Also the music from The Phantom has never previously stirred my emotions as, say Miss Saigon did.
This is due more to the superb direction of Joel Schumacher, the opulent sets and the fantastic cinematography and less to the story itself which is, to be honest, not that fantastical. This production of The Phantom of the Opera is so lavish, so sumptuous and so overtly extravagant that you are drawn into and become part of the whole affair as you would if you were actually sitting there in the theatre. The point I'm making is that I cannot remember the last time my wife told me what she bought from the supermarket to the tune of Nesun Dorma! In reality, it just doesn't happen.īut like I said, that was in the past. “Now this is just stupid!” you shout “You just wouldn't do that, you'd run away as fast as you could!” It's funny how the monster in the movie was believable, but the ridiculous actions of the girl were not. How many times have you sat through a movie filled with monsters, super heroes and spaceships only to moan at the stupid girl who goes back into the dark house to investigate the strange sounds. Even a sci-fi movie should be believable and operate in the realms of scientific fact or theory. I believe a movie should maintain the 'Suspension of Disbelief' concept, that being you should accept that whatever it is you are watching, is or could be real. I have always found it rather out of place and unnatural for someone to be one moment conversing happily with another only to suddenly break out into song and complete their conversation to music. Musicals on the silver screen have, in the past, never appealed to me.
However, for all the Phantom's ability to manipulate and orchestrate ends with matters of the heart, he is unable to quell Christine's feelings for her childhood sweetheart, Raoul (Patrick Wilson), now the wealthy Vicompte de Chagny, who just happens to be the Opera's new patron. Needless to say, Christine is a hit and a star is born. But the Phantom has other plans in store, manipulating circumstance to have a chorus girl named Christine (Emmy Rossum-The Day After Tomorrow) given the lead.
After his latest antics send the Opera's incorrigibly temperamental diva (Minnie Driver) storming off, the new owners (Simon Callow and Ciaran Hinds) fear the worst.
Based on the 1911 Gaston Leroux novel that has already inspired at least a half-dozen films beginning with the famed 1925 silent, "The Phantom of the Opera" tells the story of a mysterious, disfigured musical genius and possible madman (Gerard Butler- Tomb Raider-The Cradle of Life) who controls, through terror both psychological and real, the operation of Paris' Opera Populaire.
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