...have a history like Sweeney Todd. This production features a psychologically-driven barber, filled with hatred because of a terrible past experience. This hatred brings out a monster in him, and he goes on a killing spree in London. He lures his victims into his shop with an awkward charm and slashes their throats with a straight razor. His victim's bodies are then dumped into the basement of the shop, where they are minced and cooked into meat pies that are sold in Mrs. Lovett's store. Mrs. Lovett is Sweeney Todd's accomplice in his scheme for revenge. She is infatuated with him and cannot help but to assist him with these crimes. This twisted plot, the setting, and the musical score make for a darker production that is not seen very often from Broadway acts. “For Sweeney Todd is surely the angriest major musical ever written, a sensibility that here becomes a galvanizing asset” (Ben Brantley 2005). A now dated production, Sweeney Todd premiered on March 1, 1979. This took place at Uris Theatre in New York City. The production was eventually closed but not before it had over 500 runs. The show was reopened near its ten year anniversary in 1989. This time, the show ran for almost 200 runs before it was shut down again. In 2005, it was decided that Sweeney Todd was to be opened for viewing again. This time, it was showed over 300 times. It was eventually decided to close Sweeney Todd yet again. There have been multiple revival productions of Sweeney Todd run by different production...
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...Political Science – I Comm 2 - K Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Movie Review) What would you do if everyone you love was taken away from you? Are you going to stand and stare and wait for them to return? Or would you dare to take revenge to the person who took everything from you? Here comes now the story of Benjamin Parker, or more known as Sweeney Todd. Benjamin Barker, arguably the most accomplished barber in all Victorian London, is married to the pretty Lucy, the two who have an infant daughter, Johanna. Lusting after Lucy, a sadistic judge named Turpin wrongfully has Barker sent to prison in Australia so that he can have Lucy to himself. Fifteen years later, Barker, who has rechristened himself Sweeney Todd, returns to London to seek revenge by killing Turpin and his accomplice Beadle Bamford, using the instruments of his trade to slit their throats. Below Todd's old barber shop is now a meat pie shop run by Mrs. Lovett, who admits to making the worst meat pies in London. She tells Todd that Lucy poisoned herself after being raped by Turpin, and that Johanna, now a young woman, is Turpin's ward. Johanna and a young honorable sailor named Anthony Hope, who Todd met, sailing into London, have fallen in love with each other from afar. Much like his feelings for Lucy, Turpin lusts after Johanna and wants to marry her, and thus he will do whatever he needs to get Anthony out of the way. Back at the barber shop, Todd changes his plans for revenge solely...
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...Musical Theater Mr. Holdren 19 October 2014 An Analysis of Sweeney Todd and His Mental Collapse The curtain first rose for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street on Broadway in 1979 (“Sondheim”). Stephen Sondheim wrote the music and lyrics with Hugh Wheeler responsible for the book (“Sondheim”). The musical tells the story of a barber named Benjamin Barker, a man with a beautiful wife and daughter who is banished from London by the lustful Judge Turpin. After 15 long years, he returns to London on a ship with young sailor, Anthony Hope, in the hopes of finding them. The tale goes on to show Sweeney’s mental decline as he struggles to avenge the life stolen from him, his wife’s suicide, and his daughter’s...
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...Sweeney Todd The barber Sweeney Todd (aka the Demon Barber) was a character from a 19th Century penny dreadful1, made popular by Stephen Sondheim's musical, a razor-wielding barber who killed his customers for cash and turned them into meat pies. He first appeared in 1846 as a secondary character in a short story called The String of Pearls a Romance by Thomas Prest, which was published in The People's Periodical. A hack playwright by the name of George Dibdin Pitt, who commonly filched other people's stories, dramatised the story for the stage as The String of Pearls The Fiend on Fleet Street, and advertised it as 'founded on fact'. The play debuted at London's Hoxton Theatre on 1 March, 1847, and ever since then people have speculated as to whether Sweeney Todd really had existed, or if he was simply a fictional bogeyman invented to sate the appetite of the morbid Victorian imagination. Did Sweeney Todd really exist? Up until recently, nobody knew, A number of daily newspapers at the time had reported real-life horror stories that bore certain similarity to the ghastly tale of Sweeney Todd. Stories of fainting ladies aside, the Victorian community had an enormous, morbid appetite for all things ghastly. Shocking tales of crime like this would have been spread through word of mouth like wildfire, although they were also probably embellished along the way. ...
