I wish they would remake the movie with the Phantom, Christine and all the characters just like they were in the book. Especially the Phantoms monolog at the end with the Persian. Makes me cry every time. They also should have Dimash Qudibergin as the voice of the Phantom at least the singing parts. How fantastic would that be! Sigh..... he would be fabulous as the phantom. Someone make this happen for me please!
No offense intended, but fan fiction would have us watching nothing but sequels, remakes, prequels, and reboots - the same films done over and over, just a little differently. Source: Disney, Marvel, DC, Star Wars, Star Trek, etc. 😐
@@TheStockwell But that's the point. We never got an adaptation from the original book, besides the 1925 silent movie and to be honest after almost 100 years a reboot would be nice.
My favorite will always be the 1990 TV miniseries version starring Teri Polo and Charles Dance. It emphasizes the love triangle over the horror of the Phantom's face. I believe this is the only Phantom of the Opera film where the Phantom's deformed face is never shown to the audience. I adore Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical, especially Michael Crawford's voice in the title role. The music just transports your imagination.
Same here, 1990 version is hands down my favorite and the best among them. It doesn't really help 2004 version due to ALW being accused by Kopit, Richardson, Pink Floyd, Fred Astaire's estate, and many others for plagiarism. ALW's god awful sequel, Love Never Dies is proof that the dude can't write or direct for jack and resorts to picking off ideas from others' work.
sorry, but that film absolutely sucked. Everything changed but for the names, and trying to insert a lot of comedy which just ended being silly. Awful.
While the '04 adaptation has it's... flaws, it has more references to the novel than the original musical, and is on par with the 1925 in its connections to Leroux's novel. With all that said, why they haven't created a true-to-novel film adaptation with modern SFX make-up is so beyond me.
@@alainajobe5823 hi, I don't really understand what you mean, 'amen' is translated in 'so be it'. But I think you wanted to say you think like Jaasau. So do I!😃
@@greghmiel7098 The shot of his mask being removed in the supposed silent '29 version (which many just refer to as the Eastman print) is an alternate take shot in 1925. Nobody else played the Phantom. Chaney was never brought back for the sound reshoots in '29 because of his contract with MGM. The only scenes from the sound '29 version in the most common version of the film is a bit of Carlotta and some other minor stuff. Everything with the Phantom is from 1925.
"My God, this place really is haunted, what is THAT?" I loved Charles Dance Erik's sass in that one, so many great one-liners. (Credit of course Robert Englund's fantastic one-liners as well in the 1989 film).
The humor in it. The setting in the real French opera and the real opera singing makes it my favorite but second I prefer the stage version so not much the films.
My all time favourite version of The Phantom Of The Opera was the 1925 silent classic featuring Lon Chaney. His makeup for the Phantom was something that was never seen before with audiences back in that day. One of the greatest monster movie makeup jobs ever done.
In Leroux’s book the Persian tells the main story. In the play and 2004 movie Madame Giry is a blend of the Persian and Madame Giry’s character. I absolutely loved the Madame Giry from the book better. In the book Christine is blond and blue eyed and Meg is brunette and brown eyed. This was changed because Andrew Lloyd Webber wanted the play to be a role for his wife and she was brunette. In the book Erik at the time of the opera house would have been about 55 and the Persian about 62. Christine about 21 and Raoul about 18. Madame Giry about 60. The play and movie changed the ages. Erik about 37, Christine about 18, Raoul 21 and Madame Giry 44. ALW left out the Persian all together. In the book boouque’s death opens the story and the chandelier falling happens in the early third. ALW changed the whole timeline around. The Phantom by Susan Kaye fleshed out Erik’s early life well but falls apart the last fourth of her book.
Even though the cartoon has its problems, it is the most faithful adaptation and it's my favorite because it's the one that introduced me to the Phantom.
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Thank you so much for doing this one! I've never seen the Phantom of the Opera, but I recently heard some of the songs from it on my radio and it made me want to watch (and read) it, so this was really helpful!
@@beneddiected It has some gross disgusting moment and isn't as much of a musical like some of the other film/stage versions, although there are some musical moments/songs in it.Overall, it's one of the darker/scarier versions, next to the black and white silent film. It's also a pretty good and very interesting film version.
TO ME ,HERBERT LOM WAS THE BEST . HIS VOICE AND ONE EYED MASK MADE HIM FRIGHTENING WHEN I SAW IT AS A CHILD . EVEN NOW, HIS PERFORMANCE CAN NOT BE TOUCHED. A TRUE CLASSIC.
