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When looking back at the various actors that Tim Burton has worked with repeatedly throughout his career, the one that's the most rewarding to revisit is Helena Bonham Carter. Across seven films, she's had arguably the widest range of characters in Burton's unofficial company. These roles have allowed the actor to go far beyond the characters she's most renowned for, like Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter franchise and Princess Margaret in The Crown.
Burton's films often almost burst at the seams with characters who share the burden of carrying a narrative, but Sweeney Todd is, for the most part, a two-hander, relying on the toxic dynamic between Todd and Lovett to charge the narrative with the pathos necessary to make this more than an exercise in burlesque cruelty.
2 But there's a flip side to that softer side of Lovett, and that's how she's ultimately just as manipulative and self-serving as Sweeney, albeit with a perspective less rooted in psychotic bloodthirst and more in the pragmatic need to survive. She's not above picking the pockets of a corpse if the money is good.
Despite being a traditional musical, Sweeney Todd has little dancing in its numbers, instead utilizing blocking and everyday hustling about as its replacement, and Carter proves herself surprisingly adept at nailing all the necessary movements with accuracy. For instance, her first big number,"The Worst Pies in London," has her singing about her failing business while actively baking pies in her kitchen, smashing flies with her roller, and gesturing that Sweeney should try her drinks.
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