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The Phantom of the opera
Jan. 17th, 2005 12:33 pmI have now been to see The phantom of the Opera movie. I must first say that I'm not a phantom-fan, not even moderately, so while I had an idea about the plot I didn't know how it was going to end and I also hadn't heard all the music before. This must be a good thing for watching the movie because I thought it was wonderful. Unlike ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pinkdiamond and operafantomet I had no preconception of how the different characters should sound or look, which made it possible just to enjoy it. Except that I wasn't too happy with the Phantom's phrasing. Apparently he put expression before singin well. After a while I didn't notice so much.
Having read above-mentioned ladies' entries on the costumes I was more attentive to those than I might otherwise have been. Probably influenced by them I also think it might have been more beautiful with bustle dresses than the 1860s style, but it didn't bother me much, except if you say something is set at a certain time then you should have clothes from tha time too, and not a decade earlier. I didn't like that she copied the portrait of Elizabeth of Austria for Christine's first performance and shouldn't she really be wearing a costume from Hannibal since she's replacing Carlotta in that opera? But the only things that bugged me were:
Christine is wearing stay-ups!! Hello??!!
Christine's decolletage during the cemetery scene. And Raoul's very thin shirt. I kept thinking "Isn't anybody wearing clothes when it snows in this film?" Raoul can be excused, he was in a hurry, although it seems odd that he runs around in his shirt outside his own bedroom. But Christine's costume in this scene seems to only be an excuse to show her bosom.
In general there was a lot of unjustified running around in underwear, but I have gathered that it's like that in the musical too. So I only add that it was rather funny to see Christine in a corset sometimes. She is so slender that apparently they didn't think they needed to lace her corset tightly, which leads to that while her corset seems to fit perfectly at the waist it is rather loose over the bust and hips. Especially the latter and it looks a little funny to see those thin legs sticking out of a corset which hangs 3-5 centimetres outside where her hips are, if you judge by the position of her legs.
But those are just minor things. I said I am not a phantom-fan. More correctly I would say I was not a phantom fan. yesterday I bought a CD with the London cast so that I can listen to it all the time and I also think I need to go and see the movie soon again.
pinkdiamond and operafantomet I had no preconception of how the different characters should sound or look, which made it possible just to enjoy it. Except that I wasn't too happy with the Phantom's phrasing. Apparently he put expression before singin well. After a while I didn't notice so much. Having read above-mentioned ladies' entries on the costumes I was more attentive to those than I might otherwise have been. Probably influenced by them I also think it might have been more beautiful with bustle dresses than the 1860s style, but it didn't bother me much, except if you say something is set at a certain time then you should have clothes from tha time too, and not a decade earlier. I didn't like that she copied the portrait of Elizabeth of Austria for Christine's first performance and shouldn't she really be wearing a costume from Hannibal since she's replacing Carlotta in that opera? But the only things that bugged me were:
Christine is wearing stay-ups!! Hello??!!
Christine's decolletage during the cemetery scene. And Raoul's very thin shirt. I kept thinking "Isn't anybody wearing clothes when it snows in this film?" Raoul can be excused, he was in a hurry, although it seems odd that he runs around in his shirt outside his own bedroom. But Christine's costume in this scene seems to only be an excuse to show her bosom.
In general there was a lot of unjustified running around in underwear, but I have gathered that it's like that in the musical too. So I only add that it was rather funny to see Christine in a corset sometimes. She is so slender that apparently they didn't think they needed to lace her corset tightly, which leads to that while her corset seems to fit perfectly at the waist it is rather loose over the bust and hips. Especially the latter and it looks a little funny to see those thin legs sticking out of a corset which hangs 3-5 centimetres outside where her hips are, if you judge by the position of her legs.
But those are just minor things. I said I am not a phantom-fan. More correctly I would say I was not a phantom fan. yesterday I bought a CD with the London cast so that I can listen to it all the time and I also think I need to go and see the movie soon again.