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| kimliesl |
OH MY GODI will never be able to sleep again.http://www.victorygo.pe.kr/you/music/class_mov/the_phantom_of_the_opera.wmv |
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| GlamorousGriz |
Okay, that was disturbing... | ||||
| dramatic_mizfit |
Is that like an official music video? Beacuse I've heard that version of the song before. It's on one of the "Best of ALW" albums I have. | ||||
| !the-phantom! |
ok.......... | ||||
| what_the_heck013 |
It's not bad... I think my friend has the same cd dramatic_mizfit has. The Phantom's voice is'nt very good, though. I definately like these lyrics better. Okay, none of the singing is good, but the lyrics are better and it sums up the whole movie. | ||||
| GlamorousGriz |
The singing isn't good? It's Sarah Brightman...
Then again I actually like SB as Christine... I don't like her in much else, but I like her in Phantom. |
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| !the-phantom! |
I HATE SARAH BRIGHTMAN!!!!!!!
I HATE HER |
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| Force_Ten |
Ya thats pretty terrible. I can't believe it was a #1 hit in England back in 1985 or something. 
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| Cazzy Mcsnazzy |
Yeah that is truely bad. Who is the phantom? Ive just realised the strange likeness between Sarah Brightman and Jennifer Rush!
Oh god the harmonys! It just gets worse, electric guitar! What are they doing!? |
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| Moci |
Steve Harley. He was originally intended to play the Phantom and recorded some demos of several songs as well as doing some preliminary work on the role with Hal Prince. However, it was eventually decided that he wasn't suitable and the role, as everybody knows went to Michael Crawford. Supposedly, Mr. Harley was quite bitter about it. |
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| RainbowJude |
That video...I haven't seen the music video for this version of the song in ages! But I do have a copy of it on my ALW Gold CD. I think the lyrics become a little repetitive and that they wouldn't have suited the narrative if they had been used in the stage version.I must say I quite enjoy la Sarah's vocal on that track. "Amigos Para Sempre" is also on that CD and she sounds good there too. I saw her live in concert in the last 1990s and I had an absolute blast! Later days David |
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| EFXF |
I think Steve Harley plays both the Phantom & Raoul in that video... | ||||
| GlamorousGriz |
Agreed, "Amigos" is a great song and she's great on that. | ||||
| VictorVonDoom |
That's great (put in the proper perspective).
Anyone know where you could find: Music of the Night Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again All I Ask of You Thanks |
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| (Evan) |
I actually quite like that video. First saw it on the Premeire Collection Encore videotape when I was really young. Yeah it's corny..but it's really cool too.
Evan |
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| AngMisto8182 |
Oh it's the Sarah Brightman/Steve Harley recording of it? The link wasn't working for me. My computer is idiotic.
That version is in my ALW box set on the "Hits" CD, it always cracks me up. I haven't seen the video for it, though..... *sigh* It sounds amusing. |
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| musicalfan |
hahaha!! it's freakishly amusing. do you guys have any idea where other ALW promo videos can be downloaded online? | ||||
| aktor28 |
Haha! That was great. I think the singing was pretty good, but I wasn't too fond of the costumes or sets. Who ever directed that video wasn't very good, in my opinion. | ||||
| AngMisto8182 |
Oh yeah... I saw bits and pieces of it when I was watching the special features on my Phantom DVD.... wow. Sarah Brightman looked... interesting, and that guy in the audience that I guess was "representing" Raoul or whatever... wow. His hair was just about the funniest thing I have ever seen. My excuse for those people? You can't blame them, it was the 80s... 
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| musicalfan |
hahaha. im with you on that one. |
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| Quique |
Promo Videos..........That's nothing, my friends!Just you wait, the whole lot of ya! 
Nothing, and I say NOTHING is more painful to watch, than the promo video for "All I Ask of You," the version also found on the Premiere Collection album. Like in the song, the video also stars Sarah Brightman and I forget who the dude is, but just know it is so corny and cheesy, it's barf-inspiring, haha! Not all of Lloyd Webber's promo videos are bad though (Thank God!). One of my favorites is the one done for "Anything But Lonely," which also demonstrates Brightman's vocal abilities outside her trademark soprano style. I think she sounds prettier when she belts and sings in anything but soprano. The one for "Amigos Para Siempre" is also nicely produced. The song was written as a theme for the Olympics I believe or some similar sporting event and the video shows cuts of Jose Carerras with Sarah Brightman in an ancient arena setting and images of historic sporting highlights. Also, Brightman looks very different and seems to have adopted a very "Spanish" look, inspired I guess, by the song's Latin sound. Though that all changes mid-way through, as she appears wearing a mini skirt and resembles a naughty porn starlet, LOL! And yes, she sounds great in that song as she belts most of it and pronounces the title correctly, as she rolls those "R's" divinely, hehehe. There's a pretty good one starring Michael Ball, for Aspects of Love's "Love Changes Everything," though Ball's performance is a bit too cheery n' cheesy at times, considering the passionate subject matter. The one for "Music of the Night," starring Brightman and Crawford is the best one, in my opinion. It's the way all promo videos for stage musicals should be done.....on stage! It's basically what you see on stage at the Majestic or her Majesty's Theatres, only the lighting is brightened for film, there seems to be an excess of smoke, and Brightman's severly cheese-ridden performance is quite amusing to say the least, given the fact she doesn't speak or sing a word. |
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| AngMisto8182 |
Re: Promo Videos..........
