Sam Mendes SWEENEY TODD- What Might Have Been? — Page 4

For those of you said no one laughed in your theatre, you must have a pretty boring audience. People were howling at Carter.

She was absolutely fabulous.

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HBC was fine in some of the acting sequences as previously mentioned. Which makes the rest of her performance more painful. I found myself thinking though "if this is what she sounds like WITH Protools how bad must she otherwise be? Even when she is active ( G*d That's Good)she still comes across as cardboard. But I blame her director more than her. She has to go in the direction he points or end up in an artistic wrangle ( not to mention a home life)
Total aside- Any one catch Anthony Heads miniscule cameo after Pirelli's Elixer?

"A woman who has already resigned herself to death."

Exactly.

How does that serve the text?

Did she think she was playing Sweeney?

And for absolutely the LAST time, I did not expect (or want) Bonham Carter or anyone else to try to ape the previous stage interpretations of Lovett. I understand the difference between stage and film acting, and between stage and film musicals. John Logan's adaptation was for the most part brilliant (the underemphasized Beggar Woman notwithstanding) and there were several stunning sequences. I have already stated that I admired Bonham-Carter's choices during "Not While I'm Around"--her performance actually came to life for a scene or two, before she lapsed into her usual vague, abstracted, apathetic manner. She began to make Sweeney look positively joyous.

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