Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
RetroBoy
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#1Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:15pm
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TheatreDiva90016
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#2re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:17pm
""That's when I knew (Depp) was a great actor, because that was terrible," the 49-year-old director said. "That was so bad.""
Huh? That makes no sense to me.
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#2re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:22pmI don't quite get it either. I'm trying to think outside of the box here but it isn't working.
#3re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:27pmI is confused...
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#4re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:28pmYup, definitely the scariest part of the movie. I positively shrieked when it came on, and hid my head in my arm. Poor Depp for having to shoot it...
#5re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:28pm
I think I'm trapped in that box too...
It's as if the writer left out a few paragraphs.
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#6re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:28pm
I may not be the smartest person, but I get what he's saying.
Terrible, as in, terrible to watch something so unfair happen to him at such a happy time in his life.
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morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#7re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 5:32pm
It's arguably the most normal scene in the movie, and both Depp and Burton could hardly stomach it.
Is the article trying to say that Depp and Burton aren't accustomed to doing "normal" scenes or "normal" movies?
Those scenes are a departure from their usual style?
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neddyfrank2
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#10re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 6:07pm
Burton said the extreme melodrama of the scene was difficult to watch.
"That's when I knew (Depp) was a great actor, because that was terrible," the 49-year-old director said. "That was so bad."
I think Burton was upset by how cheesy/corny that scene was, and that the fact that Depp was able to make it a little more watchable is what makes him a great actor.
I didn't think the scene was that bad, but to each his/her own I guess...
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Does the earth really spin around the sun?
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What's it matter in the least?
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#11re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 6:52pmReprise that makes sense. And if that is the case then it would make sense considering the type of stuff that Tim Burton is used to shooting.
#12re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 6:57pm
Weird, party of two please...
Weird.
Hmmm... I think what's so hard to stomach is that both of these "creative people" are okay with twisted characters doing twisted things to each other. Because they're already twisted. And everything around them is, too.
But show us an innocent, normal Sweeney... at the moment he becomes lost in twisted Hell for the rest of his life...
That's too painful for Burton or Depp to come to grips with. It's the defining moment that changes everything.
But Burton is viewing this from his "God on high" position. The omnipotent understanding of what is taking place at that moment. Sweeney doesn't know that everything is about to change forever. He just got whacked on the head and dragged away. For no good reason. That's all he knows, at that point.
What *I* find painful to watch is Helena's moment of realization in that (most horrific and haunting) scene in the film when she knows Toby must die. She has a "normal" emotional reaction to the boy. And in the twisted, murderous, cannibalistic world they live in... THAT would be much tougher to take.
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Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#13re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 7:09pmIt's just written weird and/or quoted weird. When Burton left sobbing, was he sobbing from laughter?
#14re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 7:10pmthe inmpression I got was that the it was so hard to play/direct a scene where such an innocent and happy life is destroyed by total injustice.
....but the world goes 'round
#15re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 7:15pm
Phyllis---Burton was sobbing because it was "too much" for him emotionally to direct. He wouldn't have left the set otherwise.
This is a very sensitive, kinda nutty man. And he's NOT a very articulate person, as many of his interviews will show you. He never has been.
"That was bad," is such a generically nothing sentence. Typical Burton. He should bring along a translator to all interviews.
This is why Depp and Burton work so well together. They speak each other's creative shorthand, when so many others don't "get" them.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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#16re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 7:25pm
"What *I* find painful to watch is Helena's moment of realization in that (most horrific and haunting) scene in the film when she knows Toby must die."
Me, too, b12b. I watched SWEENEY a second time yesterday and that scene got to me. The first time I was totally unfazed by everything; unimpressed. But I enjoyed the film the second time around and the aforementioned scene really tugged. I can understand now why some folks here are lobbying for an Oscar nod.
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#17re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 8:20pmBest, that's what I thought it meant, too, but it's still reads weirdly. So he's worried that Depp will cringe at the scenes in the future because of how Burton carried on?
#18re: Depp reveals scariest scene to film in 'Sweeney'
Posted: 12/30/07 at 8:38pmYes, they are both definitely on a different plane. It probably made more sense live than written down in an article.
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