A BUNCH of SWEENEY Film Clips..(Priest, Toby, Pirelli etc.)

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http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=%20%203789&Itemid=99

PRIEST sounds great. I'm not used to such a young sounding Toby. Everything looks great though.

Updated On: 11/27/07 at 10:34 AM

The IMDB freaks are of course going nuts, saying one of the greatest Sondheim songs (Not While I'm Around) has been ruined.

It's just going to take time to get used to this Toby. But it is indeed chilling.

Updated On: 11/27/07 at 10:44 AM

Holy crap!

The "My Friends" clip gave me the shivers.

Re: Toby - real little boys are forbidden in the theatre. Those roles should only by played by 25 year old midgets. And Wendy in Peter Pan should be played by a 25 year old woman with her breasts strapped down.

Updated On: 11/27/07 at 10:51 AM

This MADE my morning.

Thank you!

Priest is hilarious.

OH
MY
GOD!


They are freaking awesome! This is the first time I actually thought Carter could pull it off.

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Part of me really wants to believe that's Sasha Baron Cohen belting at the end of "The Contest."

I love Alan Rickman. Perfect choice for Turpin.

There is something about "Not While I'm Around" that just feels wrong to watch...but completely right at the same time. The way Lovett is lying and the candle light almost make it seem sexual in a way that's both inappropriate and intriguing considering who's singing to her.

^If that makes any sense at all.

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All the parts are played older in the stage version because the premise is that they are reenacting the story for us after the fact. Sweeney rises from the grave and they all tell the tale. This was portrayed more clearly in the revival with Toby "telling" the tale from the asylum he ended up in at the end of the tale. But the original also hints at this conceit.

Toby was, in fact, a boy when the story they are retelling/reenacting on stage took place. Since the movie depicts the story in real time, as it happens, Toby should be played by a boy. And Sweeney and Lovett also appear younger than we are used to.

Those clips give me nothing but hope. I am so excited for this. I could not have imagined that musical films would make a comeback, and Sweeney would have been the last one I thought would be made. I feel like I'm sharing a special treasured possession with the rest of the world.

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Ok, I don't know the Sweeney story well, at all.

But In "You Gandered at My Ward," why did it seem like Rickman was hitting on the kid? Or was he just threatening?

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HOLY
MOTHER!

I resisted clicking the link (for all of 2 seconds) for fear of ruining the surprise. These are utterly chilling. I swallow any thoughts I may have had months ago. It truly looks and sounds like they've pulled this one off.

I think I laugh-shuddered out-loud watching "Pamper You" and "My Friends"

Updated On: 11/27/07 at 12:01 PM

I am anticipating the scene at the end with Toby and Sweeney. Wonder how this actor is going to play that scene. It gives me chills just thinking about it. Can't wait. He looks a bit detached wile singing "Not while I'm around" which threw me a bit. But of course that is only a clip. Have to see the performance leading up to that point in the movie. I will be in the theater on Christmas morning.

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"I have to stop watching stuff now though. I'm afraid I'll spoil the experience of my first big screen viewing."

Same thought here.

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Ah... my fears about this adaptation are being eliminated one by one...

Sweet!