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Phantom of the Opera Movie
"The Phantom of the Opera" was originally written by Gaston Leroux in 1909. This category is for questions about "The Phantom of the Opera" movie.
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Which performers are famously known for their role in the Phantom of the Opera?
Phantom First Movie 1924 Lon Chaney
Phantom First movie to be color 1943 Claude Rains
Andrew Lloyd Webb's Phantom of the Opera 1986-Present
Phantoms:Michael Crawford the first Phantom and who won a Olivier award and Tony award for best actor in musical.Ramin Karimloo, John Cudia, Colm Wilkinson, John Owen-Jones, Robert Guillaume, Hugh Panaro, Howard McGillin, Tim Martin Gleason, Steve Barton,
Phantom Movie-Gerard Butler
Christine:Sara Brightman(The wife of Andrew Lloyd Webber the musical was written for her and for her voice range) Dale Kristien, Claire Moore, Rebecca Caine, Myrra Malmberg, Rachel Barrell, Leila Benn Harris, Robyn North, Gina Beck, Rebecca Luker, Lisa Vroman, Rebecca Pitcher, Jennifer Hope Wills, Sierra Boggess
Christine Movie-Emmy Rossum
Raoul:Steve Barton, Tim Martin Gleason, Michael Ball, Robert Meadmore, John Barrowman, Simon Burke, Clive Carter, Simon Bowman, Ramin Karimloo, Oliver Thornton, Hugh Panaro, Brad Little, Gary Mauer, John Cudia, Tim Martin Gleason
Raoul Movie -Patrick Wilson
When was the phantom of the opera filmed?
Phantom of the Opera was first released in 1925 with Lon Chaney.
First time in color was in 1943 Phantom of the Opera with Claude Rains.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom of the Opera 2004 with Gerard Butler.
What is the phantom of the opera story about?
In originally written by Gaston Leroux and first published as a novel in 1909. It's a story about a man named Erik, who is a musical genius but whose face is horribly disfigured ever since his birth and because of that he has been shunned, hated and abused by the society and his mother feared and loathed him. In the original novel his face looks like a skull. And as he is also very skinny, it results him looking like a corpse. In the Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical adaptation and the 2004 film based on it, only half of his face is deformed. Eventually he went to hiding from the world, ending up living deep underground in the cellar dungeons of the Paris Opera House and with his multi-talent genius, he has created the imago of a ghost haunting the opera house. As the ghost he makes his living by stealing and demanding from the managers his share of the profit the opera house makes.
He falls in love with a young singer, Christine Daaè and starts to coach her to become a perfect singer. He appeared to her as the Angel of Music, who her recently passed away father had promised to send her and she believed in - so he is nothing but a echoing voice in her dressing room and she keeps him secret. When Christine's childhood friend and sweetheart, vicount Raoul de Chagny suddenly appears back into her life, the Phanrom/Erik - known to Christine as the Angel of Music - becomes jealous. As the Phantom/Erik has already fallen obsessively in love with Christine and his violent and utterly lonely life has made him horribly deranged and insane, the love triangle increases into a nightmare. In the original novel he's killed before and he still kills in means to get Christine. The fact that Christine tries to escape with Raoul and engages him, doesn't help at all. In the end of the original story, he kidnaps Christine and attempts to drown Raoul and another man in a torture chamber, if Christine didn't agree to marry him.
In the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation, she shows it by putting the engagment ring on and kissing him twice full on the lips. In the original novel, she just wears the ring and the wedding dress and he sees his living wife in her eyes. She does kiss his forehead and lets him kiss hers in the end of the original story but it's a bit later for a different reason. In both endings, her sacrifice and commitment leads to Erik/the Phantom making a redeeming act of love by letting her go with Raoul. In the original novel's end, Erik/the Phantom dies. In the Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, he just disappears somewhere. In the ALW musical version he threatens to kill only Raoul who came alone to try and save Christine and the Phantom threatens to kill him by hanging or strangling instead of drowning.
The Andrew Lloyd Webber stage musical and the film based on it is a romanticized version of Leroux's original story which is much more of a horror genre. But both versions have the same essence and basically the same essential characteristics for the main characters that are the same ones. The essential differences are in how deformed the Phantom's face is, and the musical has the Phantom feel sexual desire towards Christine whereas in the novel he does feel sexual toward Christine in chapter 12, he write Don Juan the Triumph in the expression of his love for her , he even tells her she will burn if he played it for her directly. In Gaston Leroux's novel it is written in sexual suppression of the Victorian age. In the musical she feels some nature of more romantic/mature love for the Phantom whereas in the novel Christine loves the Phantom only as a father figure and a teacher who taught her music, she loved his voice but she was in love with only Raoul.
What types of musical styles did the movie 'The Phantom of the Opera' use?
In the "Masquerade" scene, there is a pan up the stairs. When it reaches the top of the stairs, opera patrons dressed in cat masks strike the pose that the cats on the show "Cats" pose in any promotional material. "Cats" is also an Andrew Lloyd Webber show.
