kae
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The SequelI had to post this topic because it's been driving me nuts. For those who put themself through the misery of reading Phantom of Manhattan - I was one of those. I can't believe the man placed Erik in a clown suit just so that he could move around in daylight. It's like the ultimate forum of disrespect to his character. I can't get passed that, OR the fact that he worshipped a god of gold. Those had better not be in this Coney Dog with chili sequel.
.......Erik on the midway selling cotton candy and coneys to children.....
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Mistress
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I don't think he LITERALLY worshippped gold, or a god of gold. It was just a figure of speech-he meant that he devoted himself completely to the pursuit of making money and becoming rich.
I actually liked the book (guilty pleasure XD), but I did have one problem. Raoul got his testicles shot off  ...I mean how much more can you devalue the poor man, he's already become a fop in most fangirls' eyes. Honeslty. he WAS a respectable, heroic gentleman charcater... poor Raoul...oh well, I still love you *hugs*
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Yakko
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| Mistress wrote: | I don't think he LITERALLY worshippped gold, or a god of gold. It was just a figure of speech-he meant that he devoted himself completely to the pursuit of making money and becoming rich.
I actually liked the book (guilty pleasure XD), but I did have one problem. Raoul got his testicles shot off ...I mean how much more can you devalue the poor man, he's already become a fop in most fangirls' eyes. Honeslty. he WAS a respectable, heroic gentleman charcater... poor Raoul...oh well, I still love you *hugs* |
His balls are shot off?! That's the best thing to ever happen to Raoul since his death in the Robert Englund version!
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Mistress
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See?! that's what I mean! Everyone hates Raoul now...he's supposed to be the romantic hero, not the annoying fop (*coughMichaelYorkcough*)
...That whole plot thread was used as a way of making certain the suspicion that Piere was the Phantom's child and not Raoul's. Raoul was supoosed have gotten his balls shot off years ago, before he re-met Christine, as a young man while saving Madame Giry from a thief. It works, butit also just amkes the chacater seem even more pathetic than he already appeared, although he did come off as noble since he raised Pierre as his own wihtout complaint.
Anyway, have you seen the latest Phantom Review? It's the POTO game this time (Phantom Lover is the next up, than the Argento film XD)
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Pastiche
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[quote="Yakko"] | Mistress wrote: | | I don't think he LITERALLY worshippped gold, or a god of gold. It was just a figure of speech-he meant that he devoted himself completely to the pursuit of making money and becoming rich. |
Perhaps, but his servant, Darius, is literally a worshiper of Mammon, and when Father Joe is praying to God about Erik, the Lord tells him," He is the servant of Mammon, the god of greed and gold."
Pretty close.
About Raoul, I've never either hated him or loved him. I just found him so much less interesting than the Phantom that I didn't care much one way or the other.
It is, however, just a cheap plot device making him impotent so that Christine's son can be Erik's and an even worse one making him a drunk so that the Phantom has an excuse for getting back in Christine's life.
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Mistress
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Actually, I think that the drunk thing actually has the potential to do some good for Raoul's character. It can lessen the fop image, make him more human, more angsty-but in a good way. The idea that there was something powerful enough in his life to drive him to alcohol is good character development, if they use it. Otherwise, it can be completely stupid an inane, making his charcater even more unlikable and shallow than previously percieved.
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