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⌈ Secret Post #2354 ⌋

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[Kodomo no Jikan]

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[figure skating/Brian Joubert]

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[Stargate: Atlantis/ Sesame Street]

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[K project]

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[Teen Wolf]

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[Married...With Children]

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[Homestuck]

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[One Piece]

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[Game of Thrones]

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[Pokémon Black & White]

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[Phantom of the Opera 2004]

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[Iron Man 3]

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[Neverwinter Nights 2]

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[Almost Human/Total Recall 2077]

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[Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer]

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[Fire Emblem: Awakening]

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[A Bag of Hammers]

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[Without a Trace]

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[Big Bang Theory]

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[The Three Investigators]

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[Team Fortress 2]

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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.

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.

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?

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.

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