How does Sweeney Todd end?!
Question: I only saw the movie up to the part where Todd killed his second victim. His daughter had been sent away, and the young man who was in love with her came in just before Todd killed the judge. Soon after that, Todd decided to kill anyone and everyone, and the "meat pie" idea was born.
I went to the movie with a friend who couldn't stomach the gory scenes, so will someone please tell me in detail what happened from that point until the end of the flick?
10 points for best answer!
Answers: I only saw the movie up to the part where Todd killed his second victim. His daughter had been sent away, and the young man who was in love with her came in just before Todd killed the judge. Soon after that, Todd decided to kill anyone and everyone, and the "meat pie" idea was born.
I went to the movie with a friend who couldn't stomach the gory scenes, so will someone please tell me in detail what happened from that point until the end of the flick?
10 points for best answer!
Todd did not kill the judge at that point, but was forced to let him go when the young man burst into the room and gave away in front of the judge that he was going to help Johanna escape. The judge leaves in a furious rage and Johanna is sent to a mental asylum as punishment for trying to deceive the judge. Sweeney Todd helps the young man concoct a plan to help her escape. Meanwhile, the little boy began to get suspiscious of Todd and tried to warn Bonham's character that Todd was an evil man. She then locked the little boy in the room with all of the dead bodies, knowing they would have to kill him. He sees what they are doing with the corpses and is justifiably horrified. He manages to escape through a sewer and Todd and Bonham try to find him but get distracted from the pursuit. The homeless woman that you see throughout the movie is caught in the barbershop and Todd cuts her throat and dumps her body downstairs like all the others. Sweeney Todd lured the judge back to his barbershop by having sent him a letter in advance telling him of the plan to rescue Johanna and tells him that the young man will be bringing her to his barbershop at midnight. The judge arrives and is convinced by Todd to get a shave while he is waiting. At that point he reveals his true identity and kills the judge. Unbeknownst to Sweeney, the young man had already brought Johanna into the room and hid her in his chest. She witnesses the murder and he sees her peeking out of the chest afterwards. He comes THIS close to killing her as well, since she's dressed like a boy and he doesn't recognize her as his daughter. He is distracted by Bonham screaming b/c the judge hadn't completely died and was grabbing at her while she was trying to dispatch his body. Todd lets Johanna go with a warning to "forget his face" Todd goes down to investigate and the bodies of the judge and the homeless woman are lying there. Bonham recognized the homeless woman first and is quickly trying to dispose of her body before Todd does as well, but is too late and Todd finally sees that the homeless woman is actually his wife. He then is furious at bonham for lying about his wife having died and then pushes her into the furnace. He is lying there holding his dead wife in his arms, when the little boy sneaks back up through the sewers and cuts Todd's throat. Todd dies dripping blood on the body of his wife.
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TOdd continues to kill people and the meat pie business goes very well. nothing especially interesting happens for a little bit.
the crazy women with blonde hair keeps trying to sneak into the meat pie shop because she sees like black smoke from them cooking people and says its the sign of the devil
eventually the boy who was on the ship with todd in the beginning breaks into the asylum where todds daughter is ebing kept. he takers her away from there and then brings her back to todds shop where he dresses her as a boy.
the blonde crazy wome breaks into todds shop and he kills her without even thinking since she is annoying
the little boy who was helping in the shop figures out what is going on and thinks that todd is evil so he wants to protect the women. she locks him in the basement and he sees the bodies fall down there and then hides.
next the judge comes and his assistant and todd finally gets his revenge and kills both of them.
todd goes downstairs and he is talking to the meat pie women and they are looking for the little boy to kill him since he is going to tell their secret
todd is standing there and he notices that the blonde crazy women was actually his wife and that she didn't die when she drank the arsenic
todd gets very angry and kills the meat pie lady by throwing her into the oven
todd is then kneeling with his beloved wife when the little boy come out from hiding and slips todds throat with one of his barber knives.
it ends with todd bleeding all over his already dead wife who he killed.
if you want to see the end you can watch it online at
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amazing. the grand finale.
Sweeney Todd was able to kill the Judge. Here's the twist at the end.........
Sweeney Todd killed this one woman inside of his office. He goes down into the fire chamber where they cremate them. He look at the girl he killed and find out its his wife. Mrs. Lovett was lying to him the whole time. His wife had always been alive. She was never poisoned....Mrs. Lovett and Mr. Todd dance and he throws her into the fire with a demon look. Johanna stays alive because she was saved by Anthony. At the crematory, Toby slices Mr. Todd at the neck because Mr. Todd had killed Pirelli. So Mr. Todd, Mrs. Lovett, and Mr. Todd's wife dies at the crematory. Full of blood...
all i know is that swenny and helena bonahm carter die.sweeny slits her throat.the guy that kills sweeny marries sweenys daughter.remember i havent seen it i just heard about it.
