Not only were horrible things done to him, but what his daughter and wife had to endure at the hands of the judge would be more than most fathers or husbands could bear. She fills him in on the details which have occurred in his absence, as well as informs him of his wife’s suicide, and that Judge Turpin now has custody of Johanna and holds her prisoner in his home until she is of age to be his…įrom a worldly standpoint, this man would have every reason imaginable to seek revenge. Though the film never implies that he has any recollection of who she is, she is quite vocal about knowing his wife Lucy as well as carrying romantic feelings for Barker, who is now Todd. Sweeney Todd returns to his former home on Fleet street and is greeted by the bizarre and eccentric Mrs. The details, from that point are a mystery to Benjamin Barker who has pronounced his former self dead and now goes by the name Sweeney Todd. However, because of a powerful judge’s ( Alan Rickman) lustful obsession for Barker’s wife, he was falsely imprisoned and the judge moved in on Lucy.
He was a successful barber, and apparently had no reasons to be unhappy. Fifteen years before the film’s first haunting and shadowing scenes, Benjamin Barker ( Johnny Depp) was a happy man, in love with his wife Lucy and busy adoring his baby girl Johanna. If ever a story confirmed that vengeance is blind, this is that story. Sweeney Todd (at least the film’s version of this age old tale) is the story about a man consumed by hatred and a blinding desire for revenge. With a rich cast and so much talent oozing from every creative roll, I believed I would love this movie. I wanted to love this movie, from the beginning. I deluded myself into thinking that I understood the plot line from the trailers I’d seen and considered myself an educated audience member… I was wrong. Being someone who is unfamiliar with the story of Sweeney Todd, but a lover of musicals and Broadway shows, I found myself immediately drawn to this film.
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