The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 musical drama based on the 1986 Andrew Lloyd Webber musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel Le FantÃÆ'Â'me de l'OpÃÆ' à © ra by Gaston Leroux. Produced and co-written by Lloyd Webber and directed by Joel Schumacher, it starred Gerard Butler in the title role, as Phantom. Emmy Rossum as Christine Daaà ©  ©, Patrick Wilson as Raoul, Miranda Richardson as Madame Giry, Minnie Driver as Carlotta Giudicelli, and Jennifer Ellison as Meg Giry.
The film was announced in 1989 but production did not begin until 2002 due to Lloyd Webber's divorce and Schumacher's busy career. It was shot completely at Pinewood Studios, with views made with miniature and computer graphics. Rossum, Wilson and Driver have singing experiences, but Butler has no music lessons. The Phantom of the Opera earned $ 154.6 million worldwide and received negative criticism from critics, but was well received by the audience. Critics praised the visuals and acting (especially Rossum's performance) but criticized the writing and directing.
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Plot
In 1919, OpÃÆ'  © ra Populaire held a public auction to clear the theater vault. Raoul, Viscount de Chagny buys a papier-mÃÆ'  ¢ chà © à © box in the form of a monkey and looks at her sadly like Madame Giry, an old woman in black, checking it out. The auctioneer then presents a crushed chandelier as the next item to the offer, claiming that it once played a key role in the "strange phantom of the Opera" affair. Because the film lived and slowly ascended to its original place on the ceiling, the auction was transported back in time to 1870.
Back in this period, when the company trained for Hannibal's opera grand show, manager Monsieur LefÃÆ'¨vre announced that he had decided to retire and the opera had been purchased by Richard Firmin and Gilles Andrà © â "Ã… ©, two people who have no experience with any art. When soprano resident Carlotta Giudicelli started singing to the managers, the background collapsed and caused everyone to blame "Opera Ghost", a mysterious figure who is rumored to live in a catacomb under the theater. Carlotta refused to sing and storm offstage, leaving Firmin and AndrÃÆ'Ã… © no choice but to cancel the show. At the last minute, Madame Giry's ballet lady showed that the dancer Christine DaÃÆ' mengambil © took Carlotta's place as it had been "well taught." The managers reluctantly agreed and, to their surprise, Christine won it.
Later that night, after Christine's debut stage debut, she explains to Madame Giry's daughter Meg that she is being trained by a mysterious teacher whom she calls the "Angel of Music"; a tutor who said his late father would teach him to sing. Christine returns to the dressing room to find Raoul, the new patron of the opera and her former childhood lover, waiting for him. Both are nostalgic about their youth when Christine tells Raoul his secret, only for him to laugh at his "fantasy" and invite him to dinner even though he protests. Unbeknownst to everyone, except for Madame Giry, Phantom of the Opera locked Christine in the dressing room and revealed herself in the mirror to her before hypnotizing her and taking her to her underground nest.
The Phantom reveals to him that he loves her and wants her to love her back. She shows Christine a statue of herself, wearing a wedding dress and veil, causing her to faint, and Phantom placing her in bed. The next morning he wakes up to find Phantom writing music. He approached him and took off his mask in curiosity. He explodes angrily, covering his face with his hands. He initially said he should stay forever because he saw his deformity, revealing that he "dreamed of beauty". While pitying her, Christine hands it back her mask and both have a moment of understanding. He then decided to return it to the opera house.
That morning, the two managers regretted the disappearance of Christine, as well as a series of notes they received from Opera Ghost that tried to blackmail them for their payments and ordered them on how to run the opera house. When Carlotta returned, he was furious when he found a note sent to him saying if he sang as countess on Il Muto that night instead of Christine, then a disaster "beyond the imagination [of them]" would happen. Firmin and AndrÃÆ' Â © ignore the ghost warning and give Carlotta the lead role. That night, Phantom interrupts the show and criticizes their failure to follow his orders.
Carlotta continued to sing, but his voice was shivering (as a result of Phantom spoil his throat spray) and the lead role was given to Christine. While the ballet is being done, Phantom, unaware of performance changes, meets stage head Joseph Buquet and strangles him before hanging him from above, creating chaos. Christine ran off to the roof with Raoul. She reveals to him that he has seen Phantom's face and is frightened of her, but also affectionately to her for his sadness. Raoul tells Christine that he loves her and will protect her forever. Christine replied her love, kissed her energetically and they both left the roof. The Phantom, who witnessed the scene, became heartbroken. He then heard them both singing together. Growing angry at Raoul, he swears revenge on the two of them.
