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 Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:11 pm
The Book and the Actual play don't really have anything alike, except raoul, christine, and the Bare bones plot.
o.O
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:23 pm
OMGZORSESNOWAI!
None of the plays/movies really follow the book except Lon Cheney's and that is pretty off too...
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 7:25 pm
sweatdrop
good point........
but le miz was too long to read
@_@
That book probobly weigs more than my house...
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Posted: Thu May 04, 2006 10:17 pm
Yeah, pretty much.
But to be fair, ALW's has even less to do with the book than most of the movies. And yet, everyone thinks it the definitive version. *snrk*
The David Staller musical had more to do with the book, and that show is insane.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 3:25 pm
I think BakaTulip just summed up my reaction minus the major part of my forehead finding the wall.
And c'mon. Les Mis ain't long. Only like, what, almost 1500 pages? I read through that book twice in the 6th grade.
And to be honest, you can't sit here and compare anything with Leroux's book. As Fox said, closest was Chaney's silent film and even that went off a good bit (especially that ending..)
But they're both so different a genre that really it's pointless. Leroux was the start of it all and ALW yacked up a romantic hack-job from its very pages. Like a cat with a hairball, since I'm picking on one of his musicals I might as well pick on another with that metaphor. I like ALW, but the guy is like the eggs I tossed on the ceiling that refuse to be scraped off.
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Posted: Fri May 05, 2006 3:59 pm
PhantomoftheFox Yeah, pretty much. But to be fair, ALW's has even less to do with the book than most of the movies. And yet, everyone thinks it the definitive version. *snrk* The David Staller musical had more to do with the book, and that show is insane. Hmn.. I guess that must be my next view. Psst, I hate ALW's Phantom, I just like the music which is why I will kill my legs for 3 hours watching it standing room only.
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Posted: Wed May 17, 2006 4:04 pm
ALW had to change a lot, or else it wouldn't be the most successful musical ever. But there are a lot of events that are the same/similar, e.g. the roof scene, the masqued ball...
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