Ballet, Madonna's Vogue.
How many pages is the phantom of the opera?
According to a quick internet search, the Wordswoth Classics edition of Victor Hugo's work has 397 pages. Another version has 357 pages...
How long is the length of the Phantom of the Opera show?
There are several versions of the Phantom of the Opera. The 2004 version with Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler lasts 2 hours and 38 minutes. The Robert Englund 1989 version lasts only 1 hour and 55 minutes.
Why does the phantom let Christine and raoul go?
Because he realized that to love is to let go. He'd done a lot of things wrong even though he loved her, and letting her go was his final act of love, his redeeming choice. That is the theme of the story as it is in all versions (ALW and the original novel.) He realized she would be safer and happier with the stable and sane, normal looking Raoul, and he let them go so that she could be happy. It can be validly interpret that in that film she loved him (the Phantom), which he found out by her kisses. Which I think helped him in his choice. For one, they had shared 10 years of bonding and friendship in that film, and the final scene at her grave implied that she'd been longing for the Phantom all her life. And even in the original novel, he said he saw his "living wife" in her eyes, which originally was how he was able to let them go.
Why is Phantom of the opera rated PG13?
blood
sexual scene
mature theme
scary images for little ones
language
pure awesomeness
What musical theatre composer wrote The Phantom Of The Opera?
The music was composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Charles Hart and additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe.
What is the theme for The Phantom Tollbooth?
THE PHANTOM TOLLBOOTH...
WHAT IS THE THEME OF THE STORY: That money can't buy your happiness...
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE STORY THAT LEADS YOU TO BELIEVE THIS: Money mark got everything he wanted. he met a girl named PENNY PETAL. She was very poor. After Money mark grew up he became poorer and poorer. When PENNY PETAL grew up she became richer and richer...
- Irini Marcus
What will happen in the sequel of 'the Phantom of the Opera?
According to "Seagull -- the New York Theater Guide", and a surprising array of other sources, Adrew Lloyd Webber reports (rather frequently) that he's already finished the score for "Phantom of the Opera II", and is impatiently awaiting the lyrics from Tim Rice (Evita and other collaborations with Webber).
The idea has been in play for the last 10 years and is now greenlighted.
The Phantom of the Opera 2 is mostly about the Phantoms point of view, like what happened after Cristene (i don't know if her name is spelled right) left. They say that it is suppose to be coming out in March of 2011.
Gaston Leroux , was influence by The Elephant Man,John Merrick, when he had written the Phantom of the Opera. It is possible that the phantom was real, not a ghost. In Paris, especially 1800's, people of severe deformity lived in the underground called the Catacombs of Paris, they lived by scavenging in what they could find up above then hide several feet below the ground rarely be caught by the Paris' Police.
http://www.infiltration.org/catacomb.htm
Catacombs of Paris: Opened in the late 18th century, the underground cemetery became a tourist attraction on a small scale from the early 19th century, and has been open to the public on a regular basis from 1867.
The Catacombs of Paris are a network of tunnels and caves that run for more than 300 kilometers under the city.
The catacomb walls are covered in graffiti dating from the eighteenth century onwards.
Because of these potential dangers, since 2 November 1955 it has been illegal to access the catacombs un-escorted by officials and there are special police who patrol the catacombs.
http://www.showcaves.com/english/fr/misc/Catacombs.html
Just before the Revolution, Charles X threw wild parties in the catacombs.
During World War II the French Resistance set up its headquarters here.
Today modern troglodytes (cave dwellers) again have parties in the underground. There are raves and restaurants, and of course all kind of subculture you may imagine.
What requests does the Opera Ghost make to the new managers in the movie Phantom fo the Opera?
To make certain his opera box is free for the Phantom to watch their stage play and to see, to hear Christine sings.
