Im italian and it SUCKS how low the age of consent is here

Wonderful video with insightful thoughts, but please tell your friend Andrew Fox to put his Johanna cover on spotify. I cannot describe how much I need it.

Thank you, now I will go listen to the live performances

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Armie Hammer being an actual cannibal was such an unexpected twist

I love the video but i hate the gendered language in how you describe women can use it to empower themselves and see Lolita as an empowering figure. Nabokov was sexually abused as a child. The book is his own cathartic journey of going into the head of a pedophile. Using gender-exclusive language when describing victims of sexual abuse violates the entire point of the book and disrespects the author.

Great video essay! Subscribed ❤️

My issue with the film since I was young that I always felt it was insanely boring for such a fun/funny story. Always felt like other people were watching a different movie. I think you nailed it on the boring exposition scenes tying the songs together. It shouldn't be such a slog, but it is. As always LOVE your videos. The best 2+ hours spent online.

Burbank sux.

Don't care, will continue to give the movie 10/10.

Hi, this video just triggered a Sweeney Todd hyperfixation in me. I thought I may as well watch it since Into The Woods is my favourite musical and it’s not actually as gloomy as I thought it was from seeing clips of the film, and now here I am

"They're farmers but they think like poets and have rich inner lives" you smug prick, literally everyone has a rich inner life if you just ask them and give a third of a shit

1:21:08 -- RE: The Interaction of Music / Soundtrack with Scene in Film; I don't want to get into any popularity contests regarding directors and their various senses of style, but hey, Tarantino is probably a good go-to guy for a decent clip to illustrate the point on how to use music for maximum potential. Two scene spring immediately to mind: the Lesser is actually double-jointed, because it's the opening of "Reservoir Dogs" with the gang walking in slo-mo, as well as the scene with Mr. Blonde cutting off Marvn's ear (ie. "Stuck in the Middle with You"). That is to say, the entirety of the film "Reservoir Dogs" has a kind of Chorus character semi-narrating the soundtrack AKA the DJ at K-Billy. But the piece de la resistance as it were is in "Inglorious Basterds", the opening chapter at the farmhouse where he kills Shoshanna's family. When the music (replete with a chorus of wailing human voices doing their level best to sound like weeping angels) hits a crescendo, Tarantino has Waltz put an index finger to his lips as if to silence them. Utter Genius, since we (the Audience) still clearly hear them.

i agree with a lot in this video, and i also disagreed on things too but when i was trying to pick apart why i didn’t agree, i couldn’t find a reason except, ‘meh I thought it was fine.’ however, when i remembered how watching sweeney (haven’t seen the show, knew nothing of it beyond the “a guy who cooks people into pies”) made me feel & how i came away from the film, it was very much…. huh, okay. well, that was that. that was a film. the aesthetics are wow (mainly bc i think it’s rare to see a film with that much aesthetic care put into it nowadays lol) but the actual plot and music… i wasn’t gagging. even the very long, sometimes dull, hyper realistic les mis made me feel so much more than this. and so, i think i have ended up agreeing with you. the chorus WAS necessary, london DID feel small and cutting a lot of the theatre aspects of sweeney todd really castrated it. when you consider this in the trajectory of burton’s downfall, you can definitely see the toll of burton favouring aesthetics over substance. side note: THE NEW CYRANO WAS A MUSICAL ?!? i was gonna watch that but by the time i found out about it, i’d just missed it in cinemas …. omg i can only imagine my reaction to the sudden singing 😭 (and i don’t mind musicals- love some of them even but the genre doesn’t take kindly to be thrust upon the viewer, u have to be in the mood to watch a musical, and consent to watching it, otherwise, not only does it ruin it but ruins the fun OF musicals.

I remember my friend telling me Johnny Depp didn’t take any singing lessons for Sweeney Todd and being so amazed as a kid… now it’s like YEAH I can TELL he didn’t take any lessons 🫣

Yes, they should make another Lolita… starring Johnny Depp with Marilyn Manson’s heart-shaped sunglasses on the soundtrack

First of a the movie was terrible because the singers are mostly terrible. Also, TB took the cheap way out and made the film a chear horror gore film. At the end of the day, Depp and HBC can't sing worth a damn

Please, make a vídeo on Into the Woods.

This is fantastic!

I loved the movie unironically when I was about 14 and thought that all musicals were _oklahoma_ and _hello dolly. Sweeney todd_ and _repo: the genetic opera_ and _chicago_ showed me that there were musicals that tackled darker material, in that way that appeals to a fledgling teen (which is to say, edgy and "adult"). I went back years later and found it campy and hard to take seriously, and loved it ironically, as a mid-teen does. As an adult I wouldn't say I really have any strong feelings on the movie itself anymore apart from a sense of nostalgia, but I love looking at things that I love and loved under a microscope and picking at their flaws to understand them as media better. So I'm looking forward to this

Not everyone is a triple threat, God knows I can't dance, or sing, or act to save my life.

But what did you think of the Sweeney Todd rendition from Jersey Girl? God, that’s good.