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Phantom of the Operahouse
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 Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:20 pm
You need to be more specific. There are a great number of movies and an even greater number of plays. Personally I prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, rather on stage or screen. His version of the story, in my response, is the very best and really humanizes Leroux's Phantom while still leaving him his mysterious and other-worldly demeanour.
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:42 pm
You need to be more specific. There are a great number of movies and an even greater number of plays. Personally I prefer Andrew Lloyd Webber's version, rather on stage or screen. His version of the story, in my response, is the very best and really humanizes Leroux's Phantom while still leaving him his mysterious and other-worldly demeanour.
I agree with Monsiuer Phantom of the Operahouse. I like the original onstage that Webber did, yet on top of that I like the 2004 movie just as much. The fact that Webber was there the whole time helping shows how close the stage production the movie is. But I must say that Burtler did a fantastic job as the phantom. As the Phantom of the Operahouse said, it really puts the story in reality. I connected more with the characters in the movie rather than onstage, yet seeing it onstage made me feel like I was really there. They both are very good. Do I talk too much?
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<)> Anje
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Phantom of the Operahouse
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Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2006 4:27 pm
Oh, no, mademoiselle, you do not. And, in fact, I agree completely. Both the movie and the stage productions are great, but in different ways. The movie really makes you feel for the Phantom and understand him in a way the onstage production cannot due to the space between the audience and the performers and an inability to show the performers faces to the best extent. Yet the onstage production allows you to interact and actually feel like you are there and a part of the story more so than the movie. I find them both to be masterpieces in the own rights.
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Posted: Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:57 pm
The stage production does limit the view of the audience that is for sure. That is another thing I like about the movie: it gives you intamacy with the character especially the Phantom. I didn't feel for him nearly as much as I did when I saw the movie.
Okay, I have to say something in regards to the French. On the DVD I have for Phantom of the Opera there is audio for French and I listened to it thinking Hey? This takes place in Paris right? Why not watch it French? Those of you who haven't need to. I was amazed all over again listening to them sing. The singer for Christine sounded more like a flute or a keyboard rather than a real person. I swear she's one of the most beautiful Calorotoras I've ever heard. All the others singers are wonderful as well. It made it all the more real for me.
I think Emmy Rosum is good, but the more I hear her voice the more I find problems with it. Does anyone else get that?
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:25 am
Arel_Darkfire yummytenor I would've loved the movie, but that god damned Gerard Butler had to go and ruin it! it was originally gonna be the king of sexy, Antonio Banderas, but NO! they had to go and drop him for "mysterious reasons". What the ******** are mysterious reasons, anyway!? So I'd have to say between the musical and movie, I'd have to say musical. The book is alright.
But dude, Emmy Rossum is hot... Dude, he did spend time in Persia so he's not really French, not only that but Christine was... Swedish, was it? And Raoul was English... so really a Latin phantom wouldna been much of a stretch. Besides, after seeing the musical on Broadway and comparing to Butler (whom I found nothing wrong with at first either) and being generally exposed to much phantomy-goodness over the past year and a half I really hate GB. His hands were too stubby and unsexy for me to enjoy watching onscreen as he was feeling up Emmy too. I liked Emmy though, she's much better than any 30 year-old stage Christine, much more suited to the role. I have to say I hate Brightman, and everything about Crawford except for his laugh because their voices annoy the hell out of me. I like the book because I can fill in characters appearences and voices on my own. PS: I really liked Hugh Panaro as the phantom, he was on broadway last spring.
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Posted: Mon Apr 17, 2006 11:18 am
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Malevolent Phantom Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2006 2:48 pm
LaBelleIsolde Arel_Darkfire yummytenor I would've loved the movie, but that god damned Gerard Butler had to go and ruin it! it was originally gonna be the king of sexy, Antonio Banderas, but NO! they had to go and drop him for "mysterious reasons". What the ******** are mysterious reasons, anyway!? So I'd have to say between the musical and movie, I'd have to say musical. The book is alright.
