Sweeney Todd

Mary Todd Lincoln played a huge role in getting the United States where it is today. As the wife of Abraham Lincoln, she made a huge impact on his decisions to run for President and what he did during his presidency. She was a strong opinionated woman who had mental illnesses. Mary Todd Lincoln was mentally unstable because of her childhood, her losses, and her temper. Mary was born on December 13, 1818 in Lexington, KY. Her parents, Robert and Eliza Todd, had six children, Mary was the third…

Margarita Engle’s poem, “The Life of a Digger,” and Erica Funkhouser’s poem, “My Father’s Lunch,” reveal how life as manual laborers are filled with hard and strenuous work. Additionally, both poems concern specific people to show the differences in the repercussions of their work. In Engle’s poem, Henry the digger, finds his job leaves him feeling undignified, whereas in Funkhouser’s poem, the speakers father is rewarded with a good meal and his children’s appreciation. In both poems, the…

Mary Todd Lincoln, President Abraham Lincoln’s wife, would often write letters to the President who was located in Washington D.C. at the time. He was a busy man, of course, dealing his role in the government. During a time in 1862, Mary wrote him about many different things, which included topics that were both political and personal. This letter written to him in November of 1862 offers insight to not only their relationship as husband and wife, but as the President and the First Lady. As a…

Gogh, and many more. From all of these people he has been inspired by, he was influenced to create an unusual and unique style. Three movies I have chosen to analyze are Edward Scissorhands (1990), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2006), and Sweeney Todd (2007). He uses cinematic techniques to make his movies one of a kind. He uses techniques such as camera angles, lighting, and music to create a dark, child-like feeling. There are many types of…

commonly makes is protagonists an “outsider”. His characters are usually outside of societies normality’s and don’t fit in either physically or mentally. This is shown through the protagonists in Burton’s films: Edward Scissorhands, Vincent and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Tim Burton uses the protagonist Edward, in the 1990 feature film Edward Scissorhands to evoke compassion amongst audience members as Edward embodies the ancient primal need to be both loved and belong to a…

of Victor, who was practicing his wedding vows in the woods when Emily, a murdered young bride, rises from the grave believing he has married her, and takes him to the Land of the Dead with her. In 2007, Burton directed the horror musical film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet…

of the convention. Everything that he does in this movie is to gain the approval of his mother; this shows how toxic that relationship is. Another movie that is a very good example is “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”. Todd’s family is very separated and do not really recognize each other. Sweeney Todd thinks that his wife and daughter are perfect ideals of women and do not recognize them because of that. This idealization causes his daughter to run away and him to kill his wife.…

million and it grossed more than $40 million at the North American box office.Burton asked Danny Elfman to provide music for the film, and he has scored every film that Burton has directed with the exception of: Ed Wood (the falling out they had); Sweeney Todd (music was based on sound stephen sound heims musical); Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Burton received his next big project: Beetlejuice(1988), and the film grossed $80 million on a relatively low budget and won an…

My critique is on the musical titled Heathers. Producers include J. Todd Harris, Amy Powers, R.J. Hendricks, and Andy Cohen. Andy Fickman is the director of this musical. Heathers premiered on September 13, 2010, at the Hudson Backstage Theatre in Los Angeles. The number of people in attendance is unknown. There were 18 people in the Broadway cast, not including the ensemble. The musical piqued my interest. I would not recommend this to anyone younger than me. There is death, killing, the…

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum is an interesting musical, in that it is a musical that is markedly different from most of Sondheim's other works. "Everybody Ought to Have a Maid" is a good example of a silly song that Sondheim wrote without any particular reason, other than for the audience's amusement. Though the song does add humor, it is not necessary to the musical, overall, and it would likely be just as good without it. Its melody is memorable enough, but it does not…