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It's A Brooding-But-Groovy Poster For Tim Burton's SWEENEY TODD!!
Merrick here...
Thought you might wanna nice, sharp look at the SWEENEY TODD mini-poster that’s hitting Comic Con somewhere ‘round today. I love this image; love the style of the poster.
I’ve never been a huge fan of SWEENEY TODD, although I’m really excited to see how this particular project shakes out. It’s a musical. It’s Tim Burton who, although inconsistent, is invariably interesting. And, when you cram Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Anthony Head, and Sacha Baron Cohen into the same film…the coolness factor pretty much jumps way off the scale if you ask me.
Here’s the poster image. I strongly suggest clicking Johnny to embiggen the image; a lot of nuance is lost in the version below...which has been shrunken to fit this page.
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First?
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The blood smear is super sexy sweet
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must....get...one...
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I know nothing about Sweeney Todd, except that they spoofed it on The Simpsons once... but that poster made me smile big.
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Nothing like a good teaser poster to spark interest. And that cast...!
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Awesomest poster i have seen in ages.
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Nice
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banned! Oh, and: awesome poster!
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That's pretty awesome.
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Just noticed the blood between the floorboards. This poster keeps getting better...
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Jul 26, 2007 9:14:42 PM CDT
Reminds of those Art Asylum Silent Screamers
by the rondo hatton blues explosion
figures from a few years back, and that is a very good thing.
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Burton, get Affleck's stink off this, please. Hot Pockets should do a meat pie tie-in.
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Can't wait. Hopefully, Tim and Johhny knock this one outta of the park.
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Nice touch. The closest shave you'll ever get!
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LOVIN IT
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for that really shitty filter they put over the whole thing. Seriously, isn't that one of PS's stock filters?
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I want it.
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I thinks its a combination of blood and light from the oven below the floor boards. It looks like blood by one of the chair legs :D
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Let me make sure I understand this correctly. Tim Burton is going to make a movie out of Sweeney Todd AND he's going to put Johnny Depp in it?
I didn't see that coming. -
I know it's a long shot but if he could somehow manage to cast Helen Bonham-Carter and Christopher Lee in this as well I think it would be really cool.
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For some reason I can now hear Depp "talk-singing" the ST song "Pretty Women." Yeah, it's probably better when someone has a trained baritone (like recent Broadway Sweeney Michael Cerveris), but Depp is such a good actor I think he'll be able to wing it. Actually, come to think of it, all the cast are such great actors they'll probably be able to fake it as well (Spall already proved he can do it in "Topsy-Turvy"). I just don't want to hear all the tiresome Sondheim perfectionists whinging about this movie and its lack of viable singers. Suck it up - if Sondheim gave his blessing, who are you to complain?
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Please don't suck.
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I hope Burton does not screw it up/
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The Gentleman Ghost role was cut. He was quoted as saying at least it was better than actually going through the filming only to have it cut later. I still wish they could find a way to work him in there somehwere, with Rickman and Spall, this is looking like a great show.
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This is an ideal match of director and musical.
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im laughing just imagining cohen and depp playing off each other
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Or was that a joke that went over my head?
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I keep singing that one line whenever someone mentions Sweeney Todd. I wonder why. That is a great poster. Very artsy. I'm excited and nervous about this movie. I love musicals so when they cast Johnny, an unproven singer, I felt a little woozy. But he may be a good enough actor to fudge it. I hope so anyway. It is a shame Christopher Lee got the shaft again. Now that's a voice.
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that's the first thing I think of when I see that poster. especially with Depp's hair like that...not saying it's bad, but man...no one else seeing that?
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I was just about to say that. It looks exactly the same.
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WOW!
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Holy hell.
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Three alumni from the Potter films. I just hope everyone in the cast can sing. I know Depp and Cohen can sing. But Alan Rickman? Hmmm...
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...Interesting....no Elfman with Burton project.
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You guys are fucking unbelievable! When word of this got out going to the big-screen, it was met with "Musicals are GAY!" "Depp singing? GAY" WAH WAH WAH - Then it takes one fucking poster with blood on it and suddenly you're converts - Get fucked the lot of ya... This musical has ALWAYS been cool, and is a brilliant piece of work... so get fucked... And RENO RENO - OF COURSE THERE'S NO FUCKING DANNY ELFMAN - It's written by fucking Stephan Sondheim!!! DO YOUR FUCKING RESEARCH!
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....and looks like edward scissorhands sitting in the chair but older and pissed of thats he aint got no hand blades
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yeah, I noticed that too straightaway, big time!! Same colour tone in all.
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Scorecard is right. This comment page is way off the mark. Where are all the posts decrying this project as a GAY embarrassment? SWEENEY is one of the most acclaimed, intricate, powerful, beautifully scored musicals in the history of theatre. Yet you guys aren't crapping on it? Let me get this (ahem) straight--you're dicks will fall off if you see HAIRSPRAY but your manhood is safe if you see Depp in a musical? Could you guys be growing up?
