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

Helena Bonham Carter: Mrs. Lovett

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• Sweeney Todd : The history of the world, my pet...

  Mrs. Lovett : Oh, Mr. Todd! Ooh, Mr. Todd! Leave it to me!

  Sweeney Todd : Is learn forgiveness and try to forget!

  Mrs. Lovett : By the sea, Mr. Todd we'll be comfy-cozy / By the sea, Mr. Todd, where there's no one nosy!

  Sweeney Todd : And life is for the alive, my dear / So let's keep living it.

  Sweeney Todd , Mrs. Lovett : Just keep living it! Really living it - !

  Sweeney Todd : [Throws Mrs. Lovett into the oven] 

• Mrs. Lovett : We could have a life we two, maybe not like you remember. Maybe not like I imagined. But we could get by.

• Mrs. Lovett : [singing]  With the price of meat, wot it is, when you get it, if you get it.

  Sweeney Todd : [suddenly understands]  Ah!

  Mrs. Lovett : [singing]  Good ya got it.

• Sweeney Todd : Noooooo! Would no one have mercy on her?

  Mrs. Lovett : So it's you. Benjamin Barker

  Sweeney Todd : Where's Lucy? Where's my wife?

  Mrs. Lovett : She poisoned herself, arsenic from the apothecary round the corner, I tried to stop her, but she wouldn't listen to me, and he's got your daughter.

  Sweeney Todd : He? Judge Turpin?

  Mrs. Lovett : [nods]  Adopted her like his own.

  Sweeney Todd : 15 years sweating, and living hell, for a false charge. 15 years dreaming I might come home to a wife and child.

  Mrs. Lovett : Well, I can't say the years have been particularly kind to you, Mr. Barker.

  Sweeney Todd : No, not Barker. That man is dead. It's Todd now. Sweeney Todd... and he will have his revenge.

• Mrs. Lovett : [Sweeney Todd enters Mrs. Lovett's Pie Shop]  A customer!

  Mrs. Lovett : [starts singing]  Wait! What's your rush? / What's your hurry? / You gave me such a... / Fright. I thought you was a ghost. / Half a minute, can'tcha? / Sit! Sit you down! Sit! / All I meant is that I / Haven't seen a customer for weeks. / Did you come in for a pie, sir? / Do forgive me if me head's a little vague... / What is that? / But you'd think we had the plague... / From the way people... / Keep avoiding... / No you don't! / Heaven knows I try, sir! / But there's no one comes in even to inhale... / Right you are, sir. Would you like a drop of ale? / Mind you, I can't hardly blame them.

• Sweeney Todd : You have a room over the shop, don't you? If times are so hard, why don't you rent it out?

  Mrs. Lovett : People think it's haunted.

  Sweeney Todd : Haunted?

  Mrs. Lovett : Yeah. And who's to say they're wrong? You see, years ago, something happened up there. Something not very nice.

• Mrs. Lovett : Barker, his name was. Benjamin Barker.

  Sweeney Todd : What was his crime?

  Mrs. Lovett : Foolishness.

• Mrs. Lovett : [sings]  Mrs. Mooney has a pie shop, / Does a business, but I noticed something weird: / Lately all her neighbor's cats have disappeared. / Have to hand it to her, / What I calls / Enterprise / Popping pussies into pies. / Wouldn't do in my shop; / Just the thought of it's enough to make you sick. / And I'm telling you, them pussycats is quick.

• Toby : Let Pirelli's / Miracle Elixir / Activate your roots, sir...

  Sweeney Todd : Keep it off your boots, sir- / Eats right through.

  Toby : Yes, get Pirelli's! / Use a bottle of it! / Ladies seem to love it...

  Mrs. Lovett : Flies do, too!

• Sweeney Todd : [singing]  Have charity towards the world, my pet.

  Mrs. Lovett : Yes, yes, I know, my love.

  Sweeney Todd : We'll take the customers that we can get.

  Mrs. Lovett : High-born and low, my love.

  Sweeney Todd : We'll not discriminate great from small. / No, we'll serve anyone...

  Sweeney Todd , Mrs. Lovett : Meaning/We'll serve anyone, / And to anyone at all!

• Mrs. Lovett : [placing a small pie on the counter]  Here we are. Hot out of the oven.

  Sweeney Todd : What is THAT?

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings]  It's priest. Have a little priest...