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...Since the introduction of sound to film in the late 1920’s and early 1930s, the musical has remained a constant force in the industry; called “Hollywood’s most durable product” (p 314). From the extravagance and excess of Busby Burkley’s art deco musicals in the 1930s to Arthur Freed’s ‘stable of stars’ including Judy Garland, Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, the musical has often made an appeal to a wide range of audiences. As we move from the past to the present however, Sweeney Todd released in 2007 gives an almost bastardized version of what one would call a ‘classical’ musical. Stylistically, Sweeney Todd fits into several genres of film besides just musicals, including: german expressionism, horror, and exploitation films. Director Tim...
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...Tim Burton wrote the British American horror and musical fantasy, Sweeney Todd: The Demon on Fleet Street. It is normal for a play or musical to experience exceptional changes when it is transformed into a great movie. However, the 2007 film adjustment of "Sweeney Todd" remains genuinely unwavering to the first 1979 phase musical. This shouldn't imply that that there were no progressions (there were a few), yet rather that the real characters and plot focuses coordinate in both forms. Some say this piece was not as popular before the movie came out starting Johnny Depp, but to each its own. This essay will include the compare and contrast of the musical and the film, Sweeney Todd. A standout amongst the most extreme contrasts between the movie and the musical...
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...actors. The Nightmare Before Christmas meets its musical criteria with more than ten songs in the entire movie. Three of its most popular numbers being “This is Halloween, Jacks Lament, and What’s this?” This film was written by Tim Burton, another movie I could compare it to and that he directed would be Sweeny Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, it is also in the musical genre. “It tells the story of a serial killer. Typically, however, musicals depict lighter fare, and indeed, in each case mentioned they make what might have been more difficult material easier for the audience to relate to.” (Goodykoontz & Jacobs, 2011, Ch. 8.2). I feel that musicals are more of a required taste for movie lovers. I myself enjoy them as well as all movie genres, as the book says, they further add to the story and include more details and feelings into the movie. Sweeny Todd can also be added to the horror genre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_hgrfZVlJA References A Nightmare Before Christmas This is Halloween www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOtEdhKOMgQ Goodykoontz, B., & Jacobs, C. P. (2011). Film: From watching to seeing. San Diego, CA: Bridgepoint Education, Inc. Sweeny Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Trailer...
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...Deciphering Mulholland Drive Mulholland Drive is a twisted and exhilarating movie directed by David Lynch. The movies tells the story of a Canadian women, Diane Selwyn, who moves to Los Angeles to pursue a career in acting. For the most of the movie, we are thrown into a dream Diane has. In this dream many of the characters and people in her actual life are integrated into her dream with new identities. The last part of the movie we are brought back to Diane’s actual reality. Only once I was brought into Diane’s reality did I realize the importance of the fantasy. I believe Diane has realized the hard, cruel reality of Hollywood and this has caused her to have a breakdown. She has lost the love of her life to this Hollywood scene and is faced with the fact that she is a failed actress. These inner conflicts and struggles have caused her despair and ultimately her demise. David Lynch is highly praised in this movie because of his ability to mesh fantasy and reality. The fantasy part digs into Diane’s deepest desires and conflicts. A lot of the things that happen in the dream part of the movie, I feel display the way she wished things had happened, mostly with her relationship with Camille. In order to understand Mulholland Drive you must be able to distinguish between Diane’s dream and her reality. The movie starts with Diane arriving to Hollywood, she is very excited and thrilled for her new opportunity. In the fantasy Diane is introduced as Betty and is described...
