I bought this film because its cover looks cult, and the synopsis made me mistake it for a rock version of theater ghost, plus the director's name (although I'm ashamed that I didn't know exactly what the director had at the time, so I checked it out It's only then that Scarface, one of the coolest movies of all time, appeared on his list 9 years after this one.) The plot of this kind of thing is not important, so I don't care about spillers, and briefly introduce the main characters. Phantom, a gifted musician who combines bad luck in the world, first out of ignorance and then out of ignorance and love, he was deceived twice by his hard work, and suffered physical torture, and then watched his beloved woman become intimate with a liar Lover; liar villain Swan, a legendary musician (the actor is the creator of the music in the film), has a superhuman charm that I can't see, the director said that he wanted to find Jagger or Bowie, but unfortunately they are not interested; the heroine, the goal is clear The singer and dancer, who at first seemed to have the integrity of being a showman, and then devoted himself to Swan; the other character who left a deep impression on me was Beef, (sarcastically) dressed in glam rock, basically a very c idiot with muscles male. The characters' portrayals are not meticulous and moving, and the image is unfortunately not able to capture my heart; it is said to be a love story, and it does not make me feel love at all; the music style is confusing (or rich), and the use of It's also confusing. Phantom used a song on the way to find Swan for the first time, which made me think that this song is used as an expression in various scenes like many musicals, not only in singing and dancing scenes, but in fact, it will be used in non-song and dance scenes later. There were no songs either; it also doesn't make sense to me that Phantom murders Beef for his lover, and that a traditional musical heroine can drive young audiences crazy more than Beef's on-stage mischief.
As a music cult film of the same era, I have to think of the Rocky Horror Picture Show, especially a scene performed by Beef, which is almost the same as the birth of Rocky. Of course Phantom came first (I don't know when Rocky's musical version started to perform, even if it was earlier, it probably hasn't affected the United States yet), if there is plagiarism, I can only say that Rocky plagiarized phantom, but from the movie From an overall point of view, rocky horror is really too much. Maybe I love at first sight & sound for the first song of the RHPS title, which makes my judgment compromised, but I really feel that RHPS has no shortcomings from the music to the costumes to the actors to the plot. I was almost excited from the beginning to the end. . And Phantom's musical style is not unified, the characters' characters are not unified, and I can't feel anything about moving people. These are beyond the scope of goof, and they belong to the problem that DePalma may not plan to write the script properly at all, although there are still some Funny scenes, like the bathroom murder scene.
In general, the movie disappointed me, but the interview and gossip of the special feature was more interesting. In addition to the aforementioned Jagger and Bowie, there are also lawsuits in the film. A singer's agent complained that the scene of Beef's killing was an insinuation of the singer, and KISS complained that they copied their stage image (for this, Director DePalma insisted that the film was shot in forward). In fact, there is another shot of Beef chewing on his own guitar, which reminds me of the famous photo of Bowie's grandpa, but I don't know if that was a popular trend at the time. As for the director and the leading actors explaining the cult phenomenon of the film, that is, after many years, they still meet passersby who are enthusiastic about it, so I won't say much. On the contrary, the costume designer interview back then felt more. This woman looked quite stupid (maybe I have no taste in fashion until I felt she made herself stupid), and also did an exclusive interview with family DV quality, alas, now I still feel silly when I think about it, but I believe she was the first time, 30 years ago, to get the opportunity to design all the costumes for such a lively musical. And I am really excited that these clothes are valued and used, good old time when we were young.
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