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''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' is a 2007 musical horror film〔 directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler's Tony Award-winning 1979 musical of the same name and re-tells the Victorian melodramatic tale of Sweeney Todd, an English barber and serial killer who murders his customers with a straight razor and, with the help of his accomplice, Mrs. Lovett, processes their corpses into meat pies. Having been struck by the cinematic qualities of Sondheim's musical while still a student, Burton had entertained the notion of a film version since the early 1980s. However, it was not until 2006 that he had the opportunity to realize this ambition, when DreamWorks announced his appointment as replacement for director Sam Mendes, who had been working on such an adaptation. Sondheim, although not directly involved, was extensively consulted during the film's production. The film stars Johnny Depp as Sweeney Todd/Benjamin Barker and Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett. Depp, not known for his singing, took lessons in preparation for his role, which producer Richard D. Zanuck acknowledged was something of a gamble. However, Depp's vocal performance, despite being criticized as lacking certain musical qualities, was generally thought by critics to suit the part (see Music section below). ''Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street'' was released in the United States on December 21, 2007, and in the United Kingdom on January 25, 2008, to largely enthusiastic reviews. The film won a number of awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy, the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy and the Academy Award for Best Art Direction. Helena Bonham Carter was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, and Johnny Depp was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. Although not an outstanding financial success in the U.S., it performed well worldwide, and has spawned a soundtrack album and various DVD releases. ==Plot== In 1846, a barber named Benjamin Barker arrives in London, accompanied by sailor Anthony Hope ("No Place Like London"). Fifteen years earlier, he had been falsely convicted and sentenced to penal transportation from London by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who had lusted after Barker's wife Lucy ("The Barber and His Wife"). Barker adopts the alias "Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old Fleet Street shop, situated above Mrs. Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop ("The Worst Pies in London"). From her, he learns that Turpin raped Lucy, who then poisoned herself with arsenic. The couple's daughter, Johanna, is now Turpin's ward, and, like her mother before her, the object of Turpin's lust ("Poor Thing"). Todd vows revenge, and re-opens his barber shop after Mrs. Lovett returns his straight razors to him ("My Friends"). While roaming London, Anthony becomes enamored of Johanna, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his corrupt associate, Beadle Bamford ("Green Finch and Linnet Bird", "Alms! Alms!", "Johanna"). During a visit to the marketplace, Todd denounces faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli's hair tonic as a fraud and humiliates him in a public shaving contest ("Pirelli's Miracle Elixir", "The Contest"). A few days later, Pirelli arrives at Todd's shop, with his boy assistant Tobias Ragg. Mrs. Lovett keeps Toby occupied while Pirelli identifies himself as Todd's former assistant, Davy Collins, and threatens to reveal Todd's secret unless Todd gives him half his earnings. Todd kills Collins to protect his secret, and hides his body in a trunk. After receiving some advice from Bamford, Turpin, intending marriage to Johanna, visits Todd's shop for grooming ("Ladies in Their Sensitivities"). Todd shaves Turpin, preparing to slit his throat; they are interrupted by Anthony, who quickly reveals his plan to elope with Johanna before noticing Turpin ("Pretty Women"). Turpin leaves enraged, vowing never to return. Infuriated at having missed his chance, Todd vents his rage by killing his customers while waiting for another chance to kill Turpin, and Mrs. Lovett bakes his victims into pies ("Epiphany", "A Little Priest"). Todd rigs his barber's chair with a pedal-operated mechanism that deposits his victims through a trap door into Mrs. Lovett's basement bake-house. Meanwhile, Anthony searches for Johanna, whom Turpin has sent to an insane asylum upon discovering her plans to elope with Anthony ("Johanna ()"). The barbering and pie-making businesses prosper, and Mrs. Lovett takes Toby as her assistant ("God, That's Good"). Elated by success, Mrs. Lovett tells an uninterested Todd of her plans to marry him and move to the seaside ("By the Sea"). Anthony discovers Johanna's whereabouts and, at Todd's suggestion, poses as a wig-maker's apprentice to rescue her. Meanwhile, Todd has Toby deliver a letter to Turpin, telling him where Johanna will be brought when Anthony frees her. Toby has become wary of Todd and tells Mrs. Lovett of his suspicion ("Not While I'm Around"). Bamford arrives at the pie shop, informing Mrs. Lovett that neighbors have been complaining of the stink from her chimney. He is distracted by Todd's offer of a free grooming and is murdered by Todd. Mrs. Lovett informs Todd of Toby's suspicions, and the pair search for Toby, whom Mrs. Lovett has locked in the bake-house. He has hidden himself in the sewers after seeing Bamford's body drop into the room from the trap door above, as well as finding a human toe in a pie. Anthony brings Johanna, disguised as a sailor, to the shop, and has her wait there while he leaves to find a coach. A beggar woman enters the shop in search of Bamford. She recognizes Todd when he enters, but upon hearing Turpin's voice, Todd kills her and sends her through the trap door. As Turpin enters, Todd explains to him that Johanna had repented and offers a free shave; when Turpin finally recognizes Todd as Benjamin Barker, Todd stabs him several times before cutting his throat. Upon seeing Johanna, Todd prepares to slit her throat as well, not recognizing her as his daughter. Hearing Mrs. Lovett scream in horror as a dying Turpin grabs her dress, Todd instead tells Johanna "Forget my face", and spares her life. Todd discovers that the beggar woman Mrs. Lovett hurriedly tries to dispose of is his wife Lucy, whom he had believed to be dead, and that Mrs. Lovett misled him about her death. Todd pretends to forgive her and dances with her before hurling her into the bake-house oven, then cradles his wife's dead body in his arms, singing bitterly to himself. Unseen by Todd, Toby climbs from the sewers and slits Todd's throat with his own razor. He then leaves the basement as Todd bleeds to death ("Final Scene"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007 film)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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