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miss-bvnny · 7 months

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And what if none of their souls were saved? They went to their maker impeccably shaved

My own little spooky challenge for the month!! Two of my favorite things: Sweeney Todd 07, and giving fictional characters government assigned fursonas!!

Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett - Dalmatian and Red fox

When I started this, I KNEW I wanted Todd to be an animal that was black and white. The monochromatic theme in Depp's version of Sweeney is SO Tim Burton that I wanted to preserve it. ALMOST settled on a skunk, but the thought of dalmatian spots mixing with blood spots was TOO cool of a concept in my eyes. TBH there WAS a time when I was tempted to make him a fox, because Sweeney TODD. Get it? But I held off because I didn't want to reuse specific animals TOO much. Speaking of which-

Mrs Lovett was always a fox from the first second. It fits her entire character (Seductive, trickster, lots of red, not to be trusted) FAR too well. The way her ears are posed are also supposed to bring a pair of horns to mind. Something DEEPLY wrong with this woman <3333

Lucy Barker/Miserable Woman - Afghan hound

PROBABLY a very uninspired and obvious choice, but...I wanted to draw ''hair ears'' lmao. Sweeney describes her blonde hair as one of the only things he remembers about her, so I wanted a dog breed that naturally had long blonde hair about it. I de-saturated her colors for her ''Miserable Woman'' look to make her look sadder and dirtier.

Anthony and Johanna - Mutt and Golden dalmatian

Yes I KNOW they look like Scamp and Angel okay. The inspiration was intentional but I might've accidentally strayed...TOO close to the source.

Johanna was one of two characters that took me on a bit of a trip. First she was an Afghan just like Lucy, then she was a doe, but I decided to have a little more fun with her. I made her a golden dalmatian, with the ''dalmatian'' coming from her father and the ''Golden'' coming from her mother. I imagined she's a bit like Oddball from 102 Dalmatians, where she's actually ''blank'' aside from the spots on her face and the two on her shoulder (she gets these ones from Todd) The black on her ear is also from Todd. I could have chosen the easy way out and made her look like her mother, but in my own silly way I thought it'd be fucked up if she looked like her father, considering the scene they share near the end of the movie.

Anthony is a sailor, so I gave him a very ''Sea dog'' mutt look. I just kind of...combined a bunch of traits and characteristics that I thought would work for him. You can see a LITTLE of Toughy from LATT in him, only because I liked the eye patch and all the scruff.

Tobias Ragg (aka Toby) - Bat

Toby was a fun one!! Oh, look how adorable he is!!! Since Toby has the final kill of the movie, and he kills Todd at that, I wanted him something small and cute but...potentially very dangerous. I settled on a bat, because they're very cute and they can carry rabies!!

And yes, that's his wig he's carrying. Didn't know how to portray him holding a pie, and I wasn't about to draw him drinking a bottle of gin, so I thought his little wig might be cute. He was honestly one of my favorites to draw <3

Adolfo Pirelli - Ring-tailed lemur

Pirelli is a ring-tailed lemur for two reasons. The first reason, is because since all the other animals are quadrupeds, having a bipedal animal felt more ''exotic'' to go with how he's seen as very special and from out of town. It makes him stick out naturally as someone of note.

The second reason he's a lemur.......is because he's played by Sacha Baron Cohen in 07.

Beadle Bamford and Judge Turpin - Hyena and Vulture

Yeah I'm just gonna come out and say it - Beadle Bamford is one of my fav characters in this movie so I made him a Hyena out of pure favoritism. Having Timothy Spall play him the same year he was Nathaniel in Enchanted was just for me, I think.

Originally, Turpin was a lion. Because...Bamford's a hyena...and they're the villains...sooooooo....yeah. And I WOULD have stuck with that, but....he's described as a vulture in No Place Like London. And while I knew my designs didn't have to adhere to that...I felt like ignoring it would have been stupid on my part. Glad I stuck with it, since...I gotta admit it works REALLY well for him. I've never drawn a vulture before, and it was fun to try something new anyway <3

#NeatO draws #NeatO fanart #Sweeney Todd #Yeahhhh im three days early whaddya want from me lmao

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dreamcastingbroadway · 3 years

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Dreamcasting Broadway: SWEENEY TODD

Okay, this may seem like a strange cast at first. And it kinda is. But that’s mainly because of the crazy concept I have for this production. I’ve been obsessed with Eleri Ward’s ‘Sufjan on Sondheim’ series on YouTube, with her version of the Johanna quintet being played on loop while thinking of possibilities for this cast. With that concept of folk-inspired orchestrations, I tried to think of actors with unique voices to match the vibe. So imagine a stripped back, folksy take on this story and this cast will make a little more sense.

