Why? Because Schumacher was Andrew Lloyd Webber's first choice and attached him to the project.in 1989. You could argue that his best movie was A Time To Kill, which paled in comparison to the original novel.īut interestingly enough, his work on Batman and A Time To Kill actually didn't play a role in determining if Schumacher was right for Phantom. He's basically a non action movie version of Michael Bay.
His movies always feel empty on character while full on style. But taking that out of the equation, I still never thought he was a master filmmaker. Look, as a Batman fan, I'll never forgive or forget what Schumacher did to the franchise.never. Why not cast him as the Phantom?!?!?! Blerg. What I don't understand is that if they were going to cast unknowns, why not get unknowns who fit the roles and could sing them? To make matters worse, Ramin Karimloo, who is arguably the best actor to ever play Phantom on Broadway, was cast as Christine's songless-father in the movie. She was 16 when they starting filming, Christine Daae is in her 20's in the novel. This girl is supposed to be a diamond in the rough and her voice doesn't really make us believe that. While Rossum certainly could sing, her voice still sounded too small and underwhelming for Christine. The fact that no one is ever going to believe her about the level of diva currently happening to her is the greatest tragedy of her life.Rossum was also unknown at the time, but unlike Butler, she actually had previous vocal training as a member of the Metropolitan Opera Children's Chorus. She needs to live-tweet this on Le Twitre right now. She is sitting in a boat surrounded by magically rising-from-the-lake candles while a broody man in a theatrical mask swirls his cape at her and somehow there’s also a horse. She’s not going to laugh at him because clearly that would be a bad idea and probably hurtful, but her entire brain is just running a mental loop of “Is he kidding? Oh my god, he’s not kidding,” and she hasn’t even seen the literal mannequin of herself yet.
This is one of my favorite gifs of all time because while I realize Emmy Rossum was going for mystified wonder at this strange new world she’s in, it mostly just looks like she’s thinking to herself, “Oh my god, I cannot believe the level of extra of this man.” This is a woman who’s about to go back upstairs and start a conversation with Meg with the sentence, “You have got to hear about my day and we need two entire bottles of wine before I even start.” This is a woman who is legitimately suffering from the lack of someone to exchange a significant glance with right now.
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