about love and humanity

Jaunita 2022-04-20 09:01:41

The Phantom of the Opera is a Broadway musical composed by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Based on the detective thriller "Ghost of the Opera" by Gaston Leroux. It premiered in 1986 and won seven Tony Awards in 1988, making it one of the most successful musicals of all time. It premiered in London in 1986, starring Michael Crawford and Sarah Breitman. So far, there have been 16 production versions around the world, and it has also been adapted into a film of the same name.
The musical has successfully shaped the image of The Phantom, making it an immortal symbol in the history of music. Phantom was born in an aristocratic family, but he was born with a ferocious face. The mask was the first thing he wore after he came to this world. Just because of his appearance, he was rejected by the prosperous and glamorous world. He had no respect or care, and was regarded as the target of others' curiosity everywhere. He even became a clown in a circus cage. "Son of Satan", was beaten every day and kept tourists onlookers. However, ugliness and beauty, luck and misfortune seem to be twin sisters in Phantom. Phantom has innate aristocratic temperament and unrestrained artistic attainments. He is a talented singer, composer, ingenious architect and magician. Despite being abandoned and despised by the world, the Phantom still retains a love for good things, which is poured into making music boxes by hand. Later, the Phantom took advantage of the carelessness of the circus to strangle him, and escaped to the grounds of the Paris Opera with the help of Madame Gilly of the Theater.
The Paris Opera House in the 19th century was the pinnacle of art in the whole world. In order to achieve various stage effects, the Opera House often had many organs. The Phantom, who had regained his freedom, regarded the Opera House as his childhood playground, avoiding the world and people. Motivated by curiosity, the Phantom mastered all the mechanical design of the theater, and remodeled the underground space of the theater by himself, built his own palace with various theater props, and used many tricks to shut out people who wanted to go underground. Since then, the scarred heart has never left the theater, and the theater has become his safe haven. Aside from pretending to ask the theater to rewrite the script, change the cast, reserve Box No. 5 for him, and write ghost letters every month to ask the theater owner for a living allowance out of a love of art, the Phantom asks for nothing from the world until Kerri The appearance of Si Ting makes Phantom once again ignited hope and passion for life.
Christine is the only daughter of the Swedish violinist Dey, and she was orphaned very early. The Phantom was originally out of pity and often pretended to be the musical angel promised by Christine's father, and gave Christine's young heart through the wall. He comforted her and taught her the technique of singing. Nine years later, Christine has grown into a slender girl, and she is quite accomplished in singing art. There is an old Chinese saying that love grows with time. No matter how cold the heart is, there is one thing to be afraid of, and that is to pay. 9 years of hard work is enough to open a gap in the phantom's closed heart, and a strange feeling takes root and sprouts in the gap. In the Phantom's heart, Christine is not only a poor orphan and a studious apprentice, but also his only audience and faithful companion, the sustenance of all the good things in the world; Love, Christine to him is more of a work of art that he has carefully crafted, a work of art that no one can touch, or as the Phantom sings in his famous aria, Christine is his The mask, when everyone was overwhelmed by Christine's wonderful singing voice, what they heard was the voice of the Phantom. The talent of the Phantom and Christine's voice formed a peculiar "duo". Christine is the incarnation of herself; for her and for herself, the Phantom used various means to get rid of all those who hindered Christine's singing career, and finally made Christine famous, and the Phantom's talent was revealed. The singing voice of Christine conquered the whole of Paris.
Raul's appearance broke the originally peaceful and beautiful life. Raul is Christine's young playmate. After Christine shines on the stage like a goddess, Raul recognizes Christine and enthusiastically pursues Christine. Christine accepts Raul and the two fall in love. At this time, the phantom discovered that Christine was not his own private property. The little girl 9 years ago had grown up and began to look forward to her love life. Perhaps out of jealousy, perhaps out of fear of losing the only audience, Phantom's subconscious possessiveness towards Christine finally surfaced, and under Raul's stimulation, a deformed "love" was born. So the Phantom went on a killing spree, first hanging the stage master, and then killing the actor Pianggi of "Don Juan". After Christine ripped off his mask in public, he cut off the chain of the stage chandelier, letting the whole house Ornate crystal lights smashed into the auditorium. In the madness again and again, the phantom has lost all conscience, and its only purpose is to break up Raul and Christine, and keep Christine by her side forever.
