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Sweeney Todd (Franchise)
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Sweeney Todd is a Public Domain Character originating from a book that was first published in 1846. He is a London barber and Serial Killer who murdered his customers and disposed of their bodies by having them baked into pies and sold in the pie-shop of his accomplice Mrs. Lovett. | |
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Dangerously Close Shave | |
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Dangerously Close Shave: Instead of shaving his customers, Sweeney murders them. Ironically absent from the original penny dreadful, in which his barber's chair is a deadly booby-trap that flips his customers into a pit, although he does threaten to do this to Tobias if his shop-boy speaks a word about his doings. | |
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Related in the Adaptation | |
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Related in the Adaptation: In "The String Of Pearls", Johanna has no personal connection to Sweeney, only becoming involved because she fears her boyfriend has fallen victim to the villainous barber. In the Bond play, its musical adaptation and that play's film adaptation, she is depicted as his long-lost daughter. | |
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Adaptational Sympathy: The titular character is motivated entirely by greed and cruelty in the original penny dreadful The String of Pearls and is pretty monstrous in most other adaptations. The play by Christopher Bond, which was later adapted into the Steven Sondheim musical Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, gave him a tragic backstory and a revenge motivation. | |
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Public Domain Character | |
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Public Domain Character: Sweeney Todd and other characters from The String of Pearls are under no copyright due to being created in the 19th century. | |
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Serial Killer | |
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Serial Killer: Sweeney Todd is one of the earliest examples in English literature. | |
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Promoted to Love Interest | |
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Promoted to Love Interest: Mrs. Lovett has often been portrayed as Todd's love interest since the 1970's. | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender | |
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Men Are the Expendable Gender: Sweeney murders dozens or even hundreds of men, but typically only one or two women. Justified because it's men who patronize his barber shop. | |
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Setting Update | |
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Setting Update: "The String of Pearls" was set in 1785. Most adaptations have the setting as the Victorian era but the 1936 film has the setting as 1836, modern book-ends excluded, making it still Georgian albeit extremely late Georgian, while Bloodthirsty Butchers goes for a then contemporary setting. The 1998 Ben Kingsley film and the 2006 film with Ray Winstone likewise keeps the Georgian setting. | |
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Based on a Great Big Lie | |
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Based on a Great Big Lie: The preface of The String of Pearls claimed that Sweeney Todd was a real person, although all proof of his existence was conveniently lost when his barbershop was demolished and a chapel was built in its place. The claim has remained attached to the story on and off ever since. However, the idea of a barber killing his clients and having an accomplice bake them into pies is itself Very Loosely Based on a True Story: that of Barnabé Cabard and Pierre Miquelon, dating back to the 15th century. | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies | |
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The Secret of Long Pork Pies: Mrs. Lovett disposes of Sweeney's victims by baking them into pies. In most tellings this improves her pies and enriches her business. | |
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