To Yinfinity and Beyond!

I fell in love with Phantom of the Opera (POTO short by Ashley) several years ago listening to a friend's soundtrack with the London Original Cast. A whole musicial of the story is so much easier to remember. As I went to see the movie version last night it seem like I know the whole movie back and forth from the endless times I heard the soundtrack.

However, there are some very disappointing parts in the movie version.

The whole movie was muscial, but it does not develop some of the main charactors. I felt like they are kind of distant, that the viewer does not develop a relationship or rather a connection to identify with any of the characters in the movie. I expect this from action moive if you just want to see explosions and great choreography of fight scenes. But this is should be different! This was written before senseless teen movies and action movies. This was written with a touch from the core of sorrow and isolation of God!

The Phantom looked too good. He should be shape from the hands of Hate. Cloth in loneliness. His words are to be laced by Sorrow. He should look like the inner being of what is darkside of humanity, and in his eye you should see a small light of Hope.

Chistine was portray too well. She is everything that I dream of from the book I had read years ago. She is young and beautiful. At the same time naive; so easily sway by words and music of love and promises. Too caught in the heat of the moment to know what really matters.

Raoul in the moive seem like a charactor that just happen to be there. There is no development of this character what so ever! To me he just seem like a sport jock from high school wanting to date the current hottest girl in school. We see nothing great about him. He does not think, but act swiftly. We do not see any passion from him for love. Plus his singing sucks; sound very wussy. The Original Cast had a better tenor. And like Christine say "...he is rather useless..."