Sweeney Todd Movie question

[TheatreFan71]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 8:17am

Hi all,

This is my first time posting and I wanted to say hello to everyone. I saw the Sweeney Todd movie this weekend, and I was wondering if they explained how the bodies fell through the trap door and NOT into Mrs. Lovett's shop, but went directly into the cellar. I did get up to use the men's room and may have missed it. BTW, I enjoyed the film very much (although a bit gruesome).

[EponineAmneris]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 9:55am

Sweeney steps on a pedal to open a trap door. He pushes a lever on the chair- which he has fixed to tilt like a slide. The body slides from the chair and down the chute into the basement.

[Fosse76]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 11:53am

EponineAmneris, you obviously didn't understand the question. The OP is asking how the chute doesn't end up going through Lovett's Meat Shop. My best guess is that the chute falls through her private parlor, sort of like a chimney chute that Sweeney probably built himself.

[artscallion]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 12:00pm

It's a continuity error, TF71. Looking at the building setup from the outside, based on the placement of the skylight in relation to the chair and to what you see through the window of the pie shop below, the bodies would plummet into the middle of the pie shop, not to the basement below.

Welcome to the board!

[TheatreFan71]

Posted: 1/7/08 at 1:29pm

Thanks everyone for the info. I thought I had missed something, but I don't remember Sweeney building a chute, only the chair. So I guess it would be a continuity error. The bodies should have been falling into the pie shop based on the chair's placement. Thanks, again!