Oh no! I got acid thrown in my face! BETTER GO WASH IT OFF WITH SEWER WATER AND DISAPPEAR FOR THE ENTIRE MOVIE. HOPE YOU LIKE SINGING AND WEREN'T EXPECTING ANY SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF PHANTOMING.
Following a tragic accident that leaves him disfigured, crazed composer Erique Claudin transformed into a masked phantom who schemes to make beautiful young soprano Christine Dubois the star of the opera and wreak revenge on those who stole his music.
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once he finally appears, the initial shots of the Phantom deep in the sewers beneath the opera house are so striking. he is framed from above in a wide shot, completely dwarfed by the blackness of the sewer around him. both the empty space and the angle shrink his body, giving his half gaze up into the music drifting down from the opera an air of quiet pleading which evokes the tragedy of the character so well.this Phantom is both the the most sympathetic and the most irredeemable i've seen yet. his transformation marks a complete and total break from who he was before. i was intrigued by undercurrents of anti-capitalist sentiment: the Phantom a worker and charitable donor who receives no kindness or pity when he is no longer useful or can no longer pay. but this is lost when he goes on to become perhaps the most indiscriminate and mindless in his violence and murder. my favorite part though is just the absolute lushness of the technicolor photography, which make the film's many opera scenes positively glow. i will always be gaga for technicolor soft focus close-ups. be still my gay, gay heart...and i love the ending, in which Christine ditches her two suitors completely and they decide to go to dinner together instead. righteous and gay, respectively!
The costume designs are lavish, the set productions are grandiose and the music is the crème de la crème. But it doesn’t help that Claude Rains told the make-ups artists to hardly make his character disfigured like wtf? He definitely was miscast and would’ve been a bit better if originally rumored Lon Chaney Jr. got the role.
Common questions
What is Phantom of the Opera about?+
A disfigured, desperate composer living in the sewers of the Paris Opera House schemes to make a young soprano a star while wreaking vengeance on those who wronged him.
Who directed Phantom of the Opera?+
Arthur Lubin directed the 1943 Technicolor adaptation of the classic gothic story.
Did Phantom of the Opera win any awards?+
Yes, the film won Academy Awards for Best Art Direction and Best Cinematography in color.
