There seems to be a strong desire to make the story more "Dickens-like," and not just in Christopher Bond's version.
The whole "man devouring man," idea.
The struggling economic classes, the treatment of mankind, etc. Those themes were in nearly all of Dickens' major works. And he was the "rock star" of his day, back then... so it isn't surprising.
I find it interesting that a good 20 years before that first Penny Dreadful of Sweeney was published in England, American author Washington Irving picked up on the fantastic "urban legend" of Sweeney Todd floating about the streets of London, and instead of writing that story down himself, decided that American's needed an "urban legend" of their own... So he penned The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. It was directly inspired by (but not based on) the Sweeney stories of the day.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
blocked: logan2, Diamonds3, Hamilton22