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...1. What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? Todd McFarlane has task orientation ability to assembly many different artists to leave Marvel Comics in 1992 at the peak of their careers. Todd McFarlane wanted royalties from the characters that he was creating for Marvel Comics but as an Artist you only received you monthly pay check. Todd McFarlane is credit for creating a Spider-Man villain called Venom. In 1992 he left Marvel Comics too alone with other artist to create Image Comics. Todd McFarlane had the following personality traits to be a successful leader he was honest to his fellow artists; he inspired them to leave their jobs from Marvel Comics to start their own company. He was also competent in his ability to lead other artists to leave Marvel Comics and to accomplish their goals of starting a new company. 2. How have global competition and technology advances changed business conditions and leadership challenges? Many business meeting was performed behind closed doors which prevent the everyday citizen from knowing what is going on in the world. Now with things like Facebook, twitter, and MySpace have changed business conditions and leadership challenges since whatever you do now is judged in the court of public opinion. Public Opinion can destroy a person. Would Barry Bonds, Mark McGuire, Sammy Sosa or Roger Clemens be in the Baseball Hall of Fame if not the public belief that they all used...
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...5. To what extent and in what ways does Romantic writing engage with gender politics? The study of Literature is inherently involved with a deconstruction of the complex and textured manner in which author’s attempt to express what it is to be human. To be human is a diverging experience between the sexes, both biological and socially, and consequently the extent of gender equitability within society has always been a prevalent and contended concern. An engagement with this contention will define gender politics for this essay. Jane Austen and Mary Shelley, writing at the beginning of the nineteenth-century, joined their female contemporaries in a growing generation of authoresses who forged careers in discipline of male authority. In this respect, they are inescapably engaging with gender politics. Margaret Kirkham comments that ‘this burgeoning of the female talent...was bound to have a profound effect upon any young woman beginning to write once it had occurred’, suggesting that, regardless of whether the female intended to represent female concerns within their work; a female, in becoming ‘an author, was, in itself, a feminist act’ (Kirkham 33). With the status of the authoress in mind whilst analysing Northanger Abbey and Frankenstein, this essay will focus how Austen and Shelley engage with gender politics through characterization and narrative form, and the female concerns they address, both implicitly and explicitly, throughout their texts. Austen predominately engages...
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...Abstract You are interested in buying a new car and Bob lets you borrow one of the new cars on his lot for a week to test drive. You decide you like the car and when you visit Bob to drop off the car, he hands you the following document and a pen May 1, 201x I promise to pay to the order of Bob's Auto Emporium $20,000 (Twenty thousand dollars) with interest at the rate of 7% per annum. What type of instrument is this? Does this instrument meet the requirements for negotiability under the UCC? INDIVIDUAL WORK The above example is a partial Promissory Note. The reason that it is a partial promissory note is because the document is missing key values to become a full legal document. The above example does not state all the requirements that need to be meant as the payments are being made. It also does not have the time frame for which the payments are to be received and the time frame to pay the balance in full. The example does not meet the requirements of the UCC due to it does not list what will happen if the payments are not made. The documents also does not state how the payments are to be made and how the payments will be broken down with the interest that is going to be paid for the purchase. The document also does not have the full date that the documents was created. The document would also need to be signed by the owner of the car company which will state that he agrees with the term of the promissory note. The way that the document is worded there is no...
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...What type of person becomes this type of risk taker? I have always been more on the cautious side, preferring to stand back, observe, listen and analyze a situation. I’ve always admired people who are not like me, people who are more daring, or willing to throw caution to the wind. An entrepreneur tends to bite off a little more than he can chew hoping he’ll quickly learn how to chew it. What challenges did he or she face and overcome? In 1982, Mark Cuban moved to Dallas, Texas Cuban first found work as a bartender, then as a salesperson for Your Business Software, one of the first PC software retailers in Dallas. He was terminated less than a year later, after meeting with a client to procure new business instead of opening the store What failures did this person have? Got a job working for a carpenter laying carpet and quickly learned he was absolutely horrible at it How many companies have he or she started? Started AudioNet in 1995, The Company, despite its early critics, proved to be a smash success. Renamed Broadcast.com, the firm went public in 1998 and soon saw its stock reach $200 a share. A year later, Wagner and Cuban sold out to Yahoo! for nearly $6 billion Purchasing an NBA Team In 2000, Mark Cuban introduced himself to the NBA community when he purchased the Dallas Mavericks for $285 million from Ross Perot Jr. How successful is he or she? At the age of 32, Cuban was a millionaire who could afford to live in the big houses that he used to...
