This film is produced by Warner Bros. Entertainment and Dreamworks Pictures, which are both major Hollywood production companies, who are commerical. Not only that, but the main actors in the film are American and the minor charaters are British, though the film is representing a British historic period. This suggests the production companys aims is to appeal to a large audience as the main actors are well known, rather than reflecting the characters in a more realistic way and informing them of the real story.
As the director, Burton, favours a gothic genre, he has chosen to reflect a very dark, medeval period of London, rather than a modern contemporary one. The choice of storyline of the fim, as in the history of Sweeney Todd, could have been mediated to fulfil audience expectaion of the film and its characters, for example the motives of Sweeney Todd's murders are an act of revenge. From what I have read of the "real Sweeney Todd" there is no actual motive for killing other than for fun.
The film has been distributed on DVD in a one disc and two disc edition, and on blu ray. In the two disc edition there are extra features about the director and the actors, how the film came alive, the real story of Sweeney Todd and the musical version of the film.
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