Saturday, January 22, 2005

Masquerade!

Hide your face so the world will never find you.

Beware the Opera Ghost will always be able to find you. Perhaps, even to your grave. However, more recently it seems that this ghost is haunting the movies (not theatre). And manages to revive the full glory of the siver screen at the same time, quite literally too, and then bring it to life with vivid and fiery memories of the detailed threatre, that could put you into a trance.

Nonetheless, Phantom of the Opera has been an amazing film that I happen to thouroghly enjoy. There is detail and imagination that is very fitting to the story and the original music is just as powerful and proves to be timeless. There is a special thanks from the music that goes to all the voices. All of the musical talents choosen for the Phantom were well placed and executed, almost flawlessly. Even the artistic inturpretations that was taken to make this phantom came to life was woven into the story very well.

From an artistic view, the openning scene lifted me up into high expectations as the organ surrounded the theater and the silver screen came to life. And I was not dissapointed to the extremely high detail, and the celebration of the "Masquerade."

And what a masquerade.