Anthony is walking along the streets of London looking for Johanna while he and a murderous Sweeney both sing a reprise of “Johanna.” The song is not funny in itself, but when played along with Sweeney’s uncaring and timely throat-slitting and bodies dropping, you can’t help but laugh (is that bad???) While Anthony is walking through actual butcher shops (total irony) and cemeteries, Sweeney is killing any man that comes into his shop. The only person who seems to notice that people are entering Sweeney’s shop and not leaving is the Beggar Woman, who also is the only one to smell the horrible stench in the air. Sweeney kills everyone in his shop except for a man whose family had come with him to watch him shave (Sweeney has enough heart to not kill an entire family). Once their song is done, Anthony ends up outside of Fogg’s Asylum and sees Johanna behind metal bars. Meanwhile, Sweeney sits on his chair, leaving bloody marks on his picture of his wife and baby.
Mrs. Lovett’s Meat Pie shop is busy and bustling while Toby sings “God, That’s Good!” It’s a bit disgusting to think of the fact that all of the people are eating people. As Toby runs around giving customers ale, Mrs. Lovett is busy singing to customers and telling Toby to kick the Beggar Woman out of her shop, who keeps trying to enter to tell people what they are really eating. At one point, they run out of pies, but a man goes upstairs to get a shave, and Mrs. Lovett calls him “fresh supplies.” Toby is so busy helping customers that he does not realize that the man never comes back downstairs.
After who knows how many days at both of the shops, the three take a day to spend a picnic in a field. While Toby flies a kite and Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett sit, she sings “By The Sea” to Sweeney, proclaiming her love for him. All he cares about is finding a way to the judge, but she is so enamored by him that she doesn’t realize that he couldn’t care less about her at the moment. She goes into a very entertaining fantasy where they spend days at the beach (in extremely funny swimming outfits), have a house by the sea, and even get married. While she is completely happy, Sweeney is even cold and expressionless in her fantasy (pretty funny).
They return to Sweeney’s shop where Mrs. Lovett asks him if he remembers what Lucy looked like. All he told her was that she had yellow hair and he removes himself into a silent depression. She tells him that “Life is for the alive” and to forget his life with Lucy and think about the life he could have with her. His mood perks up, though, when Anthony visits him in his shop. He tells Sweeney that Johanna is locked away in a madhouse that is impossible to enter. Sweeney tells him to pretend to be a wigmaker’s apprentice in order to enter the fortress (wigmakers got their hair from mental institutions). He finally has a way to Judge Turpin. Sweeney tells Mrs. Lovett to get Toby, who is working downstairs. When he gets there, Sweeney gives him a letter to give to the judge lying that Johanna would be at his shop later that night. When Toby asks him if he could stop at the store, Sweeney menacingly tells him no and that he can only go to the judge’s house and straight back. Toby begins to realize that Sweeney may not be as great a man as Mrs. Lovett thinks him to be.
As Sweeney patiently paces upstairs, Toby arrives back home to a tired Mrs. Lovett after missing the dinner rush. He sings “Not While I’m Around,” explaining that he will never let anything bad happen to her and that she should not trust Sweeney. She tries to convince him to stop thinking bad thoughts about Sweeney, but he will not let up. She gives him money so that he can go get some candy to distract him from his thoughts, but she takes it out of Pirelli’s purse. Toby instantly recognizes it and she tries to persuade him that it was simply a gift from Sweeney. Toby grabs her and tries to go to Beadle, but she hugs him and sits on the couch, continuing the song. When finished, she tells him that she will teach him how to make the pies like he’s always wanted to. “No time like the present,” she says. They walk into the basement and a horrible smell hits them. Mrs. Lovett blames it on some sewer rats that die. She shows him the large oven and the meat grinder that disgustingly spurts meat out in a Play-Doh like way. Toby asks if he can have a pie, and she replies that he can have as many as he wants. As she leaves, she locks him in the basement and begins heading upstairs. You can see that she feels awful about what she is going to let happen to the boy that considers her his mother.
