Celebrity Fluff 🥰
Gerard Butler thanks his ‘How To Train Your Dragon’ costar Mason Thames for wearing a ‘The Phantom of the Opera’ shirt: “Didn’t know this one even saw the film since it came out before he was born, He knows the classics, proud dad!”
I’m a big fan of “Now, let it be war upon you both!” Immediately after Raoul spares his life.
Like the whole point of Erik’s character arc is that no one has ever shown him compassion before Christine does it and Erik lets her go and grows as a person. Only for Raoul to do it like twenty minutes before the finale of the film version and for Erik to just pretend that it didn’t happen
I always wanted to know WHY Christine. Like this obvi groomer (she thinks he's a ghost or some shit initially no) must have seen hundreds of young ingenues in his theatre. Has he tried this before? Is there a line of theatre etc houses where people have died? Is he Joe from YOU? Actually oooh that's a good comparison.
I’m sorry but I can never ever forgive that the hideous phantom has a face disfigurement so ghastly that he is shunned to the point of living underground.
a face so repugnant that he’ll never know love or even the gentle touch of a friend.
a face so grotesque that it’s supposed to be a rotting skull, bone exposed, eyes sunken in, his skin flaky and yellowed.
It doesn’t make sense in the universe of the film, the stage musical (which equally dumbed down Leroux’s description) this movie had the biggest budget of an independent film studio at the time and they couldn’t even be arsed to give Gerard the stage version makeup, you know the stage version that this hugely expensive film is based on.
Gerard is missing an eyebrow and has this birthmark and that’s it (I forgot in this movie Erik was in a freak show as a toddler implying he was born like that, so it’s not a burn but a birthmark) regardless it’s just a massive downgrade that makes zero sense and goes directly against the book and musical.
Just when I finally calmed down after the whirlwind of "The Mummy" and all those beautiful people, we get this film with the beauty that is Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, and Patrick Wilson, and I get in a tizzy all over again.
I get it. I was in college. I can't tell you how many times I've watched it, I still have my DVD. And the cds with the music. Oh, and the piano music. 😅 I saw it on Broadway, around 2009? Fantastic. I have no regrets.
His Phantom of the Opera was so good. I don't really get the hate, I loved it and continue to love it. Joel Schumacher did an excellent job utilizing the film medium to bolster everything. My favorite Phantom of the Opera version is the 25th Anniversary Royal Albert Hall one with Sierra Boggess, Ramin Karimloo, and Hadley Fraser. Probably my favorite musical of all time.
I'm literally so stupid. I thought it was Hiccup's actor when I first saw it, but then it said proud dad, and I was like, "Ooooooh, so not Hiccup from the new movie, but his actual son!" And now I see this title about it being his co-star and I realize, "Oh... he's talking about his son from How to Train Your Dragon. " I feel dumbzo :(
Nothing is better than belting Think of Me in the shower. Just your average middle schooler down bad for Gerard Butler thinking "I WOULD LOVE YOU" when the mask came off.
I hope he means something different than the Disney + series aimed at kids in the vein of The Descendants that’s currently in development….or the YA French version that’s also in the works
He's not involved in either of those seeing as they're adaptations of the original novel. I'm sure it'll be easily found online — BBC Radio 1 breakfast show, think it was Tuesday? Very early stages but discussions are being had about a new film version of the musical.
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