Three months later, a mask party took place at the opera house. At the party, Christine wore her new engagement ring from Raoul. The show is interrupted once again by Phantom, who is dressed as the Red Death. The Phantom brings its own composition, Don Juan Triumphant , and instructs managers to roll out operas. Raoul leaves the room and Christine approaches Phantom. Upon seeing the engagement ring, Phantom tore it from Christine and disappeared into a trap on the floor. Raoul tries to follow him but is stopped by Madame Giry, who personally tells the story of the Phantom's past. When he was a kid, he went to a weird circus where they performed a disabled child in a cage. The boy was beaten while everyone watched and laughed. The ring leader then removes the burlap sack that covers the boy's face, revealing his deformity. Only the young Madame Giry pitied her. He was the last to leave and saw the boy strangle the leader with a rope. Chased by police, Madame Giry helps her escape and find shelter for her under the opera house, where she has hidden it from the world ever since.
Christine took the train to visit her father's grave, but Phantom secretly took over the reins. Raoul follows as he realizes he's gone. Christine arrives and regrets his father's death. The Phantom tries to win his back by pretending to be his father's angel, but Raoul arrives and stops him. The sword fight takes place in the cemetery, where Raoul finally disarms Phantom and will kill him, but Christine begs him not to kill him. His anger seemed to increase, Phantom watched angrily as Christine and Raoul left.
Christine admits she's scared of Phantom and tells Raoul that she'll never stop trying to catch him back. Raoul realizes that they can use the Phantom opera to capture him, as he will surely be present. Don Juan Triumphant is done, and Phantom makes its entrance (silently replaces lead) with Christine. Raoul can do nothing but watch from his box when Christine falls in love with Phantom. However, he once again removes his mask, revealing his abnormality to the entire audience, who cries out in terror. He ran away with him by dropping the candlestick and burning the opera house. Angry mobs gathered at the opera house to hunt him down.
The Phantom brings Christine back to her nest. Madame Giry shows Raoul where Phantom lives in the hope that she can defeat the masses and save Christine safely. Phantom forced her to wear a wedding dress and once again confess her love, and ordered Christine to marry him. Christine tries to convince Phantom that she is not afraid of her ugliness, but her anger and willingness to kill to get what she wants. Just then, Raoul enters the nest, and Phantom ties him to the gate and threatens to kill him if Christine refuses to marry him. Christine reflected on the impossible choices before eagerly kissing Phantom to show that she is not alone in the world. Phantom was shocked to experience real human love for the first time in his life. Ashamed of his murderous act, and hearing the echoes of angry mobs approaching his nest, he told Christine and Raoul to leave immediately and ordered them never to return. He found comfort in a small monkey music box. Christine approached Phantom, who told him that she loved him, and he secretly gave her a diamond ring from her finger to remember it. After Christine and Raoul left, Phantom smashed every mirror in its underground nest and disappeared through a secret passageway behind a velvet curtain just before the crowd arrived. Upon entering, Meg only finds a Phantom white mask.
Moving back to 1919, the old Raoul visited Christine's grave and placed a music box near her tombstone. He stood silent for a moment and then turned to leave, but paused after seeing a fresh red rose with a black ribbon tied around the stem with Christine's engagement ring attached to it; implying that the Phantom is still alive, and still loves Christine.
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Cast
- Gerard Butler as The Phantom
- Emmy Rossum as Christine Daaà © ©
- Patrick Wilson as Viscount Raoul de Chagny
- Miranda Richardson as Madame Giry
- Minnie driver as Carlotta Giudicelli
- Margaret Preece as the Carlotta song, except "Learn to Be Lonely"
- Simon Callow as Gilles Andrà © ©
- CiarÃÆ'¡n Hinds as Richard Firmin
- Victor McGuire as Ubaldo Piangi
- Jennifer Ellison as Meg Giry
- Murray Melvin as Monsieur Reyer
- Kevin McNally as Joseph Buquet
- James Fleet as Monsieur LefÃÆ'Â © vre
- Ramin Karimloo as Gustave Daaà © ©
Production
Development
Warner Bros purchased the film rights for The Phantom of the Opera in early 1989, giving Andrew Lloyd Webber total artistic control. Although interested in the directors of A-list, Lloyd Webber and Warner Bros. hire Joel Schumacher directly to drive; Lloyd Webber was impressed with Schumacher's music usage at The Lost Boys . The duo wrote scenarios that same year, while Michael Crawford and Sarah Brightman played a role in re-enacting their role from early stage production. The filming will begin at Pinewood Studios in the UK in July 1990, under a budget of $ 25 million.
