Watched Sweeney Todd tonight. The movie that just won the Golden Globe for Best Picture and is widely tipped to win the Oscar as well.
It is a FANTASTIC film. Tim Burton, who has to his credit other fantastically weird Johnny Depp films like Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow among others, has forayed into musicals for the first time... and he's a genius.
The movie is set in victorian London where men considered long hats, tail coats and carriage rides as run of the mill. Johnny Depp plays the role of Benjamin Barker, a barber who was imprisoned on a false charge by an evil judge (Alan Rickman - Snape in Harry Potter) so that he could get his hands on the barber's wife (which he does). Years later, Benjamin, now known as Sweeney Todd, comes back for revenge. There are a couple of other very interesting twists to the story but won't spoil it for you.
The movie is grand without being Moulin Rouge. It has a haunting score (I think Moulin Rouge and Chicago would be better scores though). But the aspect of the film that took the cake for me was the use of color, light and shadows. It's a dark movie without trying very hard to be (unlike so many other movies - where dark means I need to shoot in low light!).
Johnny Depp it amazing. The man is Jack Sparrow and so so much more! Alan Rickman is amazing as well (at times very Snape-ish in the film).
I doff my hat to whoever wrote the Broadway musical in the first place. Who would've thought of putting a story about a serial killer in a musical format!!!
THIS IS A MUST WATCH!!!!!
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