  Sweeney Todd : [sings]  Is it really good?

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings]  Sir, it's too good, at least. Then again, they don't commit sins of the flesh... so it's pretty fresh.

• Sweeney Todd : [singing]  For what's the sound of the world out there?

  Mrs. Lovett : What, Mr. Todd? What, Mr. Todd? What is that sound?

  Sweeney Todd : Those crunching noises pervading the air!

  Mrs. Lovett : Yes, Mr. Todd! Yes, Mr. Todd! It's all around!

  Sweeney Todd : It's man devouring man, my dear!

  Sweeney Todd , Mrs. Lovett : And/Then who are we to deny it in here?

• Sweeney Todd : "Don't I know you?" she said. You knew she lived!

  Mrs. Lovett : I was only thinking of you!

  Sweeney Todd : [angry]  You lied to me!

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings]  No, no, not lied at all! / No, I never lied!

  Sweeney Todd : [sings]  Lucy...

  Mrs. Lovett : Said she took the poison, she did, / Never said that she died. / Poor thing, she lived...

  Sweeney Todd : [in unison]  I've come home again...

  Mrs. Lovett : But it left her weak in the head, / All she did for months was just lie there in bed...

  Sweeney Todd : [unison]  Lucy...

  Mrs. Lovett : Should've been in hospital, / Wound up in Bedlam instead, / Poor thing!

  Sweeney Todd : [unison]  Oh, my God...!

  Mrs. Lovett : Better you should think she was dead. / Yes, I lied 'cause I love you!

  Sweeney Todd : [unison]  Lucy!

  Mrs. Lovett : I'd be twice the wife she was!

  Sweeney Todd : [in unison]  What have I done?

  Mrs. Lovett : [in unison]  I love you! Could that *thing* have cared for you like me?

  [he turns toward Mrs. Lovett in anger] 

  Sweeney Todd : Mrs. Lovett, / You're a bloody wonder, / Eminently practical and yet / Appropriate as always. / As you've said repeatedly, / There's little point in dwelling on the past!

  Mrs. Lovett : Do you mean it?

  Sweeney Todd : [in unison]  No, come here, my love... / Not a thing to fear, my love...

  Mrs. Lovett : [in unison]  Everything I did, / I swear, / I thought / Was only for the best!

  Sweeney Todd : [in unison]  What's dead is dead!

  Mrs. Lovett : [in unison]  Believe me! Can we still be married?

• Mrs. Lovett : Mr. T, you didn't!

  [looks into the chest, sees Pirelli's dead body and gasps. Shuts it] 

  Mrs. Lovett : You're barking mad! Killing a man what done ya no harm!

  Sweeney Todd : [polishing his razor]  He recognized me from the old days. Tried to blackmail me. Half me earnings.

  Mrs. Lovett : [relieved]  Oh, well that's a different matter then. For a moment there I thought you lost your marbles.

  [opens the chest again and stares] 

  Mrs. Lovett : Ugh! All that blood. Poor bugger. Oh well!

  [looks through Pirelli's jacket before removing his money pouch and examining its contents] 

  Mrs. Lovett : Well, waste not, want not!

  [tucks it into her bodice] 

• Sweeney Todd : What is that?

  Mrs. Lovett : It's fop, / Finest in the shop. / Or we have shepherd's pie peppered with actual shepherd on top. And I've just begun. Here's the politician, so oily it's served on a doily, have one.

• Toby : [Toby invites customers to the pie shop; "God, That's Good" begins]  Ladies and gentlemen, / May I have your attention, puh-lease? / Are your nostrils aquiver and tingling as well / At that delicate, luscious ambrosial smell? / Yes they are, I can tell. / Well, ladies and gentlemen, / That aroma enriching the breeze / Is like nothing compared to its succulen source, / As the gourmets among you will tell you, of course. / Ladies and gentlemen, / You can't imagine the rapture in store... / Just inside of this door!

  [Goes into the pie shop] 

  Toby : There you'll sample / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies, / Savory and sweet pies, / As you'll see. / You who eat pies, / Mrs. Lovett's meat pies / Conjure up the treat pies / Used to be!

  Mrs. Lovett : Toby!

  Toby : Coming!

  Mrs. Lovett : Ale there!

  Toby : Right, mum!

