My roommate convinced me to watch a musical the other day called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber on Fleet Street. It's directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter. It's a 2007 musical horror film based off the musical with the same name. The plot of the movie is an English barber and serial killer that kills his customers with the help of Mrs. Lovett. After he kills his victims, she uses them for her meat pies.
Like other Tim Burton films, this one was very dark and creepy. A majority of the film was either black, white or grey except for pops of color, either yellow, red or blue. The actors were all very pale and their eyes very dark. The skies were always dark and cloudy and the streets didn't have much color. The lighting was dull but effective. It added to the creepy feel that Burton was aiming for.
It was also interesting how he adds little bits of animation to his movies. For example, with this movie, a lot of the camera pans and zooms were animated. At about the 8:13 mark, the camera follows Depp's feet through a tunnel then it starts taking us through a journey through the town that lasts about twenty seconds. The audience passes a few people on the street but never long enough to tell whether they're real or not.
Over all I thought it was a cool movie, with a crazy concept. The only thing that I would change, is the loudness of the music while the characters are singing. Throughout the film, the sound is very sharp and precise, but then when they're singing, it was difficult for me to understand them. I'm not sure if it also was because they had accents, but I think that if the background was lowered just a little, it would be clearer.
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