It is too easy to think of the lonely and desperate Edward Scissorhands. But in reality, it's two completely different things.
Tim Burton is still the typical Tim Burton. Bizarre world, cold and strange tones.
Johnny Depp is still the typical Johnny Depp. Depressed, hopeless, neurotic.
It's just that Edward Scissorhands is such a lonely face in the endless red smoke, but Todd the barber is so unreliable.
The barber, Todd, has a skilled craftsmanship and has married a beautiful wife. Then, the wife's beauty was coveted by the powerful justices and robbed. So Todd was exiled, and his wife committed suicide by taking poison.
Come on, how familiar this story is. The leopard head Lin Chong, the 800,000 forbidden army gun and stick instructor, has a beautiful wife. Then, the wife's beauty was coveted by the son of the captain of the court, and was taken by force. So Lin Chong was exiled, and his wife committed suicide.
When Todd returned, he cooperated with Mrs. Lovett to open a barber shop and a biscuits shop, and cooperated to turn the people who came for haircuts into biscuits, killing one after another, causing a river of blood.
Come on, it's more familiar. Caiyuanzi Zhang Qing and Miyasha Sun Erniang opened a small restaurant, and when there was nothing to do, they turned their customers into human flesh buns.
Of course there are some differences.
The title of "800,000 Forbidden Army Guns and Sticks Instructor" is really majestic, but Leopard Head's road to revenge is really useless: Lin Chong, written by Shi Nai'an, failed to kill the enemy in the end, and had to work for the enemy. ; The Hong Kong version of "Heroes" is very YY, and Liang Jiahui's Lin Chong, who is skilled with marksmanship, can only kill Lu Yuhou to vent his anger; Zhang Jizhong's version of "Water Margin" is very refreshing, before being recruited, He arranged for Lin Chong to die of depression because his eldest brother had let the enemy go. As for Caiyuanzi Zhang Qing, he was ranked 102nd in the list of 100 singles and 8 generals, so mediocre that Mr. Shi was too lazy to devote much time.
And Todd is different, except that his hairstyle is a bit "leopard head", he sings while singing, while razor seals his throat, the silver light is shining, and the high profile is so dazzling; he is not like Mr. Cai Yuanzi, who finally tried his best to save his wife. , and was chopped into minced meat together with his wife, but found that "Er Niang" indirectly caused him to accidentally kill "Auntie", so he pushed "Er Niang" into the stove and burned alive while dancing. What is fast, meaning, kindness, and hatred.
I don't expect Tim Burton to tell a wonderful story. The stories he has told are mostly clichéd, and most of them can't think rationally. Thinking too much will inevitably lead to boredom.
However, the story this time, after stripping away the technical sophistication, is actually a bit thin. On the contrary, the innocence and softness that had been hidden behind despair in the past had disappeared this time, and the ruthlessness had gone to the end.
I looked on the Internet and found out that the story about the barber turned out to be a true story: the real Sweeney Todd did exist in London at the end of the 18th century, and he killed countless people and the flesh of the victims Chopped out and sold to Londoners at the then famous Mrs Lovett's butcher shop in London, the still fresh skeletons were dumped in the forgotten burial chambers in the basement of old St Dunstan's Church, so many skeletons that they could be extracted from them. The floor was piled up to the vault of the burial chamber, and the sickening stench of the flesh left over from the bones permeated the church, forcing worshippers to cover their noses with handkerchiefs all the time.
Oh, oh, what a powerful character this is, even the gods dare to mock him and put his corpse in the church, what a genius to do that! I have to say that this time Tim Burton was a bit of a disappointment, and his story was less imaginative than the fact itself.
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