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The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Directed by Joel Schumacher

Musical | Drama | Horror

Overview

Deformed since birth, a bitter man known only as The Phantom lives in the sewers underneath the Paris Opera House. He falls in love with the obscure chorus singer Christine, and privately tutors her while terrorizing the rest of the crew.

Rated PG-13 | Length 141 minutes

Actors

Gerard Butler | Emmy Rossum | Patrick Wilson | Miranda Richardson | Minnie Driver | Ciarán Hinds | Simon Callow | Victor McGuire | Jennifer Ellison | Murray Melvin | Kevin McNally | James Fleet | Imogen Bain | Miles Western | Judith Paris | Halcro Johnston | Paul Brooke | Oliver Chopping | Alison Skilbeck | Lee Sellers | Ramin Karimloo | Chris Overton | Jesika Cannon | Annabel Porter | Laura Hounsom | Lorraine Stewart | Lucy Casson | Jonathan D. Ellis | Jose Tirado | David Langham | Sebastien Torkia | Chris Jarvis | Liesl Dowsett | Greet Botterman | Kirsty Tapp | Amy Lawson | Tess Cunningham | Kathryn Dunn | Pia Driver | Sophia Hurdley | Elena Buda | Mark Carroll | Brian Wheeler | Terry Kelly | David Arneil | John Griffiths | Graham McDuff | Tricia Deighton | Mandy Holliday | Jackie Marks | Sophie-Louise Dann | Valerie Cutko | Julia Worsley | Margaret Preece | Annalene Beechey | Lucy Potter | Remy Martyn | Richard Bayliss | Andrew Charles Corbett | Ralph Broadbent | Damien Lee Stirk | Alexander Cameron | Pascal Langdale | Paul Costin | Carlos Otera | Matthew Draper | Annika Strandberg | Ben Gant | Beth Sheather | Jonathon Hill | Isabel Lesto | Sarah Frasca | Timothy Kipling | Sandra Eloani | Jonathon Kitchen | Ruben Halse | Tristan Keyte | Damian Jones | Michael Mansbridge | Jeff Moore | Vanessa Perroncel | Lea Jerova | Julian Poole | Rebekah Dobbins | James Pullman | Lee Chapman | Robert Purvis | Gavin Lee | Dave Tosh | Rod Buchanan | Chris Worsey | Ashley Wallen | Adam Pudney | Ben Garner | Blake Clayfield | Damien Delaney | Marcus Tesch | Michael Small | Milo Miles | Nathan Clark | Stephen B. White | Stephen Berkeley | Kasper Cornish | Philip Catchpole | Ryan Jenkins | Gavin Wilkinson | Alec Mann | Scott Wyer | Paul Micha | Clinton Goldsmith | Andrew Corbett | Luis Gallo Mudarra | Damien Jackson | Tom Tanscy | Luke Jackson | Aaron Sillis | Melanie Perks | Lorena Randi | Lisa Stevens | Rachael Crocker | Julia Florimo | Caroline Lynn | Joanna Woodliffe | Marilena Nicolaou | Joanna Ernest | Georgina Hagerty | Simone De La Rue | Claire Goodman | Gem Collingwood | Maddy G. Harris | Juliet Gough | Deborah Bundy | Pippa Raine | Leigh Daniels | Gabriel Noble | Maryam Pourian | Candice Evans | Janine Davis | Bethany Elliot | Dawn Collins

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Viewing Notes

via Netflix

This big-screen adaptation of the legendary musical stars Gerard Butler as the disfigured, reclusive Phantom who roams beneath the Paris Opera, meddling with how its run and stalking one of the one singers there. A fairly decent adapatation of the musical.  Only a few events and some omissions and changes to the songs to make it all work, but it’s definitely still a gorgeous film not just in the way its shot but the look of the opera and the costumes as well as the Phantom’s lair. The casting choices work for the film especially since I love just about all the lead actors and actresses in this. 

My only complaint is that the film version changes a lot of different emphasis on many moments and it leaves some of the scenes feeling a bit less grand than they are in the actual musical.  I realize there are differences from stage to screen, but some of these aren’t necessarily for the stage emphasis, they’re for that moment and it changes that moment on screen quite a bit.  Overall it works for the film and it’s still fantastic finally seeing the musical I saw back in the early 90s getting the large scale film treatment.

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