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Sweeney Todd?

Sweeney Todd - Sweeney Todd

Favourite Thing About Him:

He is crazy but he honestly doesn’t care. Most of the time he doesn’t realise what he is doing is even remotely out of the norm but even if he does he doesn’t give a crap and that is really motivational. Like, “Am I slitting throats of people who have don’t have any fault? Doesn’t matter.” “Is she putting humans into pies? Ah, whatever.” Isn’t that a great life philosophy?

Also, in the musical, each character has a theme that foreshadows their character (Stephen Sondheim's genius is showing) and my favourite theme is Sweeney’s theme. It is kind of a frightening and deadly theme but it also “tastes’ like lost dreams and ready nights and it is just bitter. I like it.

Least Favourite Thing About Him:

The fact that he didn’t have a relatively better ending with Mrs.Lovett. Yes, I know, Lovett killed his wife and hid things from him and was more psychopathic than him (arguably) and this ending was meant to play with our feelings and all that. I absolutely get it, but Mrs.Lovett is my favourite character and her dreams about having a “good life” with Todd were a tingle of sweetness between the murderous plotline. It would be interesting to see them try to live together.

Favourite Quote:

1. That is a brilliant idea Mrs.Lovett! (about baking human pies)

2. As you’ve said repeatedly, there is little point in dwelling in the past, now come here my love! - it is amusing how he tries to trick Mrs.Lovett that he has changed in a split second after not changing for a whole musical.

3. Nothing to fear my love! - says this while pointing a knife at her, blood dripping from his face and smiling maniacally. Seems legit.

4. “Is learn forgiveness and try to forget” - I think this is a great quote in on itself but coming from Sweeney Todd... seems scary.

OTP:

Sweeney Todd x Mrs.Lovett

brOTP:

Sweeney Todd x Anthony

nOTP:

Sweeney Todd x Judge Turpin. People who ship this, I know you are there, stop.

Random Headcanon:

Sweeney Todd is actually a figment of Mrs.Lovett’s imagination.

Mrs.Lovett is a poor and starving shop owner. Everybody is poor so nobody visits her pie shop. So, she cannot gain any money and literally doesn’t eat anything for days. Therefore, she starts hallucinating and seeing visions where she by any means possibly increases her shop sales. So, Sweeney Todd is an articulate imagination of a dying shopkeeper. Tragically, she dies at the end of dehydration and that is when in her imagination, she is thrown into the oven.

Unpopular Opinion:

Sweeney Todd living in despair and dying later after having a meaningless life would be a better ending to such a tragic musical. Toby killing him was a relief from his pain and if I would have written it, I would have not killed him off at the end. I would let him live after all these deaths occurred and Mrs.Lovett died. He would stroll the ghostly streets, feel nothing but emptiness after his rage has gone.

The Song I Associate With Him:

Murder Murder! - Jekyll & Hyde

Melanie Martinez songs - mostly their atmosphere because it feels like the atmosphere of the 2007 Sweeney Todd film.

Favourite Picture:

I like many pictures of Sweeney Todd mostly because I overall love the aesthetic of the movie. Obviously, it is Tim Burton.

However, I really really really REALLY like the picture above. Its dark atmosphere conveys the tone of the movie perfectly, and their looks/actions in the picture is the direct equivalent of their behaviour throughout the picture and it brilliantly represents their motifs.

I like pictures that can convey the emotions of the film and this is one of those pictures.

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Musicals: Stephen Sondheim - Sweeney Todd, Johanna (Quartet)

Probably not the song others would choose from this show, but I love hearing all of the different lines come together.

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Crazy because as I sat in the audience watching the Theatre Department's production of Company, all I could think was "the guy that plays Robert reminds me of Neil Patrick Harris!" And there he is...

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