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 Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 12:58 pm
welcometomyhell taisamustang29 6shattered6chandelier6 welcometomyhell |Love me|
Erik: DA-RO-GA!
|That's all I ask of you| :I don't want the world to see me:
Haha! I love that quote too!
:'Cause I don't think that they'd understand: That's in the Leroux novel, correct? I would've remembered it if I had read it, I think. Something as... human as that, I guess is the word I'm looking for. No, Erik calls the Persian "Daroga" but the quote is from the 1991(?) Rosen and Schierhorn version, with David Staller as Erik. I like it because Erik is about to disappear before Daroga's eyes and he just draws out the word. xD; "I see everything, dah-rro-gaah..." Yeah, that's pretty nice. I'm especially fond of his, "I am... whatever you want me to be!" and the whole crazy monologue he gives Christine before Perfect Music.
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Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 5:21 pm
PhantomoftheFox welcometomyhell taisamustang29 6shattered6chandelier6 welcometomyhell |Love me|
Erik: DA-RO-GA!
|That's all I ask of you| :I don't want the world to see me:
Haha! I love that quote too!
:'Cause I don't think that they'd understand: That's in the Leroux novel, correct? I would've remembered it if I had read it, I think. Something as... human as that, I guess is the word I'm looking for. No, Erik calls the Persian "Daroga" but the quote is from the 1991(?) Rosen and Schierhorn version, with David Staller as Erik. I like it because Erik is about to disappear before Daroga's eyes and he just draws out the word. xD; "I see everything, dah-rro-gaah..." Yeah, that's pretty nice. I'm especially fond of his, "I am... whatever you want me to be!" and the whole crazy monologue he gives Christine before Perfect Music. MUST...SEE...MOVIE...
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 10:14 am
Elanchana PhantomoftheFox welcometomyhell taisamustang29 6shattered6chandelier6 welcometomyhell |Love me|
Erik: DA-RO-GA!
|That's all I ask of you| :I don't want the world to see me:
Haha! I love that quote too!
:'Cause I don't think that they'd understand: That's in the Leroux novel, correct? I would've remembered it if I had read it, I think. Something as... human as that, I guess is the word I'm looking for. No, Erik calls the Persian "Daroga" but the quote is from the 1991(?) Rosen and Schierhorn version, with David Staller as Erik. I like it because Erik is about to disappear before Daroga's eyes and he just draws out the word. xD; "I see everything, dah-rro-gaah..." Yeah, that's pretty nice. I'm especially fond of his, "I am... whatever you want me to be!" and the whole crazy monologue he gives Christine before Perfect Music. MUST...SEE...MOVIE... My absolute favorite part of the movie is during Perfect Music, and he rubs his head against her shoulder like a cat. That movie was adorable and psychotic at the same time. The ending dialogue was electrifying.
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:27 pm
welcometomyhell Elanchana PhantomoftheFox welcometomyhell taisamustang29 That's in the Leroux novel, correct? I would've remembered it if I had read it, I think. Something as... human as that, I guess is the word I'm looking for. No, Erik calls the Persian "Daroga" but the quote is from the 1991(?) Rosen and Schierhorn version, with David Staller as Erik. I like it because Erik is about to disappear before Daroga's eyes and he just draws out the word. xD; "I see everything, dah-rro-gaah..." Yeah, that's pretty nice. I'm especially fond of his, "I am... whatever you want me to be!" and the whole crazy monologue he gives Christine before Perfect Music. MUST...SEE...MOVIE... My absolute favorite part of the movie is during Perfect Music, and he rubs his head against her shoulder like a cat. That movie was adorable and psychotic at the same time. The ending dialogue was electrifying. WHERE CAN I GET THAT MOVIE?!? MUST SEE!!!
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Posted: Sat Dec 23, 2006 3:35 pm
Elanchana welcometomyhell Elanchana PhantomoftheFox welcometomyhell taisamustang29 That's in the Leroux novel, correct? I would've remembered it if I had read it, I think. Something as... human as that, I guess is the word I'm looking for. No, Erik calls the Persian "Daroga" but the quote is from the 1991(?) Rosen and Schierhorn version, with David Staller as Erik. I like it because Erik is about to disappear before Daroga's eyes and he just draws out the word. xD; "I see everything, dah-rro-gaah..." Yeah, that's pretty nice. I'm especially fond of his, "I am... whatever you want me to be!" and the whole crazy monologue he gives Christine before Perfect Music. MUST...SEE...MOVIE... My absolute favorite part of the movie is during Perfect Music, and he rubs his head against her shoulder like a cat. That movie was adorable and psychotic at the same time. The ending dialogue was electrifying. WHERE CAN I GET THAT MOVIE?!? MUST SEE!!! E-Bay or Amazon.com is what I recommend. I keep trying to find the lyrics, but it's next to impossible! *sob*
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:34 pm
My favorite part has always been the Notes part in the movie.
