Tim Burton and the macabre

Tim Burton has always been known to tackle themes that involve the macabre. Ranging from a guy having scissors for hands, a "bio-exterminator", a nightmare before Christmas, or maybe even a corpse bride. Though he also deviates from these themes as he has done with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Batman, the more glorious highlights of his career as a director involves those bloody movies and this new addition to his roster is of no exception.

Teaming up once again with long-time collaborators Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, he creates Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. And it looks like a(n Oscar) winner.

I don't actually like the name (of the main character) but hey, Burton isn't the one who actually wrote it since it is an adapatation of a musical. That's right, a musical. And how else can we see that these stars have singing prowess but in a trailer? Well, speaking of the trailer, it's currently HOT in Yahoo! Movies which is the sole official distributor of said trailer (if you don't count the illegal uploads in YouTube :p).

OK, I'm bantering about this film and I haven't even given the plot details yet! Oh, silly me! Well, it's about this man named Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp) who gets wrongly detained in prison and when he gets out, he seeks revenge not only because of his wrong detainment, but also because of the suffering of his wife and daughter under the very judge who sent him to the joint. So he opens a barber shop right on top of a bakery owned by his former landlady, Mrs, Lovett (Helena B. Carter) and cuts, or rather, kills his customers (who are the ones involved in his detainment) and gives it to her! She in turn lets the corpses become the "meat" of her buns both figuratively and literally. Oh, how delectably so!

The film is currently rated R for graphic bloody violence. Yes, it's that violent a musical. But the art direction is sooo top-notch (as you can always expect from a Burton) and the actors are practically A-listers that you can probably see why I suddenly became hyped up over this (I didn't like this idea which involves Depp singing when it was announced in the paper during the Venice Film Festival). Below is the illegal YouTube trailer of the movie. Hope you like it as much as I do...

CAPTION: It's not the same formulaic musical... It's rated R for God's sake!


Release date is December 21 worldwide and is distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures and Dreamworks Pictures SKG.

My New Long Test Diversion
Everyone of us must have some sort of diversion to keep the pressure of the long test week down. I've settled to just reading Harry Potter books during that duration since elementary! But now that the series is over, I'm gonna try reading Good Omens which I mentioned in my previous post as a comical view of the armageddon aside from blogging. :-D