What was Sweeney Todd's original name?

Answer 1

Sweeney Todd is a barber that wants revenge for losing his daughter and wife, so he cuts people's throats while giving them a shave. The bodies are then used as the source for meat pies. They become the most popular thing in town.

Answer 2

Sweeney Todd is an urban legand that begin in Penny Dreadfulls in the 1800s about a serial killing barber. The skeleton of the urban legand was used to compose Stephen Sondheim's musical thriller, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which varies in some places from the original myth.

Answer 3

Sweeney Todd was not a real person. He is a fictional character. Before he became a fictional character, he was an urban legend.

It is possible that there was a real murderer whom inspired the legend. Inspired by a true story is not the same as being based on a true story. "Based on a true story" means the author or authors strived to make their story as close to the truth as possible, only taking a few creative licenses to embellish the story and make it more poignant.

"Inspired by a true story" means that the author took a tiny, tiny grain of truth, and then imagined the rest for themselves. And that is precisely what fiction writing is all about: using a tiny, tiny slice of real life as the inspiration for an imaginary story.

Most scholars do not believe that Sweeney Todd existed. And even if a man like him did exist, 99% of the information about him would still be myth and legend.

See the Related Link below for the Wikipedia entry on Sweeney Todd.

Answer 4

Sweeney Todd is a fictional villain - a barber and an early example of a serial killer- appearing in various English language works beginning in 1846. His weapon is a cut-throat razor, with which he slits his victims' throats. His victims were men who came into his barber shop to have a shave, a popular thing back then.

There has been a musical released in 2007 about him called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which is rated 18 and stars. Johnny Depp plays Sweeney Todd, the barber who slits the throats of gentlemen coming into his barber shop in London, England for a shave. Helen Bonham Carter plays Mrs Lovett, his acomplice who bakes his victims into meat pies, causing them to become wildly popular.

Sweeney Todd is a psuedonym for Benjamin Barker, a man who was sent away to prisson for life by an evil judge. Benjamin comes back to London about 10-20 years later, only to discover that the judge has raped hs wife, causing her to poison herself. The judge has also adopted his daughter, Johanna, as his ward and is now trying to marry her. Sweeney decides to get revenge on the judge and the world for having his life ripped apart. He begins to slit the throats of the men coming into his shop. Meanwhile, Mrs. Lovett, who owns a pie shop that serves "the worst pies in London" butchers up Sweeney's victims and bakes them into her pies. Ultimatly, if you want to know the ending and experience the greatness of Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter singing and dancing in Tim Burton's wonderful movie, I suggest you go to the local video store and rent the movie.

Answer 5

Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is about a barber who has been sent away from his wife Lucy and daughter Johanna to jail on a forced charge of foolishness. He has come back to London after his sentence had ended hoping to come home to his wife, child and beloved barber shop. When he finds out that his home and barber shop had been turned into a Pie shop now owning to the very ditsy lovable Mrs.Lovett and that his wife had died and his daughter is being held captive by the very judge that put him away 15 years ago he is fuming with rage and wants revenge! He soon starts practicing slitting people's throats on his customers with his silver razors, in order to practice getting his revenge of killing the judge that put him away. The meat from Sweeney's victims is then made into delicious pies for Mrs.Lovett's pie shop. The whole thing is set in the 1800's and is a big musical on stage and in the movie theatre. If your not much of a musical person i definitely recommend you going to go see it with Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd and Helena Boham Carter as Mrs.Nellie Lovett. I know it sounds a bit gruesome but trust me you ll love it as much as me when you see it.
It's about a barber who comes back to London to find his wife, but finds out shes dead. And tries to get his revenge on the judge that exiled him for a faulty crime.

It's amazing.

It's a musical kind of.

Answer 6

Here is a list in chronological order of all the people Sweeney Todd kills in the 2007 movie:

1. Aldolfo Pirelli

2. Random Guys Who Come Into His Barber Shop

3. Beadle Bamford

4. Lucy Barker

5. Judge Alexander Turpin

6. Mrs. Nellie Lovett

Not to mention that he had planned to kill Toby, and also almost slit Johanna's throat. He never intended to kill Anthony, he was helping him.

Answer 7

Sweeney Todd is a character fixsated on Revenge. He starts with love, but ends in a fury of emotion. He changes from an emotion to the next within seconds.

The song epiphany in a good senario to show that.

He goes from pure hatred into a deep swarm of sadness.

In the end, revenge is what ends his life.

R.I.P Sweeney Todd.

Answer 8

He used to be Benjamin Barker until he went to prison. When he was released from prison, he changed it to Sweeney Todd because he didn't anyone to recognize him. He was planning to kill the Judge who raped his wife, took his child, and put him in jail, and the Judge's right hand man The Beadle, along with most of London. The only people who recognized him were the rival barber (his first victim) and Mrs. Lovett.

Answer 9

Toby