#the phantom of the opera 1998

[a-love-poet-at-heart]

Its been confirmed, the remains found on Saturday by random hikers on the mountian he disappeared on, were confirmed to be Sands'. He has been missing since mid January of this year

[forest-enchantress]

Asia Argento in The Phantom of the Opera

Here is a #254 gifs of Asia Argento in Il fantasma dell'opera. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

[esmiephan]

found this little dead boy last night, near to my car.

Is it Ratatouille's Remy? Is it Copia's future? Is it Dario Argento's psycho shit? We will never know.

[madreemeritus]

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Phantom Compass

[perioddramapolls]

Period dramas' dresses tournament: White dresses

Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Semifinals Finals

Winner: Lucrezia Borgia's dress, from The Borgias

Costume designer: Gabriella Pescucci

[marleneoftheopera]

Scott Davies, UK Tour.

[lilbit-of-kizzy]

So I just found the 25th anniversary phantom while I was looking for the original broadway version of Into the Woods DVD (no idea where that got to) and I never?? Watched it???? Somehow??????

Anyways I love the Phantom going HAM on the organ and Christine just 😴, then the music box starts to softly play and she like "ah oh God wtf 😱"

Also please just...can we go back to doing this with plays on their anniversaries?? Or the originals before the original actors leave the show? I'd love a professionally recorded Wicked or Anastasia! Please?

[golupvpolto]

I'm sorry

[rosie-love98]

Not gonna lie...this is how I'd see Snape ("Harry Potter" Films) and Nick Hobbes ("Weirdsister College") bonding as father-and-son for the first time:

Well...except for the ending...and that Hobbes has a much lower voice than Gustav...And Snape wouldn't have a disfigured face...Where was I going with this again?

[a-love-poet-at-heart]

THEY FOUND HUMAN REMAINS IN THE SAME AREA WHERE JULIAN SANDS DISAPPEARED IN JANUARY

[forest-enchantress]

Asia Argento in The Phantom of the Opera

Here is a #254 gifs of Asia Argento in Il fantasma dell'opera. All of these gifs were made by me from scratch, so do not redistribute or claim them as your own. If using, please give this a like and reblog!

[bestmusicalworldcup]

These options DO NOT reflect my personal opinions! I have simply seen people complain about these.

[esqueletosgays]

THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA / IL FANTASMA DELL'OPERA (1998)

Director: Dario Argento Cinematography: Ronnie Taylor

[rosalie-starfall]

Miranda Richardson

Blackadder - 1986

Sleepy Hollow - 1999

Merlin - 1998

Dance With a Stanger - 1985

Good Omens (Season One) - 2019

The Crying Game - 1992

Snow White: The Fairest of Them All - 2001

Good Omens (Season Two) - 2023

Enchanted April - 1991

Damage - 1992

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire - 2005

Phantom of the Opera - 2004

[night-unfurls-its-splendour]

Sitting down to watch Dario Argento's Il Fantasma dell'Opéra (1998) starring Julian Sands for the first time.

Also in case anyone who sees this didn't know, Julian, our beloved rat man, is currently missing. He (an experienced mountaineer) went missing during a hike on Mount Baldy in California two weeks ago, so please let's pray for him and his family.

Anyway, PSA's aside, let's get into what i know is going to be an incredibly bizarre trip.

I watched Inferno right before this. Dario Argento loves rats, huh?

This Opera house is gorgeous.

Oh good she covered her tits

Whoa, intense. Right off the bat.

I feel like this Phantom, more than any other, really earns his Parisisn Sewer Man status

The blood in this is much better than in Suspiria. I was worried it would be oil paint again

Oh Raoul's only a Baron here. Dario downgraded him.

Dubbing still sucks though. Nice to know some things never change

Love how no matter what incarnation, Carlotta always has some obsequious weirdo following her around

This gore is amazing. That thumb? 🤌🏻

Oh he is suphhhhherbly creepy I love it

Feral Grunge Phantom is feral

"Oh you like my smell? Well do you want my scarf? Go ahead take it. Yeah, you can masturbate with that if you want"

This is insane, but I love it

This is where my sister tapped out

Asia Argento is really Christine Daaé's Edgy Thot era

Oh this is our Raoul? Ew. Gross. Give me rat man, please

Oof. Friend. Zoned.

Something tells me things are not gonna end well for these nosy Opera house employees

I'M NOT A PHANTOM, I'M A RAT. Iconic.

Oh he's so homicidal. Impaling!

Baby girl (not Christine) you are going to be murdered just deal with it.

Okay I enjoy gratuitous murder, but this whole sequence is totally superfluous

Love the ballet girls running into Christine's dressing room a la the first chapter of the book with the girls running to Sorelli.

Actually Asia Argento is kind of exactly how I imagined La Sorelli.... she's just got that kind of face. You know, whore face. Hence Du Barry.

Oh this rooftop is very pretty. And very fake looking.

I can't even describe to you what I just saw.

Okay her lip-synching is prrretty terrible

Raoul's brother looks like Mephistopheles

This bathhouse scene... choices were made

Well I'll say this, I think this is the only version I've seen that really captures Raoul's emotional instability

Rat man gets points for his woodchipper policy on child predators.

Dario really decided to run with the whole rat catcher thing... again, choices were made

Not into the fact that Ratrik doesn't row her across the lake himself. That's vakuable eye-fucking real estate wasted

What's that noise? Oh nothing, just the Phantom of the Opera pounding his organ

Yes! Finally! A version of this damn story where they actually get to fuck!

Those are silk sheets. Even Rat Phantom has drip

AND he's telling her his back story himself! This would be more poignant if he had the deformity, but I'll let it slide

Oh my gosh, I know this still ends tragically, but actually seeing a Phantom get to hold Christine naked in bed, in afterglow is so incredibly healing to me.

Also all of these boudoir shots are incredibly pretty

Oh, is the maid the costume designer from Opera? I thought I recognized her.

Love how all of the costumes in Carlotta's dressing room are obviously too small for her

Okay Dario, you needed to dial this back just a little

I would like a gif of shirtless Julian sands sledgehammering that support pillar

This is of course one of the biggest versions for inflating the casualties in the chandelier crash

Oh I like that they actually had Gounod conducting! That's a book pull!

See, now I'm very annoyed that I have to take back some of the points he earned killing that child predator for this very rapey behavior. Pick a lane, Dario!

I could edit this into a decent version

"She's the Phantom's whore!" You betcha

Girl, will you make up your mind?

Kinda feel bad for Raoul here, he's gotta be terribly confused

This is kind of dumb, he should have just gotten into the boat with them

Supremely glad he got to kill the rat-catcher

I do love the music in this movie though. Really beautiful. Oh. Ennio Morricone. That explains it.

Ok all in all conceptually I prefer this version to, say the Charles Dance one.

But Dario just had to put his toe over the line just a few too many times, didn't he? We could have done without the boob-threat scene with Carlotta and the bizarre steam-punk rat-catching machine, and the rapey-ness obviously and I'd have called it good. As it is... we'll call it passable.

Watch it for the boudoir scene and the superbly handled gore if for nothing else.