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Inspiriert von 'Sweeney Todd'

21.01.2008, 12:06, Text: Johannes Mihram

Mike Skinner alias The Streets wirkt eigentlich nicht so, als könnte ihn so schnell irgendwas beeindrucken. Die Adoption des Musicals 'Sweeney Todd' von Stephen Sondheim durch Regisseur Tim Burton hat es dann aber doch geschafft. Über seinen Kinobesuch erzählte Skinner nun: \\\"I sat dumbfounded by the rhyme and meter of the songs. It was an absolute inspiration to experience Stephen Sondheim at work. Every single line of the songs roll off Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham's tongues in the way I struggle to do night after day after morning. I stare at my big pink book with what I want to say in one side of my brain and all this form, rhythm, rhyme and pace swirling round the other aching side. Every time Johnny Depp ended a stanza with the sharp snap of a clipped trochee I would smile at the huge screen (we were on the front row coz we got in late).\\\"

Weiter lässt Skinner seiner Fantasie freien Lauf: \\\"(I could) imagine Mr Sondheim, maybe on his way home from a drink with Frank Sinatra, getting out his leathery note book to scratch in a new idea for how to end the line in a more moving and pleasingly percussive way.\\\"

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