Thanks for such wonderful videos! I can tell you put a lot of thought and work into them. My favorite phantom embarrassingly enough is the cheesy 1990 tv version with Charles Dance.
Without question, my favorite is the 1962 Hammer studios version. It's the most unusual monster movie ever made, because the "monster" (phantom role) is NOT the monster. Professor Petrie is the hero (actually 1 of 3). He is made into the phantom by the evil Lord Ambrose D'Arcy. Played as deliciously wicked, by actor Michael Gough. His sneering arrogance and cruelty is an acting triumph. The music is also sensational. Written by a contemporary composer, yet designed to sound like something from the classical period. Like the brilliant Brahms-esque piece Mr. Spock plays on Flint's harpsicord. In original series "Star Trek" episode "Requiem For Methuselah". Sadly, this Hammer version of "Phantom" was Not well received by American audiences. For 2 major reasons: The hero (Petrie) dies tragically. And, Ambrose is never seen to get his comeuppance. Most interesting is how an extra 15 minutes was filmed and inserted. To make the movie fit into a 2 hour TV time slot (less commercials, of course). The VHS & DVD releases Never include this extra footage. It was an extra-ordinary feat of editing. None of the original actors appeared. There being absolutely NO interaction. Yet the added footage fits into the film Seamlessly.
As long as they leave out the "talkie" versions, well, talking, that would be a nice idea. Sort of like what they did to Metropolis except Phantom wasn't meant to be that long.
I keep waiting for the adaptation, where Christine will be really Leroux's Christine: you know, blue-eyed blonde, gentle and trusting, kind, fragile, but at the same time strong inside.
the version with Teri Polo and Charles Dance portray her that way mostly, although I think they made her FAR too naive and immature at the same time. Sadly, that film sucks as well in every other aspect.
Thanks for this review! I first saw the black and white silent version when I was is the 7th grade (11yo). Scared me so much! I love the music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. After the terror of the original, I never could fully feel compassion for the Phantom! He was Terrifying!
I think this was a very broadend version of all of the aspects of phantom which left out very big considerable ones. I do agree with some points in this video, though I believe others are too broad to address an overall character. I do not think this really discussed the importance of the book, or why it is impactful nor the truth to its story, but rather some movie versions and comparing those to each other. I would highly reccomend to anyone who truly had interest or care in the story to read the novel, though I don't think i would be as well appreciated if you are just infatuated withthe musical. Either way, there are so many other phantoms and so much more to the ones mentioned in this video, from Robert Englund to the animated version and even Love Never Dies. Though they don't relate as much to the novel some versions do portray Gaston Leroux's intentions more than others, but no one has seemed to have understood his intention and the actuality of his characters, that he says are based on real people. If you look to records, though they are hard to find some of the things in his novel correlate with some real life people and events which is very interesting. Even Lon Chaney's version, which is familiar to the book in many ways, hasn't been close to capturing Leroux's characters. Everything else aside, all versions are interesting and unique as well as misunderstood.
Of the film versions, I have to list them in this order: 1) the 1925 film with Lon Chaney (NO CONTEST WHATSOEVER!) 2) the 1990 TV mini-series with Charles Dance 3) the 2004 film with Gerard Butler (even though I deplore Joel Schumacher's directing, the cinematography and Butler's/Emily Rossum's singing) 4) the 1989 film with Robert Englund 5) the 1962 film with Herbert Lom 6) a tie between the 1943 film with Claude Rains and the 1983 TV movie with Maximilian Schell (although my opinion is that the Rains film was absolutely the WORST) I have not included the 1998 film directed by Dario Argente as I have not seen it.
The Herbert Lom version is my favorite! This brings me back to when I was young. I had a horror film book and saw pictures of Herbert as the phantom. I had trouble sleeping thinking about that mask. I watch this one often! I don't think it will ever be matched or better!
While thoroughly enjoying the other documented versions, I'm still very fond of the 1962 Hammer production and its cast of the day. Herbert Lom is outstanding in the title role, carrying it off convincingly by the sheer weight of his presence, both seen and unseen, and his commanding vocal power.
@@henrique-xf9wy If I am understanding you correctly, I believe you are referring to the white half-face mask that was specially devised by the costume designer for Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical version of the tale and which was also featured in the splendid Joel Schumacher film of 2004 that eventually followed in the wake of its success. This fresh style of mask had been an attempt to break away from all that had gone before on the movie screen.
