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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical thriller and the film adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler 's stage musical of the same name . The film stars Johnny Depp in the title role , in his sixth collaboration with director Tim Burton . Helena Bonham Carter also stars as Mrs. Lovett , in her fifth collaboration. The film was released in the United States on December 21 , 2007 and in the United Kingdom on January 25 , 2008 to enthusiastic reviews. It won the award for Best Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) and Best Actor (Comedy or Musical) at the 65th Golden Globe Awards and was nominated for Best Actor and Best Costume Design and won Best Art Direction at the 80th Academy Awards .
Sweeney Todd
Sweeney Todd is a fictional character who first appeared in 1846 as one of the protagonists of a penny part serial entitled The String of Pearls . In the most common versions of the story, he is an English barber who murders his customers with a cut-throat razor (or "straight razor" in American English ), and turns their remains into meat pies . The story became a staple of Victorian melodrama and a hit Broadway musical in 1979.
Johnny Depp plays Benjamin Barker/Sweeney Todd , a barber who slits the throats of innocent customers in madness after the loss of his wife and daughter. Depp first learned of Sweeney Todd in 2000, when he was given an original cast recording of the musical by Burton. Depp was not a fan of the genre, but liked this musical. Depp said when he signed on, "How many chances do you get at a musical about a serial killer ?" The actor cited Peter Lorre in Mad Love (1935) as his influence, and practiced the songs while filming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End . Depp recorded demo tapes of himself in West Hollywood, working with Bruce Witkin to shape his own vocals without a qualified voice coach. Much of Sweeney's dialogue was cut from the musical. Depp said, "We focused on the dangerous and unsettling idea of stillness, that he doesn't look many people in the eye, or say much", an idea Burton compared to Boris Karloff and other actors in classic horror films, where "his eyes and the music tell the story." While Depp had formed a band as an adult, he was unsure of whether he could sustain Stephen Sondheim 's lyrics. He appreciated that there were "a lot of half-steps... kind of go G to A-flat to A to B-flat. It's super, ultra complicated; these notes that shouldn't work together at times." Producer Richard Zanuck admitted it was "millions of dollars committed on an assumption. [But] we all said to one another, 'Johnny is a smart guy. He would never put himself in this position if he didn't think he could do it.'" Sondheim felt, "I figured he'd have a light baritone ... I love him as an actor, and always have. Put those things together, I didn't hesitate for one second." Sondheim explained to Depp the performance would be more about acting than singing. Depp chose a punk rock approach to his performance, citing inspiration from Anthony Newley and Iggy Pop , the latter whom he called a "very aggressive crooner. Especially in the early stuff, there's something about [Sweeney's] attack that's haunting."
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