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Sweeney Todd: A life wasted




tragedy worthy of Shakespeare, whose bloody play "Titus Andronicus" also deals with revenge, Sweeney Todd remains closer to the text of Nabokov " Britva ," it seems' s inspire. Published in 1926, this very short novel tells the story of a barber who recognizes the guise of one of his former clients torturer. He faces a moral dilemma, since a single stroke to be enough to assuage feelings of revenge long nurtured.

However, unlike the character in the musical by Stephen Sondheim, the barber decides that Nabokov shed more blood will not change anything and lets out his former jailer unharmed, thus adopting a moral stance worthy.

None of this in Sondheim and Burton, whose Sweeney Todd will stop at nothing to quench his destructive impulses, who will lead him even in death. This theme of revenge has been introduced relatively recently in the long timeline that led this story to us. Appeared in the mid 19th century in a newspaper of cheap fiction for the working classes of England of the Industrial Revolution, it has continued to develop . In 1973 Christopher Bond signs a theatrical adaptation containing the great ideas that Stephen Sondheim resume to compose his musical six years later.

Tim Burton and his screenwriter, John Logan (whose eclectic career has seen him work on Gladiator , Star Trek: Nemesis , The Last Samurai or excellent Aviator Scorsese) had face it difficult to move from a three-hour show to a film of two, while remaining faithful to this well-known story of Anglo-Saxon public. For this, they focused on three main characters (Sweeney, Mrs. Lovett and Toby), spread some songs were shortened and others. The result is up to expectations as can be seen in theaters now, but also to disk: to get attention however the American edition of the soundtrack, the French published by Warner incomplete. Very good listening!

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The hidden treasures




If it was still necessary to prove to skeptics the immense value of this wonderful invention called the Internet, it would help them discover some of the most useful sites on the net: wikipedia, facebook, google and others .. . Yet the tree that hides the forest and it would not do justice to the extraordinary wealth available online. Because the Internet does not always easily revealed: it is a rugged terrain, complex, dense like a jungle where every nook opens to other miniature jungles. There are nuggets in general when we do not seek and when you least expect it. This is how I am fell one day on an intriguing site called Rare Soundtracks Vault . Music fans know that film music cinema has many faces, has many lives and often goes much of his time forgotten in boxes or chests in the form of strips or foils 35 mm rather poorly maintained. One can easily identify three different versions of a movie soundtrack: one that is heard in the film, one that the composer wrote it, and the edited version on CD (and / or now MP3s). There are often great differences between these versions: indeed, the transition to CD often gives the musician the chance to know the full of his work, while the film did only part or kept in the case of a rejection, nothing. The most striking recent example is the score by Gabriel Yared rejected for the film Troy (2004), whose registration had been completed but discarded and replaced by another concocted in a hurry. Impossible before the advent of the Internet to get these tapes, unless you pay for high prices of bootlegs on the dubious quality. It is now within reach of all, felt good in a few clicks.

It remained to deal with all these film music forgotten, that posterity was responsible for erasing the collective memory, and whose marketing has only a modest interest. The author of this blog has taken up the challenge and with a great technical mastery (he shares generously on a page of his site) brings to life scores of unreleased, rare, and sometimes improbable! Extracting music from the DVD or VHS tape of the program in question, by performing a scholarly work of cleaning, clearing of voice / sound effects and editing, he manages to give life to these orchestrations that were thought to definitively lost. And there's something for everyone: the magnificent (John Barry, John Williams), kitsch ( TV series Man from Atlantis , Sankuokai ), the bizarre (the never edited Zardoz ) and sights (the Condorman Henry Mancini ). A labor of love is very serious and has the merit of giving a second life to these ephemeral works that are music to the movies. John Barry fans will be particularly well served by a selection of rare soundtrack ( The Black Hole (pictured), Hanover Street , Svengali, The Deep, Touched By Love ). The author goes so far as to give two versions of his work, one containing the installation and one without, to enjoy the film in all its glory.

is a subtle pleasure of enjoying a movie without images: memories assail when they can, if not the imagination takes over. We smile often alone, headphones on his ears, and say that a good film can listen as much as seeing each other. So a big thank you to the mysterious author of this blog and long life to this exciting adventure ... Made possible by the net.

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I Am Legend: a myth undermined




Speaking of disappointment is an understatement regarding this new adaptation of the novel founder Richard Matheson. If the term of disgust may seem extreme, it is closer to the felt on leaving the room. It is true that the expectation was high, not so much the choice of director Francis Lawrence (Constantine's escaped like me), but when in doubt, you could leave a chance to this young director from the pub and music video. No, what was believed in this project was the first choice of title, returning to that of the original novel, unlike the two previous adaptations and suggesting a greater fidelity. Then, the technological potential of the cinema today on which one could reasonably expect to do better than The Last Man On Earth (1964) and The Omega Man (1971). Importantly, the finding was incredibly fair and terrible Matheson stood a humanity decimated, reduced to the status of the undead, and a private citizen named Robert Neville spends his days eradicate mechanically. The man is isolated, and must defend itself against attacks from his former best friend turned vampire, while trying to understand what happened. If the allegory was relevant in 1954, the date of publication of I Am Legend, it is equally so in 2008, when the human race is given more and more ways to destroy itself slowly. Adapting the novel today was the opportunity to hold up a mirror to contemporary society and remind him that the human race is not eternal.

was also the perfect opportunity to deconstruct the myth of the vampire, looking for rational explanations of phenomena that modern science has the potential to explain within a fantastic work.

If the film is illusion in its first hour, especially through the very detailed description of a New York Apocalypse, he completely loses its consistency thereafter to conclude on a happy ending unlikely. The choice of New York, while the share was originally in the Los Angeles area, suggests the impact of the events of 2001, and the weight that these traumatic images are still weighing on the American psyche. The evacuation scene on the port followed by the destruction of the Brooklyn Bridge at a cost to herself five million dollars for six consecutive nights of shooting. If it does not add much to the development of the narrative, apart from providing an alibi for a scene of tearful separation subsidiary (which is seen twice), there is evidence that these scenes of panic and chaos still fascinate and if the reality has caught up with fiction in 2001, Hollywood always finds new ways to present these images cathartic.

The novel did not hesitate either to use the collective memory, in this case that of the Holocaust, in scenes of mass destruction very disturbing. But these are all annoying aspects of the book (the sexual attraction felt by Neville for women vampires, his character definitely common, the depressive phases leading to alcohol and insanity, the arbitrariness of the murder) that were erased to make room for a hero, albeit one with his dog, but still Scientific and soldier (and why not holy?). The choice of an African-American actor was well seen, but all efforts by Will Smith are not enough. To make matters worse, there are rumors of last minute changes imposed on the director, which we can not believe he had the final cut.

A longer version on DVD will she change our opinion? Response within four months. Meanwhile

and even favor a film adaptations, go take a look at the first, the one with the great Vincent Price, in Black: The Last Man On Earth. If the copy has some defects and is no subtitles, the film is shown free of charge. The wealthy will find the DVD , coupled with another great film about the Apocalypse, Panic In Year Zero (1962).

The Last Man On Earth has the merit of respecting the spirit of the book, even if he does not follow to the letter. After all, one wonders what is the point of adapting a novel, if not to keep the great ideas. This is the case with this American-Italian version, made with a small budget but a passion visible in each shot. Ultimately, I Am Legend is a great novel about human loneliness and isolation. And that, nothing better for the experience that a reading necessarily lonely, face to face with oneself.