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Phantom of the Opera movie

Sun, 26 Dec 2004, 10:33 pm
Walter Plinge82 posts in thread
What I can say is that the movie is fairly directed. The music is marvellous but apparently its been casted with worst singers ever. Overall the phantom is the worst singer with the most unmusical voice i've ever heard in my life. There is nothing scary about his voice, except that he occasionally try to sound like a toad which isnt working for me. The christine role sounds like another version of sarah brightman, those who try to substitute acting and musicality with divaism. I dont see why the phantom accuse the diva carlotta for being bad in acting although she is moderately very good for me except the fact that she have to use that wagnerian slide up. There is nothing interesting about the vocal color of the singers. All of them sounds like puppies singing dead songs. It sounds more like karaoke rather than a good singing. I could tolerate christine and raoul but not the phantom; he is a crime.

It's very irritating to see how they abuse such musical masterpiece. I expect the movie to be at least comparable to normal local musicals but its far worse than that. I doubt if actually christine would actually be heard if she sang that aria in a real theater. It is total humiliation for opera singers that the movie uses such incompetent singer to compare with opera singers. I think even thought it is a musical; they should at least put at least a bit of operatic voice in christine because she is an opera singers in the story for goodness sake. Her voice is dead and lack of expression; its just beautiful and doesnt not resonate. The music is touching thanx to the composer of the music, but relying on the musicality of the composer is but showing the sign of a dead performer. THe least for human to be is to be a singing machine. 'such thing is the most cruel thing one can ever do' Felix Mendelssohn.

Re: Phantom of the Opera movie

Fri, 20 May 2005, 07:00 pm
Walter Plinge
I'm just replying to say how much I really enjoyed this movie. I was slightly dissapointed at the actual voice of the phantom, but I overall I thought his performance was very evocative. I am only seventeen and live in a small town with no theatre, so the chance to revel in a musical masterpiece such as the phantom of the opera, with its dizzying colours and narrative edge was such a treat, even if there were no curtains and the stage itself was my proverbial DVD player.

I was however, dissapointed the most by the actor playing the character of Raoul. Mainly because I found the Phantom himself more attractive and suave. Though that's just a personal opinion, I thought his singing was very light for the role he was portraying.

I really enjoyed the sets and costumes, the masquerade scene in particular. I have to say that I loved this film, for the small quirks it did have as well as the parts that were just right.


*Jo.

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