  Mrs. Lovett : Quick, now! / Nice to see you, dearie, / How have you been keeping? / Cor, me bones is weary! / Toby! One for the gentleman... / Hear the birdies cheeping - / Helps to keep it cheery... / Toby! / Throw the old woman out! /... What's my secret? / Frankly, dear - forgive my candor - / Family secret, / All to do with herbs. / Things like being / Careful with your coriander, / That's what makes the gravy grander!

• Sweeney Todd : [sung to his razor]  You there, my friend... /Come, let me hold you...

  Mrs. Lovett : [sung]  I'm your friend too, Mr. Todd... /If you only knew, Mr Todd...

  Sweeney Todd : Now, with a sigh / You grow warm in my hand.

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  Ooh, Mr. Todd, / You're warm in my hand.

  Sweeney Todd : My friend.

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  You've come home.

  Sweeney Todd : My clever friend.

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  Always had a fondness for you, I did.

• Mrs. Lovett : That lad is drinking me out o' house an' home.

• Mrs. Lovett : [sings about Benjamin Barker]  He had this wife, you see, / Pretty little thing. / Silly little nit / Had her chance for the moon on a string... / Poor thing. Poor thing. / There was this Judge, you see, / Wanted her like mad. / Every day he'd send her a flower, / But did she come down from her tower? / Sat up there and sobbed by the hour, / Poor fool. / Ah, but there was worse yet to come... / Poor thing.

• [Judge Turpin leaves from the barbershop thanks to Anthony's blundering] 

  Sweeney Todd : [quietly]  Out.

  Anthony Hope : Mr. Todd... you have to help me!

  Sweeney Todd : [louder]  Out.

  Anthony Hope : [persistent]  Mr. Todd, please, I...

  Sweeney Todd : [roars]  *Out*!

  [Anthony runs out, and Mrs. Lovett hurries in] 

  Mrs. Lovett : [arriving]  All this running and shouting, wot's going on?

  Sweeney Todd : [sings]  I had him! His throat was bare, beneath my hand!

  Mrs. Lovett : There, there, dear, calm down...

  Sweeney Todd : No! I had him! His throat was there, and now he'll never come again!

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings to calm him]  Easy now. Hush, love, hush. / I keep telling you,

  Sweeney Todd : *When*?

  Mrs. Lovett : What's your rush?

  Sweeney Todd : Why did I wait? / You told me to wait! / Now he'll never come again!

  [he goes toward the window and looks at it] 

  Sweeney Todd : There's a hole in the world like a great black pit, / And it's filled with people who are filled with shit, / And the vermin of the world inhabit it, / But not for loooong!

• Sweeney Todd : [sings]  The history of the world, my love...

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings]  Save a lot of graves, does a lot of relatives favors.

  Sweeney Todd : Is those below serving those up above.

  Mrs. Lovett : Everybody shaves, so there should be plenty of flavors.

  Sweeney Todd : How gratifying for once to know...

  Sweeney Todd , Mrs. Lovett : That those above will serve those down below!

• Mrs. Lovett : [continues singing]  No denying times is hard, sir - / Even harder than the worst pies in London. / Only lard and nothing more - / Is that just revolting? / All greasy and gritty, / It looks like it's molting, / And tastes like - / Well, pity / A woman alone / With limited wind / And the worst pies in London! / Ah sir, / Times is hard. Times is hard.

  Mrs. Lovett : [finishes singing]  Trust me, dearie, it's gonna take a lot more than ale to wash that taste out. Come with me; we'll get you a nice tumbler of gin, eh?

• Mrs. Lovett : So what are we gonna do about the boy?

  Sweeney Todd : Send him up!

  Mrs. Lovett : No, Mr. T. Surely one's enough for today. Besides, I was thinking of hiring the lad to help me run the shop. Your poor knees aren't what they used to be.

  Sweeney Todd : All right.

  Mrs. Lovett : Of course, we're gonna have to stock up on the gin. Boy's drinking like a sailor.

• [from trailer] 

  Anthony Hope : [comes rushing in looking for Sweeney only to see Mrs.Lovett]  Oh, I'm sorry. Excuse me...

  Mrs. Lovett : Mrs.Lovett, son.

  Anthony Hope : A pleasure, ma'am.

  [he finally see's Sweeney] 

  Anthony Hope : [really quickly]  Mr.Todd, there's a girl who needs my help. Such a sad girl, and lonely but beautiful to and...

