[ SECRET POST #4163 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4163 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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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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04.
[Doctor Who]


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05.
[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

[(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.