However, the start date was pushed to November 1990 at both Babelsberg Studios in Munich, Germany and Barrandov Studios in Prague, Czech Republic. Production for The Phantom of the Opera stalled with Lloyd Webber and Brightman's divorce. "Everything is tied up in the settlement", says Schumacher. "Then my career went off and I was really busy." As a result, The Phantom of the Opera languished in limbo development for Warner Bros. throughout the 1990s. In February 1997, Schumacher was reconsidered, but eventually stopped supporting Batman Unchained , Runaway Jury and Dreamgirls . The studio was very interested in playing John Travolta for the lead role, but also had a discussion with Antonio Banderas, who was preparing vocals and singing the Phantom role on my special TV Andrew Lloyd Webber: The Royal Albert Hall Celebration.
Schumacher and Lloyd Webber resumed development for The Phantom of the Opera in December 2002. It was later announced in January 2003 that Lloyd Webber's Really Useful Group had purchased the film rights from Warner Bros.. in an effort to produce The Phantom of the Opera independently. As a result, Lloyd Webber invested $ 6 million of his own money. The Phantom of the Opera is produced with a $ 55 million budget. A further $ 15 million is used for marketing, resulting in a final budget of $ 70 million. Warner Bros. given the first view deal for distribution; the studio was not signed until June 2003, when the major players were selected.
Casting
Hugh Jackman was offered the opportunity to audition for Phantom, but he faced a scheduling conflict with Van Helsing. "They called to inquire about my availability," Jackman explained in an interview in April 2003, "maybe about 20 other actors as well.I am not there, unfortunately, so that's disappointing." "We need someone who has a bit of rock and roll sensibility in him," Andrew Lloyd Webber explains. "He must be a little rough, rather dangerous, not a conventional singer, Christine interested in Phantom because he is the right side of danger." Director Joel Schumacher was impressed with Gerard Butler's performance at Dracula 2000. Before his audition, Butler had no professional singing experience and only took four sound lessons before singing "The Music of the Night" for Lloyd Webber.
Katie Holmes, who started working with vocal coaches, was the leading candidate for Christine DaaÃÆ'Â © March 2003. She was subsequently replaced by Anne Hathaway, a classically trained soprano soprano, in 2004. However, Hathaway was out of the role due to the production schedule of the film which overlaps with The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement , which he contracts mandatory to make. Hathaway was later replaced with an Emmy Rossum. The actress modeled the relationship between Phantom and Christine after Suzanne Farrell and George Balanchine. Patrick Wilson plays Raoul based on Broadway's previous theater career. For Carlotta's role, Minnie Driver designed a peak-top tent show as a prima donna prima donna. Though also lacking singing experience, CiarÃÆ'¡n Hinds was cast by Schumacher as Richard Firmin; they both worked together at Veronica Guerin . Ramin Karimloo also briefly appeared as portrait of Gustave DaaÃÆ'Â ©, Christine's father. Karimloo then plays Phantom as well as Raoul's role in West End London.
Filming
The subject of photography took place from September 15, 2003 to January 15, 2004. The film was entirely shot using eight stages of sound at Pinewood Studios, where, in the Pinewood backlot, the lower half of Palais Garnier was built. The upper half is implemented using a combination of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and scale models created by Cinesite. The Paris skyline around it for "All I Ask of You" is entirely made up of matte paintings. Cinesite also created miniature fall chandeliers, because the size model was too big for the actual set.
Production designer Anthony D. G. Pratt was influenced by French architect Charles Garnier, original Paris opera house designer, Edgar Degas, John Singer Sargent, Gustave Caillebotte, Pre-Raphael Brotherhood, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Schumacher was inspired by Jean Cocteau Beauty and the Beast (1946), where the aisle was lined with arms holding the candelabra. The cemetery is based on PÃÆ'¨re Lachaise and Montparnasse. Costume designer Alexandra Byrne uses a black, white, gold, and silver palette limited to a Masquerade ball.
