Improve this question. In the original version his name was Sweeney Todd, there was no back-story, so they just kept the original name with addition of Benjamin Barker's story.
I don't understand the question If you want to hide your identity, you change your name You could just as well ask why his name was originally Benjamin Barker rather than Geoffry George. How did he, in universe, choose such an odd name as Sweeney, and Todd, neither typically common English names. At random? He heard someone called that?
Was it in reference to anything, etc. It's obvious that he's hiding his real name. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. We can also hint that "Tod" means death in German, which would parallel the dark parts of his personality rising as he changes name — MicroMachine. Is this not more likely an answer as to why the author chose the name Sweeney Todd, as opposed to why Benjamin Barker in-universe would pick that name?
After all, nobody mentions it in the film except her, and there is no actual proof that it even happened. Maybe Lucy really did attempt suicide, and the attempt itself may have left her to become an unfit mother. Since it is a musical a form which can often blend into the fantasy genre in some ways , the film reveals crucial plot points and character motives through vocal performance.
We can only assume the Mrs. Instead, he is the fallen hero. So, who is the real villain? It could be Judge Turpin who started it all, or it could be Mrs Lovett, who emotionally manipulates Sweeney.
A case so notorious would doubtless have attracted the attention of pamphleteers and journalists and would, no doubt, receive millions of hits on the Old Bailey website. Yet history is silent on actual cold facts about the case and the Old Bailey transcripts don't show up anywhere at all on Google for the search term Sweeney Todd Trial at the Old Bailey. Yet the story of Sweeny Todd has never lost its popularity and this hideous creation and his foul deeds continue to shock and thrill in equal measure in television dramas and most recently in the film Sweeney Todd starring Johnny Depp.
So what was the inspiration for this bloodthirsty tome and was there a real life counterpart upon whom the creators and developers of one of the most famous and long lasting Victorian melodramas based the character?
Although the Sweeney Todd story as we know it today first appeared between November and March in Edward Lloyd's The People's Periodical and Family Library as an eighteen part serial entitled The String of Pearls: A Romance, the story drew upon and was heavily influenced by several previous well known fictions. In the 's Lloyd had made something of a name for himself by plagiarising the works of Charles Dickens.
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