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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