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NOP? OK THANKS GOD!!!
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No floaty faces. And yes, it is a bit gay; I only know one person who LOVES Sondheim and this musical in particular, and he loves Madonna, Bette Davies, 'Mommie Dearest' and perfume by the bucketload. He's VERY camp.
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So is 'All About Eve'. there are just some great artistic treasures that are exalted by gay men. Like Barbra Streisand. (memo: stop talking).
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This feels weird to say, but MrWonka, wasn't there a sloped ceiling in Burton's er, Wonka movie too?
And what about the B&W stripes everywhere? I think Burton has a patent on that.
I actually think Depp was great in C&TCF. But the movie WAS crap. -
For God's sake please shitcan whoever mixed Charlie & the Chocolate Factory for someone new this time. You couldn't hear SHIT clearly in the songs. Worst mixing for years.
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who has a grown daughter whom he comes back to reclaim after 20 years away in prison.
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If anyone can do the dark themes and comedy of Sweeney Todd justice it'll be Burton. May Andrew Lloyd Weber and his shitty musicals rot in peace...
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... that's awesome (hah!) is Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Generally I'm not big on musicals unless the premise is also stylised like say Little Shop of Horrors, Grease or Rocky Horror (but not fucking animation as a 'rule'), but Hedwig is bloody fantastic.
Droogie, if Todd is that old how on earth can Burton get a cute little bedraggled urchin in? ;) -
and of course, in Nightmare Before Christmas...I didn't hate charlie and the chocolate factory, but I thought the bit with wonka's childhood was not necessary, and as a huge fan of the book, I was kinda bothered that they stuck it in there...
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Now that the art of the final one-sheet has gone to photoshop montage shit (I say this as a photoshop user for fuck me, 18 years)!
I'm still trying to get that LOTR poster where he's looking down at the ring. One of the best, simplest and most iconic images for years. Speaking of comic-con, I also want that "whiteface" Willy Wonka from Neca. That was cool. -
The movie is using the music by Sondheim, so Elfman was unnecesary. (And "Ed Wood" was already Elfman-less, too)
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Shame.. though understandable. Burton/Elfman gets me excited like Hitchcock/Herrmann! Classy poster too :-)
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I love this show. In my view the music is highly operatic in the traditional sense(Benjamin Britten) with some exceptions like 'Pirelli's Miracle Elixir' and 'Best Pies in London.' I think the music may irritate mainstream audiences, but this is a classic concept and Cohen as Pirelli is fantastic casting!
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...feed me all night loooong! Little Shop of Horrors = the straight man's musical. And the only one worth watching. The BBD has spoken.
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Why does anything need to be pigeonholed so. Sweeny Todd is 100 times more Grusome then Little Shop of Horrors(what do you think is in those pies). Without the music it would be a Silence of the Lambs type thriller. There are plenty of musicals that arent just men dancing around in gold sequened pants. Three Penny Opera, Les Miserables, Oliver. This is high drama with music as the vehicle. If you avoid because you think "its gay" you will miss out on some of the greatest creative and artistic experiences available!
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You tell me! Just ignore the visuals. http://tinyurl.com/3xbzqc
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As for this poster, that's fantastic! Colour me interested.
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Cool. It's so much better than even the version where he looks straight ahead. Hooray for chiaroscuro!
Cromwell, why then do you pidgeongole it yourself with the "Silence" comment? And too bad you spoiled things with the pie comment for those who don't know about it and were excited by this version. Having said that, are those pies Soylent Green in colour? -
Apparently no matter what part of London you're in, you can see Big Ben by looking out the window. Just like the Eiffel Tower in Paris.
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Reminds me of the colour scheme for Dead Slence. Ugh. Poster's okay, nowt special.
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He got cut along with Christopher Lee. They were both playing ghosts, kind of a chorus, and all three - the other was an unknown - got cut. Press only reported Lee because he was the biggest name.
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As a Londoner I'm pretty sure. Nice to see Dave Vanian's hair is in this.
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Sweeny Todd is more gay than Little Shop of Horrors, that being said, nothing wrong with being more gay. I mean, there's room in the world for Tom Cruise AND Andy Dick, well not so much Andy Dick...That was a bad example, any way, more gay doesn't equal more bad...That's all I am trying to say.
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as an insult are scared little weaklings.
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that comment about no Elfman music broke me. That was hilarious! Hell, let's make a film of one of the greatest pieces of musical theater EVER and bring in the guy from Oingo Boingo to punch it up!
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Burton jumped the black-and-white-stripe spiral-swirled stop-motion shark a long time ago, and Depp is overexposed.
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Burton is getting back to his gothic roots and providing us with some good shit. Dat poster has got me wanting more. Wanna c this badly. Lets also hope Depp delivers. No more of that Craptain jack sparrow nonsense.
