Mistress
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One Very Smart CatAccording to Wikipedia, ALW had the whole score for Phantom of Manhattan on his keyboard but his cat jumped on it and pressed a button which ended up deleting everything. I don't know if it's true, but if it is...that was one smart cat.
That being said, I must say that I actually enjoyed the novel, in a guilty pleasure sort of way. Yes, the guy ripped off Leroux's wrighting style, yes his use of Masquerade was questionable to say the least (unless you look at it as it was done in the film-it was more of a performance-within-a-aperformance in that case, what the with conductor directing the chorus folk and all), and yes, that bit about Raoul getting his testicles shot off was in rather poor taste what with all the pansy jokes about him and all, but in the end, the fangirl in me took over and I actually thoroughly enjoyed the novel.
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musical_maven
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I thought the novel was decent material. i had a hard time picturing it as a broadway musical, it seemed to fit more as a movie. The ending was very sad though, I almost cried. 
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jackissensational
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God bless that cat! 
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Toasterphantom
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Otto was the cat's name. It is correct. And I don't know how Webber could be dim enough not to have a back up copy of something of that size. I say it's a sign that he shouldn't do it.
And I find it entirely too suspicious that the kitten met it's maker a mere week after deleting Webber's entire score. But perhaps it's just me.
But Otto is my theatre hero. There are several things that annoy me about POM. One, Forsyth spends entirely too much time saying how much better his version of phantom is than Leroux's. Then Mme. Giry dies all alone.
Erik survives for like a 2 mile swim in the hudson in the middle of winter. Now it's the first day of spring. It's about say 40 degrees. I could walk seven blocks east of here and put my hand in the hudson today. I would not survive a half a mile, let alone 2 miles. Then there was the gutting fish, magical island of deformed people, the clown costumes, mammon, darius, Raoul can't speak english until magically he can in the final chapter, the fair, the wrestling, the fear of fire, and Erik living in NYC.
*takes a deep breath* Sorry about that. -twitch- I suppose the book bothered me a bit. I think it would make a terrible movie. And if he writes a sequel, it will ruin the indefinate captivating ending of his stage musical. It would make people less captured by the plot, because you'd know what happened to him, what stupid things happened to him. And people would come less. And then the stage musical would die and be taken off broadway! And then an angry mob will be formed by thousands of phans to kick Forsythe and Webber off the planet.
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Mistress
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| Toasterphantom wrote: | Otto was the cat's name. It is correct. And I don't know how Webber could be dim enough not to have a back up copy of something of that size. I say it's a sign that he shouldn't do it.
And I find it entirely too suspicious that the kitten met it's maker a mere week after deleting Webber's entire score. But perhaps it's just me.
But Otto is my theatre hero. There are several things that annoy me about POM. One, Forsyth spends entirely too much time saying how much better his version of phantom is than Leroux's. Then Mme. Giry dies all alone.
Erik survives for like a 2 mile swim in the hudson in the middle of winter. Now it's the first day of spring. It's about say 40 degrees. I could walk seven blocks east of here and put my hand in the hudson today. I would not survive a half a mile, let alone 2 miles. Then there was the gutting fish, magical island of deformed people, the clown costumes, mammon, darius, Raoul can't speak english until magically he can in the final chapter, the fair, the wrestling, the fear of fire, and Erik living in NYC.
*takes a deep breath* Sorry about that. -twitch- I suppose the book bothered me a bit. I think it would make a terrible movie. And if he writes a sequel, it will ruin the indefinate captivating ending of his stage musical. It would make people less captured by the plot, because you'd know what happened to him, what stupid things happened to him. And people would come less. And then the stage musical would die and be taken off broadway! And then an angry mob will be formed by thousands of phans to kick Forsythe and Webber off the planet. |
For all that ranting, you still forgot to mention the part about poor Raoul getting his testicles shot off...or am I the only one who finds it a little ridiculous and altogether very amusing?
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Toasterphantom
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I find it rediculous more than amusing. I didn't forget, I just bit back. I could go on and stretch the page for miles.
Like the rediculous money worshipping, and for all Erik's genius and murder skills, he gets beaten within an inch of his life by a couple common place street thugs? And resorts to carrying a gun with him all the time?
And what about this? Hmm? Based off Webber's stage show. How did he light all those candles or live with them if he had a fear of the tiniest flame? Hmm? Like the cigarette lighter? He was not happy with it. 30,000 candles ought to have made him wet himself.
See? This is what I attempt to prevent. *takes a few deep breaths and laughs nervously*
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