Sweeney Todd: Fleet Streeti deemonlik habemeajaja

[Soprano]

Ma hakkan ka vaikselt oma filmiblogis seda filmi reklaamima ja Sweeney-sõna levitama. Alguses olin skeptiline, kuid paistab siiski päris tore tükk tulevat.

Tere tulemast klubisse.

[Reinuvader Rebane]

ehhehe.

mul on ikka väikse selline okas hinges, et kas see tuleb nii hea, nii ja naa... et kõik peaks end üles kütma.
aga paljud kes on ise suured muusikali fännid on filmi seninähtud klippe kiitnud ilma mööndusteta. st. kuigi laule on välja jäetud nad leiavad et see on siiski terviklik lugu.
meil siin ongi sellevõrra parem, et me ei pea ärrituma kui mõni "oluline" laul välja jääb, me ju ei teagi mis seal just fännidele oluline on.
tõsi neid teisi klippe internetis pole. üht näidati eksklusiivselt Veneetsias sellel Burtoni auhinnatseremoonial

[LauraOlen]

Andmebaasis on pikkuseks märgitud 0 tundi & 0 minutit...
Enivei, filmi ei suuda ära oodata.

[Ralf]

Äkki sa siis ütled mulle, mis filmi pikkuseks on, sest IMDb's selle kohta info puudus ja pidin lahtri tühjaks jätma.

[Reinuvader Rebane]

tund ja nelikümmendseitse pakuti TBCs.

[LauraOlen]

Ei tegelt arusaadav et seda ei tea veel keegi kaua see kestab.
Keegi teab mis kuupäeval see pidi tulema mujale Euroopa kinodesse?

[Reinuvader Rebane]

mingi jama selle infoga, IMDBs on seda viimase kuuga kolm korda muudetud.
mitte miskit ei saa aru.


DVD versioonis kuulukate järgi tuleb aga kolme laulu jagu rohkem.
päris kuramuse palju peaks ütlema. see pole nipe-näpe, mis kinno ei jõua.
nad püüavad vaatajaid- USAs ja Suurbritannias R- rating.
järelikult meil saab ilmselt perefilm. meil on väga lõdvad levitajad.

[hau]

Here's lookin at you, new trailer

Sweeney

[Ralf]

Mulle meeldis eelmine trailer rohkem, kuid peab tõdema, et too verepurse lõpus on väga äge.

[Reinuvader Rebane]

natuke vähem Jackilik ka õnneks. see vana hea Burtoni filmi tunne tuleb küll.

[Weirdo]

Njahh..minu meelest oli esimene trailer tunduvalt efektsem. Selline rohkem päris.

[Reinuvader Rebane]

ma ei tea, minu meelest mida vähem muusikali ma selles muusikalis näen ja kuulen seda parem ta on. mul ükskõik kui kamp Broadway-fanaatikuid mulle kallale tormab seepeale. Eestis neid õnneks pole....vist.?

[Reinuvader Rebane]

vabandan topeltpostituse pärast, et Washington Posti artikli kohaselt on Sweeney Toddi filmi täispikkus 2 h 40 minutit.

ma ei tea kas seda uskuda või ei, võibolla enne kui stseene välja jäeti. aga Washington Post ei tea nt seda et film varem levisse jõuab kui esialgu plaanitud. nii et nende andmed võivad vanad olla.

1 ja 47 ning 2. 40 see on suur vahe.

[LauraOlen]

Oh, see on veelgi parem. Juhul kui film just pikaks ei veni.

See treiler on ka päris okei, rohkem sellist verd, nüüd sain filmist paremini aru ka. Esimest korda tundsin tas halbust, väga hea minu silmis.

[Reinuvader Rebane]

Tim Burton Collective´ist: (see on küll inglise keeles aga ma ei jõua iialgi seda ära tõlkida. )

This dude has seen it too...

Sweeney Todd preview

Posted by Steve Biodrowski on 24 Oct 2007 at 02:40 am | Tagged as: News, Movies

Got a sneak peak at SWEENEY TODD on Tuesday, and it is absolutely fantastic - one of the best things Tim Burton has ever directed! The film was not finished (the credits were missing, and the sound mix will be tweaked over the next five weeks), but barring ratings problems, this appears to be the final cut in all its gory glory. The movie is pretty much your dream of what it would be, when you first heard that Burton and Johnny Depp would be turning the Stephen Sondheim musical into a movie: it’s a dark, brooding horror-musical-comedy that hits all the right notes.

