'The Phantom of the Opera' is about love. It's as simple as that.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.
Opera is the original marriage of words and music, and there's a theatre element, a dramatic element. It's right up my alley.
Opera combines pretty basic theater and poetry, but the storyline itself is actually quite poetic and, after some digital research, taking that actual content and seeing it as undeniably poetic.
It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
Watching Italian opera, all those male sopranos screeching, stupid fat couples rolling their eyes about. That's not love, it's just rubbish.
It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel.
What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
The Opera was a very cold film, a hopeless and dark film, no hope, no love.
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.