Dreamcasting Broadway: Sweeney Todd - The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Ivan Hernandez as Sweeney Todd

Grace McLean as Mrs. Lovett

Marc Kudisch as Judge Turpin

Manik Choksi as Beadle Bamford

Jakeim Hart as Anthony

Mikaela Bennett as Johanna

Sam Poon as Tobias

Heath Saunders as Adolfo Pirelli

Chelsea Lee Williams as Beggar Woman

Alex Gibson as Jonas Fogg

Nicholas Belton as Standby (Todd, Turpin, Fogg)

Kate Marilley as Standby (Lovett, Beggar Woman)

Chris Bannow as Standby (Beadle, Pirelli)

Billy Joe Kiessling as Standby (Anthony, Tobias)

Scarlett Walker as Standby (Johanna)

Honorable Mentions

Scott Stangland as Sweeney Todd

Katie Finneran as Mrs. Lovett

Sherie Rene Scott as Mrs. Lovett

Adam Bashian as Judge Turpin

Ken Wulf Clark as Beadle

Colton Ryan as Anthony

Siri Howard as Johanna

Andrew Barth Feldman as Tobias

Brittain Ashford as Beggar Woman

Brandon Uranowitz as PIrelli

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kevrocksicehouse · 4 years

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Sacha Baron Cohen, the agent provocateur of comedy, turns 49 today. A few of his subversions:

Bora Sagdiyev in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. D: Larry Charles (2006). Cohen created his own style of guerilla comic acting as a naïve, befuddled (and virulently anti-Semitic, racist, and sexist) Kazakhstani journalist who comes to America and punks average Americans (as well as, for instance Congressman Bob Barr or Conservative columnist Alan Keyes) into revealing they have more in common with him than we might be comfortable with. Seeing him lead a rodeo crowd in an increasingly violent cheer for our “War of Terror” (“May you destroy (Iraq) so that for the next thousand years not even a single lizard will survive in their desert”) or goad an RV of drunken fratboys into admitting they’d like to own slaves, is as cringeworthy as the hilariously filthy narration (“The only thing keeping me going was my dream of one day holding Pamela (Anderson) in my arms and making romance explosion on her stomach.”) and obscenely vulgar physical comedy (If you want to live your life without seeing the nude wrestling scene, I’ll understand.) FYI, a seqel drops on Netflix in two weeks.

Adolfo Pirelli/Davy Collins in Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. D: Tim Burton (2007). Cohen supplemented his mockumentaries with straight acting gigs, most notably in Burton’s version of the Stephen Sondheim grand-guignol musical about the barber who murders people and the woman who bakes them into meat pies. He plays an Italian (actually Irish) rival barber (with an accent that would make Chico Marx wince) who is ruined by Todd, and then tries to blackmail him. Cohen is a more than passable singer and a great ham. I bet he was delicious.

Admiral General Haffaz Aladeen/Efadwah in The Dictator D: Larry Charles (2012). While visiting New York, a megalomaniacal tyrant of a fictional North African country is unseated in a coup and forced to work in an activist’s alternative co-op, in this satire of our country’s love/hate relationship with oil rich dictators. Aladeen learns no lessons and is not humanized (when his love interest becomes pregnant he wonders if she’s “having a boy or an abortion?”) but that just means we have to take Cohen’s dark vision straight. And the speech imagining if America was a dictatorship (“You could let 1% of the people have all the nation’s wealth. You could torture foreign prisoners. You could fill your prisons with one particular racial group, and no one would complain.”) plays as if the final rousing speech in Chaplin’s The Great Dictator were written by Randy Newman.

#sacha baron cohen #borat #sweeney todd #the dictator

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cinematicct · 4 years

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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

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Based on the smash hit Broadway stage musical by Stephen Sondheim, this film is directed from the extraordinary imagination of Tim Burton.

A well-chosen cast includes: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen.

This movie tells the melodramatic tale of a barber (Depp), once a loving husband and father named Benjamin Barker, who returns to London under the alias “Sweeney Todd” after being falsely convicted and banished by the powerful Judge Turpin (Rickman). He re-opens his shop where he murders his customers with straight razors out of vengeance. He then disposes their bodies to his neighbor Mrs. Lovett (Bonham Carter) who is secretly in love with him. However, despite the escalated killings, he will not rest until he is able to kill the judge who had done him wrong.

