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Little details in The Phantom Of The Opera movie that I love so much cause I just watched it for the first time in years again and I will be mentioning my point of view now vs when I was a kid. Also this is in honor of it closing on Broadway today, it's truly an amazing musical
My mom had watched this musical since she was a kid and it's a favorite of hers so this is also one I watched with her and we shared things we liked throughout it :)
Just so everyone knows, as a kid I didn't understand anything bad about what the phantom was doing but I knew he was treated horribly and I sympathized with him a lot.
Warning: this is a very long post. I just started liveblogging at one point and never went back.
This was emobviously entirely intentional but the color coming back as it lights up in fire is truly one of the best things that could have ever been done with a movie and I will NEVER get over it. Best part of those flash forwards
Lot 666. The freaking chandelier falling. I'm just. Yeah. That's cool.
My mom saw a performance of this off Broadway but still in a big theater and they did light a fire and raise a chandelier for it and she mentions that anytime we talk about this musical. It was truly an amazing experience for her
THE TRUMPETSSSSSSS. I'm such a band nerd but I am gonna try and convince my band director to let us perform this cause we have a copy in the music library (also happy birthday to my band director cause it probably won't still be his birthday when this is posted but it is as I'm writing this)
She says she thinks of her as a daughter and yet she's aware of everything and lets it happen...
My mom said she didn't like Raoul until the movie and as a kid I didn't care for him (as I said, I cared for the phantom) but rewatching it now they're kinda cute with how excited they are when they recognize each other. More comments on them later, probably.
CHRISTINE IS GLOWING LITERALLY DURING THE PERFORMANCE. LITERALLY.
Because it's my current binging show and I'm emotionally attached, I have to mention- the actress playing Christine is truly incredible because I'm watching her in Shameless rn and it's truly amazing seeing her in both of these
CHRISTINE AND RAOUL SINGING TOGETHER AT ALL IS JUST THE BEST THING FOR THE EARS
SHE WATCHES HIM LOCK CHRISTINE IN WHY FORS SHE JUST STAND BY?! MA'AM I UNDERSTAND SYMPATHY, I HAD IT FOR HIM AS A KID TOO, BUT YOU'RE A GROWN ASS ADULT WITH A KID AND A SURROGATE CHILD. COME ON.
I mentioned this with my mom but I am really into color theory and white usually represents purity and innocence, which is why I find it interesting how his MASK is literally the color meaning innocene and then later on in the film he has a black mask when even Christine knows he is not the wonderful angel she though he was, and he doesn't get back his mask of innocence And the mask is even taken off. Which also, there is a beauty when reading into color symbolism how black represents evil and death and he has a black mask when going after so many people to kill and then she removes his mask and she has sympathy for him. Because while he is truly terrible for all he's done, he is a damaged creature that has never been shown love and she pities him. Doesn't change or make anything he has done okay but if there was much thought behind that, I love it.
Watched a Cinema Therapy episode on this (HIGHLY suggest checking them out, they're amazing!!! You can find them on YouTube!) But they mention how his lyrics are all very possessive and her love song with Raoul is all about sharing. I love it.
Time to acknowledge the elephant in the room cause the casting of Gerard Butler is very controversial apparently but my mom told me she read an article saying that they chose him because he was an untrained singer, as the phantom was meant to be. I understand both sides of the arguments on his casting, because while yes the authenticity of the character making it more realistic with singing ability, he was meant to be this amazing singer who literally sang like an angel so getting a trained actor may have been better but idk. I still love it
Sir get your hands off her you literally watched her grow up while you were an adult already.
The difference in perspective between Christine and what the reality was being shown is something that makes me appreciate it being a movie. There being rats and it being dark and damp as the reality vs Christine seeing it all lit up and beautiful and mysterious.
Nah man cause Christine is my favorite voice in this but I AM OBSESSED WITH RAOUL'S VOICE HOLY HELL
Nah man if I had literally seconds notice to play an unplanned song in band I'd lose my shit
The cinematography in this is just so beautiful oh my gosh
Okay more on the color theory a little bit with the masks. The masquerade scene- my mom told me the live performance was quite colorful during this but it was more black and white in this and it's interesting to me that they choose now to have the both black and white here. Because Christine sees through The Phantom mostly, but still believes him to be some angel in some form, and until she goes to the cemetery he will stay that way. The mask he enters with here, while still white was shaped much like a skull. Still the purity, but the death behind it that she now knows. It's also covering his whole face now.
