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	Phantom of the Opera Review -- Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival
		There are five levels of cellars beneath the opera, one descending beneath another in an expressionist series of staircases, ramps, trapdoors, and a Styxian river that the Phantom crosses in a gondola.
		This is held in the Opera House on the very next night, with the chandelier miraculously repaired and no mourning period, apparently, for the dozens of crushed and maimed.
		This plan is too optimistic, as the Phantom snatches Christine from her dressing room, and the two are pursued into the bowels of Paris by Raoul and Inspector Ledoux -- and, in a separate pursuit, by the vengeful stagehand Buquet (whose brother the Phantom murdered), leading a mob of torch-carrying rabble.
	www.ebertfest.com /seven/phantom_of_the_opera.htm (1354 words)

	Filmtracks: The Phantom of the Opera (Andrew Lloyd Webber)
		As filming commenced, Butler and other principle actors would practice and record their vocals in the days before the filming of their scenes, but in the waning days of the project, the process became so hectic that Butler would practice and record only hours before stepping on the set.
		An entirely new theme accompanies the second half of the film; it is one of solace that is introduced when Christine journeys to the cemetery and culminates in a full, lengthy brass statement during the final underground confrontation.
		The second total chaos sequence in the film version now involves the chandelier (instead of the strangling of the male opera star), and the extended score for this scene is done well despite, once again, the significant sound effects that hinder the clarity of the music and dialogue.
	www.filmtracks.com /titles/phantom_opera.html (4738 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
		The masked Phantom then appeared to Christine, sweeping her away on a journey down into his lair in the catacombs beneath the opera house.
		The Phantom turns up at the masque, but this is merely in a mask and red tunic, which fails almost entirely in dramatic effect, despite this film's making a virtue of being an extravagant costume ball, especially when compared to Lon Chaney's resplendent appearance as Edgar Allan Poe's Red Death in the 1925 version.
		There's a cool scene with The Phantom trapping de Chagny in a hall of mirrors, but this is too brief to be effective, and another rather cursory one where de Chagny is trapped underwater beneath a grille - but clearly Schumacher is not at all interested in exploring the thriller aspect of the story.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/phantom04.htm (2324 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (2004) - A Hollywood Jesus Movie Review
		Though she is enthralled by her charismatic mentor, Christine is undeniably drawn to the dashing Raoul, enraging the Phantom and setting the stage for a dramatic crescendo in which soaring passions, fierce jealousies and obsessive love threaten to drive the fated lovers past the point of no return.
		Phantom is, like so many tales, about human needs and desires, and what we’ll do to fulfill them.
		It is the Phantom’s jealous pursuit that sparks Christine and Raoul’s clinging to each other, and his violence that forces her to choose between them.
	www.hollywoodjesus.com /phantom_opera.htm (1607 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (2004 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phantom of the Opera is the 2004 Joel Schumacher directed film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart's internationally successful 1986 stage musical, which is in turn based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
		The Phantom becomes jealous and takes Christine to his underground lair, where she finds that he is obsessed with her, and when she sees a mannequin of herself dressed as a bride, she faints.
		The character of Christine was similarly changed; in the film, she is orphaned as a young girl and brought to the Opera by Madame Giry.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(2004_film) (1683 words)

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		CBN.com – The Phantom of the Opera is the story of a disfigured, angry man who lives beneath a Paris opera house and terrorizes its cast and crew so that his student, a young woman named Christine, can have a chance to sing the lead part.
		Or, you may think that the famous story of the Phantom of the Opera (a former circus freak who abducts a woman and, on a gondola, takes her to his Babylonian lair underneath an opera house) is just too bizarre.
		Phantom is for Broadway devotees, fans of the original opera, and perhaps some teenagers who have not yet been exposed to musical theater.
	www.cbn.com /entertainment/Screen/movieguide_Phantom.asp (821 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Phantom of the Opera is a musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the novel The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux.
		The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by a different musical version of the same story, by Ken Hill, which Andrew Lloyd Webber saw at the Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1984.
		A film version was released in December 2004 starring Gerard Butler as the Phantom, Emmy Rossum as Christine, Patrick Wilson as Raoul and Minnie Driver as Carlotta.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera_(1986_musical) (3620 words)

	HD DVD Review: The Phantom of the Opera (2004) \| High-Def Digest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		By 30 minutes into the film, when Christine takes her famous descent into the bowels of the Opera House with the Phantom by way of gondola, I felt like I had stepped into some weird musical mishmash of a big-hair '80s Heart video and the Pirates of the Caribbean ride at Disneyland.
		A lavish, sumptuously-mounted film, 'Phantom' is certainly overflowing with color, texture and subtle lighting, which quite frankly got lost even on the fine-looking standard DVD released last year.
		Based on the usual approach to transfers of films such as this in the past, I expected 'Phantom's vibrant reds, oranges and midnight blues to be pumped up to oblivion, with all the characters looking not so much as they have been lit with light, but painted with day-glo colors.
	hddvd.highdefdigest.com /phantomoftheopera2004.html (2868 words)

	SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
		The one constant, however, is the stagehands' belief in The Phantom of the Opera (GERARD BUTLER), a reportedly masked and mysterious figure thought to haunt the place, and whose production-related demands occasionally appear in written form.
		We see a flashback to when the Phantom was a boy in a circus "freak show" where he was dubbed the "Devil's Child" and was subjected to abuse by an adult for the amusement of spectators and forced to wear a hood.
		An opera has a bawdy number with a male character making an exaggerated motion of patting a woman on her clothed butt, while another view is that of a man's hand at a woman's bent over, but clothed butt.
	www.screenit.com /movies/2004/the_phantom_of_the_opera.html (2440 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
		He thinks the time is ripe for her to dethrone the Opera's reigning diva, the outrageous Carlotta (played by scene-stealing Minnie Driver, who provides much-needed comic relief and liveliness to the proceedings), and place Christine in center stage—he does have box seats, after all.
		Even in a the relatively small theater where I saw the movie, the score is so dominating that whenever The Phantom appears (with his ever-present theme music, of course), the blast of the organ blows your hair back and you have to grasp the arms of your chair to steady yourself.
		If this was a concert film, that would be one thing, but for the love of all that's holy, tone it down a bit on your sound mixing, Mr.
	www.moviepie.com /rent/phantom_of_the_opera.htm (807 words)

	USATODAY.com - A night at the 'Opera' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In the 1925 silent horror classic with Lon Chaney, the most memorable of the Phantom's dozen or so previous incarnations on the big screen, the opera ghost is portrayed as a monstrous madman.
		Phantom made its debut in England last week, and the bashing brigade is moving along briskly with poisoned pens in hand.
		The opulent film, which bagged three Golden Globe nominations, was tagged early as a potential best-picture candidate in the Academy Awards race.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2004-12-14-phantom-main_x.htm (1509 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Phantom Of The Opera [2004]: Video: Gerard Butler,Emmy Rossum,Patrick Wilson,Minnie Driver,Miranda ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Christine Daee (a luminescent Emmy Rossum) is a tortured young star who is haunted by the voice of the phantom (Gerard Butler--who also played the lead in DRACULA 2000), a musician who hides in the shadows to hide a facial disfigurement, yet sings to her obsessively.
		When i was first asked to see this film i wasnt very sure of it but when the music started i was hooked, i found the music enchanting and inspiring in fact the film made such an impression on me that i am going to see it next year at the theatre.
		The film takes more than a swipe at the infamous "Do I Not Like That" documentary that was made about Graham Taylor's unsuccessful time in charge of the England team and is full of the characters that inhabited the management of the team at that time.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Phantom-Opera-Gerard-Butler/dp/B00005V8V6 (1257 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on The Phantom of the Opera (2004) at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		This films opens in the year 1919 at a rundown Paris playhouse and the film is in fl and white.
		The film has some hilarious opening scenes with her character throwing a hissy fit when the new owners show up to the playhouse and start suggesting changes.
		She had always thought it to be the angel of her deceased father, but in truth it was the Phantom of the Opera.
	www.epinions.com /content_171316645508 (880 words)

	Open Directory - Arts: Movies: Titles: P: Phantom of the Opera, The - 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		BroadwayWorld.com: "The Phantom of the Opera" Soundtrack Scores - The soundtrack of the film version of "The Phantom of the Opera" ranks in second place on Billboard's Year End Chart for soundtracks in 2005.
		The Phantom of the Opera: From Stage to Screen - A study of the musical's transfer from stage to screen.
		Film Phantom Arrives on Video - A lavish adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running Broadway smash, The Phantom of the Opera will be available in both VHS and DVD formats.
	dmoz.org /Arts/Movies/Titles/P/Phantom_of_the_Opera,_The_-_2004 (523 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "The Phantom of the Opera" movie review (2004) "Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera" review, ...
		When this pair teamed up to bring Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" to the big screen, it was a match made in hell.
		A film of gross overacting and overproduced grandeur, yet one without a scrap of digestible character, "Phantom" opens with young and lovely understudy soprano Christine Daae (Emmy Rossum, "The Day After Tomorrow") already under the spell of an obsessed, half-handsome, half-disfigured psycho who lives underneath the most grandiose opera house in 1889 Paris.
		But even if "Phantom of the Opera" weren't a sensory assault of cinematic excess, it would still be missing one of the primary draws of the stage hit: the audience's own role in the production, most notably when the theater's grand chandelier is sent crashing down by the enraged Phantom.
	www.splicedonline.com /04reviews/phantomopera.html (806 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (2004 Soundtrack) - Listen, Review and Buy at ARTISTdirect (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical adaptation of Gaston Leroux's 1911 gothic mystery novel -The Phantom of the Opera proved to be at least the composer's second-most successful project, behind only +Cats, and with the potential to outdo even that blockbuster.
		Minnie Driver, who plays the prima donna Carlotta, had her singing dubbed by Margaret Preece, but she turns up at the end and, over the closing credits, sings "Learn to Be Lonely," an irrelevant and musically out-of-place song clearly composed just to have a new tune that would be Academy Award-eligible.
		The film's other singers are adequate but no competition to Crawford, Brightman, and their colleagues, and the initial recording remains the one to buy.
	www.artistdirect.com /nad/store/artist/album/0,,3076674,00.html (548 words)

