin steals the women for himself and sentences Barker and banishes him from London forever. The film opens with the return of Barker years later under the new name of Sweeney Todd
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