I feel the same way about Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd as you do about Croneberg's The Fly, and Sin City. So long as you're braced for the gore (not to mention Helen Bonham Carter!) you should be alright.
I hope you draw Mr. Depp's Todd! He's bloody, but gorgeous with that streak of white in his hair!
So long as you're braced for the gore (not to mention Helen Bonham Carter!) you should be alright. I take that that you don't like Mrs. Bonham Carter? I've seen her only in a couple of films up to now and found her okay; her appearance fits wonderfully into the early-20th-century Edwardian period films, like A Room with a View. And oh, (apart from that) not to forget her Bellatrix in the HP films!
I hope you draw Mr. Depp's Todd! He's bloody, but gorgeous with that streak of white in his hair! Yes, the hair is fan-tas-ti-co, innit? Believe me, my pencils call for me already... I guess I'll have to watch the whole thing and I'll see if I still feel like drawing this mad Figaro.
Room With a View was the first role I saw HBC in, and I loved her. I also liked her in Fight Club, probably because it took me a long time to realize it was her. But other than those two very different roles, she usually grates on my nerves in a way that makes her impossible to ignore. I think I partly despise her acting because it's always of a sort that looks like acting; she doesn't play subtle well, at all. IMVHO, of course!
I partly despise her acting because it's always of a sort that looks like acting; she doesn't play subtle well, at all. That's interesting. I have the sneaking suspicion that maybe the dubbing added a certain subletly to her acting, so I never noticed an unnerving tendency. Most actresses are being bestowed with soft girlish dubbing voices, so when I lately heard her own voice I was amazed how different she sounded to my ears. Much deeper and heftier.
Ditto to everything you said about Alan Rickman, Maeglian. :-) His colonel Brandon was superb and he *is* the ultimate embodiment of Severus Snape, without any doubt! Do you happen to know Galaxy Quest, in which he plays a member of a has-been SF-TV-series cast? It's such a great comedy and Rickman is simply hilarious!
I think there is a fine line between 'horror' and 'splatter' films. A horror movie may contain some splatter film elements, but it's the tenor that makes the difference. All those Hostel and Saw films seem to exist for just one reason: to satisfy the very lowest 'human' instincts. It's awful and I tend to think of them as a continuation of the old Roman circensis; Thumbs down, I'll say.
I really hope with you that Heath's "Joker" is not that one-dimensional nightmare sadist character, but a more complex villain to some extent. And there are still his other parts that will be his fondly remembered legacy.
Okay, we'll comparing our ST notes and whether we liked Johnny's singing. :-)
Whiteling, Your artwork is astonishingly good...wonderful stuff !!
I am looking forward to your depiction of Our Mr Depp as Sweeney Todd with relish - you are going to do one, aren't you ?!!
I, myself am going this very Tuesday to see this movie, along with Jewelsong and Lorely_se, and Opaline 57, and a few other notables...what a treat !!! I am a fan of both Tim and Johnny, and have been for a while - their collaberations are always spell-bindingly fascinating, even when it is ostensibly a kid's film ( "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - my review for which can be found here :-
Well, thank you for the compliment, Wendy! ... My f-list will know it first if I actually manage a Johnny-as-Sweeney Portrait. There is something very compelling in this worn look he has as ST. You lucky lady, to see the film soon in such good company! Enjoy! :-)
Thank you also for your link to your Charlie and the Chocolate Factory review. It's one of my favourite movies - great fun, groovy music and a super cast. I even learned the Oompa Loompa dance by means of the lessons in the extras. :-D
Oh, Whiteling, I really like these drawings. I have never seen them before. Gosh, you are talented. You produce an excellent likeness, but you also bring out something of each character that must be the product of your own observing eye and sensibilities. I love the one of Jeff Goldblum as the scientist Seth Brundle in The Fly. It's as if you've managed to capture, subtly, the hell he was in while just showing him in his capsule thingy. I thought that was a great movie, by the way, but almost too horrible to watch--not just because of grossness but because of the suspense, and the tragedy of his transformation and decline
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Thank you very much, Mechtild, for your kind comments on the drawings. It's a petty that I couldn't find the other drawing I made from Norman Bates. I would have liked to put it in this post too, because it shows a great light and shadow play, but when I scoured all my portfolios for it it seemed to have disappeared. Will add it in case it shows up again.
I thought that was a great movie, by the way, but almost too horrible to watch--not just because of grossness but because of the suspense, and the tragedy of his transformation and decline. I agree with you that it was well done movie and a gripping tale. It were all those icky special effects I could not stand, they really gave me nightmares. I was too much reminded of Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis", which always causes me feelings of discomfort; I'm rather squeamish when it comes to montrous bodily transformation. The end of The Fly almost teared me up, it was hard to bear. (But I think it was one of Goldblum's finest performances, besides from Mr. FrostSo, you are not going
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I asked my daughter (who loves monster, action and suspense films) if she'd like to watch The Fly again with me while she's home. I've only seen it once long ago (on video) and your drawing made me want to see it again. She said no! Too gross! I must have shut my eyes during the worst parts, because I'm no fan of "gross" either.
