My baggage is that I'm a huge fan of the original Broadway cast recording (with Len Cariou and Angela Lansbury) and have been listening to it since around 1982, so I have to shove that aside to get a new perspective. I've also been following the rumors about the production from the beginning with a bunch of other Sweeney Todd (and Burton/Depp) fanatics, and my expectations were initially very low, because of all the changes they were making to the score and the story, and then rose when I saw all the good reviews. It does seem that the people I know who don't know the musical are really enjoying the movie.
And yes, the blood is very Grand Guignol, and again, the final shot is utterly perfect. Very beautiful and romantic in a perverse bloody valentine kind of way. Gorgeous.
And the music is still utterly beautiful as well, even if some of the singing isn't.
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Date: 2007-12-29 06:38 pm (UTC)And yes, the blood is very Grand Guignol, and again, the final shot is utterly perfect. Very beautiful and romantic in a perverse bloody valentine kind of way. Gorgeous.
And the music is still utterly beautiful as well, even if some of the singing isn't.