

Lovett of his suspicions, vowing to protect her.īamford arrives at the pie shop, informing Mrs. Toby has become wary of Todd and tells Mrs. Todd has Toby deliver a letter to Turpin, telling him where Johanna will be brought when Anthony frees her. Anthony discovers Johanna's whereabouts and, following Todd's suggestion, poses as a wigmaker's apprentice to rescue her. Lovett takes Toby as her assistant and tells an uninterested Todd of her plans to marry him and move to the seaside. With the barbering and pie-making businesses prospering, Mrs. Anthony searches for Johanna, whom Turpin has sent to an insane asylum upon discovering her plans to elope with Anthony. Lovett gets the idea to bake Todd's victims into pies, and Todd rigs his barber chair to drop his victims' bodies through a trapdoor and into her bakehouse. Todd swears revenge on the entire world, vowing to kill as many people as possible while he waits for another chance to kill Turpin. An angered Turpin renounces Todd's service and leaves. Todd shaves Turpin, preparing to slit his throat they are interrupted by Anthony, who reveals his plan to elope with Johanna before noticing Turpin.

Todd bludgeons Collins unconscious with a tea kettle, hides him in a trunk, and later slits his throat upon finding him still alive.Īfter receiving advice from Bamford, Turpin visits Todd for grooming, intent on marrying Johanna. Pirelli identifies himself as Todd's former assistant, Davy Collins, and threatens to reveal Todd's secret unless Todd gives him half his earnings. A few days later, Pirelli arrives at Todd's shop, with his boy assistant Tobias Ragg. Todd denounces faux- Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli's hair tonic as a fraud and humiliates him in a public shaving contest judged by Bamford. Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford. Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors. Todd vows revenge and re-opens his barbershop after Mrs. The couple's daughter, Johanna, is now Turpin's ward. Lovett tells him that once he was exiled, Turpin raped Lucy, who then poisoned herself with arsenic. Barker adopts the alias " Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop, where she sells the "worst pies in London". Fifteen years earlier, he was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after Barker's wife Lucy. In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope. Grossing over $150 million worldwide, the film was praised for the performances of the cast, musical numbers, costume and set design, and faithfulness to the 1979 musical. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street was released in the United States on Decemand in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2008. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during production. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. Lovett ( Helena Bonham Carter), processes their corpses into meat pies.
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The film retells the melodramatic Victorian tale of Sweeney Todd ( Johnny Depp), an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a 2007 musical slasher film directed by Tim Burton and an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical of the same name.