FIRMIN
"Mystery
after gala night,"
if says, "Mystery
of soprano's flight!"
"Mystified
baffled Surete say,
we are mystified -
we suspect foul play!"
(He lowers the paper)
Bad news on
soprano scene -
first Carlotta,
now Christine!
Still, at least
the seats get sold
gossip's worth
its weight in gold . . .
What a way to
run a business!
Spare me these
unending trials!
Half your cast disappears,
but the crowd still cheers!
Opera!
To hell with Gluck and Handel -
It's a scandal that'll
pack 'em in the aisles!
(ANDRE bursts in, in a temper)
ANDRE
Damnable!
Will they all walk out?
This is damnable!
FIRMIN
Andre, please don't shout . . .
It's publicity!
And the take is vast!
Free publicity!
ANDRE
But we have no cast . . .
FIRMIN (calmly)
But Andre,
have you seen the queue?
(He has been sorting mail on his desk. Finding the two
letters from the PHANTOM):
Oh, it seems
you've got one too . . .
(He hands the letter to ANDRE, who opens it and reads):
ANDRE
"Dear Andre
what a charming gala!
Christine enjoyed a great success!
We were hardly bereft
when Carlotta left -
otherwise
the chorus was entrancing,
but the dancing was a
lamentable mess!"
FIRMIN (reading his)
"Dear Firmin,
just a brief reminder:
my salary has not been paid.
Send it care of the ghost,
by return of post
P.T.O.:
No-one likes a debtor,
so it's better if my
orders are obeyed!"
FIRMIN/ANDRE
Who would have the gall
to send this?
Someone with a puerile brain!
FIRMIN (examining both letters)
These are both signed "O.G." . . .
ANDRE
Who the hell is he?
BOTH (immediately realizing)
Opera ghost!
FIRMIN (unamused)
It's really not amusing!
ANDRE
He's abusing
our position!
FIRMIN
In addition
he wants money!
ANDRE
He's a funny
sort of spectre . . .
BOTH
. . . to expect a
large retainer!
Nothing plainer -
he is clearly quite insane!
(They are interrupted by the arrival of RAOUL, who
brandishes another of the PHANTOM'S notes)
RAOUL
Where is she?
ANDRE
You mean Carlotta?
RAOUL
I mean Miss Daae -
where is she?
FIRMIN
Well, how should we know?
RAOUL
I want an answer -
I take it that you sent me this note?
FIRMIN
What's all this nonsense?
ANDRE
Of course not!
FIRMIN
Don't look at us!
RAOUL
She's not with you, then?
FIRMIN
Of course not!
ANDRE
We're in the dark . . .
RAOUL
Monsieur, don't argue -
Isn't this the
letter you wrote?
FIRMIN
And what is it, that we're
meant to have wrote?
(Realizing his mistake)
Written !
(RAOUL hands the note to ANDRE, who reads it)
ANDRE
"Do not fear for Miss Daae.
The Angel of Music
has her under his wing.
Make no attempt to see her again."
(The MANAGERS look mystified)
RAOUL
If you didn't write it, who did?
(CARLOTTA bursts in. She too has a letter, which has
cheered her no more than the others)
CARLOTTA
Where is he?
ANDRE
Ah, welcome back!
CARLOTTA
Your precious patron -
where is he?
RAOUL
What is it now?
CARLOTTA (to RAOUL)
I have your letter -
a letter which I
rather resent!
FIRMIN (to RAOUL)
And did you send it?
RAOUL
Of course not!
ANDRE
As if he would!
CARLOTTA
You didn't send it?
RAOUL
Of course not!
FIRMIN
What's going on . . .?
CARLOTTA (to RAOUL)
You dare to tell me,
that this is not the
letter you sent ? !
RAOUL
And what is it that I'm
meant to have sent?
(RAOUL takes the letter and reads it)
"Your days
at the Opera Populaire are numbered.
Christine Daae
will be singing on your behalf tonight.
Be prepared
for a great misfortune,
should you attempt
to take her place."
(The MANAGERS are beginning lo tire of the intrigue)
ANDRE/FIRMIN
Far too many
notes for my taste -
and most of them
about Christine!
All we've heard since we came
is Miss Daae's name . . .
(GIRY suddenly appears, accompanied by MEG)
GIRY
Miss Daae has returned.
FIRMIN (drily)
I trust her midnight oil
is well and truly burned.
ANDRE
Where precisely is she now?
GIRY
I thought it best
that she went home . . .