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...The role visual style plays in communicating the ideas, themes and issues raised by the film Before to the introduction of ‘auteur theory’ Douglas Sirk directed films that were illustrious for classical Hollywood narrative. However, he used his power as director to step outside of the Mainstream Hollywood narrative and stylistic conventions (Core 1994), using techniques such as mise-en-scene to communicate the ideas, themes and issues raised in his films. All That Heaven Allows directed by Sirk is a perfect example of his clever use of visual style to communicate themes of social status, repression and nature. The film was popular at its release as ‘critics were well aware that Sirk's films attracted a humorous popular reception’ (Philip Core p132) but was critically dismissed as a women’s weeping movie (Nick James, 1994). Told from a women's point of view and post WWII exposure gives a sense of context and what life was like for women of the time. As Carrie quotes from ‘walden’s book’ it becomes evident that mise-en-scene enriches the film and gets an insight into post WW2 life. Carrie is trapped, however it is not just the dialogue of the film that is used to expose her entrapment. Carrie is represented as a prisoner in her own home. The use of the TV double comments on what Carrie is going through. Sirk presents the television as a symbol of repression and defeat, a tiresome life. Sirk uses the television set to explore the theme of Carrie as an onlooker on life and...
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...P.65 Toying with Success: The McFarlane Companies What personality traits do leaders like Todd McFarlane possess that distinguish them from other individuals? The McFarlane Toy Company Todd McFarlane, president and CEO of the McFarlane Companies, is an entrepreneur who understands the importance of product development. Comics, sports, toys, and rock-and-roll have all benefited from his creativity. While working many hours for low pay at Marvel Comics, he made a name for himself and became the highest paid comic book artist in the industry. But when his creativity was not been appreciated and differences arisen, not to mention his desire to own the rights to his characters, he quit and took six other artists with him and started his own company. McFarlane knew what he wanted and went for it. He knew where he wanted to be and through perseverance and hard work he stayed focused on his goal (Vision and ability). Although people predicted he would last less than a year, he kept going and first comic book sold 1.7 million copies. He had the confidence because he knew was he was good at and that drove his aspirations. He had the drive and determination to stick with his dream. He was determined to succeed. Even after he didn’t succeed as a major league baseball player he still was determined to be successful. He remained optimistic and believed he could become an entrepreneur (Self Confidence and Enthusiasm and Persistence). He had the courage to move forward and start his own...
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...Industrial/Organizational Psychology Paper PSY/435 December 12, 2011 Neva Wilson Industrial/Organizational Psychology Paper Evolution of Industrial/Organizational Psychology The history of industrial/organization psychology originated in the twentieth century. Experimental psychologists were the first to engage in I/O work. Their main purpose was applying the new principles of psychology to problems in organizations. Two of these experimental psychologists were Hugo Munsterberg and Walter Dill Scott. These two psychologists would be credited as being the main founds of I/O Psychology. Both of these experimental psychologists were university professors who became involved in applying psychology to problems of organizations. An engineer by the name of Frederick Winslow Taylor would have a major influence on the I/O field. Taylor studied employee productivity and developed an approach which he would later call "Scientific Management." Taylor used scientific management to handle production workers in factories. This approach included four principles which would guide organizational practices. Today, his same ideas are still used. Furthermore, two more individuals had an influence on the engineering side combined with psychology. A married couple, Frank and Lillian Gilbreth, studied how individuals perform tasks by combining engineering and psychology. The Gilbreths devised the time and motion study. This incorporated measuring and timing people’s motions in doing tasks...
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