Phantom of the Opera

Bramblefox

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I just saw this for the first time last night....WOW. It moved me so much I fell off my seat :D lol. But...anyway, just wondering who's seen it and liked it (or not) etc.

POOR PHANTOM!!! *cries*
 
Love this movie! I cried so many times. . . . I <3 Raul! Ride that harness horse bareback!
 
Until this time...I still cant found which is the interesting part of this movie :confused: i always sleepy when I watched the movie or heard the music
 
The musical version of The Phantom seems to lean so far to sympathy for The Phantom that you wonder why the heroine should ever give a thought to any other man. But the very first adaptation of it, the silent film starring Lon Chaney, did not at all present The Phantom as a _romantic_ figure; you could feel pity for him, but not attraction. Without having read the original book by Gaston LeRoux, I believe that the old movie is much closer to the author's intent. Fashionable modern people have too much of a fascination with "bad boys" and "bad girls"--forgetting that you can't build a civilization without respect for law and morality.
 
Wonderfly put. I like the book but the Phantom ws so fixed on death that he ws in a way detestible yet in the opera randition you feel sory for him because he was so abused which he really wasn't int the book.
 
Copperfox said:
The musical version of The Phantom seems to lean so far to sympathy for The Phantom that you wonder why the e should ever give a thought to any other man. But the very first adaptation of it, the silent film starring Lon Chaney, did not at all present The Phantom as a _romantic_ figure; you could feel pity for him, but not attraction. Without having read the original book by Gaston LeRoux, I believe that the old movie is much closer to the author's intent. Fashionable modern people have too much of a fascination with "bad boys" and "bad s"--forgetting that you can't build a civilization without respect for law and morality.
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Good point. I'm going to read the book (still waiting on the library...grr) and want to see the silent film. Back to the library!!
 
Orious_the_Griffin said:
I just saw this for the first time last night....WOW. It moved me so much I fell off my seat :D lol. But...anyway, just wondering who's seen it and liked it (or not) etc.

POOR PHANTOM!!! *cries*
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I KNOW!!! It made me cry at parts... :( :D lol
 
I loved that movie, even though I'm not an opera fan! Heh heh, I have all the songs memorized. :p I actually went to the broadway show this summer, which was excellent. The Phantom of the Opera is a great movie!
 
*gasp**gasp* You saw the Broadway production? *gasp* I WANNA SEE IT!!! *sobs* But I live in the middle of nowhere and the closest big city is over 200 miles away, and...and...*sob*

Say *perking up* I've got all the songs memorized too. I'm obsessed...:D
 
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