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Published: 2007-12-29 07:13:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 3630; Favourites: 62; Downloads: 31
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I've always had friends telling me about Sweeney Todd and how fantastic it was, and how I should go see it if I ever get the chance. And now there's a Tim Burton version of it out. So I had to go rent out a previous version first. One in the shop was a BBC series or something, and looked like it took the whole thing too seriously, so I left that alone. But low and behold, there was a version with Angela Lansbury. So much love for her.I don't know who the guy that was playing Sweeney Todd is, but his neck fat was so much fun to draw, I fucking swear, I could draw it all day. Angela's soft shoeing through every other number had me in stitches.
And because the way the characters looked in that version was more or less the way I've always pictured them, just from hearing about the play from others...
I have to roll my eyes at the prettification that Sweeney and Lovett got in the Burton Flick. They got turned into the goth versions of hollywood hotties.
I love goth. I love hot goths. It just seems weird to impose them where they didn't exist before. Actually, yes and no. My idea of hot usually doesn't coincide with most people's idea of hot, so scratch that.
Oh well. Besides that, the new movie still looks really cool. I need to go see it before the slash that came from 'OMG DEPP AND RICKMAN ARE IN THE SAME MOVIE' ruin it for me. Not to mention the goth fairy fanart versions of Lovett that ignore that Carter was at least given some wrinkles in the movie, from what I've seen anyway.
I need to buy a copy of the Angela version too, that thing was fucking awesome.
Note of the Obvious - I can rant about some pretty stupid, trivial things.
Oh, and I don't own these characters. I have no idea who does.
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I do not think I will ever get tired of looking at this.
And yes, his neck fat is truly something to behold.
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Lansbury!Lovett = INSTANT WIN.
Extra points for the pseudoGerman/deranged-fairy-godmother dress you've got her in.
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the guy is George Hearn and it kills me that everyone looooooves the timburton/johnnydepp version (i like them too, but sofuckingwhat?) when Hearn's voice is enough to make you cry.
but yeah alan rickman... singing... omgJOYGASM
you really caught the personalities and expressions. very, very nice.
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The man's name is George Hearn and he's my favorite Sweeney Todd.
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oh wow - the characterizations of these two was done very nicely.
i espically like the hearn one in the lower left hand corner... and the one beside it xD
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I think I want to marry you. Seriously it's not only the fact that you drew my favorite Sweeney versions and did it rediculasly well and George Herns neck meats are awesome, BUT in your artists comments you basicaly pointed out my views of Burtons film :B I love this I love you! +fav!
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I just have to say it because I have recently witnessed it: a giant cardboard thingy of Depp-Sweeney's head, in my mom's town's theather, covered in pink, starkly lipstick kisses. Right on his cheek.
That is all.
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XD Yeah that is pretty aweful, we had a figure of Snape in our local borders and it had a big lipstick kiss on the box. No one bought it for weeks D:
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Poor Alan Rickman. I see his cool voice factor, but not so much his sexgod factor o_O
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Fangirls do scare the almighty ba-jesus out of me ;_;
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I saw that version of Sweeney too! I loved Lovette in that! She reminded me of Sailor moon on crack.
My only problem with that version was, everytime I saw Johanna, especially in her song "Green finch and linnet bird" I wanted to do very unhappy things to her until she could sing no longer.
I saw the movie, it was awesome. And even though they changed the designs SEVERELY, it was, atleast to me, an improvement, they cut out the song about different colors of blond hair, and Johanna has a pretty voice. If you haven't seen it yet by the time I'm commenting on this, OMG SEE IT NOW LOLZ!!!1! ...but if you have, can we giggle like little school girls?
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Heh, her song didn't bother me too much, if only because it seemed like an obvious dose of 'See how ridiculously pure and innocent and sweet she is and how much this contrasts with the rest of the story!' but it isn't one I watch on youtube ever
I saw the movie, it was okay. I loved the overly fake blood, that was fantastic. I've got a stick up my butt over making characters younger and prettier looking than they were before, but I would have loved to have seen Sweeney and Lovett's outfits and makeup on Hearn and Lansbury.
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gleehee~ *giggle giggle snort*
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Oh dear lord, there's ST slash?! D: I'm half tempted to go looking for it, sadly.
The two versions are very different. I gotta say, I do like Hearn's Sweeney in terms of the actual character portrayed, but Depp's Sweeney certainly wasn't bad on the eyes.
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Stephen Sondheim owns those characters.
I think.
At least he owns those versions.
And the musical > the movie.
Not that the movie wasn't great.
