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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.
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Re: Phantom of the Opera movie

Thu, 6 Jan 2005, 02:15 am
Walter Plinge
hey im not a first english speaker and it just has been two years that i spend my life in western world. If the tsunami accident didnt open your eyes to become someone who arent as ignorant as hell then stop critisizing people. Prolly if you can speak indonesian and mandarin and hokkien and english, and a bit of this and that then you can criticise me. And yes, they have destroyed the point of making music. and please gimme a break because I dont want to try to accuse someone a racist. I am talking about music and performing and you dont have any good reason to bring the conversation to something that has nothing to do with the topic> its not that i dont know my english is bad but i know im far better than those in the same condition as me. You can live in your victorian lifestyle as much as you want and be happy for the rest of your life as an ignorant along with pauline hanson and her cronies and dance with the stars. You know what, you're like a little kid, when you dont have any amunitions left for you to throw you use things that doesnt make sense to make yourself feel better and superior. You are right, you are very superior indeed; you know english very well. But at least I know many other languages than you. Literature wise I am far better than you. I've read books in many languages and what do you know? english, bit of french? bit of italian? thats all. A puny performer like you who lack virtuosity and professionality is but a shame to the world of music and performance. you try to compare the virtuosity the musicians to the virtuosity of your language you use almost every second of your life; which might not be even as good as how a good englishman or australian should know english. If youre in my place, i can believe how sucks in english you are. your attitude shows it better than anything else.
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