In an era of passionless hookups, swooning romantic excess may be just the ticket. “Abandon thought and let the dream descend,” sings the Phantom.
Schumacher works sensual wonders with only Rossum’s bare shoulders and Butler’s open shirt. But you can feel the heat when the Phantom sweeps Christine down to his underground lair, lit by candelabras. Don’t expect grace notes - the film is a blunt instrument. The Phantom is not as mystical as in the stage production, as all his tricks can be easily explained in the film. There are some songs left out, including the rehearsal of 'Don Juan Triumphant'. Free shipping Free shipping Free shipping. The actors do their own singing, except for the scene-stealing Minnie Driver, who is hilarious as a diva with an indecipherable Italian accent. NEW The Phantom of the Opera DVD 2004 Widescreen Gerard Butler Emmy Rossum. He’d kill for her and crosses swords excitingly with his pretty-boy rival Raoul (velvet-voiced Patrick Wilson). Gerard Butler, 35, brings a raw, full-throated masculinity to the Phantom, a musical genius who prowls the theater with a mask hiding the disfigured half of his face but nothing cloaking his mad desire to make Christine a and his lover. Emmy Rossum, 18, has an aching loveliness to match her singing voice as soprano Christine Daae.
With a cast of young hotties, it smolders. And the movie, directed full throttle by Joel Schumacher, goes the show one better. Phantom, still running on Broadway after sixteen years, is a rapturous spectacle. Despite being a rather dark and sexy character (think Simon Cowell with sex appeal), he is also violent and nasty it's difficult to feel any sympathy for a character so smothered in self-pity.Fearing date-movie hell, most guys will panic at the idea of a Gothic love story set in an 1870 Paris opera house where beast hits on beauty with a nonstop assault of Andrew Lloyd Webber music. But this is ruined by scenes such as the implied attempted rape of Christine, the Phantom wailing that his face has "denied me the joys of the flesh". The songs desperately want us to feel that if only the Phantom wasn't persecuted and mocked by society, he would be a rather nice chap. Born disfigured, a flashback shows him as a child being horribly abused in a freak show and escaping to the sewers. Obviously this is supposed to be the story of a tragic genius tortured by his disability, unable to be loved by a beautiful young woman because of his hideous face. Down they go to his spooky habitat (as opposed to the branch of Habitat from which he presumably purchased those candles).
After Christine's successful debut, the Phantom reveals himself to her and takes her to his bachelor pad: this is only accessible via a boat ride across a foggy lagoon, where gold candles inexplicably rise fully lit from the murky waters.
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