tims perfect barbershop duet
Tuesday, 19 February 2008 | | |I was given an exclusive peak at the first footage from Tim Burton's
upcoming film version of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which will
be released next year. Johnny Depp was presenting a clearly delighted
Burton with Venice's career Golden Lion, incredibly the director's
first ever award from a major film festival. Depp said: 'Tim is my
favourite director. I feel very lucky to have been included in his
life and in his world of cinema. He's a true original and a true
auteur, a rare breed in today's cinema.' The exclusive clip was then
shown. It featured Depp's Todd duetting with Helena Bonham Carter's
panda-eyed Mrs Lovett. Both were doing their own singing, and most
impressively, as they powered through a dark ode to a cut-throat
razor. In the brief dialogue, it seemed that Depp might just have
finally got a decent cockney accent, and he held the gleaming object
up like Edward reunited with his Scissorhands.
At the end, the camera flew out of the window to reveal Mrs Lovett's