Johnny Depp’s freakishly impressive flair (and tremendous vocal range) is well-suited for the part of a maniacal yet sympathetic protagonist. Helena Bonham Carter’s diverse acting chops and extensive singing prove she has what it takes to step into the role of Mrs. Lovett (originally played by Angela Lansbury on-stage). Alan Rickman is sublimely intimidating on-screen, which in turn complements the corrupt villainy of Judge Turpin. Timothy Spall brilliantly conveys the sneering tone of a secondary antagonist. Sacha Baron Cohen is humorously adaptable in the role of fraud-Italian barber Signor Adolfo Pirelli who is also an arrogant rival of Sweeney Todd.

The set design is created in such intricate detail to reflect a sinister, melancholic version of the Victorian era. Ultimately, the work of such wicked visionary art won an Oscar for Best Art Direction (known today as Best Production Design).

The costumes are not only designed to look subtle and authentic, but they creatively display the respective personalities of each character: Sweeney Todd: gothic, Mrs. Lovett: snazzy, Judge Turpin: honorable, Beadle Bamford: judicial and Pirelli: ornate.

In contrast to the original Broadway show, this film contains some bloody moments. Not only that, but the blood of every slain customer is a symbol of unleashed emotional rage (rest assured, the blood is completely fake). Instead of proper burials, Todd’s lifeless victims become the key ingredient of freshly baked meat pies. Mrs. Lovett’s baking shop had pies that were initially made with nauseating meat. However, she finds success with the idea of using each corpse as fresh meat for her unsuspecting customers, becoming Todd’s accomplice.

Apart from the gore, each actor does his/her singing for a list of dynamic Sondheim-style songs: “No Place Like London”, “The Barber and His Wife”, “The Worst Pies in London”, “Poor Thing”, “My Friends”, “Green Finch and Linnet Bird”, “Johanna”, “The Contest”, “Ladies in Their Sensitivities”, “Pretty Women”, “A Little Priest”, “By the Sea” and “Not While I’m Around”. These ominous yet symphonic songs express what the characters are feeling in a time of oppression, not to mention the actors master their vocals precisely in tune with the music.

Lastly, the moral of the tale is to never let yourself be blinded by revenge no matter what tragedy you may have experienced. All in all, I recommend this film because, despite the macabre aspect of the story, you get to see Tim Burton and Johnny Depp at their absolute best.

“How about a shave?”

-Sweeney Todd

#Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007 #stephen sondheim #tim burton #johnny depp #sweeney todd #helena bonham carter #mrs. lovett #alan rickman #Judge Turpin #timothy spall #Beadle Bamford #sacha baron cohen #Adolfo Pirelli #slasher film #melodrama #Victorian London #movie musical #based on Broadway musical

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bound-up-feelings · 3 years

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Adolfo Pirelli x fem reader

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Requested: Yes and No :/ @theonewithagayweirdo also helped me with this one as well, this is a prompt that they gave me “I wish, just once, you would love me like this — no strings attached.” and I sort of changed in a bit

warning: Angst, Mentions of heartbreak, If those things trigger you, please don't read this :)

(Hey there so, this was quite the something to write and I hope I did ok and I hope you like it :))

Now even though Adolfo was every woman's dream, he wasn't as nice as they thought he was. He was actually quite the opposite. He was rude to his apprentice Tobias, and would slap him for little to no reason at all. Tobias had actually came to you, after having no where else to go. This was a regular occurrence.

You had known Pirelli for only a few years but, in all those years he was always so proud and full of himself. He was never really mindful of those around him. Didn't really seem to care for their feeling unless it involved him. In front of a crowd he is this amazing, wonderful and handsome man. But behind closed doors he was rude, sour, and quite rotten on the inside.

With the few years you got to know him he was always nice to you. He would sometimes come to you home to greet you in the mornings, and sometimes bringing a rose. Always one, never anymore than that. He was sweet to you, always complimented you on your appearance. Conversations were normal and actual delightful. But when it came to going into the middle of town or walking along the sidewalk, or even going into a store, he would act off. As if he didn't even know you.

One day in the afternoon he had came to your home like many times before and confessed his live for you. Shocked was and understatement. He, Adolfo Pirelli, The king of barbers and the barber of kings, confessing his love to you. This must've been a dream. It was too good to be true.

Like you had told yourself two years ago "Too good to be true." Was also an understatement. He would act loving, caring behind closed doors but when it came to the citizens of the town he acted as if you were merely another woman amongst the crowd. You had even confronted him of your suspicions "My dear, I do this to make all the woman believe I am a single man. To make more money-" and blah blah and so on and so forth. You had believed it at the time. God did you want to believe a man such as him could be capable of loving one woman and one woman alone.

