Phantom Of The Opera Comparison

The Phantom of the Opera

To understand the entirety of a concept one must see it from all angles and visions to learn to appreciate the beauty it portrays. I believe this entirely especially when it comes to arts specifically theater. Not only was theater introduced to me very early on in my younger years I had a burning desire to pursue it and understand its complicities. The Phantom of the Opera both in the Broadway musical of 2011 and the movie filmed in 2004 are in my opinion the most profound performances theater has ever scene. The Phantom of the Opera in both performances are of similar stories but they have differences when referring to delivery of scenes and transitions, also throughout both performances different tones or moods are

The film has more transitions from past to present giving more background or history into the origin of the mysterious phantom but at the same time a sense of closer. Towards the end of the film you can start to see the true ending of this epic complicated love the phantom has for Christine and it gives a resolution that love never dies. That is achieved through symbolism which is of most importance in The Phantom of the Opera itself because that’s the way that the message of love never dies is symbolized through one red rose with a black satin bow tied around the rose. The last scene in the film her husband who played Christine’s lover Raoul played by Patrick Wilson earlier in the play which showed their relationship and how they met, many years later as an old man comes to visit his recently deceased wife Christine and sees the red rose with black satin bow at the head or her tomb stone. That scene embodied the message of a never dying love because even though he lived in a dark dismal “dungeon of darkness where night is never ending” as the phantom describes and the opera house where he grew up in shame he still remembers to visit his angel of music Christine even after her death. The tone in the film is very dark and gothic the phantom is pictured in black suit and slick comb back black hair with the white mask. This film does portray the phantom more

The Phantom of the Opera is the classic telling of the story of a beast or a broken man who feel in love for a women who he could never have because of his own obstacles and deficiencies. But never the less it shows that love is eternal in all senses if you find the person that can “make your song take flight”. In both compositions there were differences in transitions, symbolism and delivery of scenes with opposite moods or tones that may have left things to imagination. The Phantom of the Opera Musical and Film payed great homage to the classic gothic love novel it all started from and brought to life the words written into beautiful musical compositions that set forth a standard for the