However, my parents often said that things like love cannot be forced, just like a handful of sand in your hand, the tighter you hold it, the faster it will drain.
A thrilling love story is about to begin, and as the woman of this emotional entanglement, Christine has a deadly personality that almost ruins Christine several times. Due to the loss of her father at a young age and her innate sensitivity to music, Christine is a woman with rich fantasies and very sensitive and fragile nerves. She is easily hypnotized by music and has hallucinations. Her feelings for phantoms were initially more dependent. A longing for the missing fatherly love, which is by no means love; and the Phantom takes advantage of Christine's character weakness, and is able to give and consciously exploit this fatherly love. Caring, so that the two of them "did each other" during the 9 years when they both lacked each other's company. After the phantom slaughter, Christine's feeling for the phantom gradually changed from dependence to fear and an unbearable heartfelt disgust, so in order to stop the phantom's atrocities, Christine and Raul designed the phantom to appear. Therefore, when the Phantom killed Piangi and starred in "Don Juan" as mentioned above, in the fateful aria of "taking a step that cannot be turned back", Christine took it off in public. A scene with his mask.
For the Phantom, the mask has an extraordinary meaning. The mask is the only way he can face the world. The mask represents his decency and dignity. At this time, the Phantom, who shows his true face, has mixed feelings - the shame buried in his heart Like a flood, the embankment was cut off, but shame brought humiliation, humiliation created fear, and fear turned into anger. The phantom was not only taken off the mask, but also the last line of defense of the soul. Since then, the phantom has lost the last trace of reason and completely fell into crazy. Therefore, the phantom cut off the chandelier and kidnapped Christine in the chaos, and fled to his own underground palace. Raul followed her anxiously, trying to rescue Christine, but was caught by the phantom and tied Raul's neck with a rope. The Phantom gives Christine two choices: either agree to the Phantom's proposal and let Raul live; or reject the Phantom's proposal, but Raul must die. At this time, there is still a glimmer of hope in Phantom's heart. If Christine rejects Phantom's marriage proposal, she just expresses that she doesn't love Phantom, but she doesn't love Raul, at least Phantom will break up the two successfully; Rescue Raul to accept the Phantom's marriage proposal. On the surface, the Phantom won Christine, but in fact he lost everything: Christine cared about Raul's safety, showing that her heart no longer belonged to the Phantom. The Phantom, as he sings, finally took the "step of no turning back" - a gamble that the Phantom had put all his chips in.
At this time, Christine almost collapsed, and her feelings for Phantom changed from hatred to hatred. However, there has always been a subtle connection between great love and hatred since ancient times. The hatred is deep and the love is deep, and Christine's hatred for the Phantom has a trace of pure love and gratitude. After grief, hatred, and disappointment, Christine agreed to Phantom's marriage proposal without hesitation, and kissed Phantom's twisted cheek with an angelic heart, hoping to save Raul, or Phantom's broken heart.
The energy of this kiss is extraordinary. In works of art, kisses often have a special meaning in the layout, but never a kiss is so thrilling. This kiss removed all of Phantom's plans and calculations, and let all hatred and resentment vanish. For Phantom, it was the first time that someone cared about him, recognized him, and even hoped to "love" him from the bottom of his heart. He; Phantom suddenly found that despite his disappointment and dissatisfaction with the world, he still needs to be accepted, and there are still many good things in the society he has always hated, such as Christine's kiss. Since she vowed to break up Christine and Raul, revenge has been the driving force behind her long-term madness and paranoia, but Christine's kiss has made her life suddenly lose its