After telling Sweeney that she locked Toby in the basement and if he escapes he will go to Beadle, they begin heading downstairs. They open the door to find Beadle standing there who has come because of complaints of the awful smell coming from their chimney. Before he can go downstairs to examine the bake-house, Sweeney convinces him to go upstairs for a quick lesson in cologne. He obliges and they begin walking upstairs to Sweeney’s chair. The Beggar Woman watches them in the distance.
Anthony has infiltrated the asylum and is walking down a hallway with the director of the asylum. He explains that he keeps different hair colors in different cells as they enter the blonde cell. Anthony spots Johanna and pulls a gun on the director, taking Johanna with him while leaving the director to the mercy of his patients, who instantly attack.
Toby grabs a pie and begins eating it. He feels a crunch and pulls out a toe. After seeing this, he looks over at a pile of rotting human ribcages and spines. As he examines the meat grinder and pulls out a hand, Beadle’s corpse comes crashing to the ground with a menacing splat that cracks his head open. Toby runs to the door screaming to find it locked. After killing Beadle, Sweeney and Mrs. Lovett walk into the basement looking for Toby. As she sweetly calls his name, continuing “Not While I’m Around,” Sweeney calls his name, hiding his open razor behind his back. They look but cannot find him anywhere.
Anthony and Johanna run into Sweeney’s shop upstairs looking for him. Johanna is dressed in boy clothes so that no one will be able to recognize her. Anthony tells her to wait there while he gets the carriage, but she proclaims that no matter how far away they go together they will never be able to escape the ghosts of their lives. After he leaves, she begins examining the shop. Suddenly she hears the Beggar Woman coming up the stairs, so she hides in the same chest that Pirelli’s body was in. The Beggar Woman calls out Beadle’s name, but she will not find him. Sweeney appears in the doorway, asking what she is doing there. She warns him of the evils of Mrs. Lovett and then asks him “Don’t I know you, mister?” He can hear Judge Turpin coming up the stairs, so he slashes the woman’s throat, blood flowing down her neck like a waterfall. She was standing directly on the trap door, and he sends her down.
He tells Judge Turpin that Johanna is waiting downstairs and that she has seen the error of her ways. Turpin is overjoyed, but before he can get another word out Sweeney offers him a shave so he will look good for when Johanna arrives. He sits in the chair as they begin singing “Pretty Women” together. As the judge tells Sweeney that he not often meets “a fellow spirit,” to which Sweeney replies “One with fellow taste in women,” revealing himself to be Benjamin Barker before he thrusts the razor repeatedly into Turpin’s neck, blood spurting everywhere on Sweeney and the shop. Turpin lays in the chair bleeding as Sweeney slashes his neck and sends him to the basement. He sings to his razor that they will now “sleep the untroubled sleep of the angels” when Johanna slightly opens the chest. From her view we see Sweeney look over and bring his bloody razor over to the chest. Since she is dressed in boy’s clothing and Sweeney last saw her as a baby, he does not recognize her as his daughter and pulls her over to the chair for “a shave.” Right before he can kill her, they hear Mrs. Lovett scream, and Sweeney tells Johanna to forget everything that she saw and runs downstairs.
Turpin is not quite dead and had grabbed onto Mrs. Lovett’s dress. Once he finally dies, she looks over to the other bodies, sees the woman and whispers “You!” She hears Sweeney’s footsteps approaching and tries to drag the body towards the oven, but he enters before she can get it there. He tells her that he will drag the bodies and yells at her to open the oven. Once the oven’s light shines on the woman, he sees that the Beggar Woman was actually Lucy and realizes that she had recognized him right before he killed her. In anguish, he tells Mrs. Lovett that she lied to him. Technically she never lied; Lucy did drink the arsenic but Mrs. Lovett never said she died. As she explains to him that she loved him more than Lucy ever could, but Sweeney’s anguish turns to anger as he grabs Mrs. Lovett and begins dancing with her. “The history of the world, my pet, is learn forgiveness and try to forget,” he sings to her, also saying that they “life is for the alive” like she told him earlier. Once she believes that Sweeney has forgiven her, he waltzes her straight into the open oven door and locks her in. The vision is more graphic than could be imagined for the stage musical.
As Sweeney goes towards Lucy, he drops the razor to the ground and cradles her body, he sadly sings the story of the barber and his beautiful wife. Toby comes up from the sewer grate and grabs the razor as Sweeney continues serenading his love. He hears Toby behind him and waits for death (which he knows he deserves and is completely remorseful for everything he’s done), raising his head, as Toby slits his throat, blood falling like Lucy’s as a waterfall. As Sweeney dies, he crouches over Lucy, still cradling her, as their blood mixes on the floor in their eternal pose.