How gross is the new movie Sweeney Todd?!
Question: I really want to see the movie Sweeney Todd, but I'm afraid to go see it because it is rated R and I don't like gory things. Can you tell me exactly how gory Sweeney Todd actually is?
Answers: I really want to see the movie Sweeney Todd, but I'm afraid to go see it because it is rated R and I don't like gory things. Can you tell me exactly how gory Sweeney Todd actually is?
Tim Burton wanted to make the movie version even more gory to emphasize the impact of the actions that Sweeney and Lovett have taken. This is not always possible on stage because no matter how much blood you use, the audience is still 50 feet from the action so the true horror is lost. In the movies though, you can have close-ups and slow motion. Burton made the film especially bloody. The studio asked him at one point to take out some of the gore so that it would be PG-13 and he refused. This movie is rated R because of intense, in your face moments of graphic violence that are not toned down for the viewer.
they murder people and then make pies out of the bodies, and then sell the pies. You decide. I've read/seen more disgusting stuff.
I still want to see it!
What's really gross is that it is based on true events.
The famously dark director Tim Burton puts a special emphasis on the bloodiness of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. And in an Entertainment Weekly interview he spoke of the importance of highly stylized blood and gore effects. "Sweeney should be deliberately grotesque," he said. "A Mario Bava gorefest with ballads."
He took that attitude to such extremes that even studio executives reportedly became squeamish when they viewed grisly footage of prop blood splashing across the set when actor Johnny Depp slits the throats of his customers.
Baz Bamigboye, writing for The Mail on Sunday in the U.K., reported, "During filming at Pinewood studios, prosthetic lookalike limbs were used (obviously the real thing would have been taking realism too far!) and they were so gruesomely lifelike that some of the crew became nauseous and had to take fresh air breaks. ... Those on set were further spooked because there were piles and piles of sliced-up 'corpses,' plus several spare 'necks' in case Burton wanted to shoot several takes of the same throat-cutting scene."
Indeed, blood dribbles through the opening credits and then the gore faucet is steadily opened up from there. In one of the tamer moments, Anthony is thrown into an alleyway and beaten with a cane until his face is bloodied. But once Sweeney starts slicing throats with his razor-sharp shaving blades, we see a half-dozen or more men and one woman have their throats gouged, slit and/or slashed. Open gashes pump out spurts of gore with each heartbeat and in some cases the wounds spout all over Sweeney and the nearby walls and windows. (Think Kill Bill in a barber's chair.) One customer earns the barber's special attention as Sweeney drives his razor into the man's neck like a dagger.
A man kneels embracing a dead woman and has his throat slashed. His blood pours out and covers the woman's upturned face. Bodies drop from Sweeney's chair through a trapdoor to the building's basement, crunching down onto a paving stone floor to bone-snapping and skull-splitting-open-like a-watermelon effect.
We see customers enjoying meat pies that we're told contain the flesh of the barber's murdered patrons. (Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett sing a song about which passersby would taste best in her pies.) Toby bites into a pie and spits out a finger. It's then that he spots the bloody bones stripped bare of flesh that are stacked in the basement corner.
I think it's really gross. The movie talks about a man named Sweeney Todd(Johnny Depp) who wants revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again." Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signor Adolfo Pirelli.