yuppp! lots of other things. he’s really just… super opportunistic, at the expense of his own work? and his treatment of the Leroux family is really probably the #1 reason I dislike him. he won’t pay them ANY royalties because the de mattos translation is in public domain, and has gone as far as insulting Leroux’s novel despite it being the source that basically helped him make his fortune. and he HAS an enormous fortune, paying some royalties to the Leroux estate would not force him to give up anything, really. last I knew, the Leroux family really disliked him, and that’s why for a long time, Phantom wasn’t performed in France. the source material was still protected over there. I have NO idea what agreement happened to allow the ill-fated Mogador show to be allowed, and if anyone does know, I would be interested. I don’t have time right now to talk about all of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s shitty things, so I’ll tag this and feel free to reblog with why YOU, personally, hate Andrew Lloyd Webber!
Not that i don’t love the musical, but how the Hell did Andrew Lloyd Webber read a gothic horror novel about the struggles of a girl being stalked and make it into a romance
He is a white man that is kind of their thing…….. (this is one of my favorite musicals tho)
Oh yeah, I saw that when it was posted, but since I’d just come home after 12 hours of helping my sister move and graduate, I just went LOL and didn’t bother to respond. And I still won’t, at least not to the post personally. (Post in question is here, because heck no I’m not vague posting about it.)
I also thought a lot of the beginning was fairly accurate. For example, their description of Raoul as being the “white knight” who appeals to Christine’s childhood memories are kind of the point of his character… though on the other hand, the poster is so fixated on the Phantom being the sexual, passionate force that they seem to forget that the Phantom first appeared to Christine, and was appealing to her, because he pretended to be an Angel of Music, aka a being Christine was told stories about by her father. In her childhood. (I feel like this often seems forgotten – both the Phantom and Raoul were initially attractive to Christine because they were both reminders of her happier childhood days.)
The idea that Christine having to choose between a safer, more socially acceptable love and one that is more passionate but also more dangerous is also a running theme of the musical and original book. (Though it always seems to get left out that part of the reason why the Phantom is socially unacceptable is because he’s a frigging stalker, kidnapper, and murderer.) And I can buy that Christine reciprocates the Phantom’s ardor in ‘Point of No Return’, though as rjdaae points out, that argument is flawed because it’s not Christine saying it, it’s Christine as Aminta acting out a part in an opera. And despite the author’s stance that they want Christine to grow and express herself, they do miss that they are using words written for her by her stalker to make their point.
Leroux!Erik: writes Don Juan Triumphant as a metaphor for all of the torment and suffering hes endured through out his life for him to take alone to his grave
Alw!Erik: writes Don Juan Triumphant as a ploy to touch Christine’s boob in front of everyone
cosette and christine could save the world together but raoul and marius would just get lost in a cellar or sewer somewhere
And then sing sad songs about how their lady loves were maybe never real in the first place and cruel fate has led them to lose their damn fool selves underground.
Elsewhere in the sewers, a frustrated Javert and Daroga are angrily chasing Valjean and Erik-two criminals oppressed by society
LND coulda been good if meg and christine reconnected and realized that the men in their lives are garbage and that they should run away together and the plot became just a good old fashioned lesbian romcom where NO ONE DIES
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