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Post by blu on Jun 30, 2008 22:50:45 GMT -5
Who has seen this movie?
I thought that it was great! The blood all looked really fake, but it was a great movie with a GREAT moral. The music is superb, too.
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Post by Anne [Kamiya] on Jun 30, 2008 23:14:41 GMT -5
Meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I am absolutely obsessed with this movie. I know all the songs and sing along. I've kinda killed it for my husband with how obsessed I am. xD
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Post by VanillaOrchids on Jul 1, 2008 19:12:52 GMT -5
I went to the movies to see it and I enjoyed it. I was impressed with Johnny Depp's singing. And I enjoyed Alan Rickman's performance as well.
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Post by blu on Jul 2, 2008 14:14:43 GMT -5
I liked the whole Johana song thing. Where that guy with the long brown hair kept singing Johana through the whole movie. I liked it. Also, I sang "Not while I'm around" before thinking it was a tenor song, but it turned out to be a soprano song.
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Post by .:SquEWHeeT:. on Jul 3, 2008 0:00:37 GMT -5
Well I downloaded it. But I thought it was going to be diff. And I really didn't enjoy it. But if I would of watched longer I might of thought diff.
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 3, 2008 1:32:18 GMT -5
For what's the sound of the world out there? Those crunching noises pervading the air! It's man devouring MAN my dear, and who are we to deny it in here?
In a word, I am obsessed. Me and a friend of mine are performing A Little Priest for the school talent show that should be taking place...October-ish I think. And he brings his DVD with him everywhere so he can lend it to people so we can further spread the Word of Todd. ^-^ And my name on Myspace is Demon Barber Fanatic with little hearts on either end. ((I hardly ever go on myspace, and if you try to add me and I don't know you personally, I'll reject you.)) I've lost count of how many times I've watched it. I flipped when I found out my grandpa had a straight razor. And he used to be a barber. I'm going to buy a replica on eBay sometime, I'm gonna be Sweeney for Halloween, I want a dress like Mrs. Lovett's, half cause I love her dresses and half because I need it for the talent show, and I went to go see the stage performance live. Me and a friend got up on our school's stage during an Orchestra event and sang The Ballad of Sweeney Todd: Epilogue. I swear, Tim Burton is a freaking GENIUS! *huge Burton-Film-Fan* Johnny Depp did a superb job for never singing before in his life. Not to mention he got the character down so solidly.
...You. Spelled. His. Name. Wrong. It's Sweeney Todd. Three E's.
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Post by blu on Jul 3, 2008 19:03:16 GMT -5
Oops. I can't wait until next summer when I'm in it. See, the only thing that irked me about the movie was that it was performed completely wrong. They took out the entire chorus, and every song is almost completely chorus.
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Post by VanillaOrchids on Jul 3, 2008 19:21:03 GMT -5
I'd never heard the songs from Sweeney Todd until I saw this movie. However, I'd really like to listen to the version that was on Broadway with Michael Cerveris and Patti Lupone.
And for some reason, things are always changed when taking something from the stage and making a movie out of it. Don't really know why though.
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 3, 2008 22:19:37 GMT -5
You have to think, though, Tim Burton wasn't looking to reproduce the stage performance. He was looking to put together a great movie. He took out things like the customers singing during God That's Good because it wouldn't fit in a movie. And as much as I hate that he took out the Ballad, but the Ballad uses characters that, chronologically speaking, we shouldn't know yet, and his take on it was 'Why tell people to attend the tale when they're already THERE?' He was going for a movie, not a reproduction of the Broadway show. ((MAJOR SPOILER ALERT FOR ANYONE THAT HASN'T SEEN IT!)) And I thought that ending with Sweeney's death was alot more powerful than having everyone come back from the dead for one more round of singing. It would have killed the movie, I believe. You have to think about these things. And think of all the retarded critics that still say there was too much singing when Burton took out half of almost every song. Sure, he took out most of the best gags in A Little Priest((by the way, in the talent show, I will be playing Lovett, thank you very much!)) but he was taking it on at a different angle than the Broadway production did. While the original musical was more of a comedy, in my eyes, the movie kept with the dark theme of the original legend and book. That's how I see it, a beautiful merging of the two mediums of musical and legend. And I do like the Broadway version, don't think I don't. I also know the legend by heart and have read the original A String of Pearls: A Domestic Romance. I like it all around. Although my favorite Sweeney is DEFINITELY Depp!Sweeney. I adore his hair! ^-^ Not to mention he's just...he works the part. *is a fangirl*
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Post by Anne [Kamiya] on Jul 3, 2008 22:39:29 GMT -5
It's my favorite musical. :3 And also my dream to sing a part in it.
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Post by blu on Jul 4, 2008 9:16:50 GMT -5
It's not my favorite musical, but it is a good one! You have to think, though, Tim Burton wasn't looking to reproduce the stage performance. He was looking to put together a great movie. I know, I know. I've heard it a million times, but I just wanted to hear the chorus sing for some reason.
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 5, 2008 7:07:38 GMT -5
He had a hard enough time finding actors that could sing to. Hell, no one even knew if their leading man could sing or not. ((They said on the DVD special features that Sondheim hadn't even heard him sing when they all agreed to give Johnny the part. On of the people said they wouldn't have done it if Johnny didn't lead. I think it was Tim.)) The only professional singer in that movie is the person who played Lucy. Trying to find enough people to sing a chorus in tune would have been a nightmare!
My absolute favorite musical. ...Okay, it's tied with Phantom of the Opera, but you get the idea.
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Post by blu on Jul 6, 2008 20:59:45 GMT -5
It's called auditions. There is an musical actors union that has got it made to where if you were to produce a musical you are to have open auditions for it, whether you already have people chosen for a part or not. I have seen plenty of movie musicals that have had tuned choruses, too. It's not my favorite musical. My favorite musicals are Ragtime, Pippin, Wicked, Legally Blonde, Avenue Q, Rent, and Children of Eden. I know it's a lot, but I love them lots!!!
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Post by ⌠Sweet Nightmare⌡ on Jul 6, 2008 21:19:39 GMT -5
They had auditions too. But he wasn't trying to make a stage performance. In fact, he was trying to tone down the singing so that it would seem more personal for each character. Let's take God That's Good for an example. If the customers had been singing, it would've definitely been overkill with Lovett and Toby singing. And the Ballad would have never fit into it, and random people singing just wouldn't have worked. Each song was supposed to be natural for the characters. Tons of random people singing along with songs would have been weird. Let's take My Friends. If, at the end, a bunch of people had jumped in for the little chorus part after, it would have taken the fact that that song was a personal song for Sweeney out of it. And did you notice how Critics were still saying there was too much singing when half of the score was cut. I never saw anyone complaining over things like High School Musical(hate) or other mainstream Disney musicals, but the minute an oddball musical like Sweeney Todd hits the big-screen, everyone thinks that there should be maybe two or three songs in the whole thing, and there being more ruins it.
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Post by blu on Jul 6, 2008 22:25:40 GMT -5
Why would you complain about there being too much singing in a musicals!!! That's just stupid to do in the first place. You're supposed to sing in musicals and operas.
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