Summing up: Goes by so quickly, you end up wishing for even more information. He was born John Christopher Depp II in Owensboro, Kentucky, on June 9, 1963, to Betty Sue (Wells), who worked as a waitress, and John Christopher Depp, a civil engineer. Johnny Depp is perhaps one of the most versatile actors of his day and age in Hollywood. The segments are: The Cast, The Vision (how it all started with a penny dreadful popularity in ye Olde England), The Music, The Costume Design (very interesting segment on attiring the entire cast), and The Production Design (which meant creating on sound stages the entire Fleet Street atmosphere of Victorian England). Johnny Depp Actor Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Depp and Helena Bonham Carter and Alan Rickman, along with other members of the cast, give their own viewpoints. The 25-minute documentary is divided into brief segments that describe how and why the film was made from the standpoint of director Burton and composer Sondheim. JOHNNY DEPP refers to it as a "marriage of two completely different worlds" (the mix of music and horror) and ALAN RICKMAN describes it as a "Gothic black comic opera". would also have done extremely well as Sweeney Todd at any time).Every facet of film-making that went into the filming of SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET is examined, rather briefly, in this episodic behind-the-scenes look at the Tim Burton/Johnny Depp collaboration for the screen version of the Stephen Sondheim Broadway musical. Scott, as a character of scant nobility who stands out as a paragon of virtue next to many of the other characters (he's the hero!) also does well in a role that could have been tailored for his dad in his earlier career (but George C. Get personalized recommendations, and learn where to watch across hundreds of streaming providers.
Find ratings and reviews for the newest movie and TV shows. Lumley again without mental recourse to her decaying teeth? But they do their job well, and Mr. IMDb is the worlds most popular and authoritative source for movie, TV and celebrity content. Next to this, THE BEGGAR'S OPERA is a day at the seaside! Outside the atmospherics, there are the performances, and with Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley and Campbell Scott doing the honors, we are in good hands, even though one might not really wish to remember the first two as characters of this much reprehensibility. And there is a sense of pure horror that pervades just about every scene and location that is quite outside the secret horror that is going on thanks to Mr. Nellie Lovett, and begins to start his life of crime. Barber Sweeney Todd returns to London to uncover the past, along the way meeting pie shop owner Mrs.
With Angela Lansbury, George Hearn, Cris Groenendaal, Sara Woods.
2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Academy of. 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Broadcast Film Critics Association Best Actor. Oscars Best Picture Winners Best Picture Winners Golden Globes Emmys LGBTQ+ Pride Month STARmeter Awards San Diego Comic-Con New York Comic-Con Sundance Film Festival Toronto Intl Film Festival Awards Central Festival Central All Events. 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Hollywood Foreign Press Association Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama. Lovett's pie emporium (well, we have to call it something) look like denizens of Hell, and that is no exaggeration, for to a large extent that is what they are. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street: Directed by Terry Hughes, Harold Prince. Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (TV Movie 1982) George Hearn as Sweeney Todd. Even the clean-cut heroine of the film is a barmaid fully capable of twisting a tough man's arm behind his back and throwing him out of the pub in which she works. One looks at just about every scene, even those taking place a bit away from the general mayhem, and wonders how people could have brought themselves to get out of bed every morning to face another day of such filth, degradation, and mayhem. Anyway, this entire film has a claustrophobic and rather dirty atmosphere. If this were a theatrical film, it would probably have received a few Academy Award nominations for those sets and costumes, but they are quickly forgotten (as are good performances) in most TV fare. First of all, I am not used to TV movies with production values, sets, costumes, and atmospherics on this plane. I liked this more than did most of the reviewers, but mainly for the visual aspects of the film.