The film could have been an impressive spooky romance, a tale like from the German Romantic fantasy and horror author E.T.A. Hoffmann, but all the crude blood ruined it to a certain extent.
You are right! It would have been great done that way. Too bad it wasn't; Tim Burton is a talented artist who could have pulled it off.
Your daughter spared you a lot of gross stuff by saying no. If you would not live sooo far away, I would come and we could watch it together (would have to put my hand over my eyes at several points though... and I'd need earplugs too, since Howard Shore's score is all too aptly gruesome...).
By the way, my dear fellow art lover, I posted a bit of dated artwork of mine in my reply to Morrelli below, as we were discussing Johnny Depp's performance in The Libertine (set in the English Restoration period) and I thought you might be interested to have a look. :-)
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Mariole, dear, it's only me, little harmless Whiteling *miaow*
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I hope you draw Mr. Depp's Todd! He's bloody, but gorgeous with that streak of white in his hair!
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I take that that you don't like Mrs. Bonham Carter? I've seen her only in a couple of films up to now and found her okay; her appearance fits wonderfully into the early-20th-century Edwardian period films, like A Room with a View. And oh, (apart from that) not to forget her Bellatrix in the HP films!
I hope you draw Mr. Depp's Todd! He's bloody, but gorgeous with that streak of white in his hair!
Yes, the hair is fan-tas-ti-co, innit? Believe me, my pencils call for me already... I guess I'll have to watch the whole thing and I'll see if I still feel like drawing this mad Figaro.
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That's interesting. I have the sneaking suspicion that maybe the dubbing added a certain subletly to her acting, so I never noticed an unnerving tendency. Most actresses are being bestowed with soft girlish dubbing voices, so when I lately heard her own voice I was amazed how different she sounded to my ears. Much deeper and heftier.
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Do you happen to know Galaxy Quest, in which he plays a member of a has-been SF-TV-series cast? It's such a great comedy and Rickman is simply hilarious!
I think there is a fine line between 'horror' and 'splatter' films. A horror movie may contain some splatter film elements, but it's the tenor that makes the difference. All those Hostel and Saw films seem to exist for just one reason: to satisfy the very lowest 'human' instincts. It's awful and I tend to think of them as a continuation of the old Roman circensis; Thumbs down, I'll say.
I really hope with you that Heath's "Joker" is not that one-dimensional nightmare sadist character, but a more complex villain to some extent. And there are still his other parts that will be his fondly remembered legacy.
Okay, we'll comparing our ST notes and whether we liked Johnny's singing. :-)
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Your artwork is astonishingly good...wonderful stuff !!
I am looking forward to your depiction of Our Mr Depp as Sweeney Todd with relish - you are going to do one, aren't you ?!!
I, myself am going this very Tuesday to see this movie, along with Jewelsong and Lorely_se, and Opaline 57, and a few other notables...what a treat !!! I am a fan of both Tim and Johnny, and have been for a while - their collaberations are always spell-bindingly fascinating, even when it is ostensibly a kid's film ( "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" - my review for which can be found here :-
http://wendylady1.livejournal.com/5604.html
If you don't like the splatter aspect of horror films, then you may not like this one...I hear it is fair riddled with gushings of blood !!
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You lucky lady, to see the film soon in such good company! Enjoy! :-)
Thank you also for your link to your Charlie and the Chocolate Factory review. It's one of my favourite movies - great fun, groovy music and a super cast. I even learned the Oompa Loompa dance by means of the lessons in the extras. :-D
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I thought that was a great movie, by the way, but almost too horrible to watch--not just because of grossness but because of the suspense, and the tragedy of his transformation and decline.
I agree with you that it was well done movie and a gripping tale. It were all those icky special effects I could not stand, they really gave me nightmares. I was too much reminded of Kafka's novella "The Metamorphosis", which always causes me feelings of discomfort; I'm rather squeamish when it comes to montrous bodily transformation. The end of The Fly almost teared me up, it was hard to bear. (But I think it was one of Goldblum's finest performances, besides from Mr. FrostSo, you are not going ( ... )
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The film could have been an impressive spooky romance, a tale like from the German Romantic fantasy and horror author E.T.A. Hoffmann, but all the crude blood ruined it to a certain extent.
You are right! It would have been great done that way. Too bad it wasn't; Tim Burton is a talented artist who could have pulled it off.
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If you would not live sooo far away, I would come and we could watch it together (would have to put my hand over my eyes at several points though... and I'd need earplugs too, since Howard Shore's score is all too aptly gruesome...).
By the way, my dear fellow art lover, I posted a bit of dated artwork of mine in my reply to Morrelli below, as we were discussing Johnny Depp's performance in The Libertine (set in the English Restoration period) and I thought you might be interested to have a look. :-)
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