Everyone is tortured and traumatized. Eliot later used Sweeney in poems like ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales’ and ‘Mr. I have chosen this sequence because it shows impressively how colours are used in this exceptional film to demonstrate different feelings and different times. As the names of 'Warner Brothers' and 'Dream Works' comes onto the screen, there is non diegetic music playing which resembles a funeral and death. In this musical, he's a tragic character. The mood of the show is clearly macabre and very dark. Synopsis One of the darkest musicals ever written, Sweeney Todd: A Musical Thriller is the unsettling tale of a Victorian-era barber who returns home to London after fifteen years of exile to take revenge on the corrupt judge who ruined his life. “Final Sequence” (finale of Act II) — It can be argued that the emotional climax of the show is when Tobias sees the corpse of Beadle Bamford fall down the chute, but even then, the emotions continue to rise and progress throughout the show. Sweeney Todd (2007) can be classified as dramatic tragedy, a horror, and a musical film. i. Mrs. Lovett suggests to dispose the bodies by baking them into meat pies, a. Turpin decides to marry Johanna Sequence analysis There’s so much going on in this final sequence of music and drama that you’re not quite sure how to feel about it all. 3. DVD version stars Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett and George Hearn as Sweeney Todd. • Eerie, very high countermelody is heard over the top of the voice and strings. The film is mainly told in temporal order, except for the first flashback in the first scene, when Sweeney Todd thinks back to the wonderful time he had with his family and his sudden imprisonment and the second flashback, when he thinks of the masked ball where the judge takes care of his family. This is because the instrument being used in an organ and the pitch is very high, making the sound of the non diegetic music add suspense. Eliot’s Sunday Morning’.He is also mentioned briefly in ‘The Waste Land.’ The poem explores themes of desolation and emotional disconnection. Sweeney Todd (formerly Benjamin Baker) was exiled to Australia on a trumped-up charge, and returns to London to learn that his wife has poisoned herself and the judge that sentenced him to exile has taken his child. 3.1. The character “Sweeney Todd” first appeared in 1846 in a penny dreadful serial in the story “The String of Pearls”. See “A Note on Analyses” for more information on this type of post. He vows to exact (sweet, sweet) revenge on everyone who has wronged or slighted him by giving them “the closest shave” they’ve ever had. We learn that Sweeney Todd is a barber and a murderer (“they went to their maker impeccably shaved”). b. Johanna wants to run away with Anthony Mrs. Lovett is a well-meaning and somewhat innocent character, while Sweeney Todd, though jaded and cynical, still acts out of a misguided expression of love. a. Change ), Analysis: “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street”, Recommended: “Cannibal! At the harbour, they get off the ship and Sweeney Todd sings about his former life with his beautiful wife and his lovely daughter. e. ST re-opens barber shop, a. Anthony stands in the front of the house and sees Johanna who is sitting at the window and is staring outside and falls in love with her Wickedrentq, thanks for the analysis. The following section contains a detailed description, the dialogues and the types of shots in the sequence. “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” is a musical-thriller, was produced in 2007 and is based on the 1979 musical of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler. Furthermore, he sings about how they had been separated by the judge Turpin. ( Log Out /  e. arrival in London. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Originating on Broadway, Sweeney Todd is one of the “most critically acclaimed musical[s] of the past half-century” (Teachout, 2008).