segunda-feira, janeiro 21, 2008
Welcome Sweeney
Sweeney Todd é um musical negro mas divertido, que acaba mal mas que se vê muito bem, repleto de boas canções, bem cantadas e, acima de tudo, um Sweeney que é uma mistura de Jack Sparrow com Beetlejuice e de Jack o Estripador com Eduardo Mãos de Tesoura - tudo papéis desempenhados por Depp, excluindo Beetlejuice, que bem poderia ter sido ele. As personagens mais fortes são, de longe, a de Johnny Depp (bela voz de rock! Algumas vezes a fazer lembrar a voz do capitão Sparrow) e de Helena Honham Carter.
O sangue a rodos é uma das características mais fortes do filme mas Burton consegue desviar-se do grotesco quanto baste. Sweeney está condenado, como o próprio diz à partida. Ele faz parte da podridão de Londres, em tempos muito austeros.
O sangue a rodos é uma das características mais fortes do filme mas Burton consegue desviar-se do grotesco quanto baste. Sweeney está condenado, como o próprio diz à partida. Ele faz parte da podridão de Londres, em tempos muito austeros.
A parte final do filme dá-lhe um ar de tragédia grega impressionante, a fazer lembrar que nem todos os musicais terminam bem, que quem age por vingança pode ficar cego...
No Place Like London
There was a barber and his wife
and she was beautiful...
a foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason for his life...
and she was beautiful, and she was virtuous.
And he was nieve.
There was another man who saw
that she was beautiful...
A biased vulture of the law
who, with a gesture of his claw
removed the barber from his plate!
And there was nothing but to wait!
And she would fall!
So soft!
So young!
So lost and oh so beautiful!
There's a whole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren't worth what a pin can spit
and it goes by the name of London.
At the top of the hole sit the previlaged few
Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo
turning beauty to filth and greed...
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru
but there's no place like London!
There was a barber and his wife
and she was beautiful...
a foolish barber and his wife.
She was his reason for his life...
and she was beautiful, and she was virtuous.
And he was nieve.
There was another man who saw
that she was beautiful...
A biased vulture of the law
who, with a gesture of his claw
removed the barber from his plate!
And there was nothing but to wait!
And she would fall!
So soft!
So young!
So lost and oh so beautiful!
There's a whole in the world like a great black pit
and the vermin of the world inhabit it
and its morals aren't worth what a pin can spit
and it goes by the name of London.
At the top of the hole sit the previlaged few
Making mock of the vermin in the lonely zoo
turning beauty to filth and greed...
I too have sailed the world and seen its wonders,
for the cruelty of men is as wonderous as Peru
but there's no place like London!
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