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I think the "hottification" of Sweeney and Lovett came with the whole Burton stylization of the film. I personally don't mind, but I know there will be a new crop of Sweeney fans that don't realize that Sweeney is supposed to look like he could be a blacksmith, or that Lovett is supposed to be slatternly.
I absolutely adore how you did Lansbury!Lovett. It's got evil, it's got some comic flair, and I love the meat pie.
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Just saw the Burton movie today, and it really was gorgeous. Depp and Carter were good, but still didn't sit right with me. But I know that's all to do with expectations, people who've never heard of Sweeney Todd before will probably eat it up.
...*is shot*
I need to draw Lansbury!Lovett doing the thing where she hides her face behind a meat pie when she's laughing.
"That's a picalo player."
"How can you tell?" *hides behind pie*
"It's piping hot!"
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(*snickersnort) "Then blow on it first!"
I would love to see a fanart of Lansbury Lovett hiding behind the pie.
That part had me in stitches. LOL. I plan on buying this version on DVD, too.
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I totally want to see both versions. The movie, AND the original play with Angela Lansbury. They both look like they're chock full of AWESOME!! BTW, great sketches
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and I don't mind "prettifying" something for Hollywood's version as long as who they get can do justice to the character and it looks to me like Depp definetly can. (He hates being considered a "pretty boy" and if there's anything he can do, it's psychotic) Unlike other plays that got mindlessly prettfied that shall remain nameless (PHANTOM OF THE OPERA!!!!)
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Btw, I think the guy with the neck fat is Len Cariou
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Yeah, I agree with you entirely on the pretty goth thing. Makes me think of what they did with Bellatrix in the HP movies... not that the character wasn't totally hot and cool and stuff, but she sure didn't look like something who'd been through a hellish, mind-bending ordeal and back again.
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I like Makani's Bellatrix quite a lot. The hot is there, but it takes a firm backseat to the batshitcrazy.
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Yeah, Makani's Bellatrix is cool in an evil stepmother way. So far, though, your Bellatrix has been the best I've seen - EVERYTHING takes a backseat to the batshit crazy.
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Awesome sketches-- it's nice to see another perspective on Sweeney and Lovett-- I was afraid everyone was going to be drawing the pretty pretty gothic movie versions of them now.
I need to see that Lansbury production now. I 
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Like this one, ya? [link]
To be fair, the new movie versions aren't as pretty as THAT.
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Yes, exactly like that. I mean, it's lovely, and I like it, but if EVERYONE draws them that way it'll get boring.
True, although Depp could be debatable.
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It's a gorgeous bit of art, but yeah, full on cutification.
And yeah, agreed.
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So, curious, who's yer favorite Sweeney character?
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Mrs. Barker, I think. She tought me a few new phrases that I enjoy quite a lot.
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Personally, I always had a soft spot for Toby. Poor kid.
And Sweeney's awesomeness, too.
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Poor, sweet little boy and his gin. All the characters are awesome, really, even the cardboard sailor hero and Johanna.
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Very very feminine cardboard sailor hero. Whose line "yes" after Mrs. Lovett commented that "this is all so romantic" made me giggle. Just ... the way he delivered it.
Joanna annoyed me a little, but she grew on me as the movie went on. I liked Antony better than her, though.
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you know, this might be the one time I will look slash in the face and say, "NO, BITCH!" Because ugh... those characters are the most incompatible people in the world! Rule 34 be damned.
But yes, the new movie is made of Win and Moar Win, whereas the Broadway production with Angela Lansbury is made of Yay, mostly because of Angela herself being an awesome actress.
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I could argue, for the sake of theory, that all rival pairings are fair game. Assume one's a boy and the other a girl, and the sexual tension becomes obvious, or at least expected. Doesn't mean it makes sense in all cases, just that when a boy and a girl are involved it's a given.
But it's really not fitting when one really does want to kill another for a very specific offense. That goes beyond even people who ship Nny and Devi, imagining them happy together.
BTW, I looked, there's already two LJ groups dedicated to Sweeney/Judge.
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O_O two?! *hides*
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LOLOLOL SWEENEY'S FACE IS FLOATING AWAY LIKE A HAPPY PIZZA
(oh, he's played by George Hearn in the original stage musical.)
omfg heart this.
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Floating away like a happy pizza, that pleases me so.
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OMGLOL @ Lansbury!Lovett-- I love her little apron and her smile. ahaha.
and yesss to everything you were saying about prettification and gothetc.ness. by the way.
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I don't really know what you're talking about, but these sketches are really cool. 
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