After watching a few episodes of The Phantom of the Opera 25th Anniversary Edition again, I found some small easter eggs.
Christine's favorite thing since she was a child is hearing the singing of the musical angel when she falls asleep. Does it mean that the Phantom and Christine are actually "childhood sweethearts", and they are not inferior to the Viscount, but he has never been able to show his face. Maybe Mr. Daye and Phantom had known each other for a long time, knew his background, and let him secretly protect and help Christine after his death?
The Viscount comes to the dressing room to find Christine and invite her to dinner. The Phantom growled angrily, calling the Viscount a "arrogant and stupid" suitor, "how can I share the fruits of my victory". He has always regarded Christine as his proud work. No wonder some people on NetEase Cloud Music said that this is "the story of a ghost and an uncle raising a loli". You can also link to some of the plots of "The Tale of Genji" and "Idiot's Love". When the Phantom turned to Kristin and asked her to be obedient, the singing suddenly became gentle and thick.
Christine saw the Phantom for the first time and sang "He's there, the phantom of the opera" several times. At this time, she stared at the Phantom in a state of infinite eagerness, ecstasy, surprise and intoxication. Aside from her singing, this look is enough to make the Phantom fall in love with her!
The scene where the Phantom drags Christine, who is wearing a white dress, into the underground labyrinth is like a painting. The former was dressed in a black robe that shimmered with light, and she held a lamp to light it roughly and hastily. The girl in the white dress behind her was pure and weak, as if in a dream, as if possessed by a demon, as if she was in a semi-consciousness. Weak footsteps were dragged forward by the devil. This kind of phantom is too cult, and I feel pity for such Christine.
One of the lyrics she sang was "I want to turn around and leave, but I still look back at you", and at the end of the underground labyrinth and the phantom parting, she did sing "Say you will share with me One love, one lifetime" , looking back at the Phantom while sad and affectionate.
In "Movement of the Night", Phantom sings to feel the music, mobilize the senses and imagination, but his singing is so soulful, Christine also fell in love with him in the singing. She lay in his arms, and the phantom took a breath at that moment, trembling slightly. But when she wanted to get closer to him and see his true face, the Phantom grabbed her wrist roughly, pushed her away, turned her song, and closed herself again, arrogantly singing you must obey me. When Christine was in a coma, the Phantom caught her in the arms of the princess, and then at a loss, she didn't know where to go, as if thinking: Why did I hug her like this? !
His father, Mr. Daye, once loved or controlled Christine. He said that after his death, there will be a musical angel to guide her. Christine is indeed respectful and afraid of this angel, thinking that her will is weak and needs the guidance of the angel and her father. While at the cemetery, Christine prayed to her father to let her forget the past, stop living in shadows and ghosts of fear, and start taking control of her own destiny.
The Viscount's love for Christine is based on acquaintance as a child, and also has an admiration for her beautiful singing voice when she grows up, but it is undeniable that she also has the same protective desire as the hero Dragon Quest saves the princess. It's just that similar to stories like "He is a Dragon", there is also a deep bond between the princess and the dragon. Love triangle is the most eloquent for human beings~
The Phantom wrote and handed it over to the theater for the rehearsal of "The Triumph of Don Juan". He had long planned to impersonate Don Juan himself and play against Christine on stage. It can be seen that he has always been extremely confident in his talent, even narcissistic, which can be seen from his self-proclaimed music angel teaching Christine. But he could only be by her side in a ghostly way, and there was nothing more tragic than that.
Christine plays the ignorant teen who sleeps with others as honey on the tip of her tongue, while the Phantom kills Piangie backstage and sings with her as a masked Don Juan. They sing "No need to think more, give up pointless resistance" and "Take this road of no return, cross this final boundary" is both Don Juan's seduction to the girl and the Phantom's seduction to Christine, although she is not yet Know. His hands trembling when he touches Christine, Christine avoids the excessive touch of "Pianji", leaving the audience to wonder if she finds it a very clever fake orgasm. When Christine grabbed "Don Juan"'s hand, the Phantom was even more excited and nervous. Then she suddenly came across the phantom mask through the black robe (thanks to the careful netizens at station B) before she started to panic, "The bridge has been crossed, and looking back to see it burned down", both the phantom and Christine strongly emphasized that the bridge is crossed Stand in so Stand and watch it burn, the phantom is to let Christine stay, and Christine is to tell the phantom to stop. This lyric full of desperate beauty of destruction is Phantom's long-cherished wish, but it heralds his farewell to the world he loves.
(The next sentence is "We've pass the point Of no return." It also hints at the fate of the Phantom and Kristin, mainly the former who still appeared under the siege of the police. Kristin sang the turn first and opened it After wearing the Phantom's black robe, the plot suddenly changed. The Phantom was exposed on the stage. He panicked, said "don't" softly and shook his head (thanks to the careful netizens at station B).
One of the effects of the drama in the play is to suggest clues to the protagonist's emotional destiny, including the Viscount's love for Christine, Christine's "pretend" to be a teenager, and the "victory" of his own musical temptation expected by the Phantom.
But the real Phantom can't come on stage without disguise and come to Christine's side. His underground labyrinth was on the other side of the lake, and the black lake was filled with layers of mist. In Eastern and Western mythology, the underworld or hell also seems to be on the other side of the Styx. The Styx is difficult to cross, and even a feather will sink. In the story, there is only the phantom boat. The other shore is the place of death and silence, and the place where life is reincarnated. Phantom lives in the world like sinking into hell, but "secretly" yearns for beauty and light.