It's about a man with a deformity on the (his right) right of his face, it makes him look like he was burned. He was born with it and his mother was frightened so she sold him to gypsies. They abused him for around 10 years and then he escaped and went under the opera house. It became his home and he grew into a man there. He became a musical genius, a magician, an architect, and apparently a great singer. But his loneliness drove him insane now and has anger issues because of his abused childhood, growing up in a cage and being beaten and named the 'devil's child' and shown off for money, making him insecure of his marks. Then, he started singing to a young opera soprano (who justs happens to be gorgeous) and she believes that he is 'the angel of music' because he sings beautifully and because her father told her he would send the angel to her when he died. He begins to teach her to sing and falls in love with her. Then, Roaul (her childhood sweetheart) comes back into
the picture after like 10 years and sweeps her off her feet. But the phantom doesn't back down, he begins to romance her and
she finally gets to see him. And realizes he
wasn't 'the angel' but a real man. But she
made the mistake of taking off his mask,
causing him to have a melt down. And in
front of her! He kind of explains to her why
he yelled. He said it was because he is
ashamed of it and didn't want her to see that
side of him (he wasn't lying he just didn't tell her all of the story, Christine never learns
about the gypsies he grew up with in the movie, well at least they never showed it). And begins to feel sorry for him. She then makes the mistake of kissing Roaul (she didn't know te phantom was watching) and the phantom feels jealous and betrayed because he loves her. So he does all these other things to try to win her back like sending notes to the managers, threatening them if they don't give her leading roles, and writing a play called Don Juan (which is very seductive) and Roaul tells the managers to sell tickets for people to see it and bring in an audience (including a LOT if police with guns) so he can capture the phantom (whose name is Erik) and stop all the problems he causes for Christine. She (of course) plays the lead and the phantom comes in sings to her, and just when the phantom sings ends his song about his love fo her, she rips off his mask AGAIN!!!! (normally he is wearing a half-face white masquerade mask, but in this play he is wearing a different mask which is black and full face (covering most of the nose and both eyes, and most of the forehead) And he cuts the thick rope holding up the HUGE crystal chandelier which falls, and he drops through a trap door to the stairs leading to his home under the opera house (which is gorgeous, and somehow The phantom got an entire organ down there!) and brings Christine with him. Then Roaul freaks and makes Madame Giry (who helped the Phantom escape the gypsies) take him to the stairs. But Roaul falls through a trap door and almost drowns (he didn't succeed in drowning sadly...) but got out in time and finds the phantoms lair. He begs the phantom to let Christine go. And keep in mind the phantom is already upset with Christine for making the same mistake and ties Roaul up and puts a lasso (noose) around his neck threatening to kill him unless Christine says she'll stay with him forever and love him. But she kisses him and the phantom forgive her, knowing he couldn't do hurt her like that anymore, and let's Roaul go. Then Christine finds him listening to a monkey who claps the symbols ( metal things) together and plays The song masquerade (when he was being abused, the phantom had this monkey doll thing he made and found two metal circles to put on the monkey's hands and he clapped them together, the only comfort he had) and apparently when he got out, he built a better one. And Christine gave him back the ring the phantom gave her and he cries (which makes you cry) and she leave with Roaul. And they take his little boat too!!! (He has to go through a river to get to his lair under the opera house so he somehow got a small little boat down there. Then he breaks a mirror and goes through a passageway behind the mirror and disappears ( the last time you see the phantom in the movie.) and that's how it ends, except the VERY last scene where Roaul puts the monkey on Christine's grave as an old man and then looks over and sees a red rose with a black ribbon on it and the
ring Christine got from the phantom, which means The phantom is still alive, even though he was like 15 to 20 years older than Christine (who died in her late 60's) and also that the phantom still loved her after all those years. Which REALLY makes you sob. And thats the end. I think the phantom should have gotten Christine. He loved her so much! Btw I got all this from the 2004 version of the movie. Which in my opinion, is the best version so far.
In what time period is the opera 'The Mighty Casey' set?
"The Mighty Casey" does not have a set time period. The notes just say: "A Time not too long ago." The opera is based on the poem "Casey At The Bat" by Ernest Thayer and was written in 1888, so that should give you some idea of the period.
What actor stared in the Phantom of the Opera in 1925?
Lon Chaney... The Phantom
Mary Philbin... Christine
Norman Kerry... Vicomte Raoul de Chagny
Arthur Edmund Carewe... Ledoux
Gibson Gowland... Simon Buquet
John St. Polis... Comte Philip de Chagny (as John Sainpolis)
Snitz Edwards... Florine Papillon
Mary Fabian... Carlotta (1929 re-edited version only)
Virginia Pearson... Carlotta / Carlotta's Mother (1929 re-edited version)
What would happen if in the movie Phantom of the Opera raoul never showed up?
If Raoul had never showed up, what would happened, my guest is Phantom may have realized it was wrong to keep Christine from the light of day. Phantom lives underground of the Paris Opera House and has no real home.
1.a. Something apparently seen, heard, or sensed, but having no physical reality; a ghost or an apparition.
b. Something elusive or delusive.
2. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion.
3. Something dreaded or despised.
adj.1. Resembling, characteristic of, or being a phantom; illusive.
2. Fictitious; nonexistent: phantom employees on the payroll.
The closest to the book Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux is Lon Chaney 1925. The ending goes its own direction, he is killed by the mob.
Another faithful to the book is animation movie The Phantom of the Opera 1987.This could well be by far the most faithful adaptation of Gaston Leroux's Gothic romance "The Phantom of the Opera". Both Christine's and Raoul's characters are presented just as they were in the novel. Erik, the Phantom, appears only as a shadow and two shinning eyes in the beginning and then as the corpse like genius as in the novel. With exception of the latest movie version of ALW's musical this is the only film adaptations that keeps the original ending in which Erik earns his redemption by allowing Christine to leave and marry Raoul. Sadly the Animation is roughly made, something out of Saturday Morning Cartoons in Style.
Where can you watch these films, you can buy the DVD at any video store, and most like find it on Crackle, Netflic, Youtube, and Hula on the internet.
What did the phantom of the oppera wear on his face?
He was wearing a latex fake face. He also wears a mask above it.