	KINNOPIO - The Phantom of the Opera
		The 35-year-old Butler plays the Phantom, a part usually given to an older actor, since the Phantom is supposed to be a surrogate father to the ingénue heroine Christine (Rossum).
		The Phantom’s possessive jealousy springs from his mentor-pupil attachment to Christine; without that, he becomes, as he is here, a deranged, operatic Batman, lurking in the rafters of the Opéra Populaire to enforce miscalculated measures of romantic justice.
		Then the Phantom learns that she is in love with Raoul, her childhood sweetheart and part of the new management team, and spins madly out of control as he realizes that he has increasingly little influence over her.
	home.earthlink.net /~kinnopio/reviews/2004/phantomof.htm (924 words)

	Hollywood Gothique: The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Review
		Absurdly, when the Phantom abducts Christine to his lair, she is wearing an outrageous white corset with what looks like a tiny g-string beneath the lacy frill billowing around her hips.
		The film comes to life in at least a few places, partly because the original source material (Gaston Leroux’s novel) is filled with the kind of melodrama and memorable set pieces that survive almost any translation to the screen.
		Perhaps the film’s biggest failing is that it seldom achieves this dimension in a full-blooded, heart-rending manner.
	www.hollywoodgothique.com /phantomoftheopera04.html (1578 words)

	Amazon.com: The Phantom of the Opera (2004 Movie Soundtrack): Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber,Richard Stilgoe,Gerard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Phantom of the Opera: Film Companion by George Perry
		On the other hand, "The Phantom Of The Opera" sends chills throughout my body as the orchestra, hauntingly beautiful organ and electric guitar play feverishly to the Phantom saying "sing, my angel of music" in a demanding yet hypnotizing tone while Christine obeys, singing higher and higher as if in some kind of trance.
		Margaret Preece (serving as the voice of Minnie Driver's imperious opera diva Carlotta) is thrillingly-sung in the breathtaking "Prima Donna".
	www.amazon.com /Phantom-Opera-2004-Movie-Soundtrack/dp/B000654YWY (1905 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Phantom of the Opera (2-Disc Special Widescreen Edition): DVD: Joel Schumacher,Imogen Bain,Paul ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rossum was only 17 when this was filmed but she brings a remarkable maturity to her role and she has an incredibly good voice.
		Gerard Butler, who plays the phantom, doesn't have such a strong voice, but, thanks in the main to his sympathetic and sensitive portrayal of the tortured creature, he pulls it off.
		I suppose some might say that the voice of Gerard Butler as the Phantom may not be quite as polished as those before him, but it has a raw, sensual edge to it that exudes all the passion and longing of that tortured soul.
	www.amazon.ca /Phantom-Opera-2-Disc-Special-Widescreen/dp/B0007TKNL0 (2379 words)

	Movie Habit: Review of The Phantom of the Opera (2004), *** 1/2
		While this Phantom is a more straightforward adaptation of its stage progenitor than Chicago’s film version, it’s still been made with equal amounts of tender loving care and innovation.
		The costumers might have had their own “artistic” vision in mind, but it also serves as a fitting homage to the classic fl-and-white Lon Chaney film’s infamous staircase scene(which is the one scene from that film that was presented to audiences in an early form of Technicolor).
		While this cinematic Phantom turned out to be an utterly surprising creative success, bear in mind, dear reader, that seeing the movie is no excuse for not seeing the stage show, much like seeing a movie is no excuse to not read the book; they are unique, supplemental experiences.
	www.moviehabit.com /reviews/pha_em05.shtml (1303 words)

	The Phantom of the Opera (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Paris Opera House, which was one of the most successful and well-known theaters in the 1880s, hosted many ghost stories.
		When she finally meets the Angel of Music, he turns out to be a man who lives underneath the opera house’s main floor.
		In 2004, Warner Brothers Pictures released The Phantom of the Opera starring Gerard Butler as the Phantom, Emmy Rossum as Christine, and Patrick Wilson as Raoul.
	www.jou.ufl.edu /rolemodels/entertainment/phantom.shtm (655 words)

	Movieman's Guide to the Movies - The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
		One favorite of my mom’s and mine was The Phantom of the Opera; she loved the romance, I loved the freak show.
		The songs, outside their out of date 80's beat, are not especially catchy and since a good number of songs are limited in their presentation (the number Masquerade being the lone exception), the choreography becomes stalled.
		The Phantom needs to have chemistry and charisma--- he needs to be mysterious and driven.
	www.moviemansguide.com /reviews/2004/phantomoftheopera_mrwhite.php (701 words)

	Phantom of the Opera Soundtrack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Phantom of the Opera features a richly melodic score that includes such worldwide hits as 'Music of the Night', 'All I Ask of You', 'Think of Me, 'Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again' and 'The Phantom of the Opera'.
		The film is scheduled to open as a Christmas 2004 release in the US and UK.
		The soundtrack is scheduled for a December 2004 release.
	www.phantomoftheoperasoundtrack.com (263 words)

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