But the vile Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) sentenced Barker on trumped-up charges and had him transported to Australia, meanwhile capturing his wife and child.
The story: In London years earlier lived a barber named Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) and his sweet young wife and child, and he loved them. well, I was going to say, even more satisfying than a hot meat pie made out of your dad. As a feast for the eyes and the imagination, "Sweeney Todd" is. The acting is so good that it enlists us in the sordid story, which even contains a great deal of humor - macabre, to be sure. Its heroes, or anti-heroes, have been wounded to the quick, its villains are vile and heartless, and they all play on a stage that rules out decency and mercy. The worst you've heard about Calcutta would have been an improvement on London poverty in those days.Īnd yet there is an exhilaration in the very fiber of the film, because its life force is so strong. Along the way, with merciless performances by Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman, with a brooding production design by Dante Ferretti, with the dark shadows of Dariusz Wolski's cinematography, it allows Burton to evoke the 19th century London of Henry Mayhew's Labour and the London Poor, which reported on the dregs of London and greatly influenced Charles Dickens. It has what is much better, a satisfactory mixed ending, in which what must happen, does.
Here is one scenario that is proof against a happy ending. But we know that going in and are relieved that Burton has played true to the material.
0 kommentar(er)
