the phantom of the opera:presentation（改）
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The Phantom of the Opera
Presented by Lawrence from Business Administration Department
A story about Love
The Angel of the music &
The Devil of the freedom of love
Form: DVD Length:143 mins
2004
Screenwriter
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux
Original Composer
The Lord Lloyd-Webber
Movie Director
Joel Schumacher
Christine—Emmy Rossum
The Phantom—Patrick Wilson
Laur—Gerard Butler
Main Actors
The Background of the Film
Opera de Garnier （中文：巴黎歌劇院）
Details
Characters
Plot
About the Characters
Christine
Phantom of the Opera
Laur
Opera manager
Christine’s closest friend
Calota
Others
Beautiful & Talented
Actress >> Singer
Loved by two men
Kind & Weak
Full of hope >> Confuse her own self
Christine
Phantom of the Opera
Genius
Scary appearance
Abused + Madness in love >> Kill people
Mysterious & Appealing
Like a red rose
Laur
Noble man
Art-lover
Handsome & Brave
Full of Passion
Admire >> Love Christine
Calota
Great singer
Arrogant & Impatient
Hated by “the Ghost”
Pressured >> Quit
POOR Character
Christine’s Closest Friend
Kind
Protective
Adviser of Christine
A bridge between Christine and Laur
Ignorant
POOR Character
Opera Manager
High control in the opera
A tool of “the Ghost”
Know his place clearly
Don’t like to change
POOR Character
Others
Such as: the two new managers, the ballet teacher, the killed background worker, the dancers and actors……NOT IMPORTANT!!!
The most important:
Christine, The Phantom, Laur
About the Plot
This is all about……
Formal love story
Brightness V.S. Darkness
Justice V.S. Evil
Story about Phantom & Christine
Phantom have advantage in the love with Christine
Phantom still control the opera from behind
Story about Laur & Christine
Laur wins Christine heart
Phantom can’t control the situation anymore >> violence
Scene One Scene Two
Christine
Phantom Laur
Relationship
Admire
Love
Love
Love
Hate Compete
KillFight
Like
Admire
Hate
Admire
ScaredTolerate
Behind the movie 1
Monkey music box
White mask
Red rose
Symbols
Monkey Music Box
Monkey Music Box symbolized the faded memories of the splendid era.
Why monkey? Circus = Prosper
Trying to imply: the world of classical music is disappearing. (the tune is kind of little sad)
Represents the Past.
White Mask
Half: The Phantom still remain some humanity in his heart. (ex. love, music)
White: ghost like, also represent that the Phantom’s life is only black and white, only until the moment Christine ripped off his mask.
Hiding behind the mask, hiding away from brightness.
Red Rose
Phantom is the red rose.
He is fairly attractive but dangerous at the same time.
Also, when it comes to love, he has a fragile heart, just like a rose.
At the end, red rose represents a love throughout years.
Red rose is the symbol of love, and at the cover, I think the director is already telling the message that this opera is all about love.
Behind the Movie 2
Sex
Rationality? or Sensibility?
Issues
Sex
Fighting for sex domination
Laura was locked outside the door after he went out to prepare the carriage.
Then Phantom brought Christine down into the opera tunnel.
They rode a horse together later.
At last, when Phantom sang ‘sing for me!’ or ‘Sing! My Angel!’, the rising high notes Christine sang and the luxurious lights rushing out from under the water.
It is like when a woman comes to sexual climax…
Fighting for sex domination
Symbols of Sex?!
At first, Laur locked outside the door is like a fight for sex between Phantom and Laur.
Later on, there are symbols of sex, such as: key and the hole, wet cave, riding a horse together……
At last, Christine’s high-key singing.
Sexual Issue
Men have more control on women, such as the Phantom can easily decide where Christine to go.
Christine and Calota’s career are arranged by the Phantom, can’t be easily change or disaster will happen.
To balance the unfairness, the composer make the Phantom a tragedy ending.
Rationality V.S. Sensibility
Rationality—Laur
Normal person
Perfect conditions
Stable Life
Mainstream life
Sensibility—Phantom
Questioned future but exciting
Bad appearance
Out of the normal society
Talented in composing
Mysterious but full of fantasy
Throughout the story, Christine struggled between the Phantom and Laur. It is like a
person’s rationality fighting against sensibility. Sometimes, rationality has advantage,
sometimes sensibility does.
the result is…….