In the end, the phantom took Christine to the underground labyrinth, made her his bride, and used the Viscount's life to persecute her. Phantom should not know how to love people. He will only possess, dominate, and use intimidation and threats to achieve his goals, and even murderous violence, probably because others have treated him like this before. He expects Christine to be desperate and miserable so that he can reap a little bit of the thrill of being in power out of his twisted, morbid love. But Kristin was stronger than he thought, and she held the Phantom's arms and said I was not afraid of your face, which immediately shocked and overwhelmed the Phantom, her fingers tense and restless. Then she saw that the Viscount was in danger, and she tore off the veil and said bitterly, "My tears of sympathy for you have turned into hatred, you have deceived me, false friend, everything is disillusioned. At this time, the phantom was even more shocked. He didn't expect Christine to resist. Maybe he saw another possibility from her courage that was different from sinking into the dark all the way.
And when he issued an ultimatum, forcing Christine to make a choice, the latter's anger, pleading, pain and other emotions were purified into holy mercy. She burst into tears at the unimaginable pitiful encounter with the Phantom, kissing and hugging him twice. Phantom opened his eyes wide in surprise, tears in his eyes. This is probably the first time in his life that he has been treated warmly and kindly. So it's not hard to imagine him letting go of the pair.
He yelled at the fleeing Christine and the Viscount again and again: "Go! Leave me!! Don't tell anybody the secret of... the Angel of the Hell" (to the effect) How desperate he must be, More than ten years ago, I longed for beauty and sang softly in Christine's dream. Now I have to completely shut myself off and admit that I am not a musical angel, but a beast roaring in the depths of hell. Perhaps Christine's kiss of mercy, for the first time, made him repent of the sins he had committed. In the wailing, only the singing little monkey's music box was gently opened, and the melody wafting out of the music box was also the "Masquerade Ball", which was quite fateful and tragic for the Phantom: "Put on a mask, and the world will not find me." He blindfolded the monkey. It seems that even the monkeys can't bear to see or hear...
Kristin came back and returned the ring to make up for the knife (Weber, you bad old man woohoo), and the Phantom smiled helplessly and said to her that I love you. Kristin burst into tears, kissing the Phantom's hand as deeply as she kissed the hand of her lover and godfather. Kristin went up the stairs and looked back, and the phantom nodded slightly at her (thanks to the careful netizens at station B), agreeing to encourage and support her departure, as if saying "let's go, let's go, don't worry about me, I'm fine", his There was no fear and madness in his expression and eyes, but soft sadness. She looked back at the Phantom when she sang "Say you will share with me One love, one lifetime", the Viscount sang "Say the word, and I will follow you", the Phantom whispered "I love you" while following, and knelt down There kiss the veil left by Christine.
The Phantom said that only you can give wings to my singing, and Christine said the same. They resonate spiritually.
Before disappearing, the phantom said, "It's over now, the music of night." The movement of the night is now over, which not only means that the wonderful music that he has given to his soul will no longer be available, but also that after Christine, there will be no more music in the world. The Song of the Nightless. It also makes people faintly feel that the ancient, dark, mysterious, but magical Muse song has ended. Ugly figures escape from darkness, psychedelic events are driven out of reality, clarity replaces obscurity, reason prevails over sensibility, madness and misfortune disappear, only judgment, order, money, joyful audience. The Phantom has indeed made a bloody revenge, but when he disappears and the reality is disenchanted, people always feel some loss from the myth. Perhaps a legendary man like the Phantom faded from the world with his terror and tragic fate, and there is no more powerful controlling force, just as people suddenly came out of the heavy religion, just freed and followed. The trivial sense of powerlessness that comes with it. Although we are on the surface weeping for this strange love tragedy.
Some people take modern love ethics to look at Phantom's selfishness and desire for control, as well as his morbidity and distortion, and think that if you want to choose, Viscount is the ideal marriage partner. If this perception can be helpful in real life, all the better. But I think The Phantom of the Opera may also have the meaning of exploring the nature of art (music, drama) (think of Aristotle), which seems to be a metaphor for the loss of genius theory, and may also contain similar feelings to Notre Dame de Paris, that is, Ugly appearance meets kind heart, it can also be what Christianity calls redemption, or an older myth.
At the end of the curtain, the Phantom's mask was found by Christine's ballerina, and there was a blush on the pale mask's cheeks. Perhaps the Phantom felt a touch of human warmth? Maybe he was destined to pay for the bloody disaster he created? I haven't read the original book, but according to the prompt at the beginning of The Phantom of the Opera, it seems that the Phantom has dropped a large chandelier and killed many people. In short, the Phantom does not know where he lives at this time, and the audience will never know. The girl holding the mask is like Horatio holding Hamlet's body. She will spread this ancient and mysterious legend with her mother who knows part of the truth.
The scene that moved me very much was seeing the curtain call of the 25th anniversary performance of The Phantom of the Opera at station B. When the Phantom's actor Ramin Karimloo (Ramen) took the curtain call, the audience burst into endless applause, cheers and salute whistles, and I suddenly burst into tears. Today, I finally gained respect and love! ! The 6 Phantoms have all come, and the first Phantom is so excited that his lips are trembling. 5 Phantoms sang The Phantom of the Opera around the first Kristin Sarah Brightman, I think JOJ's voice and ramen are so gentle~
I originally wanted to write it seriously, but now I can't help it and want to write, but I can't stand it and I have to get up early tomorrow... Let's do this first, please forgive me for any inaccuracies and mistakes~
(As a result, I failed to get up the next day, and I added a little more in the afternoon. I was so happy to touch it. How can the Amway given to us by Mr. Bai, who talks about the basics of literary creation, are so hard-core... I can't get out of Liao... Okay, go and write the conference newsletter ?
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