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director: Joel Schumacher
year: 2004
genre: musical
music: Andrew Lloyd Webber
cast: Gerard Butler (Eric, The Phantom), Emmy Rossum (Christine Daaé), Patric Wilson (Raoul de Chagny), Miranda Richardson (Madame Giry), Minnie Driver (Carlotta).
After the intense preface (old and big chandelier in the opera devastated by time is rising, cobwebs and obscurity of the ruins disappears and the glory from the past is reborn by the majestic overture of the one of the greatest musicals) a romantic and gloomy story is begin. People of Paris are perturbed by the rumour that the mysterious phantom is hidding in the cellars of the Parisian opera. The new management of the opera is not believing that it's true. Preparations for the new play is on. Capricious star of the opera, Carlotta, decides to leave the show and despises the beggings of the management for her stay. Recommended by madame Giry, a young singeress, Christine, is getting the chance to play the role in replacement of rebel diva. Christine enchants everybody by her voice. Nobody knows that one of the enchanted is legendary The Phantom. Genius musician and singer decides to make Christine the new star of the opera, which he treats as his own. He is disfigured, wears the mask and hides cause he thinks that the people hates him because of his deformated face. As a little boy Eric was an exhibit in the circus where people had been deriding and laughed at him. Madame Giry helped him to escape from there. This little boy grew up in the opera, which became his home. The Phantom fallen in love with Christine wants to teach her to sing and make her famous. Christine is charmed by The Phantom's voice, hypnotized and fettered by her teacher. But there is another man, Raoul, Christine's sweetheart from the past when they were kids. This love rises again when Raoul realizes that this beautiful singeress is his long lost love. The Phantom becomes jealous. He is a witness to the secret date of Christine and Raoul on the roof of the opera where they swears the love each other. Young lovers happy with their love disappears in the opera's corridors and The Phantom with anger and grief swears the big vengeance. Three months later there is a masquerade in the opera. Christine and Raoul are engaged. Fiance of the opera's star decides to take a chance and catch The Phantom. Raoul expects that The Phantom will shows up because an opera written by The Phantom is going to be played that evening. He is right. The Phantom appears during the play and takes Christine to his hideout into the cellars of the opera. Raoul runs after them to rescue his beloved. Does the feeling appears stronger than the influence of The Phantom and does he can be defeated in his own dark domain...
Movie is another screen adaptation of A.L.Webber's musical. I must confess that I have been nailed down to the cinema chair from the moment when the chandelier flews up... Whatever bad can be told about this movie, music covers it all with its majesty and makes those comments worthless. Maybe the plot isn't consistent, maybe acting of some actors isn't perfect, maybe this is not an exact copy of the novel written by Gaston Leroux... but is it really the most important? This is a musical and the most important here is the music and sings, all the rest is only a background. Movie is made in the way that someone who is watching has an impression he is watching the play in the theatre (scenography), he has an impression he is watching relations behind the scenes. In my opinion it is very important, this is not an usual movie, it's a play due to this. Of course there are people who dosn't like the musicals and they are discouraged when they hears a word "musical". But this is an exceptional musical, gloomy and fascinating and the music is brilliant, sometimes very gothic.
  
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Ostatnio zmieniony przez nuit dnia Sob 17:56, 28 Paź 2006, w całości zmieniany 1 raz
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I've never seen so darkly musical. It could be an horror movie too. I'm going to buy a soundtrack tomorrow! And I'm going to see it one more time today. I saw it twice for now 
