We’re not here today to listen to me list (again) the things that I love about the movie or the story. Still, it was something I forgot about or only mentioned to people in passing until, finally, I found it on Netflix in the summer of 2018, I believe. I very badly wanted to see it, and that desire didn’t go away as I got older. I spent years wondering, in the back of my mind, what the movie, or musical, was like.
There were a few shots of The Phantom and Christine, but none of them match up with my memory, which was to be expected.Īll this to say that I knew of The Phantom of the Opera at an early age and it made an imprint on my memory then.
I think the whole attic thing that I was thinking of was really just the opening shots of the movie in black and white. It did start off kind of slow and happy before jumping to all the chaos and despair that happens in the movie. Surprisingly, the order that I remember things in wasn’t that different. I took a break form writing this to go find the commercials because I wanted to see how accurate my memories were to what the commercial actually showed.
But the big thing that sticks out and is a sharper memory than the rest of them is Christine and the Phantom in the attic. The chandelier falls, the faces of the people from il muto and the ballet girls dressed in white look on in horror. It cut away from them to show other flashes from the movie. They’re surrounded by old wood in that diagonal fishbone pattern of attics with sunlight slipping in through the cracks and illuminating dust. This is the part that feels like a fever dream because it never happened. It would look just like the scene from “Music of the Night”, except they’re in the attic of the Opera house. She was in the arms of the phantom in the pose from the movie poster (her back to him, both of their eyes closed). On top of that is probably the fact that these memories have been warped by time and aren’t accurate to what the commercials actually were, but here’s what I remember anyway: Christine’s dress is white, though I think it’s probably the dressing gown she puts on for the trip down to the phantom’s lair. They feel sort of like a fever dream now, especially knowing what I know about the movie. Through the haze of everything that has happened in the 16 years since 2004, I remember very faintly commercials advertising the movie. I was a child when the 2004 movie of The Phantom of the Opera came out. SPOILER WARNING: Spoilers for both versions of the musical ahead. Today we will be looking at the differences between the elements that go into the 2004 major motion picture The Phantom of the Opera and the 2014 musical version that was filmed at Royal Albert Hall. WARNING: I’m going to talk about Ramin Karimloo a lot. Today, it’s a look at the similarities and differences between the Musical version of the story by Andrew Lloyd Webber and the 2004 major motion picture. Thrill to the power of the Music of the Night.It is time once again for me to talk about The Phantom of the Opera. This timeless and mesmerizing tale complete with jaw-dropping costumes, sets and breathtaking special effects produced a night of riveting theatrical magic, spectacular sights and sounds and unforgettable memories.Ī timeless story, an unforgettable score, an incomparable theatrical masterpiece. His obsession with his ‘angel of music’, the beautiful young opera singer Christine Daaé, unleashes a diabolical tale of drama, destruction and death – and a unique theatrical experience.Īndrew Lloyd Webber’s beautiful and famous score includes Think of Me, Angel of Music, Music of the Night, All I Ask of You, Masquerade and the title song. In 1881, far beneath the majesty and splendor of the Paris Opera House, lurks the mysterious, disfigured Phantom, shamed by his physical appearance and feared by all. 14 – 29 March 2014 at the PRINCESS THEATRE