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UNIVERSE TIM BURTON

In one of the posters to promote Sweeney Todd can find some key features of the universe from its director, the great Tim Burton:

The Gothic: Johnny Depp carries a knife in his hands and a cadaverous makeup. It's the same color of Helena Bonham Carter, who is on your side. In the corpus -never better used this word - the film is Burton The Corpse Bride ; here is The bodies of the couple .

macabre: a large blood stain covers some of the letters of the title. The caption says that we are facing "the Demon Barber of Fleet Street." The dominance of black in the poster, the contrast with the red chair and razor blade shining in the dark, do the rest. Burton has been here before, especially in The Nightmare Before Christmas and Sleepy Hollow .

I freak: Johnny Depp in the role of Sweeney Todd, wears a look of being misunderstood by the world. In fact, it is. His desire for revenge will take to become a serial murderer, a greater brand freak. Burton has specialized in monstrous characters, men on the margins of society for bizarre reasons. Monsters Burton freak always have something romantic: the Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Willy Wonka and Batman are, at bottom, idealistic, capable of beating the pulse of all who ask to be like the rest.

Johnny Depp: Burton fetish actor has appeared in six of his films ( The Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Ed Wood, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, The Corpse Bride and Sweeney Todd ). Since we are: Helena Bonham Carter, Burton's partner, has appeared in five and Danny Elfman's music has brought them all from 's Big Adventure Pee-Wee , with the exception of Ed Wood .

The sum is the product unmistakable Burton: a fairy tale for adults. A nightmare in contrasting colors. A strange romantic tale of terror. A high quality film with nods to the class B movies and horror genre. There are only, inevitably, a couple of features, such as his love for cartoons and the art of stop-motion . His next film will Alice in Wonderland , which would suggest that Burton is getting predictable ("Depp in the role of Alice?). However, if one recalls that all remakes ( Planet of the Apes s, Charlie ) ended up being very personal works, chances are, rather, that one day there is talk of Lewis Carroll as a precursor to Tim Burton.