MEG
She needed rest.
RAOUL
May I see her?
GIRY
No, monsieur,
she will see no-one.
CARLOTTA
Will she sing?
Will she sing?
GIRY
Here, I have a note . . .
RAOUL/CARLOTTA/ANDRE
Let me see it!
FIRMIN (snatching it)
Please!
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Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2007 4:38 pm
I always thought it was funny because they're freaking out over the little letters. Everyone accuses eachother for sending the notes that they keep bursting in on eachother.
And I like the part where Madame Giry says she has a note and everyone else is like "LET ME SEE IT!!!" and Andre finally mutters "Please..."
one-sided humor I suppose...
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:02 am
EdTheChick "I secretly like Raoul....I loathe Christine.."
This is from a different version....>_>...<_<
wow i did not know that
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Posted: Mon Jan 08, 2007 6:43 pm
LadyAlexander I always thought it was funny because they're freaking out over the little letters. Everyone accuses eachother for sending the notes that they keep bursting in on eachother. And I like the part where Madame Giry says she has a note and everyone else is like "LET ME SEE IT!!!" and Andre finally mutters "Please..." one-sided humor I suppose... It's really funny in the musical. Mme. Giry holds the note backward so that they can't reach it, but then Firmin comes from behind.
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Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2007 12:15 am
More David Staller-ness... The ending is a let-down, but I have a fanatical love for this Christine and Raoul.
"Remember... nothing is free, and for a gift from heaven there can be hell to pay."
- Mme. Giry
"I am... whatever you want me to be!"
- best pick-up line ever.
"It's not as if we're asking you to raise money for impoverished children, for God's sake."
"I should hope not. I get woozy at the mere thought of poverty!"
- Managers and Carlotta.
"Cancellations would mean..."
"Refunds."
"I beg your pardon, Monchairman, I am unfamiliar with the meaning of the word."
"It means we have to give the money ba-"
"I know what it means!"
~
"What's all this you've scrawled in here?! 'You must pay me 20,000 francs a month and I will leave you alone'?"
"Don't be ridiculous, I wouldn't have written that! ... I'd leave you alone for free."
- La, managers...
"They're playing the host
To a Ghost
Who'll be running the show!"
- Erik pestering the managers in the song 'Running the Show'.
"Carlotta is a professional! I will save the day."
- Carlotta's pretty great in this too.
"What a b***h, eh? ... Personally I would prefer a slight alteration to the program in the form of an aria from our next prima donna, Christine Daae! But first we must make quick business of our reigning diva... any ideas? Oh, let's see... Arsenic in her atomizer? Too easy. Ground glass in her bon-bon? Takes too long... I know! What about the old faulty trap door? Now we're getting somewhere!"
- Erik doesn't agree, as he confides in Buquet.
"You live here?"
"Where would you have me live? Would I take a flat on the place de la concorde? How would your fashionable opera patrons feel about a monster living in their precious neighborhoods?"
"A monster? Is that what you are?"
"What would you call me?"
- Christine and Erik
"Our eyes are often traitors betraying our higher senses. You will learn not to trust them."
- Erik
"What are you afraid of? Why don't you show your face?
"The mask is to protect you!"
- Christine & Erik, la.
"Look at him... such grace, such power... Perhaps he has come to hear me sing?"
- Carlotta is totally digging on Erik.
"Who is that man there?"
"How should I know, he's wearing a mask! Didn't you invite him?"
"How should I know, he's wearing a mask."
- Managers = teh funneh.
"We have a bargain. You agreed to sing for me. You agreed to love... me."
"Love you? I cannot love you, no more than an inmate can love his jailor!"
- Erik & Christine
"Have I no choice in the matter?"
"Choice? What choice is there between the ordinary and the inspired? Between mere sound and music?"
"The alternative you pose are not merely the difference between sound and music- you're asking me for my life!"
"But I am offering the rarest of gifts: the uninterupted exhaltation of beauty. That is the very essence of life!"
"It is the talk of a madman. Surrender life on earth for the sake of making music in hell? I would rather be made deaf and mute than do that! At least then I could still feel the sun on my fingertips and taste the rainwater on my tongue. Surely that is no less the essence of life."
"And do I not miss the sunlight...?"
- More Erik and Christine bickering...
"Look upon this dark and gloomy place
In my somber, broken favor.
But say no, if it is to be no,
And back into the darkness
I'll go..."
- der second Erik solo, 'Into the Darkness'.
"You trivial, pathetic creature..."
"You presumptuous little fool..."
"That pompous twit!"
- Erik likes to insult Raoul.
"I thought she would be different... I thought she would understand..."
- Erik is emo.
"So... at last we meet face-to-face."
