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Wednesday, January 9, 2008 Review: Sweeney Todd I just saw Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton's movie musical based on Stephen Sondheim's 1979 musical of the same name. Like all Tim Burton movies, Sweeney Todd is, despite its nearly monochromatic color palette, bursting with vibrant visuals, especially when the monochrome is broken by blood. Like most Tim Burton movies, Sweeney Todd stars Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. Like relatively few Tim Burton movies, Sweeney Todd is as affecting and passionate as it is visually striking. Front and center in the film's emotional success is Sondheim's music. Sweeney Todd is a true musical, with characters breaking into song, accompanied by a full but non-diagetic orchestra, to limn their inner feelings. Sondheim's songs are touching and hilarious by turns, and sometimes simultaneously, and although neither Depp nor Carter have been hiding powerful vocals, they both sing effectively and comfortably. The cast is a mixture of veterans and mostly nondescript newcomers clearly chosen for their singing abilities. Depp plays the eponymous Sweeney Todd, a barber wrongly convicted and imprisoned by malevolent Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who covets Todd's wife. Todd has escaped and returned to London, to find his wife dead, his daughter Joanna Judge Turpin's ward, and his skills as a barber still unmatched, even as compared to the city's current finest - the Italian charlatan Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen in an all-too brief but viciously comic role). In London, Todd immediately starts scheming for a way to get Judge Turpin into his deadly barber's chair, and begins by impressing the judge's evil sidekick Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall) with his tonsorial ability. He's joined in his quest by Mrs. Lovett (Carter), the meat pie baker who recognizes the barber and whose pies are the worst in London. The barber finda another ally, in a slightly underdeveloped side plot which never strays too far from the main action, in the sailor who rescued him who has since caught a glimpse of Joanna in Judge Turpin's window and wants to rescue her from his clutches. Joanna, the sailor, and Pirelli's young assistant are all played by actors unknown to me, although they can all sing. Sweeney Todd is not perfect. Mrs. Lovett urges Todd to be patient in taking his revenge, and at times the film's pace was too measured for my taste - some of that early time could have been reserved for its slightly rushed climax. But, in addition to its well-blended visuals, music, and acting, the movie provides a dark combination of comedy and tragedy. The central tale is pure tragedy, and eventually unwinds several plot twists that heighten the pathos of the barber's plight. But, although always dark, it is often funny, particularly in two scenes. In the first, Todd and Mrs. Lovett sing a witty back and forth about the relative flaws and virtues of meat drawn from priests, vicars, poets, fops, and other 19th century London types. In the second, Mrs. Lovett fantasizes about a financially secure future in which she and Todd can live blissfully at the beach. The barber and the baker, whose dark-lidded pallor is perfect for Burton's murky London, look comically out of place at various beach locales, and Depp maintains his vengeful glower even as his character is put into a variety of beach appropriate outfits. Underlying all of this is the certain sense that, whatever the future holds, it is not a life of bliss for these two. Sweeney Todd is not, like most of the musicals (Moulin Rouge, Dreamgirls, Once, etc) periodically hyped to save the film version of that genre, a post-musical, a post-modern musical, or a real-life musical. What it is is a standard, although dark and darkly comic, Broadway musical lovingly translated into a film, with the perfect director and cast to capture its somber, manic, and comic moods. In other words, it's a Tim Burton film, propelled by Sondheim's music into emotional realms that the intellectual Burton sometimes cannot reach. 1 comment: - Robot said... You limner, you. - January 10, 2008 at 6:13 PM
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Gösterim Tarihi : 15 Şubat 2008 Yönetmen : Tim Burton Yapım : 2007, ABD Süre : 111 dk. Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd) , Alan Rickman (Yargıç Turpin) Helena Bonham Carter (Mrs. Lovett) , Timothy Spall (Beadle) Sacha Baron Cohen (Adolfo Pirelli) , Jayne Wisener (Johanna) Jamie Campbell Bower (Anthony Hope) Filmde Johnny Depp, haksız yere hapse gönderilen, ve sadece bu acımasız ceza için değil, karısı ile kızına olanların üzücü sonuçları için de intikam yemini eden Benjamin Barker’ı, Helena Bonham Carter ise onun saplantılı ölçüde kararlı suç ortağı Bayan Nellie Lovett’ı canlandırıyor. Barker, Sweeney Todd kimliğine bürünerek Bayan Lovett’ın pastanesinin üzerindeki, eskiden kendine ait olan berber dükkanına geri döner. Amacı, karısı Lucy’yi ve küçük kızını ondan çalmak için alçak yardımcısı Beadle Bamford’la (Timothy Spall) birlikte kendisini uydurma bir suçla uzaklara gönderen Yargıç Turpin’i (Alan Rickman) gözlemektir. Bayan Lovett, Barker’a, Yargıç Turpin tarafından iğfal edilen karısının kendisini zehirlediğini söyler. Bu arada, rakibi olan gösterişli İtalyan berber Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), Barker’ı kimliğini ifşa etmekle tehdit edince, Barker onu boğazını keserek öldürür. Cesetle ne yapacağını bilemezken, Bayan Lovett bu krizi, sallantıda olan işini kurtarmak için çözüm olarak görür ve turtalarını insan etiyle doldurmayı önerir. Sweeney, yargıcın gözlerini Johanna’ya (Jayne Wisener), yani Sweeney’nin ergenlik çağına gelmiş kızına diktiğini fark eder. Yargıç, Johanna’nın vesayetini elinde tutmaktadır. Evde hapis hayatı yaşayan Johanna bir gün Sweeney’yi denizden kurtarmış olan genç denizci Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower) tarafından fark edilir. Genç kıza delice aşık olan Anthony onu kurtarıp evlenmeye yemin eder. Bu arada, Bayan Lovett’ın turtaları çok geçmeden Londra’da dillere destan olur ve satış patlaması yapar. Bayan Lovett saygınlık kazanmayı ve Sweeney’yle evlenip deniz kenarında yaşamayı düşlemektedir. Yanlarında, evlatlık olarak alacağı, Pirelli’nin eski asistanı Toby de (Edward Sanders) olacaktır. Fakat Sweeney’nin aklında intikamdan başka bir şey yoktur; başka herkes ya da her şeye zarar verecek olsa da.