What happens to Sweeney Todd's wife when she goes to see the Judge??!
Question: Well, BEADLE calls on her, all polite,
Poor thing, poor thing.
The JUDGE, he tells her, is all contrite,
He blames himself for her dreadful plight,
She must come straight to his house tonight!
Poor thing, poor thing.
As previously explained, Judge Turpin called her to his home, saying he wanted to apologize for sending her husband, Benjamin, to 'bloody Australia or whereever'. So she goes with the Beadle to the extravagant costume party. (The costumes in Burton's version were amazing, might I add. Each costume tailored to the character.)
Of course, when she goes there,
Poor thing, poor thing.
They're havin' this ball all in masks.
(The shapes are now clear. A ball is in progress at the JUDGE'5 house: the company, wearing grotesque masks, is dancing a slow minuet. The BEADLE, leading the wife, appears, moving with her through the dancers. He gives her champagne. She looks dazedly around, terrified)
At this point in the movie version, the Beadle shoves her into the fray unattended, unlike the script. However, in the movie, it seems that her disorientation may come from the champagne, which I felt may have been drugged, Wouldn't put it past either the Judge or the Beadle.
There's no one she knows there,
Poor dear, poor thing.
She wanders tormented, and drinks,
Poor thing.
The JUDGE has repented, she thinks,
Poor thing.
"Oh, where is JUDGE TURPIN?" she asks.
(During the following, (Ac JUDGE appears, tears off his mask, then his cloak, revealing himself naked. The wife screams as he reaches for her, struggling wildly as the BEADLE hurls her to the floor. He holds her there as the JUDGE mounts her and, the masked dancers pirouette around the ravishment, giggling)
He was there, all right —
Only not so contrite!
She wasn't no match for such craft, you see,
And everyone thought it so droll.
They figured she had to be daft, you see,
So all of 'em stood there and laughed, you see.
Poor soul!
Poor thing!
At this point, the Judge does rape Lucy, with the party looking on in amusement, figuring her screams were simply because she was drunk or 'daft'. In the original versions, the Beadle doesn't just watch on in glee, as he does in the movie (fitting the pig mask), but rather assists in the molestation of the innocent Lucy.
TODD: Where is my wife? Where's Lucy?
MRS. LOVETT: She poisoned herself. Arsenic from the apothecary on the corner. I tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen to me.
Lovett after briefly explains that as a result of the Judge's actions, the rape and the theft of her husband, Lucy poison's herself. Later, it is explained that she did not die, making the Judge's crime seem worse by comparison, stealing what had been Lucy and leaving the shell to live and die alone.
Answers: Well, BEADLE calls on her, all polite,
Poor thing, poor thing.
The JUDGE, he tells her, is all contrite,
He blames himself for her dreadful plight,
She must come straight to his house tonight!
Poor thing, poor thing.
As previously explained, Judge Turpin called her to his home, saying he wanted to apologize for sending her husband, Benjamin, to 'bloody Australia or whereever'. So she goes with the Beadle to the extravagant costume party. (The costumes in Burton's version were amazing, might I add. Each costume tailored to the character.)
Of course, when she goes there,
Poor thing, poor thing.
They're havin' this ball all in masks.
(The shapes are now clear. A ball is in progress at the JUDGE'5 house: the company, wearing grotesque masks, is dancing a slow minuet. The BEADLE, leading the wife, appears, moving with her through the dancers. He gives her champagne. She looks dazedly around, terrified)
At this point in the movie version, the Beadle shoves her into the fray unattended, unlike the script. However, in the movie, it seems that her disorientation may come from the champagne, which I felt may have been drugged, Wouldn't put it past either the Judge or the Beadle.
There's no one she knows there,
Poor dear, poor thing.
She wanders tormented, and drinks,
Poor thing.
The JUDGE has repented, she thinks,
Poor thing.
"Oh, where is JUDGE TURPIN?" she asks.
(During the following, (Ac JUDGE appears, tears off his mask, then his cloak, revealing himself naked. The wife screams as he reaches for her, struggling wildly as the BEADLE hurls her to the floor. He holds her there as the JUDGE mounts her and, the masked dancers pirouette around the ravishment, giggling)
He was there, all right —
Only not so contrite!
She wasn't no match for such craft, you see,
And everyone thought it so droll.
They figured she had to be daft, you see,
So all of 'em stood there and laughed, you see.
Poor soul!
Poor thing!
At this point, the Judge does rape Lucy, with the party looking on in amusement, figuring her screams were simply because she was drunk or 'daft'. In the original versions, the Beadle doesn't just watch on in glee, as he does in the movie (fitting the pig mask), but rather assists in the molestation of the innocent Lucy.
TODD: Where is my wife? Where's Lucy?
MRS. LOVETT: She poisoned herself. Arsenic from the apothecary on the corner. I tried to stop her but she wouldn't listen to me.
Lovett after briefly explains that as a result of the Judge's actions, the rape and the theft of her husband, Lucy poison's herself. Later, it is explained that she did not die, making the Judge's crime seem worse by comparison, stealing what had been Lucy and leaving the shell to live and die alone.
I think she was raped. Since the judge was such a pervert.
She was raped by the judge and all the other guests just stood there, watched them and laughed! Nobody helped her! Amazing movie!!! Tim Burton really created another dark/gothic masterpiece!!!