For sale I am listing an unmarked perfect condition brand new LIMITED EDITION BLURAY STEELBOOK from my own collection.
At the time of posting this item, the discs are not detached and there are no defects whatsoever with this item. PERFECT CONDITION as described.
The item listed is:
SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET - BLURAY version ( as shown in the photos )
This listing is for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street –
this was the very first Bluray steelbook produced in the UK in 2008 (19th
May).
This steelbook has the more normal artwork on the front and was produced by PLAY.COM. This listing is for
a brand new exclusive FIRST PRINT and is a rare one in perfect new condition.
Housed in a protective clear plastic wallet.
Tim Burton's film version of the Stephen Sondheim musical starring
Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter.
Based on a 'penny dreadful' tale
(which later became an urban myth) from the mid-19th Century, this musical
tells the tale of Benjamin Barker (Depp), a barber who returns to London after
spending years in exile for a crime he didn't commit. He soon discovers from
pie-maker Mrs Lovett (Bonham Carter) that, in his absence, his wife has taken
her own life and his daughter is now in the care of the man who had him sent
away - the dastardly Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman). Seeking revenge and filled
with a murderous rage, Barker sets up a barber's shop above Mrs Lovett's
premises. Now calling himself Sweeney
Todd, Barker kills off all his customers with a razor to the throat and
sends their cadavers to the shop below to be used as a tasty new filling for
Mrs Lovett's meat pies. What was once the worst pie shop in London quickly
becomes one of the city's most popular eateries, but Barker won't be satisfied
until he can lure Judge Turpin into the barber's chair...
After years of rumours, it turns out that Tim Burton was the perfect
visionary to film Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Stephen
Sondheim's Broadway masterpiece, and the result is a macabre and moving musical
movie as enthralling as anything Burton has ever done. The show's mix of gothic
horror, Grand Guignol, very dark humour, and witty and beautiful music never
was the stuff of traditional musical comedy, but it's a powerful work, and perhaps
the richest of the late 20th century. In the movie, Burton's frequent
collaborator, Johnny Depp, plays Todd, a wronged man whose lust for revenge
drives him to murder (a 19th-century legend who has been traced to a real-life
barber). Helena Bonham Carter, another Burton mainstay, is Mrs. Lovett, the
barber's partner-in-unspeakable-crime. It's no surprise that Depp is an
excellent choice to convey Todd's brooding intensity and volcanic rage, but he
can also sing a score that is so challenging it has often played in opera
houses (though not with the same style as the Broadway original, Len Cariou,
and he occasionally lapses into pop style). Bonham Carter is small of voice and
lacks the humour of the original Broadway Lovett, Angela Lansbury, but she sings
on pitch, in rhythm, and in character at the same time, which is no small feat
for a Sondheim show. Aficionados will regret the loss of certain musical
passages--"The Ballad of Sweeney Todd" is just an instrumental
overture and the chorus is gone altogether, among others, but the reassuring
presence of orchestrator Jonathan Tunick and conductor Paul Gemignani ensures
that the music feels right and sounds great. And the film's depiction of a
Victorian London hellhole, with cinematography by Dariusz Wolski and costumes
by Colleen Atwood, also looks and feels right.
The excellent cast is filled out by Alan Rickman as the villainous Judge
Turpin, Timothy Spall as his seedy Beadle, Sacha Baron Cohen as a rival barber,
Jamie Campbell Bower as the young lover Anthony, Jayne Wisener as his object of
affection, and Ed Sanders as the young Toby.
For fans of Tim Burton and Johnny
Depp who don't think they like musicals, Sweeney Todd should be a
revelation (though not for the squeamish, as the gore is intense and completely
appropriate). For fans of Broadway and Sondheim, it's hard to imagine getting a
better adaptation than this. The fact that there's no newly composed Oscar-bait
song sung by a Josh Groban-type over the end credits only makes it better.
--David Horiuchi
I am quoting UK postage and packing cost only. The steelbook will be securely packaged so as to minimise the risk of damage in transit. I will retain proof of postage in case anything is lost in shipping. If there is an issue in transit, you must take up the problem with Royal Mail and I will help in any way I can. International bidders must use the eBay Global Shipping Program. If you wish to send a message for any additional information prior to the end of the auction, I will do my best to help as soon as I can.