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tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-10-03 11:59 am
tenlittlebullets) wrote2006-10-03 11:59 am
A random thought re: Sweeney movie.
I have no doubt that Tim Burton will do a good job on the Sweeney Todd movie (though whether Johnny Depp can sing remains to be seen), but I can't help but feel his style is a little off-kilter for a project like this. I think he would have been more suited to something like Phantom. I mean, look at it this way:
On the one hand, a musical that's violent, gleefully fucked up, and driven in large part by its lyrics.
On the other hand, a musical that's dark, romantic, dealing with the fate of an outcast, and very visually oriented.
Solution? Burton hits Andrew Lloyd Webber over the head until he lets him remake the PotO movie, and then hands Sweeney off to someone who does well with gleefully fucked up and script-driven.
Like, oh, say, Quentin Tarantino.
I would so commit murder to see either a Burton!Phantom or a Tarantino!Sweeney.
On the one hand, a musical that's violent, gleefully fucked up, and driven in large part by its lyrics.
On the other hand, a musical that's dark, romantic, dealing with the fate of an outcast, and very visually oriented.
Solution? Burton hits Andrew Lloyd Webber over the head until he lets him remake the PotO movie, and then hands Sweeney off to someone who does well with gleefully fucked up and script-driven.
Like, oh, say, Quentin Tarantino.
I would so commit murder to see either a Burton!Phantom or a Tarantino!Sweeney.