"So to speak, yes. *hands him the mask*"
- Erik and the Daroga
"I could be rid of you if I wanted."
"But you do not want... that would be no fun at all!"
- more Erik and Daroga. They have the most hilarious banter.
"There's no end to the evil of which he is capable!"
"Nor to the beauty..."
- Raoul and Christine
And of course, this show has an hilarious gaffe...
Erik speaking to Christine: "Next week you'll stand before the great house filled with it's patrons..."
Title card: TEN YEARS LATER
Christine: *finally gets out of the chorus, through absolutely no help of Erik's*
lol
What lyrics did you want, welcometomyhell? I have both of Erik's songs, and Christine's rooftop song.
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:30 pm
Perfect Music is my favorite Erik song, but I also like Running the Show, if you have it...
I just couldn't concentrate on Erik when he has the mask on.
Me: Shiny...Shiny...IT'S FRIGGIN' SHINY!
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Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:13 pm
His hand gestures distracted me... I couldn't focus through the part of that song where he looked like he was conducting air traffic.
No Running the Show, but here's Perfect Music:
Up there is darkness
Up there, insane
Will you live in chaos
With the bitter and the plain?
Why dwell in shadows?
Here the light has shone
We’ll leave the world to it’s madness
We can live in bliss, alone
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on
Mine is the gift, I’ll make you see
All you must do is sing only for me
Singing together and in love
Perfect music leads to perfect love
I am perfect spirit, imperfect man
You could learn to love me as I swear I truly am!
I know your terror, I feel your pain
I saw your soul through the mirror
And I saw that we're the same!
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on and on
I’ll alway love you, I’ll never leave
You will never hunger, you’ll never grieve
Living forever and in love
Perfect music, perfect love
Forever tender, forever dear
Forever faithful, forever here
I’m always passion, you're always fire
I’ll always be your fulfillment
And you’ll always be my desire
Here nothing is missing, nothing is gone
Perfect music will go on and on and on...
Join us together, and in love
Perfect music, perfect love!
Living forever, and in love;
Perfect music, perfect love...
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Posted: Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:48 am
"Thereupon, the Persian made this queer reply, which was certainly not calculated to throw light into the young man's dazed brain:
'It's not a question of shooting with the right hand or the left; it's a question of holding one of your hands as though you were going to pull the trigger of a pistol, with you arm bent. As for the pistol itself, when all is said, you can put that in your pocket!' And he added, 'Let this be clearly understood, or I will answer for nothing. It is a matter of life and death. And now, silence! And follow me!'"
(Page 195, Gaston Leroux)
I find that quote quite funny. :3
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Posted: Tue Jan 16, 2007 5:58 pm
"Bringa my doggy and my boxy! Ciao, now you see, I am really leaving!"
--Carlotta, the 2004 movie.
"The grasshopper! Be careful of the grasshopper! A grasshopper does not only turn; it hops! It hops! And it hops jolly high!"
--Erik, the origianal novel
I love Carlotta. She is so horrrible it's funny.
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Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:47 am
I would have to say my favorite quotes from the Leroux book are where they claim Gabriel has seen the ghost:
"Yes, yes, we saw him--we saw him just now!" cried the girls. "He had his death's head and his dress-coat, just as when he appeared to Joseph Buquet!"
"And Gabriel saw him too!" said Jammes. "Only yesterday! Yesterday afternoon--in broad daylight----"
"Gabriel, the chorus-master?"
"Why, yes, didn't you know?"
"And he was wearing his dress-clothes in broad daylight?"
"Who, Gabriel?"
"Why, no, the ghost!"
And where the second letter appears:
"Dear Mr. Manager:
I am sorry to have to trouble you at a time when you must be so very busy, renewing important engagements, signing fresh ones and generally displaying your excellent taste. I know what you have done for Carlotta, Sorelli, and little Jammes and for a few others whose admirable qualities of talent or genuis you have suspected.
Of course, when I use these words, I do not mean to apply them to La Carlotta, who sings like a squirt and who ought not to have been allowed to leave the Ambassadeurs and the Cafe Jacquin; nor to La Sorelli, who owes her success mainly to the coach-builders; nor to little Jammes, who dances like a calf in a field. And I am not speaking of Christine Daae either, though her genius is certain, where-as your jealousy prevents her from creating any important part. When all is said, you are free to conduct your little business as you think best, are you not?"
"Your Most Humble and Obedient Servant,
OPERA GHOST"
I found both of these quotes funny, and there was a name of a chapter that makes me almost burst out laughing, "The Singular Attitude of a Saftey Pin". When I get there, I try to make sense of it until the chapter "The Saftey Pin Again" comes around, then it becomes less strange; but it it still strange nonetheless.
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