Sweeney Todd
Dec. 24th, 2007 09:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
anotheranonSaw the movie. Disclaimer: I have no familiarity with the stage production, music, or any of Sondheim's other work.
Predictions on it's effect on the wider pop culture/fandom (no spoilers):
Yes, I'm snarking, but seriously, I loved the gleeful morbidness. It was very Tim Burton, and very Depp/Bonham Carter (the ideal gothic "it" couple). I liked.
Predictions on it's effect on the wider pop culture/fandom (no spoilers):
- This film will inspire a thousand Costume Con/con costume masquerade entries.
- At last - beachwear for Goths!
- Sweeney Todd/Judge Turpin slash will afflict the fandoms like a disease.
- Ditto breathless Mary Sues held at razor point by Johnny Depp.
- The razors will be made into mountable props, rather like the swords from LOTR and the like.
- Tim Burton has a secret herd of wide-eyed, rosebud-lipped supporting actors - the young lovers in all of his films are just so damn pouty I've gotta believe he's cloning Christina Ricci somewhere...
Yes, I'm snarking, but seriously, I loved the gleeful morbidness. It was very Tim Burton, and very Depp/Bonham Carter (the ideal gothic "it" couple). I liked.