Depp casts aside the over-the-top antics of Jack Sparrow for a much more self-contained performance as the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, in which the emotions (primarily a lust for revenge) ooze up to the surface in controlled bursts; without ever blunting the character’s knife-sharp edge, the actor demands that we sympathize and root for Sweeney as he slashes his way through half the throats in London. Alan Rickman is wonderful as the hypocritical Judge Turpin, whose machinations drove Sweeney to madness. Sacha Baron Cohen shines in a small role - you don’t have to be a Borat fan to enjoy his work here. A special mention must go out for Timothy Spall as Beadle Bamford, Turpin’s right-hand man - a perfectly wrought performance of a slimy character who mistakenly believes himself to be slick and smart. Hopefully, the Oscar academy will not overlook him next year even those his role is not of the showy, melodramatic kind that usually draws attention.

If there is a flaw in the movie, it is that the cinematic storytelling occasionally short circuits the musical nature of the source material. The acting performances, through close-up camera angles and cutting, convey the point of some scenes long before the songs wrap up, as when Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower) first lays eyes on and falls in love with Sweeney’s daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener), who is kept a virtual prisoner in Turpin’s mansion. Judging from the reaction and comments after the screening, fans of the musical will be pleased that the film is faithful to Sondheim, but SWEENEY TODD might have been even better if it had jettisoned more of the stage version, which on a few occasions feels like dead weight slowing the movie down.

The screening was followed by a session in which the marketing people asked for audience reactions. It was clear that the small audience (a bit over forty, made up mostly of fans of Burton and/or Johnny Depp) loved the film: over thirty called it great; eight called it very good; two said it was merely good; and no one disliked it.

Several raised their hands when the moderator asked whether any of the women thought there was too much blood; interestingly, none of them said this ruined the movie for them or would prevent them from recommending it to friends. A few pointed out that the highly stylized nature of the film - most of the colors are muted and almost monochromatic, like Halloween Town in NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS - rendered the bright-red bloodshed in a highly artificial way that muted the impact, making it more palatable, even for non-gore hounds.

To be clear, the session was not about gathering audience reactions in order to re-cut the film to make it safer for a general audience; the goal was trying to gauge the film’s appeal. From the various questions and statements uttered over the course of half-an-hour, it appears that the marketing people believe the film will appeal to three or four non-intersecting groups:

Teenager girls who like Depp
Tim Burton fans
Fans of the musical
The “Adult Alternative” audience, who want to see something other than NATIONAL TREASURE 2

For some reason, there was some doubt that SWEENEY TODD would appeal to horror fans, even though it clearly is a horror movie, the songs notwithstanding. There seemed to be a misapprehension that “horror” equated with SAW, and that fans of that franchise and others of its ilk would not enjoy the Burton film.

Personally, I think nothing could be further from the truth. The blood explodes in only a few scenes of SWEENEY, but when it rains, it pours - in unbelievably graphic gouts of gushing red. I can’t remember when or if I ever saw this much red splashed across the screen in a mainstream studio movie. More important, the Sweeney character fits the classic movie monster mold: he does horrible things, but the audience identifies with and even roots for him to dispatch his victims, who more often than not deserve what they get.

It’s a mistake to think that torture-porn and/or high-octane violence are synonymous with horror. There are a few loud voices at horror movie blogs insisting that HOSTEL PART II, GRINDHOUSE, and 28 WEEKS LATER are what horror is all about, but these films can barely find an audience, if at all. Much bigger audiences will clearly turn out for scary movies - even ones with violence and blood-letting, like SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, - as long as they are done with some style and class. Certainly, SWEENEY TODD could draw in the same kind of viewers who turned SLEEPY HOLLOW into a blockbuster.

One other incident from the session deserves mention. One recurring question was whether the musical nature of SWEENEY TODD would turn off some young male viewers who might otherwise be interested in another Depp-Burton collaboration. In answer to this, an audience member recounted the following incident: after seeing a trailer for TODD before a screening of THE HEARTBREAK KID, two young men in the row in front of her turned to each other and enthusiastically cried out, ‘f**k yeah!”

That’s not the kind of comment likely to find its way into the marketing report, so we preserve it here for historical purposes