just got back a little while ago from seeing Sweeny Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and it was fabulous. This was my second time seeing the film on the big screen, the first when it was released on Christmas day in 2007. It is a total Tim Burton film through and through and his aesthetic works so well with the story of a barber who slits the throats of his victims with his razor and his cohort, the devilish Mrs. Lovett, who bakes them into meat pies to serve to the hungry throngs of London. I think my favorite song from the film is "Little Priest" in which Mrs. Lovett (played by Helena Bonham Carter) and the killer Todd (played by Johnny Depp) discuss the various flavors they will have from all of the victims he will slay. Hollywood needs to wake up and do more musicals; there should be a ratio like 2 musicals to every non-musical or something like that. I truly believe in the bottom of my soul that the world would be better off with more musicals in it for mass consumption. Life is always better with a song that can be sung.
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