That one is rather amusing as well.... I had my friend over to watch Phantom of the Opera on Monday, and we went through a few of the special features... they showed a clip of that, and it had this really close-up kind of shot on Sarah Brightman, and my friend was like "Oh my God, she looks dead!" I guess it was one of those had-to-be-there kind of things, but it was funny. But yeah, that one is better than some of the others.... |
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| Evan Grubbs |
Steve Harley is my favorite Phantom besides Paul Stanley.
He's got a much more powerful voice than Crawford (whom I hate) and doesn't scoop up to notes like every other Phantom I know. Sarah Brightman is the best I've ever heard her in that video. The acting is great in a really corny 80's way. I love it. Steve plays Raul and Phantom and his movements with the cape are priceless. If I could have had that hair, I would. |
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| musicalfan |
Re: Promo Videos..........
the guy in the video is cliff richard. |
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| The Very Angry Woman |
Re: Promo Videos..........
Not to mention the woman playing Rose in that video, who looks like she stole her dress from a very tall Annie. Has no one mentioned the awful vogue-ridden "First Man You Remember" yet?! |
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| Lady Jemima |
Yeah, I saw that on the DVD extras. Isn't that Raoul a bit creepy with the gap between the teeth? *shudders* | ||||
| Fantine |
Those extra's on the movie DVD are indeed ever so scary. But a great example of great 80ies acting 
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| RainbowJude |
Not a filling filmic meal
Well, I thought that many parts of the film were as painful to watch! 
Later days David Musical Pick of the Day: Zorba by John Kander and Fred Ebb. |
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| Alonza0 |
I thought it was quite funny. I watched the video that goes with the CD, the Premier one, and I thought the whole thing was a riot. The Phantom's voice hurts my ears, but it's drowned out by my laughing. Too bad that didn't happen with Gerard Butler's voice... Anyway, I wish they had made the other songs when they made this promotional video, but unfortunatly they didn't. | ||||
| operafantomet |
Re: Not a filling filmic meal
My thought exactly.... On a side note, Schumacher has really picked up some inspiration from the "Phantom of the Opera" music video (the one with Steve Harley). I guess that's only natural, since the scrips was written in the late 80's/early 90's, and very little has changed. But the Opera House postcard in the beginning... Christine's dressing room and the mirror scene in particular... The rockish Phantom... I see some strong similarities there. The MOTN one could have been very nice if they had moderated the stage makeup and been aware that the camera was VERY close. Brightman looks.... scary, to say the least. And Crawford isn't at his most charming either. BUT... I love the fact that it's actually filmed at Her Majesty's Theatre, with the stage costumes and sets. |
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| Megan the Phantom Girlie |
My teacher actually bought me an old postcard from the Paris Opéra when I was in tenth grade, and now everytime I see the movie I smile warmly and think of it. | ||||
| urbanangel416 |
lol this video.
sarah brightman's okay, but steve harley has the most annoying voice, IMO i can feel my throat close when i hear him sing i like the MOTN one, despite the whole dead sarah/breast rub thing that MC had going on there at the end. the WYWSHA is okay too |
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| jcstar |
Steve Harley is a great Phantom (next to Stanley, who is #1).
This video is great. Deliciously over-the-top. Which is the way PHANTOM should be done. Ken Russel (The Who's Tommy, 1975) directed it. He's known as a "psychopathic Father Christmas" according to the late John Entwistle. I really wish Russel had made the film. That would have been awesome! I would have watched it everyday. But, I watched this video 27 times. Andy. |
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| delinquent |
All of those promos are on the Phantom DVD. One thing I found interesting, but it's probably disturbing that I noticed this (and probably no one else did): the issue with Christine's father's name LOL. In the video for Wishing it is "Charles", and in the film it's "Gustave". You get a brief glimpse at both, on either a headstone or a memorial page: but no one actually, including Christine, mentions the name. Plus the father in the promo-vid looks the father in the movie.
The promos are a crack-up. I haven't laughed that hard in ages. Who was the mullet in the Phantom video? The concept of the title song reminded me of a Jim Steinman song. He was supposed to write the lyrics for the Phantom, but was called away on a Bonnie Tyler album (and imagine if he hadn't. Imagine what Phantom would have been like )
Crawford, in Music of the Night, reminds me of Jack Nicholson's Joker. His movements, everything... that's how I want the Joker to be in Batman the Musical. Also, I felt that Crawford's performance here was worth the price of the DVD alone. I would have done anything to have seen him in the movie, and preferably in the early 90s when the part would have worked for him. Such a pity it never worked out this way. None of the people in the movie, even Carlotta, do it for me. It just feels very slack and mediocre But that's my two cents... |
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| operafantomet |
And what about that postcard in the beginning of the POTO music video compared to the postcard in the beginning of the movie? Someone has glanced more than once towards these old videos..... |
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| Pianoforte |
OH MY EYES....!!!!!!!! MY EYES...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Piano |
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| Brother Marvin Hinten, S. |
Wow...this was better than the movie, but with bad talent. | ||||
| SimplyElymas |
I think my soul hurts, just a little bit.
I've watched this video several times over the years, and a little more of me dies every time. |
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| Etcetera Kitten |
I think the main problem is their acting. I think it looks pretty superficial.
I usually hang at the Cats musical forum, so sorry if I don't know much about PoTO, but speaking of different song versions, I suppose most of you have already heard Nightwish's song for The Phantom. It's amazing! Tarja Turunen's voice is just so beautiful! Nightwish is my favourite band ever, and that's the first verse I heard of the song, so of course I like it a lot. What about you all? |