I'm doing more Phantom of the Opera inspirations because they keep creeping up (pun intended) on me like nobody's business!
I've really had a wonderful time reconnecting with all this, because I think when I was 15 and I watched all the versions and read the book, I was just too simple-minded to let any of it sink in. And once I had my favorite version (the musical) I also did not learn to appreciate the strong points of the other versions. I just thought "oh yeah, they were all good," well except Rob's version. Rob's was my least favorite, if you can believe it. From LEAST favorite to MOST favorite - how & why? That's the beauty of time!
*clears throat* Anyway.
Under the cut are some particularly memorable videos I found on youtube (like the last post) that I thought illustrated the versions that have intrigued me lately as well as inspired me. And to top it all off is a video I made myself for Charles Dance Phantom.
( All this wonderful stuff under the cut. Only an optional waste of time to all of you! )
Last, but most actually, I decided I wanted to cram my hard drive with (at least half) of a 3 hr movie just so I could make a video of my own for Charles-Phantom. I just found the song and listened to it a while, feeling that it was connected to the Phantom world, and then it hit me that they were Charles' words. Then I went online and found a live version, complete with orchestra, and One Republic does pretty well live, so I... used it. And.. I tried to show the side of him that many videos did not - when he unravels. I had to go through the last hour of the film, which was a real downer, to get the clips, but it helped listening to his dry humor. He's prepared to joke about even his own death. He's so human I can't stand it! "I thought about being buried in my lagoon... Then I thought 'mmmNo... float up and scare some poor child downstream."
Anyway, tribute to the wonderful man here:
♥ ♥ ♥
And I'm still making a post about how great he is sooner or later.
I've really had a wonderful time reconnecting with all this, because I think when I was 15 and I watched all the versions and read the book, I was just too simple-minded to let any of it sink in. And once I had my favorite version (the musical) I also did not learn to appreciate the strong points of the other versions. I just thought "oh yeah, they were all good," well except Rob's version. Rob's was my least favorite, if you can believe it. From LEAST favorite to MOST favorite - how & why? That's the beauty of time!
*clears throat* Anyway.
Under the cut are some particularly memorable videos I found on youtube (like the last post) that I thought illustrated the versions that have intrigued me lately as well as inspired me. And to top it all off is a video I made myself for Charles Dance Phantom.
( All this wonderful stuff under the cut. Only an optional waste of time to all of you! )
Last, but most actually, I decided I wanted to cram my hard drive with (at least half) of a 3 hr movie just so I could make a video of my own for Charles-Phantom. I just found the song and listened to it a while, feeling that it was connected to the Phantom world, and then it hit me that they were Charles' words. Then I went online and found a live version, complete with orchestra, and One Republic does pretty well live, so I... used it. And.. I tried to show the side of him that many videos did not - when he unravels. I had to go through the last hour of the film, which was a real downer, to get the clips, but it helped listening to his dry humor. He's prepared to joke about even his own death. He's so human I can't stand it! "I thought about being buried in my lagoon... Then I thought 'mmmNo... float up and scare some poor child downstream."
♥ ♥ ♥
And I'm still making a post about how great he is sooner or later.
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