focus and origin. The figure of the Phantom seemed to solidify into a plaster statue. A drop of water dripped from the dark and damp dungeon. It floated down slowly, softly, and tremblingly, and fell unconsciously on the Phantom's heart. The plaster statue burst and broke into countless pieces. The crumbs turned into a wisp of floating dust, scattered to nothingness with the flowing water, or turned into billions and existed in every corner of the world. Phantom laughed, and then wept, laughing at the joy of being accepted, and crying at the despair of losing everything and even his own. On the verge of complete sinking and madness, the Phantom found the long-lost beauty in his heart, and regained his sense and conscience; at this moment, the Phantom truly fell in love with Christine, and this love seemed to be violent and calm. The sea has irresistibly swept away the original greedy possessiveness and superficial jealousy, but once this love is released, it is destined to be unrecoverable and unrecoverable. Perhaps this is the so-called unforgettable. The Phantom let Christine go, and let her join hands with Raul to reach the end of the world; while he left the underground palace as lonely as him and the music box that represented the starting point of everything, struggling to hum with all his might" Mask parade, put on your mask, so that the world can't find you." After that, he picked up an exquisite candlestick, smashed mirror after mirror, and looked back at the whole world with a trace of regret and helplessness. , and then tragically walked into the last frame, disappeared in the shouts of everyone's arrest, disappeared in the resentment of the running water in the underground palace, disappeared in the back of Raul and Christine supporting each other and punting away to the end of the world. In the middle, as elegant and mysterious as he appeared in the mirror for the first time - so come and go, clean, life in me is but a dream; the mask that is not smiling lies quietly on the dressing table , seems so poignant and sad.
Raul Ekristine? In my opinion, Raul's love for Christine is more based on romantic fantasies of young playmates, making it feel like a fairy tale of Cinderella meeting the prince; The portrayal is deliberately thin, and it even makes people think that Christine chose to be with him because of Raul's aristocratic status and wealth-in any case, Raul's love for Christine is far from profound, Not to mention unforgettable. But in the last scene, Raul's willingness to venture into the dungeon to save Christine still makes people see the seriousness and persistence of love. In any case, Raul was so happy that he couldn't be happier: he defeated the evil villain in fairy tales, won the beauty, and lived happily ever after with Christine. The same disappears, the opera is still singing and dancing, and there are scenes of human comedy being staged. Perhaps the only gap in the closed heart of the Phantom has been added with locks after locks, and the joys and sorrows of the past have been replaced The thick dust cover is deeply buried in the deepest part of the memory. Only the scarred wounds occasionally ache for no reason... Time flies, the wild goose's claws are muddy, love, hate and hatred are just passing by in a hurry, and some may last for a long time. When the old Lauer fell on his knees and cried bitterly in front of Christine's tomb with the support of his children, he found a bright rose in an inconspicuous corner of the tombstone, tied with a gloomy black ribbon. The delicate ring, a trembling lightly swept across Raul's aged body - Phantom, Phantom, are you really the omnipresent, omnipotent ghost? Or do you finally get rid of the shackles of the pain and sorrow of life, and become a soul wandering alone in this world, but always pulled by another soul? Seeing this, I was hopelessly lost in deep confusion.
How to face the artistic image of the Phantom? There are always thousands of words when I mention a pen, but I feel that no matter what I write, it is too pale and powerless for the Phantom itself. Perhaps this is the unique charm of "The Phantom of the Opera". It has been a full 25 years since "The Phantom" was on the stage. Although it has been adapted several times in the past 25 years, the stage and curtain call, the applause and tears again and again, what has never changed is the kind of stubborn touch, touched by that paragraph. Heartbreakingly poignant love and radiant brilliance of humanity.

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The Phantom of the Opera quotes

  • The Phantom: Seal my fate tonight. I hate to have to cut the fun short, but the joke's wearing thin. Let the audience in. Let my opera BEGIN!

  • Raoul: [angryly] Why make her lie to you to save me?