This is really something I'm posting so I don't forget about it. I don't expect anyone that has friended me to pay it much attention.



Some truly inspiring Phantoms are circling my head right now. In fact, I'm so RE-allured by them that it's making it difficult to focus on my own writing, even though I could very well just incorporate them into my phantom. And I have that opportunity now that they have reached a new chapter in their relationship.

Michael Crawford
The Phantom that inspired He's There and its phantom -- the only one that brings shivers down my spine just by the way he moves. He stopped playing the Phantom on Broadway after 3 years because he loved the character so much, his own passion was wearing him out. He cried every night on stage, usually during the final lair scene. He was truly the Phantom of the Opera, and I'm so depressed that I will never see him do this live. Had I, I think his stage presence and the power, in his body and his voice and his heart, would have made me cry too. Truly, an inspiring, beautiful, dark, mysterious man, and still manages to be HOT.

1. 0:32... The light flickering over his face is gorgeous. I learned just recently that the opaque contact in his mask-sided eye blinded him and he had no depth perception while playing Erik.
2. I know the song is dramatic... It works though. He IS beautiful.
3. "If only you could ignore what you've become.."

1. Everything past the Christine-involved stuff.
2. 3:24 when his voice broke off into an echo.
3. I absolutely adore the line "only then can you belong to me"..


Robert Englund
Has been on my mind for days now. I know he's a total bad-ass, but when I rewatch the sensitive scenes he has with Christine, he becomes less of a villain and I wish that he didn't have such a damn intense personality. I just wish he'd stop being such a dick, or better yet, not sell his soul to the freaking devil, because when his face lit up like a kid in a candy store over her singing, and when he finally got her to his lair and he was all excited and nervous, it was A-DOR-A-BLE. Also, his score for Don Juan Triumphant... I've been singing it. It was beautiful for what it was, and gave me a glimpse into an Erik you didn't expect in him. "If only you could come to learn," "Underneath, you could see..." <3

Why'd he have to fuck it up... why. He was interesting, and... I know it was horror genre, but if they'd made him show his love a little more, the ending could've been heart-wrenching. At least, for me. I know Christine did what she had to. (And she was a pretty strong Christine.)
I think she's the only one to actually kill her Phantom. Not even once, she killed him TWICE. (It makes sense in the movie. Really.)

*sob*

1. In my head all week.
2. The violin in the graveyard scene - beautiful. From the original book. Great cinematography.
3. I know he's ugly, but that pensiveness he had between 2:13 and 2:18 was... it was cute. *hides face* It was small things like this that made me... sorta... I have a crush on him, okay?! ... fuckkk.


Charles Dance
The more I think about him, the more interesting he gets. The movie is long and sometimes it drags, but when I put to words what he has done for her, it makes it hard not to adore him. He waited practically all night for her to come back after encouraging her to go to the bistro and sing. When she tried to hug him, he didn't even know how to react. She doesn't seem to realize how much he cares, and she ends up doing some things that hurt his feelings but he (no pun) masks everything, sort of always appearing as the same person. (My Phantom does the same thing.) He was completely and sincerely in love with Christine, and the Christine (Teri Polo) was actually likable, so much that I wished, more than for any Phantom before, that they could be together, but obviously since this is a Phantom story, they can't.

I love his dry humor. In the first ten minutes of the movie, he bluntly remarks on having gotten rid of (killed) Joseph Bouquet. Sometimes you don't know WHAT he's exactly going to do because he is so sweet to Christine, humanly thoughtful and observant, and that humor. He suggested "why don't I just kill Carlotta" but never did. However, later, he said he was going to blow up the entire opera house, didn't seem serious, and then when he had Christine down there and everyone seemed pissed, he started pouring gun powder around. Oh dear lord. XD

I was never worried he would lay a hand on Christine, though, and when he dropped the chandelier and kidnapped her, it sort of felt more like this desperate man, finally broken, than a psycho-stalker having a compulsion.

1. This video is very corny, especially the second half, but I actually like the song.
2. 1:30 is a part that keeps replaying in my head for the lyric and the video. It was powerful to me. "I won't let you fly" makes me think of those stories about raising/helping restore to health a bird and not wanting to let it go. The same way Erik has found Christine and taught her to be the best she can be, but she grows to a point where she doesn't need him.
3. Charles's Phantom has a stunning lair, my favorite of all Phantoms, which reminds me of Neverland. It's vast and moody and filled with old theater props and ughh.. It's just perfect. AND HE HAS A FREAKIN' SYNTHETIC FOREST.
4. He's just plain gorgeous. Who knew a ginger-Phantom could pull it off so well. When he gets frustrated his hair gets all frizzy. lmao


I'll be writing tonight with this in mind...