Joel Schumacher's Phantom of the Opera: A Video Essay
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Published 2016-04-08
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All Comments (21)
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"Musicals are something that your logic doesn't get, but your emotions do" Such a great line.
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"The stage musical has a pretty perfect ending." Love Never Dies has entered the chat
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I have to say it... The Phantom actually IS a genius mechanical engineer. In the book, he makes automatons (referenced in some versions of the stage show by including the mannequin Christine). So the candles rising from water? I could totally buy the Phantom just being bored and thinking that would be a challenge and then just doing it for funsies.
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People before the Phantom of the Opera movie came out: "Antonio Banderas? A singer that can successfully be seductive?! NOOO!" People after the movie came out: "We have paid for our arrogance. What hubris possesed us? Why did we not see the value of casting people for their talents rather than their name before it was too late?"
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What I expected to learn: the sheer incompetente of Schumaker's Phantom. What I ended up learning: Lindsay has done rope play in the past.
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I remember my laughter when they unmasked the phantom in this film. They try to act like he's mutilated, but really it looks like he has a bad case of rosacea. What a monster.
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It's been 16 years. I feel like it is perfectly acceptable to remake Phantom Of The Opera again with someone competent at the helm and talented singers as the stars
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Excuse me, I'll just be over here clutching my DVD of Hello Dolly and whispering "it's okay, I love you even if no one else does" all night again.
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the Phantom's face in this adaptation reminds me of Zuko's barely-there scar in the live-action The Last Airbender
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Looks at my bf's rash from trying a new soap. "You live in the basement now. Here's a cape, and a mask, have fun writing an opera!"
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Schumacher probably heard the line "Dare you tangle with Don Juan" and thought it was "tango"
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oh they never make the phantom ugly, they slap a cool scar on a hot guy and call it a day
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"Are the numbers in musicals diegetic or not?" cries in bollywood
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Musicals aren't for everyone, I know. But it really drives me insane when people say they don't like musicals because people bursting into song & dance isn't realistic. Like, a boy getting super powers from a spider is though??
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It remains a great tragedy that Joel Schumacher never made an film adaptation of Love Never Dies. It would somehow outdo Tom Hooper's Cats in badness. Just imagine
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"... Like trying to combine a glitter sprinkle cupcake and filet mignon... Mmmm! Tastes like tonal dissonance." Fantastic.
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I’d be interested in Drunk History with Lindsay Ellis.
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I'd love to see a Phantom of the Opera film with a dreamlike tone, where the edges between reality and fantasy are blurred and the sanity of everyone involved is called into question. Probably never going to happen, but still...
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as much as this movie does wrong, it was THE MOST influential movie of my childhood and got me into musicals in the first place. I still watch it all the time and absolutely love it while also acknowledging that it has a few issues
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Jesus, the way she just bites the cork off that wine bottle, spits it out and starts pouring the wine is intimidating. so much chaotic energy.
