Directed by Tim Burton, starring Alan Rickman, Johnny Depp (add more)
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Before "By The Sea," it's only Mrs. Lovett and Todd, but when the song is over, Toby magically appears there as well. [Just because he wasn't in the previous shot doesn't mean he wasn't playing nearby and simply came over near the end of the song. They are on a picnic, and children do like to run around when outdoors.]
Corrected by Phixius
During the shaving contest, when Todd moves away from the man after having shaved him, his knife is completely clean and shiny, same as when he started. [I noticed that too and I'm thinking it's for effect. If you notice, the only time we see ANYTHING on the razors is after he kills Turpin. There's not even blood on the razors after he slits all the throats in the song "Johanna."]
In the scene where Todd has just killed Pirelli he has blood on his shirt, so he puts a jacket on because Turpin is coming. When he takes this jacket off when Turpin leaves, there is no blood on the shirt. [He does not take off the jacket. During the song "Epiphany" Todd IS seen without the jacket and there is no blood on the shirt - right. But "Epiphany" depicts a fantasy (walking on the street, offering "shaves"). When Todd comes back to he is still in the barber shop, and he still wears the jacket, beneath which the shirt well may be bloody.]
When Todd is killing his victims, blood is on the windows. On a busy street surely someone would see it and be suspicious. [The window is angled up to the sky, making it difficult to see from ground level anyway. Its dark out, so not only would it make it unlikely anyone is outside to see anyway, but since it is dark inside too it would be difficult to see through the window anyway. Also, why would someone particularly be staring at, let alone care what gets splashed on, a barbers window. Lastly, these are the slums of Victorian London. Anyone living/walking by close enough to see it would probably be just as poor and desperate for money as Todd and Lovitt. It's a place where crime is the norm. Why should they help uphold the laws of a country which has forced them into poverty, AND even if they did want to tell someone, they'd probably be too poor for anyone to care what they said.
There. Mistake well and truly corrected.]
Sweeny Todd, circa 1800, is walking on a Victorian pleasure pier - the first of which type (iron structure with wooden decking) opened in Margate in 1855. [This Stephen Sondheim musical version of the story of Sweeney Todd is set in Victorian times, "circa" late 1880's.]
Sweeny Todd, circa 1800,has an opening scene sailing up the Thames River, and we see Tower Bridge, built 1894. [This Stephen Sondheim musical version of the story of Sweeney Todd is set in Victorian times, "circa" late 1880's.]
Near the end, when Sweeney kills the beggar woman, he steps on the lever for the hole in the floor to open for her to fall through, but the chair does not fold back like it does after he kills his other victims. [Easily explainable. The chair only bends back when there is a body (weight) on it as the switch is pressed. It would be impractical for the chair to fold backwards everytime the switch was hit, for cases such as this one, where the woman was not seated when she was killed.]
During the song 'Epiphany', when Todd sings "the lives of the wicked should be made brief" and pulls Lovett down into the chair, Sweeney's hand is not even touching her, so she falls down by herself, trying to make it look like she was pulled down. [Sweeney has his hand on the back of Mrs. Lovett's neck and leads her thusly from the wall to the chair. He tugs on the back of her neck as he moves around it, causing her to fall back into the chair, and removes his hand from her neck when she starts falling.]
When Sweeney Todd attacks Pirelli with the teakettle, it had just been whistling, meaning that the water inside was boiling. However, on his second stroke, Todd uses both hands, and from the angle, one of them must be directly holding the kettle itself. Additionally, when he drops the kettle and it spills water on the floor, the water should still have been hot enough to steam in the relatively low temperature of the room. [Water from the kettle does steam when he drops it. In fact the kettle is still steaming while Todd is hitting Pirelli with it (both hands included).]
During the market scene before we see Pereli, Mrs. Lovett says the Italian (Pereli) is here every Thursday. But in the next scene, Sweeney asks why Beetle isn't here yet, and she says, "He will be there when the week is out; it is only Tuesday." [Clearly Sweeney would not be so agitated by the Beadle (they've spelled it wrong as well) not showing yet if this scene were meant to take place directly following the scene with Pirelli. The second scene is meant to take place several days later - on Tuesday. (The quote is, furthermore, "Why do you suppose the week's out? It's only Tuesday") This further clarifies why Sweeney would think the Beadle should have been there by now, as he may have taken "before the week is out" to mean "before Sunday of this week" rather than "by Thursday of next week."]
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