I have always loved the music, and this is a great movie adaptation! Gerard Butler doesn’t have the most amazing voice, but he certainly isn’t the disaster of Russel Crowe in Les Mis. I grew up listening to the soundtrack from the Broadway play and saw this movie shortly after it was released. I usually assume that older books will take a bit to become accustomed to the older writing style, but this one was an easy read. It is also written in a simple, direct way. It therefore has a lot of chapters that end in cliffhangers. This is a quick read and was originally published as a serial. So, it is sort of based in some truth, but the story of Christine and the details of the Phantoms past and all that is made up. While there really was a tragedy of the chandelier falling leading to some people dying, as well as rumors of a ghost, plus the underground of the opera house being full of tunnels and having a river. This book is also written as if from the perspective of an investigator or journalist who is trying to uncover the truth of what happened at the Paris Opera years prior. I was surprised as I read, how dark the book is and how disturbed the Phantom was. I didn’t know until recently that Phantom was a book! I knew there were older movies, but the only adaptation I was familiar with was the musical. The Phantom of the Opera directed by Joel Schumacher (2004) original musical written by Andrew Lloyd Weber in 1986 Book review The Phantom of the Opera directed by Rupert Julian (1925) The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux (1909)
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