Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Sweeney Todd was rescued at sea by a young sailor by the name of Anthony Hope, and the two are on their way to London. Once they reach land Todds mood is worsened by a crazy beggar who asks Todd and Hope for spare change she also appears to recognize Todd. Anthony’s innocence is discouraged by Todd, when Todd tells a story about a barber, his wife and a corrupt judged who exiled the barber just to get at the barbers wife. After Todd enters a nearby meat pie shop on Fleet Street he asks the owner if the upstairs apartment is occupied, she tells Todd that a man named Benjamin Barker who was sentenced to life in prison on a false charge by the evil judge Turpin because the judge was lustful to Barkers wife Lucy; Turpin and his friend Beadle Bamford, lured Lucy to the judge’s house and raped her. Mrs. Lovett(meat pie shop owner) confirms her suspicious of Todd being Benjamin Barker by the way he reacts to her story, she then tells Todd that his wife was poisoned and his infant daughter, Johanna, became the ward of the judge. Todd then proceeds to swear revenge on the judge and Beadle, Mrs lovett shows Todd his old sterling razors he use to own before he was sentenced to exile.…

between the two musicals Buffy: Once More with Feeling(Joss Whedon) and Tim Burton’s adaptation of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street(Stephen Sondheim). Buffy: Once More with Feeling is a TV episode in which the people of Sunnydale start singing due to a mysterious force and Buffy’s sister Dawn is kidnapped. Buffy and her friends go out to find her sister and the mysterious Sweet, who is a demon with capabilities of making his victims start to sing and reveal their darkest secrets,…

For his next three films, Burton explores the fairytale world. In 2005, he produced and directed, along Mike Johnson, the stop-motion animated film Corpse Bride, with Johnny Depp as the voice of Victor Van Dort and Helena Bonham-Carter as the voice of Emily. The imagery of the film is similar to the imagery we see in The Nightmare Before Christmas, but the nature of Corpse Bride is more adult and dark. The film, which was a huge box office success, tells the story of Victor, who was practicing…

first short in 1982 at disney called vincent. Burtons first live action production Hansel and Gretel, a japanese themed adaption of the brothers grimm fairy tale for disney channel. Frankenweenie was released in 1984, of a boy whose dog is run over and he tries to revive. Disney fired burton after its release because he had spent the company’s resources on a film that would be too frightening and dark for young audiences. Later, the film Peewee’s Big Adventure, was made on a budget of $18…

Tim Burton, born August 1958, is a film director and famous writer. Throughout many of his films and stories, Burton commonly makes is protagonists an “outsider”. His characters are usually outside of societies normality’s and don’t fit in either physically or mentally. This is shown through the protagonists in Burton’s films: Edward Scissorhands, Vincent and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Tim Burton uses the protagonist Edward, in the 1990 feature film Edward Scissorhands to…

The Sweeny Todd Within The qualities of monstrosity can be described as revenge, fear, overall abnormality and illogical behavior. All factors that horror genre writers and directors include in their work, also all of which the audience can relate to. For example, Tim Burton the director of Sweeny Todd: The demon Barber of Fleet Street creates a complex character such as Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) experiencing the forces of revenge thus seeking revenge on judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) the…

in a lot of gothic stories. These relationships can be in the form of marriages, parent child relationships, or dysfunctional families. One example of this is the movie “Into the Woods”. This movie has several different toxic relationships in it. Cinderella’s family is a great example of this concept. Her family, specifically her stepmother and stepsisters, treat her horribly by not treating her like a person and by using her as a stepping stone for their goals. Jack is also a very good example…

continues this trend in his 1993 film The Nightmare Before Christmas, in which a talking, walking skeleton named Jack is the Pumpkin King of a place called Halloweentown. The film is fantastic, but shows hints of being grounded in reality at the very beginning, when the film acknowledges this reality by asking viewers if they know where the holidays truly came from, explaining to the audience that “The story that you are about to be told took place in the holiday worlds of old.” (The Nightmare…

paths. The same can be said for many of Burton's features. Every film creates a reality in which anything can happen and everything does happen. What Burton does best in his films, is he takes well known stories and recreates them into worlds of cartoony splendor. Sleepy Hollow, Alice in Wonderland, Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Dark Shadows are all well-established stories that Tim Burton retold. While each film came under wildly different success than the last, Burton…

nemesis the Joker, bane, penguin, Mr freeze, and poison ivy. Years after the first batman was released burton made Batman Returns which had earned 266.8 million US dollars in box office. It had been very successful gaining 411.3 million US dollars in box office. The 1993 stop motion film The Nightmare Before Christmas is about the many realms of holidays our first being the holiday of halloween in which the leader of halloweentown feels depressed about his situation he eventually decides to…