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⌈ Secret Post #4163 ⌋

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(Once Upon A Time/Lost Girl/Penny Dreadful/Grimm/Sherlock Holmes/The Mummy)


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[Daenerys Targaryen from Game of Thrones, Owen from Jurassic World]


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[Doctor Who]


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[Artemis Fowl]


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[My Little Pony: Equestria Girls]


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[Phantom of the Opera (2004)]











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Comments

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07. https://i.imgur.com/4iLS20E.png
[Phantom of the Opera (2004)]

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, I only watched it because of her. After seeing her in Passionada I was curious about her other stuff, and I loved her! The gorgeous outfits didn't hurt, either.

[thewakokid]

OH, I dunno. Butler is a pretty solid Eric imo.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, but he's a bad Erik. And a terrible singer.

[(Anonymous)]

We were dying for your opinion on this.

[(Anonymous)]

Are you related to Andrew Lloyd Webber? ;)

Seriously, the dude can't sing, and one of the biggest character traits Erik has in all versions is his unearthly, beautiful, multi-octave singing range.

Also, since I'm a book purist: Original Erik is a middle-aged man who toured as "The Living Skeleton". He was also pug-ugly. In the original book, he had no nose, and had to wear a prosthetic. Even the original ALW stage makeup was rather hideous under the mask. I hate to parrot others, but in comparison to the amount of deformity he should have had, Butler had a freaking sunburn. In terms of personality, I didn't see an unstable, obsessive, creepy genius in Gerard Butler's interpretation, but a manchild upset when he can't play with his favorite toy.

Sorry, but I'm really passionate about this since I looked so forward to this particular movie adaptation and although I think Emmy Rossum did a decent job as Christine, Gerard Butler's Erik just ruined it for me.

[(Anonymous)]

I think it was always going to be tough to cast because it's already so well-known and everyone has their own ideas about the characters already.

[el_regrs]

I thought it was decent too. I'm honestly surprised by all the hate.

[(Anonymous)]

10 years ago, I would've been like, "Them's fightin' words!" but Gerard Butler just skeeves me out now.

[(Anonymous)]

folk usually complain that Phantom's too handsome in the movie

[(Anonymous)]

I feel like such a gatekeeping asshole to say this, but I honestly don’t understand how anyone can like this movie unless the only thing you care about is how hot the leads are.

Out of the three leads, only Patrick Wilson can sing worth a damn. Butler was a several-pack-a-day smoker and sounded like Bullwinkle the Moose mimicking Groundskeeper Willie. Rossum sang as a kid in the Metropolitan Opera children’s chorus and sounded like she wouldn’t have placed in a high school talent show, nevermind been able to fill an auditorium.

The few small changes to the plot made the Phantom less interesting and the Phantom/Christine relationship, never exactly healthy, verge on grooming. And the timeline placed the main action during the Paris Commune when the Prussians were besieging Paris and everybody was too busy starving to death and/or eating rats to bother with going to the opera.

It’s only thanks to Butler (I can’t believe I typed that) that the Phantom did not spend the final lair shirtless, because Schumacher was all about “young and sexy” even with a title character meant to look like a desiccated corpse. Butler at least objected to the most harrowing part of the show being all about his abs.

Maria Bjornson’s costumes and even minimalistic set designs blow Alexandra Byrne’s work out of the water. Byrne didn’t even do sketches for the costumes, just inspiration boards.

... /bitter old phangirl

[(Anonymous)]

sounded like Bullwinkle the Moose mimicking Groundskeeper Willie

Bwahahahah! :D

[(Anonymous)]

Eh, there's plenty of Christines cast as sweet ingenue voices rather than Sarah Brightman soprano on full blast, so I'm not so bothered about that. But I really can't get over the famously hideously deformed Phantom (which they did perfectly on stage, night after night) being...mildly reddish on one bit of his face, and not even the same bit because they kept moving the mask around!

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—the only Christine whose voice ever made me cringe was Katie Knight-Adams. As for Phantoms, Tim Martin Gleason kind of sucked. Ramin Karimloo was super inconsistent—I saw one performance I really liked and one where he just kind of shouted; I liked him better as Raoul.

And yeah, Butler’s makeup was ridiculous. I get that stage makeup and screen makeup are two different things (and these days screen makeup has mostly had to be reformulated for HD), but it was totally a “don’t want to make him too ugly” thing. And I just—I have my limits, bit as long as it didn’t involve mold, maggots, or pus, his face should’ve been horrifying.

[(Anonymous)]

I actually liked this movie. I know Gerard was not very good, musically...actually, my main critiques:
1) Raoul wasn't pretty enough/ his looks weren't doing it for me
2) musically inept phantom
3) wluld have preferred q more dynamic phantom ( musically and physically)

[(Anonymous)]

I'm just disappointed we got toned down boring Schumacher for this movie and not the wild random Batman & Robin Schumacher. Now that would've been a fun movie.