To this opera,
Realistic society ultimately oppresses people to make decisions rationally
instead of being sensible.
譯：社會壓⼒力迫使⼈人們理性思考，夢想、︑理想⽣生活等感性的想法敵不過現實。︒
My Adaption
The Phantom of the Opera
Sydney Opera HouseVenue
Informations
Location: Sydney, Australia
Designer: Jørn Utzon
History: 1957~now
2007 became World Heritage
Why?
Beautiful Scene
Away from the bustle city
Claim to have the world's largest mechanical wood-bar organ
The world largest mechanical wood-bar organ
Containing 10,500 pipes
About my changes
To make the play more attracting and modern
Focus on the versus between rationality and sensibility
Change Details
Length: shorten to 120 mins
The first scene
Scene: 2 >> 3 (for each scene about 40 mins)
Target audience: Teenagers and Adults
Add in more exciting technologies
Length
143 mins >> 120 mins
Too long + Too loud music + Sprinkle Lights = Dizzy + Exhaust
The left 23 mins will be arrange into rest time during changing scenes.
Scenes
2 >> 3
shorten every period of the scene, although disrupting, audience may have more rest
Scene One
Mainly about the meeting of the Phantom and Christine
Make sure every character’s personalities
Full of dreams and exciting things
Show how wonderful of living a sensible life
The first scenery
I will turn the audition scenery at the initiate of the play into a chair only on the stage. The background is old and dusty. The piano is on the stage, too. Old Laur then will be sitting there, with the music box in his hands.
He will open the music box, and as the pure music flowing at the box, the whole stage starts to turn a circle, and mists spreads out.
The background decorations graduately turns into colorful and luxurious from darkness. It is a renewing process.
In a sudden, all lights on, music in, flame blast out from somewhere, the Phantom’s shadow flows through the decorations behind Laur who is young again after the mist disappear.
The big crystal lamp gets in the center of the stage at the same time.
Why?
We don’t know the connection of old Laur and the story later on showed at first sight
Give a hint of the Phantom
Decorate a circumstance of fantasy
Other Addings
Christine will first fall in love with the Phantom
Laura will be pursuing her, but she refuse to accept him because of his background—noble.
Christine is like going after her dream in singing.
Scene Two
Mainly about parades and Christine’s success in career with the help of the Phantom
Situation starts to getting out of control, the phantom is almost winning Christine’s promise in marriage, yet he failed when Christine found out him too arrogant and demands more success by harming people.
Christine found herself leaving the realistic world further and further and want to get close to Laur’s life.
More fights between the Phantom and Laur (ex. Laura hired a detecter to find and capture Phantom, yet he was killed by the Phantom.)
Christine once can’t stand anymore and try to commit suicide—rescued by Calato)
Why?
To focus on the issue, exaggerating the style of circumstance Christine is in is important.
To fix the problem that too many critical plots happened in the same scene and unclear style of the scene.
Christine must struggle more and suffer more.
Calota can be more then a competitor of hers.
Scene Three
The Phantom loss his control of the opera, and his trust with Christine
Revenges ( drag Christine away, furious fight with Laur)
Destroy his own house and vanish forever
Why?
I want rationality win over sensibility. Yet it is not decided by Christine. Christine must meet frustrations in her contact with friends and at last scared away and struggle to escape from the Phantom.
The destruction of his home presents that all the dreams were gone when the pressure of being different push on.
At Last
Old Laura will be sitting on the chair again just like the first scene.
Later on, an old man slowly approaches him from the dusty piano.
Old Laur didn’t turn to see him, as the man put a rose along his feet and took away the music box.
In a sudden, the rose burns itself, after the strange old man left, old Laura sat on the chair and burns to death.
Only leaving a white mask on the floor……
Target Audience
Internet rise >> Opera sink
Love Exciting and Different
Taste of love issue
Ease in adapting innovative ideas
About the other staffs
The customs are great, and so is the music.
Only the setting of the stage I prefer to change.
Maybe there needs new songs for the appearance of the detector and his death.
The place where Phantom lives needs real water, so I think the stage need to set special tunnel for water to flow in.
THE END
Wish You a Nice Day~