[ SECRET POST #5469 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5469 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #4 and ensuing wank:

[(Anonymous)]

Love the film adaptations of Stardust, The Princess Bride, and Stage Beauty. Dunno if Shrek and the first sequel count since there was almost no story to begin with, but they're awesome movies.

Hated the 2004 Phantom of the Opera film. A big chunk of why was the inability of 2 of the 3 leads to sing well enough for their parts, (Raoul, the only character of the trio who's not, in universe, meant to be a preternaturally gifted singer, was the only one whose actor could sing and not sound like crap/need tons of post processing) but there were other reasons.

Making those same leads way younger while still keeping the original age gap meant that instead of someone 40-60 taking advantage of the naivety of a sheltered 20 something, it was a late 20something taking advantage of an 8 year old and basically grooming her until she was 16 and he was in his mid-30s.

Not that the original and ALW musical Phantoms weren't creeps, but having Christine show up at the Opera while still prepubescent takes it to a whole other level.

And since he spent his adolescence in a cage and grew to adulthood in a basement, he loses the history where his life as a traveling showman and magician gave him something in common with Christine's childhood singing with her father at fairs, and develops his skills at magic and music and illusion and architecture and murder that explain how he could pretend to be a ghost and end up building parts of the Opera he "haunts."

Christine goes from a slightly unnerving and intense and traumatized young woman to an intensely fucked up teenager. And even her relationship with Raoul looks a little skeevy since Patrick Wilson and Emmy Rossum aren't close enough in age to be believable childhood friends.

Also, on a more petty and less wtf no" level, setting the film in the one year and period when there were no operas being performed because Paris was under siege and people were starving and eating rats annoyed me, especially as there was no particular reason to pick the date unless they were setting it in the opera house that burned down in 1873. If they'd set it in 1872-3, the opera could've burned down as the result of the crashing chandelier. But no one who isn't an overinvested fan or maybe a French or European history student would care.

From an aesthetic standpoint, not setting it at the actual still standing opera house with the reservoir in the basement kind of pissed me off just because I'd love to see the ALW musical set there. And I wasn't a big fan of the film costumes; except for the first mock opera they seemed really bland compared to the stage costumes. But these are nitpicks compared to the age thing and the voice thing.

Re: Inspired by #4 and ensuing wank:

[meadowphoenix]

Stardust and The Princess Bride were great. You're right on everything about phantom (phantom not being able to sing really make Christine look absolutely delusional), but did i listen to the soundtrack excessively? yes.