The movie version of "The Phantom of the Opera" retains a large number of movements from the musical, and also includes new music specially composed by Weber for the film. Whether it is an old song or a new one, Weber has borrowed heavily from the artistic processing techniques of movie sound. The director Schumacher also requires that all songs be sung by the film actor who plays the role in person, so as to vividly express emotions in the music film. The leading actor, Gernard Butler, was asked by the director to intensively train to sing, so that for a while Butler could not speak normally and could only communicate with others by singing.
In order to complete the careful plan, the crew even set up a recording studio in the Weber Studio located in the Pinewood Studio, where the actors can record the arias in time to prepare for the subsequent shooting. Even so, the connection between singing and performance is still getting more and more urgent. At first, the actors recorded the sings 3 weeks before the beginning of the filming. At the end of the filming, the recording was only 3 hours ahead of the filming, and the crew had to start at 6 o'clock in the morning. debugging.
The main scenes of the film were shot in the British Pinewood Studio. It consists of 8 sets. The construction took more than 10 months. It used 73 tons of steel, 15,000 liters of paint, a total of more than 92 miles of wood and 52 miles. Long scaffolding. The staff of the film crew studied a large number of books on literature and architecture, and reconstructed the interior of the Paris Opera on the basis of historical data. The luxurious boxes, the magnificent pillars and statues, and the luxurious scenes of the masquerade are all set and gorgeous. The costumes of the characters are like going backwards in time, bringing the audience back to Paris at that time. The important prop in the film, the 17-foot-high, 13.2-foot-wide, and 2.2-ton crystal chandelier used more than 20,000 Swarovski crystals. This alone cost more than 1.3 million US dollars. The chandelier was time-consuming. It took 4 months to assemble it in the studio for 4 full days. As for the location of the last climax scene, the underground palace with a pipe organ in "Phantom" took nearly half a month to build.