Sadly after two years of hidden suspicion, it finally was confirmed. One night you had decided to go out for a walk. Something back in the corner of your mind told you that you should. You didn't understand why but you did it anyways. You hadn't been walking for long, until you just so happen to glance down a random ally between two homes. There against the wall you saw two people. Both kissing. The sounds are what confirmed that, but it was the blue tailored pants that also caught your eye. No one else in town had pants such as those. No one had pants that fit them so well like that. No one except for Pirelli.

Your gasp had pulled them away from each other. The woman whom you had never seen before had a grin on her face and was still looking up at him. While his face slightly lighten up by the near street lamp had turned his full attention towards you. He opened his mouth to say something but no words had come out. He had no explanation for this, he had nothing that could possibly make this seem less than what it really was. At the very moment all you wanted do was run. Run down the pavement till you got home, so you could shut and lock your door. And that is what you did. You ran, and ran and ran till you got home.

When you got inside you locked the door. You back was against it as you stood there. Silence was deafening and you wanted the world to open up and swallow you. Take you away from this very moment, so you could forget what you had seen, forget the feeling of your heart breaking in your chest. The feeling of all the love you had for him go straight into the fire, forever gone. You walked a little way into your home, the floor boards creaking under the weight of your foot. You looked up and there, right in front of your face was a photo. A photo of one of your dear family members. It was of their family. All smiles and happy, hugging each other like that day could get any better for them. You were jealous. You wanted that, wanted that with Pirelli. You wanted a happy family, but all of thought of Pirelli were trashed.

Suddenly you hear a knock on your door. It hadn't occurred to you that Pirelli had probably followed you home. When you looked at the door you could see the shadow of feet at the bottom of your door. You didn't answer, you knew it was him. More knocks came and this time you heard his voice. "Y/n! Y/n are you in there? Please let me in, I can explain myself. Give me a chance!" He says as he frantically knock on your door. Though the knocking was annoying it was that last sentence. "Give me a chance." Give him a chance.....you had given him plenty of chances to love you, three years of crushing over him and what you had thought was a nice relationship between the two of you wasn't chance enough!? You barge over to the door and swing it open. Anger taking you over. "I don't want your explanation. I don't want your sorry. I don't want you around me anymore. I thought what we had was something good, something that was nice, but you proved to me that you don't give a damn about that! About how I feel towards you, I've never felt so strongly about someone until I met you, now all I feel so much anger and pain..." he shakes his head and bows his head down "I thought what we had was a no strings attached relationship. Something both neither of us would put much into. It was only recently that I began to have feeling for you, but I was scared y/n. I was so scared." He says as he starts to grab your hand. Not wanting anything to do with him or his touch you yanked your hand back. "For years, I wished for a family. I wished for a man to come sweep me off my feet and love me endlessly. I thought I found that with you. But even when this started you seemed like you were ashamed to be near me. I even tricked myself into thinking you loved me too. I wish you did. I wish, just once, you would love me like this-" you say as you point furiously at the photo on the wall. Tears begin to fall down your cheeks. Your eyes red and puffy already, you shake your head and breath shakily " 'No strings attached', I really thought you were the one. I even told my family about you!? How stupid is that, so God damn pathetic!" You say yelling the last part out. He flinched at your outburst. He knew that what he said was wrong, he knew he had fucked up. He could see in your eyes, the look on your face, the way you shook from the anger you felt towards him, that nothing could change how you for him now. You hated him, hated how he made you feel for him. And all you wanted was him gone. Out of your life, your home and far away from you. "I-" "Get out." he looks at you , hoping that you would let him stay and do something that could everything better "Y/n please." "I said, Get OUT! Right now! I don't want you here! GO!" you scream at him. he looks down yet again, he turns on his feet and opens the door and steps out onto your doorstep. He looks back at you, wanting to say something but keeps his mouth shut. Then he walks away. Walking underneath the street lamps and in his own guilt. That day all feeling for him turned to anger. Anger that would take decades to go away. You never wanted to talk to him again. Didn't even want to see his face either. You were simply and utterly, Broken.

(Hey again, so I hope you liked this and if so please leave feedback it helps a lot and I appreciate every bit of it! Have an amazing day and stay strong!)

#adolfo pirelli x reader #adolfo pirelli imagines #Adolfo Pirelli #sweeny todd: the demon barber of fleet street

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