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Chip chop chip chop chip chop....The last man's DEAD!!
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I know it's unfortunate and regressive, but it can also be funny. For instance, saying theater is gay, that's just homophobic. Although whatever, theater is kind of gay, but that's besides the point. My point is that calling things "gay" in a second-grade way can be highly humorous. For instance I recently heard a young man exclaim, as his taco shell cracked and spilled its contents over his T-shirt, "man, this taco's gay." And while watching a teenager get a taco on his shirt is inherently funny, it wouldn't have been nearly as funny if he hadn't accused his taco of being gay.
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Where it says "Next of Kin" should I put "Mother"?
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What the fuck does that mean? Some musicals have explicitly gay themes, or feature crossdressers in prominent roles... Neither Sweeney Todd nor Little Shop have either of these. I'm a musical theater writer in a four person collaborative team; one of us is proudly and openly gay; three of us are happily married (to women) with kids. It means nothing-- art forms aren't gay.
And for those of you who think that Sondheim is for losers, I direct you to this interview with Joss Whedon that I did for the Sondheim Review: http://tinyurl.com/9zo9m -
Forgive my ignorance Bronx, but is "Bronx Cheer" a euphemism (not from around there)?
As far as the gay insult, I thought it was an ironic thing that stemmed from South Park. The whole point with so much South Park is actually pretty moral and as far as I understood it was the same as when they called each other 'dildo' and so on - they didn't know what it meant but used it as a swear word, and there were no parents around to actually take responsibility (usually being off trying to get things censored so they DIDN'T have to take responsibility!), same thing with 'gay'. It seems like the ironic thing is that the dopey general audience didn't see the extra layer of the joke, took it at face value and started using it as an insult in exactly the same surface derogatory manner. Which meant the South Park guys had an extra laugh. The trouble seems to be that now so much time has gone by it's passed into general usage (much like Rocky and "Yo!"). So the joke is ultimately back on Matt and Trey because they failed to enlighten anybody. I mean, how many people used it that way (especially "totally gay") before South Park?
That was the whole theme of the film too. Of course I went to see it and sat down to find parents had taken their ten-year old son. Nobody stopped them either, even though it was rated R. The cinema workers probably worked at the video store the rest of the time - someone's gotta be responsible for putting the DVDs in the kids' cartoon section!
Anyway they stayed through the whole thing which was good because at least there was no way they could get out of talking to their kid about the whole subject. Matt and Trey would have been proud. Really, some people just shouldn't breed. -
Well it does. And I hope this has a bit of a Sleepy Hollow vibe.
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(Len Cariou in the play was awesome) but it has a hell of a cast. Damn you Johnny Deppand your French pirating. I guess I'll be forking over some dough to see this.
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The "Silence of the Lambs" comment was merely a point to counter the belief that all musicals would fit into any one category. I was trying to illustrate that Todd is not like Showboat and WOULD be more akin to a cinematic thriller, then to what the previous poster was stereotyping all musicals as.
BTW- Didn't mean to to ruin it. The story has been around for nearly 50 years so I assumed people who cared would already know about it, and that most people on these boards would be in the know already. It would be like mentioning relevant plot points in a Dickens novel. It is a classic and spoilers are long past relevance, but I will cede the point.
I would think that those on a Sweeny Todd TB would know the basic plot points though. Its not like the pie thing is some huge mystery, its just part of the overall plot. The real puzzles in Todd are much deeper. -
When it comes to musicals, I'm a big fan of musicals about subjects that play against the "musicals are happy and 'gay'" stereotype. Little Shop of Horrors is one of those. I don't know who's idea it was to transform a really shitty Roger Corman movie into a musical, but it worked like a charm. Another great example is Sweeney Todd. Because until Sweeney Todd came around there was no such thing as a "musical thriller." Sondheim invented a whole new genre of musical. Because any musical that features a song about how different professions would taste as pies is okay by me.
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I guess we just differ in that I actually DON'T think even most of those on this thread would know. It IS AICN after all. ;) Cheers.
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Pbbbttthhhhh!
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Long time has passed since a poster could make me want to see a movie. This changes it.
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Uh, the poster that is.
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I'm a fan of the Burton/Depp pairing, but Burton totally blew this one by not casting Tom Waits as Sweeney Todd. Listen to Waits' Black Rider album or Blood Money disc and tell me I'm wrong.
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was the middle finger.
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I think that you can usually tell a good film from it's poster artwork, and the amount of detail and effort that the studio wants to put into it. though, i'd like to hear about people's opinions on shitty films with awesome posters. anyone?
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Terrible film....cool Poster. Both DEATHSTALKER FILMS
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Christmas can't come fast enough.
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I think this poster is amazing- I really like all the lines of it. And Johnny almost looks like a bride of Frankenstein with that hair! But seriously, this should be a really interesting movie, especially as a dark musical. I really liked The Nightmare before christmas.
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