Tuesday, November 6, 2012

My Research Paper/ Mon Papier de Recherche




So, for my senior research paper in high school, I decided to write a paper on "Masks in Literature" and centered, of course, on the Phantom of the Opera. I have been meaning to post it for quite some time but I totally forgot about it until recently. When I remembered I could post my Love Never Dies review as well, I finally remembered my paper. So sooner or later, I will be posting my entire research paper which you have the option or reading or not as it is quite lengthy.

Donc, pour mon travail de recherche au lycée, j'ai décidé d'écrire un papier de recherche sur "Les masques dans la littérature" et c’est centré, bien sûr, autour le Fantôme de l'Opéra. J'ai eu l'intention de le publier pendant un certain temps, mais j'ai totalement oublié jusqu'à récemment. Lorsque je me suis souvenu que je pouvais poster mon avis de Love Never Dies, je me suis finalement souvenu de mon papier. Donc, tôt ou tard, je vais poster mon travail de recherche complet qui vous avez l'option de lire… ou pas car il est assez long.

A pre-post to the posting of my upcoming review, Love Never Dies./ Un Pre-post pour mon avis sur Love Never Dies


It's been quite some time since I last posted a review of phantom related material (the last being a complete synopsis of the novel, OK, so maybe more of a book report...there are spoiler alerts if you haven't read it yet! One of these days I will type it out and get rid of the scan, promise!) Anyway, a recent assignment in my composition class required me to write a review on a product/film of my choice and naturally, I chose to write about Love Never Dies. As opposed to seeing Webber's sequel as something to be shunned and despised, though I admit it didn't hold up to his original work, (nothing ever really does, at least, not for most people) I decided to look at it through an insightful lens. Perhaps Webber wanted to make the Phantom story even more personal than he did in his original musical afterall, he didn't write the novel. I couldn't begin to cite the reasons why he chose to create a sequel (and the NPR interview wasn't too helpful) however I do know that any work holds a piece of the author within no matter what so it would be foolish of me to reject it. It is in my best interest to at least examine Webber's new work which, I must confess, I enjoyed very much (and now it has a place on my iPod playlist! Speaking of this, they should really do an Australian Cast Recording!!)

Je ne traduis pas la plupart de mes postes car j’ai pas temps, mais je vais faire cette fois ci car j’ai rien d’autre à faire (quelque chose qui est vraiment rare).Ça fait longtemps dont j’ai écrit ma première évaluation du matériel autour du fantôme (le dernier fois était un résumé complet du roman, il y a beaucoups information dedans qui peuvent ruine votre expérience littéraire si vous n'avez pas encore lu ! un de ces jours je vais tapé sure l’ordis, promis!). Quoi qu'il en soit, un devoir récente dans ma classe de composition m'a obligé à écrire un avis sur un produit / film de mon choix et, naturellement, j'ai choisi d'écrire un avis sur Love Never Dies. Au lieu de voir cette suite comme quelque chose qui doit être évité, j'ai décidé de le regarder avec une opinion ouvert. Peut-être Webber a voulu rendre l'histoire du Phantom encore plus personnelle avec cette suite car il n'a pas écrit le roman. Je ne pouvais pas commencer à citer les raisons pour lesquelles il a choisi de créer une suite (et l'entretien NPR n'était pas trop utile) mais je sais que tout travail tient un morceau de l'auteur dedans donc sa serait insensé de moi de le rejeter. Il est dans mon intérêt de moins, examiner ce nouvelle travaille de Webber qui, je dois l'avouer, j'ai beaucoup apprécié (et ce qui est maintenant sur ma liste de lecture sur mon iPod! En parlant de cela, ils devraient vraiment faire un Cast Recording australien!)



Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Requiem Mask (from Deviant Art ) by Iron-Gibbet

Click below to read the phantom of the opera comic written by deviantart's iron-gibbet group. I've read the whole thing so far, it's interesting:





OR (I know, tough life decisions and too many choices)
Actually, the link below leads you straight to the comic page viewer whatchamadoodle and the picture above leads you to the overall website. Your choice!)


Click on this link below:
http://justsitback.deviantart.com/?rssQuery=gallery%3Airon%2Dgibbet%2F3112684&s=8%2C3%2C0

Sunday, April 1, 2012

I just learned this today...

         In the 2004 movie "The Phantom of the Opera" with director Joel Schummacher, Emmy Rossum was 16 years old when she auditioned for the part of Christine Daee and she was 17 while filming the movie. In other words, she's 17 years old in the movie!!! She's such an amazing singer! Patrick Wilson, the guy who played Raoul was 31. Anyway, I was in shock when I learned of Emmy Rossum's age, it never occurred to me!! I thought this should be shared with other Phans!!



Random Fact: She's the niece of Vera Wang by marriage.

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Watercolors by Laurearien

This is a really cool water color portrait of the Phantom's "Red Death" costume painted by Deviant arts Laurearien. The following pictures are also by her.

Chrisitine's costume from "The Point of No Return"

La Carlotta's costume.

These are really awesome paintings!! :)