But dude, Emmy Rossum is hot... Dude, he did spend time in Persia so he's not really French, not only that but Christine was... Swedish, was it? And Raoul was English... so really a Latin phantom wouldna been much of a stretch. Besides, after seeing the musical on Broadway and comparing to Butler (whom I found nothing wrong with at first either) and being generally exposed to much phantomy-goodness over the past year and a half I really hate GB. His hands were too stubby and unsexy for me to enjoy watching onscreen as he was feeling up Emmy too. I liked Emmy though, she's much better than any 30 year-old stage Christine, much more suited to the role. I have to say I hate Brightman, and everything about Crawford except for his laugh because their voices annoy the hell out of me. I like the book because I can fill in characters appearences and voices on my own. PS: I really liked Hugh Panaro as the phantom, he was on broadway last spring. That is where you are wrong Erik is french. He was born out side Rouen. Any way I loved the Book the best! The first movie is my fav of the many movies but I hate the end it sucks!!!!!!!!
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2006 1:19 am
YamiKaza LaBelleIsolde Arel_Darkfire yummytenor I would've loved the movie, but that god damned Gerard Butler had to go and ruin it! it was originally gonna be the king of sexy, Antonio Banderas, but NO! they had to go and drop him for "mysterious reasons". What the ******** are mysterious reasons, anyway!? So I'd have to say between the musical and movie, I'd have to say musical. The book is alright.
But dude, Emmy Rossum is hot... Dude, he did spend time in Persia so he's not really French, not only that but Christine was... Swedish, was it? And Raoul was English... so really a Latin phantom wouldna been much of a stretch. Besides, after seeing the musical on Broadway and comparing to Butler (whom I found nothing wrong with at first either) and being generally exposed to much phantomy-goodness over the past year and a half I really hate GB. His hands were too stubby and unsexy for me to enjoy watching onscreen as he was feeling up Emmy too. I liked Emmy though, she's much better than any 30 year-old stage Christine, much more suited to the role. I have to say I hate Brightman, and everything about Crawford except for his laugh because their voices annoy the hell out of me. I like the book because I can fill in characters appearences and voices on my own. PS: I really liked Hugh Panaro as the phantom, he was on broadway last spring. That is where you are wrong Erik is french. He was born out side Rouen. Any way I loved the Book the best! The first movie is my fav of the many movies but I hate the end it sucks!!!!!!!! I only said he spent "a lot of time" in Persia, not that he wasn't French. I know he was born in France but I'm sure he would have had an extremely affected accent, if it had any semblance to a French one at all, just like Christine has a decidedly thick accent (it says so in the book that she DOES have a noticable accent).
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 1:34 pm
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Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 6:25 pm
Quote: I only said he spent "a lot of time" in Persia, not that he wasn't French. I know he was born in France but I'm sure he would have had an extremely affected accent, if it had any semblance to a French one at all, just like Christine has a decidedly thick accent (it says so in the book that she DOES have a noticable accent). In Kay's version I remember something about Erik being able to speak the languages he knows with a perfect accent in all of them. Like when the Persian first met him in the tent in Moscow or wherever (I haven't read it in soo long... crying ) the Persian described Erik as first talking to him in Russian and having a flawless accent. I don't think it would've mattered how long he spent where. Personally I loved Kay's Phantom. It made me cry and I had to put it down at some points I couldn't go on reading about the cruelty. After living so much it shows that Erik has such strong character to continue on. The musical was awesome from what I've seen. I went to see it the day after Christmas with Hugh Panaro as the Phantom. He was really good. I cried. Michael Crawford is also really good. I listen to that OCR all the time. The movie with Butler was good. It was what first got me into Phantom. I didn't really see anything wrong with the 2004 movie until I had read Leroux and Kay and had seen the stage show. Now I find it to be lacking. Patrick Wilson played a lovely foppish Raoul, Emmy Rossum had a nice voice for Christine, and Gerard Butler was too hot to be phantom, could've had a better voice, and didn't have to grope Emmy Rossum during MOTN and PONR. I've seen the Lon Chaney version as well. I'm not sure if I liked Chaney better than Butler. And Englund as Phantom! Ha! That was total slasher flick, but I did like the costumes. Englund's voice was good for the creepy, make-you-shiver voice though. Overall I like pretty much anything Phantom. There is nothing I don't like. Well, except Sarah Brightman's voice. I don't know what it is, but she doesn't appeal to me. *shrugs*
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