I Need To Know The Story Line Of The Movie Sweeney Todd With Johnny Depp?

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1. Missymum says:

   12/27/2009 at 6:23 am

   Well, alright. But I’m warning you right now, it WILL spoil the ending for you Okay, you have been warned. Here we go:
   SPOILER STARTS NOW!!!
   Before he was Sweeney Todd, he was Benjamin Barker, with a wife and a little baby girl. Benjamin Barker loved his wife, Lucy, she and Johanna (his daughter) were his whole reason for living. Lucy was very beautiful, but Benjamin Barker was not the only one who thought so. There was another man who saw that she was beautiful, a judge whom is only referred to as Judge Turpin. Judge Turpin had Beadle Bamford (another important character) arrest Benjamin and send him off to jail in Australia for no reason other than to have access to his wife.
   Fifteen years later, Benjamin Barker (who has changed his name to Sweeney Todd at this point to avoid recognition) has escaped from jail and returned to London on The Bountiful (a ship) He came to be on The Bountiful because he was spotted by Anthony Hope, who rescued him from the water that he was being tossed about in. When they arrive at London, they go their separate ways and Sweeney goes to Mrs.Lovett, a woman whose shop he used to live above with his wife and daughter (this is also where he ran his barbering business)
   Mrs.Lovett proceeds to tell him that after he was transported to Austrailia, Judge Turpin raped his wife in front of a whole room of people and drove her to poinson herself. Mrs.Lovett also reveals that Judge Turpin adopted his daughter, Johanna, as his own. This infuriates Todd, who vows to get his revenge on Turpin.
   Mrs.Lovett then brings Sweeney up to his shop, and shows him his razors that she kept hidden, in case he ever did come back. Now, as this is happening, Anthony Hope is setting eyes on Johanna for the first time and is struck to the bone by her beauty. So he asks an old beggar woman who she is, and the beggar woman tells him (in the soundtrack she also hits on him, but not so much in the movie) After the beggar lady leaves, Anthony resumes his looking upon Johanna’s window. Judge Turpin, noticing this, beckons Anthony into his home, only to warn him to never set eyes on Johanna again, and then throws him out of the house, ordering Beadle Bamford to set the message straight by throwing him around a little. But, Anthony is too determined to get Johanna out of her horrible life that she lives that he disregards this warning.
   Now, as this was happeneing, Sweeney Todd and Mrs.Lovett are in the town square, visiting this famous ‘Italian’ barber, to show Sweeney the sort of competition he’s up against. Upon hearing the advertisement for Pirelli’s Miracle Elixer (supposedly grows hair) made by Tobias Ragg, Pirelli’s apprentice, Sweeney states that this elixer is fake, and so is Pirelli. Then, Pirelli himself comes out, and demands a contest. So they hold a contest and Sweeney wins.
   Now, after this, we cut to Anthony, who is lingering around Johanna’s house. She sees him and proceeds to toss a key to her house out to him. Cut back to Sweeney, who is complaining that the Beadle hasn’t shown up yet (he told Sweeney he would be there for a shave, having witnessed the contest) Mrs.Lovett tells him to wait, the waiting is half the fun.
   Anthony burts in at this point, to reveal to Sweeney that he plans to sneak into Johanna’s house while Turpin is at court. Sweeney and Mrs.Lovett share a look and then they tell Anthony to bring Johanna to
   the little room above the pie shop (Mrs.Lovett bakes meat pies for a living, by the way) Now Sweeney is absorbing the thought that his daughter will soon be in his grasp when who should appear but Pirelli.
   Todd tells Mrs.Lovett to keep Toby downstairs, and Pirelli comes up and they have a ‘chat’ Pirelli informs Todd that he remembers him from when he was Benjamin Barker, because he used to sweep up hair for him in his shop. So Pirelli blackmails Sweeney into giving him half of whatever money he earns cutting hair. Well, Sweeney loses it and beats Pirelli up. Toby, realising that Pirelli has an appointment, rushes up the stairs. He walks in, only to discover that Pirelli is not there (Sweeney has him in a trunk) Sweeney sends Toby down to tell Mrs.Lovett to give him a glass of gin, and Toby is off like a rocket.
   After Toby leaves, Sweeney slits Pirelli’s throat and Mrs.Lovett comes up the stairs, wondering where Pirelli has gone. She discovers that Sweeney has killed him, and thinks he’s insane until Sweeney tells her why he killed him. Sweeney wants to do away with Toby as well, but Mrs.Lovett convinces him to let the boy live and help her run the shop.
   At this point, Sweeney sees Judge Turpin through the window (who has been informed by the Beadle that Sweeney gives impeccable shaves, and thus decides to go for one) Sweeney flips out and barks at Mrs.Lovett to go downstairs and leave him alone, and then Judge Turpin comes in. This part just consits of shaving faces and singing songs, until Sweeney is about to kill the judge for what he did
2. PAUL D says:

