'WAIT, WHY DID JOHNNY DEPP JUST START SINGING IN THIS SWEENEY TODD TRAILER?'
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By Devin Faraci
Published on 10/4/2007
The first trailer for Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton's adaptation of Kevin Smith's favorite musical, is here, and it does its damnedest to hide the fact that it's a musical. You only get a hint of singing, and that's in a sequence that appears so highly stylized that many people might think it's a dream or something. I guess you have to ease audiences into the singing thing.
Which is too bad, since opening the trailer with 'Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/His skin was pale and his eye was odd/He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard from again' would have been a nice way of summing it all up. Much nicer than having the 'In a world where...' guy gargle some gasoline to sound creepier. And it's interesting that some of the more gruesome elements - the cannibalism is what I'm thinking here - have been left out. What will turn off audiences faster: Johnny Depp breaking into operatic song or Johnny Depp feeding the rich to the poor?
I guess everything else looks fine... I would like to see Burton and Wes Anderson get together and see their different movies-as-dollhouses aesthetics clash. They sort of look like Bizarro versions of each other these days as well.
Click here to see the trailer.
'WAIT, WHY DID JOHNNY DEPP JUST START SINGING IN THIS SWEENEY TODD TRAILER?'
The first trailer for Sweeney Todd, Tim Burton's adaptation of Kevin Smith's favorite musical, is here, and it does its damnedest to hide the fact that it's a musical. You only get a hint of singing, and that's in a sequence that appears so highly stylized that many people might think it's a dream or something. I guess you have to ease audiences into the singing thing.Which is too bad, since opening the trailer with 'Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd/His skin was pale and his eye was odd/He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard from again' would have been a nice way of summing it all up. Much nicer than having the 'In a world where...' guy gargle some gasoline to sound creepier. And it's interesting that some of the more gruesome elements - the cannibalism is what I'm thinking here - have been left out. What will turn off audiences faster: Johnny Depp breaking into operatic song or Johnny Depp feeding the rich to the poor?
I guess everything else looks fine... I would like to see Burton and Wes Anderson get together and see their different movies-as-dollhouses aesthetics clash. They sort of look like Bizarro versions of each other these days as well.
Click here to see the trailer.