A fusion of story, music and dance

Lewis 2022-04-22 07:01:25

Great movie.

For me, movies are not like books, there is no literary value to watch again and again. A movie is a story. After watching it, I know the story. Although I like it, ask yourself, will you watch it again? The answer is no, so let’s look at one and delete the other.
However, The Phantom of the Opera is an exception. It is a touching story and a feast of music and art. Good music can be heard endlessly, and valuable paintings can be repeatedly studied and appreciated. Then, The Phantom of the Opera, which integrates stories, music and dance, is even more worthy of collection.

Except for a very small part of the film's dialogue, the rest are performed by the actors, especially the dialogue between the heroine Christine and the hero OG, which is simply a wonderful high-pitched appreciation, which makes people indulge in the beautiful melody; the opera actors are exaggerated and gorgeous. The clothes, as well as the extravagant dance scenes, bring people into a brilliant world. shocked!

This is a work that combines flashbacks and episodes, and the technique is not uncommon, but the way is impressive. From a black and white picture, everything is still, the lens is gradually zoomed in, the scope of the picture you see is smaller, the scene is bigger, no matter how close, the still things come alive and enter a black and white world, like an old movie. , old photos, giving people the feeling of recalling the past. But on the contrary, this scene is now, and in the subsequent episodes of returning to the present, this effect is also used to correspond to the colorful past. The old Raoul, the opera house, the auction, the implicated objects in the story - the monkey music box, the theater chandelier. The display of objects and the eye contact of the characters all give people a strong premonition: what a thrilling story there was. Curious, eagerly waiting for the further development of the plot.

Auctioneers began to describe the chandelier, how it failed, and how extraordinary it was. As the big cover was lifted, the old chandelier was pulled up by the workers in the diffuse dust, hula hula, the faint light slowly turned on, and wherever it went, the dust disappeared, the rust peeled off, The brilliance of the past; colorful, luxurious, prosperous opera houses, the vivid world of decades ago...

My own expressive ability is really limited, and after repeated revisions, I still cannot describe the splendor of this transitional presentation. What's more, no matter how beautiful the language is, it can't replace the gyration of music, and no matter how good the words are, it can't replace the vividness of the picture. Only by seeing it in person can you feel the shock it brings to people in terms of hearing, vision, and soul——
Christine like an angel, a voice like the sound of nature, the
sad and unfortunate OG, the self-abasement love, the
dark and mysterious music hell
Luxurious opera lineup
, beautiful confession, snowy scenery,
bleak cemetery
, heartbreaking deep kiss - you're not alone

. I once thought she would choose him and love him like music. When he first stepped into musical hell; when he was wandering in the cemetery; when he sang "Don Juan"; when he burst into tears and murmured Christine I love you deeply. I thought she would wake up: she can not care about his appearance, because they have something more in common - with music as their life, she can make him not lonely, she can make the world different. It turned out otherwise. This is the only regret after watching this movie. I heard that every woman has a mother in her heart to save men, and she is an exception.

Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime
Say the word and I will follow you …
Share each day with me ,each night ,each morning…
You alone ,can make my song take flight ..
It's over now ,the music of the night .

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Extended Reading
  • Peter 2022-03-29 09:01:02

    A star under the sky for the most original musical. I love the last scene where I broke the mirror. It turned out to be desperate. There is hope. I would like to receive roses. One is fine.

  • Dante 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    The plot of a musical is all set for the music, right? The earl is decent, courageous and resourceful, handsome and eye-catching; the phantom is selfish and inferior, I just want to say, "Christine is not worth it". Several classic songs are very good, the pictures are gorgeous, and the plot is cloudy. PS. The artificial hairline gives Patrick Wilson an unparalleled beauty.

The Phantom of the Opera quotes

  • Christine: I remember... there was mist. Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake... There were candles all around, and on the lake there was a boat... And in the boat, there was a man.

    [walks over to the Phantom, at his organ]

    Christine: Who was that shape in the shadows? Whose is that face in the mask?

    [touches his face and rips of mask]

    The Phantom: [covers face] Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little *viper*! Now you cannot ever be free! Damn you! Curse you!

    [now sad]

    The Phantom: Stranger than you dreamt it, can you even bear to look, or dare to think of me?... This lonesome gargoyle who burns in hell but secretly yearns for heaven secretly, secretly but Christine... fear can turn to love you'll learn to see to find the man behind the monster this... repulsive carcass that seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly, secretly...

    [crying]

    The Phantom: Oh, Christine.

    [Christine hands him the mask]

    The Phantom: Come. We must return. Those two fools who run my theater will be missing you.

  • The Phantom: [sung] Christine Daae has returned to you, and I am anxious her career should progress. In the new production of "Il Muto", you will therefore cast Carlotta... as the Pageboy, and put Ms. Daae in the role of Countess. The role which Ms. Daae plays calls for charm and appeal. The role of the Pageboy is silent, which makes my casting- in a word... ideal.

    [spoken]

    The Phantom: I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in Box Five, which *will* be kept empty for me. Should these commands be ignored, a disaster beyond your imaginations will occur. I remain, gentlemen, you obedient servant. O. G.