Reception
Released and rewards
The Phantom of the Opera was released in the United States on December 22, 2004. With a limited release of 622 theaters, it opened in tenth place at the weekend box office, grossing $ 6.5 million for five days. After expanding to 907 screens on January 14, 2005, the film earned its 9th place at the box office, which was maintained during 1,511 wide launch screens on January 21, 2005. The total domestic gross was $ 51,225,796. With an additional $ 107 million earned internationally, The Phantom of the Opera totaled worldwide $ 158,225,796. Some overseas markets are very successful, such as Japan, where the 4.20 billion gross ($ 35 million) gross film stands as the 6th and 9th most successful foreign films overall this year. Britain and South Korea both have more than $ 10 million in receipts, with $ 17.5 million and $ 11.9 million, respectively.
Anthony Pratt and Celia Bobak were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction, such as John Mathieson for Cinematography. However, both categories are given to The Aviator . Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyricist Charles Hart were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ("Learn to Be Lonely") but lost to "Al otro lado del rÃÆ'o" from The Motorcycle Diaries . The song was also nominated for the Golden Globe but lost to Alfie "Old Habits Die Hard". In the same ceremony, Emmy Rossum was nominated as Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Movie, losing to Annette Bening at Being Julia. At the Saturn Award, Rossum won for Best Performance by Young Actor, while The Phantom of the Opera was nominated for Best Action/Adventure/Thriller and Alexandra Byrne was nominated for Costume Design.
The movie's soundtrack was released in two separate CD formats on November 23, 2004 as a two-disc deluxe edition that includes a dialogue from the movie and a single-disc highlights edition.
The film has the first North American video release on DVD and VHS on May 3, 2005, following the first digital release on HD-DVD on April 18, 2006 and Blu-ray edition on October 31, 2006.
Critical reception
The film received mixed reviews from film critics but received positive reviews from the audience. Rotten Tomatoes gave it 32% foul with an average score of 5/10. "The night music has accomplished something unpleasant: Critics call the screen adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's popular, histrionic, boring and unfavorable music in romance and danger," the consensus said. "However, some people praised the film for its incredible spectacle". In comparison, Metacritic calculates an average score of 40/100 out of 39 reviews collected. Viewers surveyed by CinemaScore gave this movie an average rating of "A" on a scale of A to F, while currently ranking 7.3/10 on IMDB.
Despite being impressed with the cast, Jonathan Rosenbaum of Chicago Reader wrote that "Teen song and operetta style replaces the horror elements that are familiar to movie audiences, and director Joel Schumacher obscures the remnants of a classy stage, spectacle with disco the same excess he brought to Batman Forever. "Stephanie Zacharek of Salon.com believes that Phantom of the Opera " takes everything wrong with Broadway and put it on the big screen in a striking splash. "
In the diverse review for Newsweek, David Ansen praised Rossum's performance, but criticized the filmmakers for their focus on visual design rather than presenting a cohesive storyline. "The kitschnya romanticism bore me on Broadway and it bores me here - I'm probably not the most reliable witness, but I can easily imagine a charismatic Phantom who is more handsome than Butler.Remove, however, neo-Puccinian songs Lloyd Webber replicated and replicated and replicated until you're guaranteed out hum. "Owen Gleiberman from Entertainment Entertainment believes Schumacher did not add enough dimensions to adapt The Phantom of the Opera . "Schumacher, the man who added a nipple to Batman's outfit, has been phantoming very thoroughly, as if his job is to put the viewer on every note."
Roger Ebert reasoned that "part of the movie's fun is a pure spectacle - just sitting there and seeing great things and knowing it looks great.Not much can be done by Schumacher with the stories or music he's brought in, but in the regions where he holds power, he has won. "In contrast between Broadway's musical popularity, Michael Dequina of Threats magazine explains that" it spawns an unexplained spell that makes the audience sad, sentimental, unconscious, smile - somehow transported and moved... Now, in the Schumacher movie, the mantra is alive. "
See also
- The Phantom of the Opera (soundtrack 2004)
- The Phantom of the Opera
References
External links
- Official website
- The Phantom of the Opera on IMDb
- The Phantom of the Opera in the TCM Film Database
- The Phantom of the Opera at Box Office Mojo
- The Phantom of the Opera at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Phantom of the Opera in Metacritic
- Michael Williams; Benedict Carver (1998-04-05). "Banderas was drawn to 'Phantom ' ". Variety .
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