Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

WARNING: THIS MOVIE IS NOT FOR KIDS! IT'S VERY BLOODY! IT'S VERY GORY AND VIOLENT!!!

Summary
-Benjamin Barker is a Victorian England barber with a beautiful wife named Lucy and a daughter named Johanna. Lucy's beauty attracts the lusty Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses Barker of a crime he didn't commit. While Barker is away, Turpin throws a party and invites Lucy. There, everyone gang rapes Lucy, forcing her to go insane while Judge Turpin steals Johanna to raise as his own. When Sweeney Todd returns from his exile, he wants to seek revenge

Cast
-Johnny Depp: Sweeney Todd
-Helena Bonham-Carter: Mrs. Lovett
-Alan  Rickman: Judge Turpin
-Timothy Spall: Beadle
-Sacha Baron Cohen: Adolfo Pirelli
-Jamie Campbell Bower: Anthony
-Laura Michelle Kelly: Lucy / Beggar Woman
-Jayne Wisener: Johnanna
-Ed Sanders: Toby

Did You Know?

-When Sacha Baron Cohen auditioned for the movie, he sang the entire score of the 1971 film Fiddler on the Roof for director Tim Burton

-During filming, Helena Bonham-Carter was pregnant with her and Tim Burton's second child. She insists that during the film, her bust size grows very noticeably.

-Sacha Baron Cohen, who played Adolfo Pirelli, had worked with his own personal barber to learn the techniques of shaving and he took up to sixteen hours to learn how to handle a straight razor

-Director Tim Burton insisted that the movie be as bloody as possible. The original London play had cut down on the bloodshed, which Burton says "robbed it of its power". He mentions that "Everything is so internal with Sweeney, that the blood is like his emotional release. It's more about catharsis than it is a literal thing".
-While filming Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End in 2007, Johnny Depp was practicing singing the music from the movie as well as working with music producer Bruce Witkin so he would not need a vocal coach.
-Number 186, the address for Mrs. Lovett's Meat Pie shop, refers to the actual legend of Sweeney Todd, who was said to have had his barber shop at that address in London

-Tim Burton wanted a completely unknown actress to play Johanna. Originally it was supposed to be Anne Hathaway, but instead the role went to Jayne Wisener

-There are five Harry Potter actors who appear in this film: Helena Bonham-Carter (Mrs. Lovett here and Bellatrix Lestrange), Alan Rickman (Judge Turpin here and Severus Snape), Timothy Spall (Beadle here and Peter Pettigrew), Jamie Campbell Bower (Anthony Hope here and Gellert Grindelwald) and Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd here and Gellert Grindelwald)


Helena Bonham-Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange



As Mrs. Lovett

Alan Rickman as Judge Turpin

As Professor Severus Snape

Timothy Spall as Peter Pettigrew



As Beadle Bamford

Jamie Campbell-Bower as Anthony

As Gellert Grindelwald

Johnny Depp as Gellert Grindelwald

As Sweeney Todd

-When production first started in London, it was halted for 10 days because Johnny Depp had to rush his daughter Lily Rose to the hospital for an undisclosed illness. During that time, Tim Burton filmed scenes that did not have Johnny Depp in them

-Sweeney's overall appearance bears an eerie resemblance to Dave Vanian, vocalist for gothic rock band The Damned. Vanian was known to have a similar hairstyle and preference for that type of clothing in the 1980s and 1990s

-Kate Winslet was one of the rumored actresses considered for the role of Mrs. Lovett
-Johnny Depp and Jamie Campbell Bower both play the character Gellert Grindelwald. Johnny plays this character in Fantastic Beasts and Jamie plays this character in the Harry Potter series