   12/27/2009 at 11:42 am

   Well here is synopsis from IMDB, be warned, if you read, should thoroughly ruin film for you
   Victorian England is the setting for this harrowing melodrama. Backstory: Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp) was living a simple, happy life as a barber with his wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly) and their baby daughter when the lust of Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) ruined their lives. The judge had Barker deported to Australia on a trumped-up charge, then raped Lucy, who poisoned herself in despair. Their daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) became the ward of Judge Turpin.
   Many years later Barker, now calling himself Sweeney Todd, returns illegally to England with the help of a young sailor named Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower). He visits the pie shop of Mrs. Lovett (Helena Bonham Carter), an old friend who recognizes him and tells him what happened to Lucy and Johanna. Then she takes him up to the room he used to rent above her shop, where she has hidden his razors under a floorboard. He’s profoundly happy to have them back and decides to reopen his barbershop.
   On a stroll through the market, Mr. Todd and Mrs. Lovett stop to watch Signor Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), a mountebank barber and hair tonic salesman. Mr. Todd challenges Signor Pirelli to a shaving competition, to be judged by Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). (The beadle is Judge Turpin’s sidekick.) Mr. Todd wins handily and encourages the beadle to patronize his “tonsorial parlor.”
   However Signor Pirelli, who once worked for Benjamin Barker, recognizes the man and his razors. He has blackmail in mind: in exchange for half of Mr. Todd’s earnings, Signor Pirelli will refrain from exposing Todd’s identity to the authorities. Mr. Todd, enraged, kills Pirelli. Mr. Todd and Mrs. Lovett decide to use the body to make meat pies. Mrs. Lovett appropriates Pirelli’s purse and hires Pirelli’s servant, the boy Toby (Ed Sanders), to help her in the pie shop.
   In another part of London, Anthony the sailor has caught sight of a lovely young woman, identified to him as Johanna by a local beggar woman, sitting at her window in Judge Turpin’s house. He’s smitten. Unfortunately, Judge Turpin has caught sight of Anthony too; the judge threatens him and has Beadle Bamford beat him up. Not content with warning Anthony off, Judge Turpin decides to marry Johanna to “protect her” — but, he confides to the beadle, she’s unaccountably reluctant. (In fact, she’s given Anthony a key to the house and is planning to run away with him.) Beadle Bamford, suggesting that the judge will win his ward’s heart if he just spruces himself up a bit, recommends a visit to Sweeney Todd. The judge goes for a shave, but just as Mr. Todd is about to kill him, Anthony bursts into the barbershop asking for help in eloping with Johanna. Judge Turpin leaves in a rage and packs Johanna off to an insane asylum to keep Anthony from finding her.
   Furious that Judge Turpin has slipped through his fingers, Todd embarks on a spree of butchery, bloodily killing almost every customer who comes to his shop. Downstairs, business is booming: the bodies all go into Mrs. Lovett’s meat pies, which are greatly improved by the change of recipe. Meanwhile, Anthony scours the city in search of Johanna. After he finds her at Fogg’s Asylum, Mr. Todd advises Anthony to present himself at Fogg’s as a wig maker’s apprentice in search of hair the color of Johanna’s. The ruse works; Mr. Fogg (Philip Philmar) leads Anthony straight to Johanna and Anthony takes her off to the barbershop, leaving Fogg to be torn apart by the remaining inmates.
   Mr. Todd, on the sly, has written to Judge Turpin. Pretending to be eager to regain the judge’s good opinion, he tells Turpin that Anthony is eloping with Johanna and will leave her at the barbershop that night while he arranges their escape from London. Toby by this time has begun to suspect that Mr. Todd is dangerous. Mrs. Lovett locks him in the cellar with the oven, the meat grinder, and a few batches of pies. Toby finds a toe in one of the pies and realizes that the unprocessed meat is human remains. Upstairs in the pie shop, Beadle Bamford has very inconveniently arrived to inspect the premises because the neighbors are complaining of the smell. To keep him away from the corpses and the now more than suspicious Toby in the cellar, Mr. Todd persuades the beadle to have a shave first, and of course kills him. The arrival of Beadle Bamford’s body in the cellar (via a chute and trap door in the barbershop floor) impels Toby to flee through a drain into the sewers.
   While Mrs. Lovett and Mr. Todd search for Toby in the sewers, Johanna arrives at the barbershop to wait while Anthony hires a carriage. Anthony has disguised her as a boy. Looking around the room, Johanna notices but does not recognize photographs of her infant self and her mother, Lucy. She hides in a trunk when she hears someone coming; it’s the addled beggar woman who has inhabited the edges of the story since Sweeney T