He falls down into a firey pit. They're really not hiding the symbolism I just love pointing out the details
I hate people. I completely understand why he killed the guy and why she got him away. (I just don't like that she continues with it)
The song at the Graveyard is just. Yeah.
The red lighting is yet again making me think of color theory however I just can't get over their singing together in this song holy shit.
HE HAS THE WHITE MASK BACK WHEN HE WAS TRYING TO GET HER BACK AND SHE WAS GOING, IT WASN'T UNTIL HE FOUGHT RAOUL AND HURT HIM THAT IT CHANGED
Raoul I care for you a lot buddy but why share your plan when you know the man lives there and hears everything
They're covering their ears for his opera.
Yet again gonna mention the literal fire they have on the stage. Hell, but also passion and the danger.
Her straps of her dress are up before he shows up. One strap has fallen to her shoulder when he shows up and as she realizes it's him, both fall down. His play is titled "Don Juan" after the famous man who dedicated his life to seducing all women he could. Also this is Gerard Butler's best song vocal wise in my opinion
SHE LIFTS HER SLEEVES BACK UP THEN HE SINGS THE LINE "beyond the point of no return" AND THEN SHE LOOKS AT RAOUL AND HE REALIZES. Is this anything? Possibly not but it's 1 am at this moment
Her sleeves go back down when she turns back to him and sings the same lines as him.
Holy fuck their voices in this song too.
Raoul I'm so sorry my guy I saw those tears in your eyes.
She was acting along with everything he wanted but as he sang the song she thought was secret with her lover, she moved and started to tear up. Then she takes off his mask.
They fall down through the flames. I've already mentioned it but just... I love it
Okay idk if people will agree and I know there wasn't this much information on her in the Broadway performance but she stopped her daughter from going with them and brought Raoul down there. She has been shown to know his traps and the way out of them, where he hides and where he stays. She wouldn't let her daughter go, and stops, then sends him to go on alone and he ends up falling into a trap. She's shown that she is loyal to the phantom so far, who's to say she wouldn't try to sabotage Raoul?
I love how she isn't sympathetic at first, she was ANGRY and rightfully so. She sees a way out later and shows him compassion and love that he has never known
THE WAY HE SINGS "I fought so hard to free you" SO SOFTLY AS HE LOOKS AT HER BREAKS MY HEART MAN.
The fact that she mouths "I love you" to Raoul before she acts that way with the phantom.
He's shown love for the first time and it breaks him.
Okay further providing evidence of my theory that the surrogate mother (I forget her name ngl) wasn't so good- she was shown earlier to know the way that Christine was always taken there and that's the way the other people come in (as far as I could tell she wasn't with them) but she led Raoul the way that there was a trap door...
Going back to the white mask being the mask of the purity and innocence... the monkey was shown with him when he was a child. Not that exact one, I don't think, but a monkey was there and the white mask of purity (the way he was as a child) being left with it and him looking at it earlier on with no mask at all, after she shows him love and says that his face is not the monstrous side of him. Idk, I just loved that.
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horror sub-genres: gothic
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#the rocky horror picture show#trhps#sweeney todd the demon barber of fleet street#sweeney todd#little shop of horrors#phantom of the paradise#the lure#the happiness of the katakuris#anna and the apocalypse#anna & the apocalypse#repo the genetic opera#stage fright#the phantom of the opera#film poll#horror#horror film#horror films#horror movie#horror movies#horror poll#horror polls#movie poll#poll#movie polls#movie#movies#films#film
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𝔓𝔦𝔫𝔟𝔞𝔩𝔩 𝔐𝔞𝔠𝔥𝔦𝔫𝔢𝔰
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Mary Philbin and Lon Chaney - The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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Emmy Rossum at the premiere of ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ (2004)
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The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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Horror movies of the 1920s
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My finished bookmark design for @potpzine !
If you want to own a copy yourself then sure to pre-order at the end of the month. A whole bunch of artists have chipped in to celebrate this film's 50 year anniversary and all proceeds go to charity.
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My reaction while watching Love Never Dies (2012)
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I’m convinced that this is what lisa and the creature’s kiss in the cemetery would’ve been like if they weren’t interrupted 🙄
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𝔘𝔫𝔦𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔞𝔩 𝔐𝔬𝔫𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 ♱
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in the silent era of horror, the word "horror" began to be used as a generic signation, and more often instead used was the words "weird" and "mythical and mysterious." this is a time when adaptions were so rapidly made like frankenstein and edgar allan poe's works dominated this era. horror as a genre wasn't specifically "created" or the word wasn't used until dracula in the 1930s.
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Christine, I want to take you to a... GAYBAR
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