[ SECRET POST #2354 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2354 ⌋

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

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02.
[Kodomo no Jikan]


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03.
[figure skating/Brian Joubert]


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04.
[Stargate: Atlantis/ Sesame Street]


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05.
[K project]


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06.
[Teen Wolf]


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07.
[Married...With Children]


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08.
[Homestuck]


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09.
[One Piece]


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10.
[Game of Thrones]


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11.
[Pokémon Black & White]


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12.
[Phantom of the Opera 2004]


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13.
[Iron Man 3]


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14.
[Neverwinter Nights 2]


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15.
[Almost Human/Total Recall 2077]


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16.
[Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer]


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17.
[Fire Emblem: Awakening]


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18.
[A Bag of Hammers]


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19.
[Without a Trace]


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20.
[Big Bang Theory]


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21.
[The Three Investigators]


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22.
[Team Fortress 2]


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 043 secrets from Secret Submission Post #336.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 1 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ], [ 1 - personal attack ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

How the hell is smoking sexy? And why would it go against everything the character does?

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, god, don't ask that. You won't believe how many people will show up and insist smoking is sexy.

[(Anonymous)]

I bet they'd find lung cancer and emphysema super-sexy!

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, for goodness' sake. It's the sucking on a cylindrical object that is sexy.

Yrs, a non-hysterical lifelong non-smoker.

[(Anonymous)]

SAAAAAMEFAAAAAAG!
I call samefag.

[(Anonymous)]

Nope, I learned my lesson. Some people DO find smoking sexy! Considering some of the other things some people find sexy, I should probably not have been surprised.

[(Anonymous)]

hi again omg-smoking-in-fiction-is-abhorrent-because-irl-stuff-my-sister-has-asthmaaaaaaaaaaa secret maker from a while back

I USUALLY HATE THIS PHRASE, BUT

[tyger66]

YKINMK.

I personally think that smoking looks very sexy. Of course many people don't say that. And I'm not saying that acquiring lung cancer is sexy, or that tobacco teeth are sexy. I just think the act of smoking looks sexy.

And there is nothing fucking wrong with that.

Re: I USUALLY HATE THIS PHRASE, BUT

[(Anonymous)]

^this

I find some ways of smoking, scenes in TV or people smoking in photographs sexy.... but my mum smokes - I can't fucking stand someone smoking!

[retrophysics]

Different strokes for different people. Visually, I think it's sexy (putting something in your mouth, oral fixation, phallic symbols, sex, SEX, etc). But everything else about it is absolutely unappealing to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Some people legitimately find smoking attractive. What do you mean, "insist" it's sexy? Why do you insist it isn't? Fine, you don't find it sexy, doesn't mean no one does.

[(Anonymous)]

eh, there are times when I've found it sexy but I only like it in fiction just like I enjoy a lot of weird things in fiction that I wouldn't be into irl.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, considering that the Phantom is obsessed with music and singing, I doubt he'd want to do anything that could possibly damage his voice. Hence why it would go against everything he does.

And some people find smoking sexy. I do myself sometimes. It's one of those things.

OP

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, first off, I don't condone smoking. I just think that for a fictional character (particularly THIS version), Erik would be freaking hot smoking. It goes right along with his Victorian evening clothes and the fedora I secretly suspect he wears.

To explain a little better: The Phantom (according to both the book and the musical) is a composer, and the woman he trains to sing (and is creepily in love with) is in the opera. Smoking ruins your lungs, your voice, your taste buds, so I cannot in good conscience see him being okay with lighting one up. It would also ruin HIS voice, which is supposed to be magnificent and amazing and blahcakes, so I can't see him risking it all (and the chance to seduce Christine through song) by taking up cigarettes.

The downside to the 2004 version? Gerard Butler, while very hot, CANNOT sing. And the entire movie is composed from the musical so...you can see why that's an issue.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

DA--not to mention that Gerard Butler was, before filming Phantom, a several-pack-a-day smoker, which did not help his lack of vocal training one bit. I've no idea if he started up again post-movie.

(I'm one of the fangirls who headdesked and gave up on the movie somewhere between hearing about the smoking and hearing about Schumacher's fetish for his 'young and sexy' cast, if not earlier, when I realised the director was Mr. Bat-Nipples.) I'm still angry that the Phantom wasn't played by an unknown, Hugh Jackman (although given Les Mis, maybe not) or Will Ferrill, and that Christine wasn't played by Anne Hathaway. (but I can't fault her stated reasons for not taking the role, either.)

The only part of the lead trio I was happy with was poor Patrick Wilson, who I imagine was told to tone his singing down because he made everyone else sound like shit. Hell, I would have been a lot less pissed if they'd dubbed everyone the way they dubbed Minnie Driver.

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

I thought Anne Hathaway had a scheduling conflict with Princess Diaries 2 (of all things) and couldn't do the role, not that she declined it. What were her reasons?

Re: OP

[(Anonymous)]

Although I'm 99% certain you won't see this, and a cursory trip to google didn't turn up the interview, she was not happy that Schumacher wanted Christine played so young and helpless. I thought it was just putting a gloss of integrity over the Princess Diaries scheduling conflict, but considering some of the things she's said since about other roles, I'd buy that the direction Schumacher took the film in did actually bother her--the interview was mostly about some other movie, after Phantom (and maybe Princess Diaries 2) came out.