@@geoffberesford That's exactly what I wanted to know, thanks, so the half white mask first appeared in the musical. and I'm sorry if I couldn't be very clear with the words, it's just that English is not my language
The 1974 Comedy-Horror-Musical Phantom of the Paradise this movie was scored and starred the Great songwriter Paul Williams,* who portrays a producer who sells his soul to the devil and steals the music of an aspiring artist as well as his voice and his love interest. It could be described as The Rocky Horror Picture Show version of The Phantom of the Opera, although it predates Rocky Horror by a few years. Nonetheless if you are a Phantom of the Opera fan and have a sense of humor I highly recommend checking out the cult classic Phantom of the Paradise. * Paul Williams is best known as the author of the song Rainbow Connection which was made famous by The Muppet Movie in which Kermit the Frog sings it in the opening sequence.
I wish they had cast John Owen-Jones for the 2004 movie, he is the best and so criminally underrated :'( the 2004 movie is probably the reason for the nonsense of making the phantom a young "hunk". John Owen Jones and Katie Hall actually matched the characters and they SHOULD have been the concert cast. John deserved so much better. I so regret have looked up that travesty.
My favourite part of the 2004 movie is the caption showing the main part of the story happens in 1870 - a year when Paris was under a crippling artillery siege by the Prussian army and the citizens were starving, and five years before the opera house even opened.
Christine in 2004 is just about perfect. Her expressions, especially when OG reveals certain feelings, she never quite reveals what you want her too, she is just in stasis in a non specific innocent expression. As if she was in a state of purgatory. I wonder if that was intended.
Will you be doing other gothic horror novels like Frankenstein, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Dracula, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?
For Dracula, include the 1931 Bela Lugosi version, the 1958 Hammer version starring Christopher Lee, the 1979 John Badham version starring Frank Langella and of course the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola version.
Gosh, the Phantom has suffered nearly as badly as Dracula, with many films being made that wildly deviate from the literary source material. In both cases we are still waiting for a truly faithful adaptation to bring the book to life.
@@leynisitepu I believe the comment above was referring to Lon Chaney, who played the Phantom in the 1925 version. He was a really good actor, known for doing his own makeup for whatever role he was in, using all sorts of ways to make each role he was in unique and sometimes damaging. He was also born to deaf parents, which helped him add something extra to his performances, i.e. communicating via his hands in the roles he played or using more facial emotions to get the emotions across.
I wish someone would make a series about the Phantom’s life before he haunted the opera house. His adventures in Persia and India and his childhood and how he gained all his skills. Could be like Vampire Hunter D.
My favorite version is the 1962 because it's the most humane concerning the phantom.He is more understood in this version. He shouldn't have murdered, but you have to see he had his music stolen and then gets accidentally deformed.This version is the most sympathetic, it's the most compassionate of the versions.I guess I'm a humane person, and heartfelt.
Loved your video. I really have a top 3: 1925 because this one has the most adaption of the book. And I love Lon Chaney!! Such a shame that they changed the orginal end where Erik dies of a broken hart, into the mob scene. 2004 is just stunning and really my 2th favorite. Love the music, acting and the overall way they made it. And 1990 gives such a different beautifil perspective on the relationship between Erik and Christine. And how it al started. Charles Dance makes a wonderful Phantom.
There were two other movies: The Maximilian Schell and Jane Seymour (1983 TV movie) & Robert Englund's version in 1986. Both shared ideas from these films mentioned here. There are also some versions that are foreign (Italian?) as well that show a non disfigured phantom.
1925 with Lon Chaney will always be the best in my opinion. He was meant to be an abusive, sinister man with a hideous face. As much as I may like the musical adaptations of the phantom, they made him into some pretty boy romantic with a few scars.
The Phantom of the Opera is about Erik's love and redemption, and how much he was more noble than Raoul (who is the real terrifying, cruel one, unlike you mentioned). Erik is *NO* evil, no cruel or twisted. No adaptation was perfect. One is great until the last 10 minutes, but craps the ending and doesn't explain Erik's past (1925), the other is excellent yet not very loyal and craps Erik's deformity (2004). A perfect Phantom adaptation would include Erik's tragic, misunderstood antihero personality, Raoul as the piece of trash he is, Christine being less dummy and the powerful, beautiful and meaningful ending. Leroux's original novel stands being the best and unsurprassed masterpiece.
Phantom fans!!! I need help 😭I grew up with a version that like- it was on a stage- really poor quality so not the Albert Hall one- there was a scene where she was trying to run from the phantom but she like- kept running back into him, it was really weird, she couldn’t escape him
