Sweeney Todd My Arm Is Complete Again

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• Approval of God: I of the only pic adaptations of Stephen Sondheim's musicals to take his approving.
• Crawly, Dear Boy: Johnny Depp was sold on the idea of doing a musical about a serial killer.
• Breakaway Pop Hit: "Not While I'm Around" is written in a more than pop-influenced fashion than the rest of the show, and managed to spin off a couple of pop recordings.
• The Cast Showoff: Beadle Bamford is usually expected to really play the harmonium. This actually became the novelty of the 2005 revival, where the cast was reduced to just the 10 players who doubled as both the stagehands and the orchestra, each playing their ain instrument.
• Creator Chosen Casting: Stephen Sondheim agreed to let Tim Burton direct the film on the condition that he accept casting approval. Burton would but agree to directly with Johnny Depp in the lead, and though Sondheim feared Depp's vocals would be also "stone oriented", he canonical Depp after a vocal audience. To approve the casting of Helena Bonham Carter equally Mrs. Lovett, and to combat whatsoever rumor of nepotism (as Carter and Burton were romantically involved), she sent Sondheim no less than twelve audition tapes of her singing. Very impressed with her vocals, Sondheim immediately approved her.
• Creator-Preferred Adaptation: In his volume Finishing the Chapeau, Stephen Sondheim states the 2007 film is the only adaptation of i of his works for the screen that he approves of.
• Cut Song:
  • The Judge'due south 'Johanna' was cut from the original production because information technology held up the plot (and is incredibly creepy) but appears on the original cast album and was somewhen reinstated. The tooth pulling part of the Competition is besides oft cut, and "Parlour Songs" is sometimes heavily abbreviated.
  • Several songs from the Broadway musical were excised from the film: "The Carol of Sweeney Todd" (and its many reprises), "Ah, Miss," "Johanna" (Judge Turpin's version), "Kiss Me," "Parlour Songs," "City on Fire," and "Epilogue." All ensemble/choral singing was also eliminated, well-nigh notably from "God, That's Practiced," in which the championship of the song is now never even sung. Many other songs remaining in the film have been shortened. The but songs to remain intact are "Epiphany," "Pretty Women," "Johanna" (Anthony's solo), "The Worst Pies in London," "Expect" and "My Friends." "Johanna" (featuring Sweeney, Anthony, and the Ragamuffin Adult female) is originally a quartet featuring all three in addition to Johanna's vocals. The song "My Friends" is not sung in its entirety either, with 1 line being added and the last line was edited, from "At final, my right arm is consummate again" to "At concluding, my arm is complete once again." ^notation Which it was in the original Broadway run due to Len Cariou and George Hearn beingness lefties.
• Dawson Casting: A lesser instance - Jayne Wisener was 19 when she played the 15 year old Johanna.
• Fake Brit: Sweeney is played by an American, Johnny Depp.
• Hide Your Pregnancy: Helena Bonham Carter was pregnant during the film production, resulting in magical size-changing breasts over the course of the flick.
• Non-Singing Voice: Averted. Every single actor in the film version does their own singing, despite several of them never singing in a product before. It doesn't show, either. Helena Bonham Carter was required to practise a vocal audition for the function - to her own husband, per Sondheim's request.
• Original Cast Precedent: Virtually versions of the musical, including the picture show, will have Judge Turpin and Beadle Bamford as Lean and Mean and a Fat Bastard, respectively; in add-on to the visual dissimilarity, the outset actors to play them—Edmund Lyhdeck and Jack Eric Williams—had those builds.
• Orphaned Reference: Nearly productions cut out the tooth-pulling role of The Competition, but neglect to write out Pirelli's singing "To shave-a the face/to pull-a the 'toot'." The movie, which likewise cuts the tooth-pulling, adjusts the lyrics accordingly.
• Promoted Fanboy: Tim Burton saw the original West Finish production just every bit his bear witness business career was starting, and had Stephen Sondheim's approving every bit early on as the mid-80s to make the picture version.
• Saved from Development Hell: This film had been in development for over twenty-5 years. At that point in time, hundreds of actors were either considered or attached to the project, to play Sweeney Todd: Warren Beatty, Tim Curry, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Cistron Hackman, Dustin Hoffman, William Hurt, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Robert Redford and many more.
• Then My Kids Can Watch: Timothy Spall was urged to audience by his daughter, who wanted him to work with Johnny Depp.

  I really wanted this i – I knew Tim was directing and that Johnny Depp was going to be in it. My daughter, my youngest daughter, really wanted me to practice it for that reason – Johnny Depp was in it. (She came on set to meet Depp) and he was actually delightful to her, she had a groovy time. Then, I took her to the junket – and (Depp) greeted her like an old pal when he saw her. I've got plenty of brownie points at the moment.

• What Could Have Been:
  • The original script initially kept the opening and the reprising ballad intact with a chorus of ghosts singing. Christopher Lee and Anthony Caput were amongst those to play the ghosts. However Johnny Depp's girl fell ill during shooting, and then he took time off to be with her, which caused the shooting schedule to get tight, and the ghosts had to exist axed. At that place is a YouTube video of Lee recording his vocal out there somewhere.
  • While one probably has nothing to do with the other, Tim Burton had e'er anticipated cutting the carol, as well as other songs, to make the film experience less like a filmed phase show and more similar a flick.
  • Annette Bening, Toni Collette, Nicole Kidman, Cyndi Lauper, Bernadette Peters, Imelda Staunton, Meryl Streep, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emma Thompson and Kate Winslet were all considered for Mrs. Lovett.
  • Anne Hathaway was almost bandage as Johanna, just Burton wanted a complete unknown actress for the function and settled with Jayne Wisener.
  • Sam Mendes was originally attached to directly with Russell Crowe in the championship role.
  • Kevin Smith when working for Warner Bros. on Superman Lives was interested to straight the motion-picture show when told the studios had the rights. But then admitted he was more interested in seeing Burton's version when told they were hoping for Burton to direct.
• Word of God: Sondheim said that, despite Judge Turpin being a horrible person who does terrible things, it's actually Mrs. Lovett who is the musical's truthful villain, largely because she's entirely self-serving to a sociopathic degree. At the very least, Turpin realizes that what he did to Lucy is wicked, and that his feelings for Johanna are incorrect; he likewise genuinely believes that any form of sexual feeling is evil, so he has something of a Freudian Excuse. Mrs. Lovett doesn't have any of that luggage or cocky-sensation, and is thus more reprehensible.

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