  Sweeney Todd : [he leads Antony to a chair]  Slow down, son.

  Anthony Hope : [sits down]  Yes, I'm sorry. This girl has a guardian who keeps her locked away, but then this morning she dropped this

  [holds up a key] 

  Anthony Hope : surely a sign that Johanna wants me to help her. That's her name, Johanna, and Turpin is her guardian. He's a judge of some sort. Once he goes to court, I'm going to skip into the house, release her, and beg her to come away with me tonight!

  Mrs. Lovett : Oh, this is very romantic.

  Anthony Hope : [he turns to Mrs.Lovett]  Yes.

  [he turns back to Todd] 

  Anthony Hope : But I don't know anyone in London, you see, and I need somewhere safe to bring her until I've hired a coach to take us away. If I could keep her just for an hour or two, I'd be forever in your debt.

  Mrs. Lovett : Bring her 'ere, love.

  Anthony Hope : [to Mrs.Lovett]  Thank you, ma'am.

  Anthony Hope : [to Todd] 

  Anthony Hope : Mr.Todd...?

  Sweeney Todd : [Sweeney can only nod in agreement] 

• [Sweeney Todd and Mrs. Lovett buy what appears to be Pirelli's Miracle Elixir] 

  Sweeney Todd : [opens the lid]  What is this?

  Mrs. Lovett : What is this?

  Sweeney Todd : Smells like piss.

  Mrs. Lovett : [sniffs]  Smells like, eww!

  Sweeney Todd : Looks like piss.

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  I wouldn't touch it if I was you, dear.

  Sweeney Todd : This is piss. / Piss with ink.

• Man in street - greets Todd after competition : Congratulations, Mr. Todd. May I ask you, sir, do you have your own establishment?

  Mrs. Lovett : He certainly does. Sweeney Todd's Tonsorial Parlor, above my Meat Pie Emporium in Fleet Street.

• Sweeney Todd : [sings]  Rest now, my friends.

  Mrs. Lovett : [sings in unison]  Never you fear, Mr. Todd.

  Sweeney Todd : Soon I'll unfold you.

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  You can move in here, Mr. Todd.

  Sweeney Todd : Soon you'll know...

  Sweeney Todd , Mrs. Lovett : [in harmony]  Splendors you never have dreamed all your days...

  Mrs. Lovett : Will be yours. I'm your friend.

  Sweeney Todd : [unison]  My lucky friends.

  Mrs. Lovett : And you're mine.

  Sweeney Todd : Till now your shine...

  Mrs. Lovett : Don't they shine beautiful?

  Sweeney Todd : [unison]  Was merely silver. / Friends...

  Mrs. Lovett : [unison]  Silver's good enough for me, Mr. T...

  Sweeney Todd : You shall drip rubies, / You'll soon drip precious rubies...

• Mrs. Lovett : I was only thinking of you.

• Mrs. Lovett : [upon recognizing the body of Lucy/Beggar Woman]  You...

• Mrs. Lovett : Everything I did I swear I thought was only for the best!

• Mrs. Lovett : We could have a life, us two. Maybe not like I dreamed. Maybe not like you remember. But we could get by.

• Toby : [to man in the audience]  Let Pirelli's activate your root, sir.

  Sweeney Todd : [to man standing next to him]  Keep it off your boots, sir. Eats right through.

  Toby : Yes, get Pirelli's. Use a bottle of it. Ladies seem to love it.

  Mrs. Lovett : Flies do too.

• Mrs. Lovett : Hold it! / Bless my eyes - / Fresh supplies!

  [a customer walks up to Todd's barbershop] 

  Mrs. Lovett : How's about it, dearie? / Be here in a twinkling!

  Toby : [unison]  Is that a pie / Fit for a king...

  Mrs. Lovett : Just confirms my theory.

  Toby : [unison]  A wonrdous sweet...

  Mrs. Lovett : Toby...! God watches over us.

  Toby : [unison]  And most delectable thing?

  Mrs. Lovett : Didn't have an inkling...

  Toby : [unison]  You see, ma'am...

  Mrs. Lovett : Positively eerie...

  Toby : [unison]  Why there is no meat pie...

  Mrs. Lovett : [startled]  Toby! / Throw the old woman out!

• Mrs. Lovett : A Customer!