SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
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Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Year: 2007 Johnny Depp plays: Sweeney Todd Directed by: Tim Burton Written by: John Logan (screenplay), Christopher Bond (musical adaptation), Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler (musical) Genre: Horror/Drama/Musical/Thriller MPAA Rating: R Runtime: 116 minutes |
PLOT
After being sent away for fifteen years by Judge Turpin for a crime that he did not commit, Benjamin Barker finally returns to London with the help of the sailor Anthony Hope. Upon his return, Barker undergoes a new name--Sweeney Todd, and he is out for revenge when he finds that his wife is dead and that his daughter is now in the hands of Judge Turpin. Sweeney Todd opens a barber shop above Mrs. Lovett's pie shop... and Sweeney releases his anger by slitting the throats of his customers before sending them to Mrs. Lovett's pie shop to be turned into meat pies...
QUOTES
Sweeney Todd: Alright! You, sir? How about a shave? Come and visit your good friend Sweeney! You sir! Too, sir. Welcome to the grave... I will have vengeance. I will have salvation... Who, sir? You sir! No one's in the chair. Come on, come on! Sweeney's waiting. I want you bleeders. You sir? Anybody? Gentlemen, now don't be shy. Not one man... No, nor ten men... Nor a hundred can assuage me. I will have you! And I will get him back even as he gloats; In the meantime I'll practice on less honorable throats... And my Lucy lies in ashes, and I'll never see my girl again. But the work waits! I'm alive at last, and I'm full of joy!
Sweeney Todd: Noooooo! Would no one have mercy on her?
Mrs. Lovett: So it's you. Benjamin Barker
Sweeney Todd: Where's Lucy? Where's my wife?
Mrs. Lovett: She poisoned herself, arsenic from the apothecary round the
corner, I tried to stop her, but she wouldn't listen to me, and he's got your
daughter.
Sweeney Todd: He? Judge Turpin?
Mrs. Lovett: [nods]
Sweeney Todd: 15 years sweating, and living hell, for a false charge. 15
years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.
Mrs. Lovett: Well, I can't say the years have been particularly kind to
you, Mr. Barker.
Sweeney Todd: No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now. Sweeney
Todd... and he will have his revenge.
Mrs. Lovett: That lad is drinking me out o' house an' home.
Judge Turpin: Oh yes... such practices. The Geishas of Japan, the
concubines of Siam, the catamites of Greece, the harlots of India. I have them
all here, drawings of them. Everything you've ever dreamed of doing with a
woman. Would you like to see?
Anthony Hope: I think there's been some mistake.
Judge Turpin: I think not. You gandered at my ward, Johanna. You gandered
at her. YES, sir, you gandered!
Anthony Hope: I meant no harm.
Judge Turpin: Your meaning is immaterial. Mark me! If I see your face
again on this street, you'll rue the day you were born.
Mrs. Lovett: Mr. T, you didn't!
[looks into the chest, sees Pirelli's dead body and gasps. Shuts it.]
Mrs. Lovett: You're barking mad! Killing a man what done ya no harm!
Sweeney Todd: [polishing his razor] He recognized me from the old
days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings.
Mrs. Lovett: [relieved] Oh, well that's a different matter then.
For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles.
[opens the chest again and stares]
Mrs. Lovett: Ugh! All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well!
[looks through Pirelli's jacket before removing his money pouch and examining
its contents]
Mrs. Lovett: Well, waste not, want not!
