The Phantom of the Opera
Genre - Musical
Release Year - 2004
Director - Joel Schumaucher
Producer - Andrew Lloyd Webber
Studio - Warner Brothers Studio
Principal Actors - Gerald Butler, Emmy Rossum.
The reason why this film easily fits into the genre of Musical is that there are many scenes of purely singing, even scenes where singing would seem out of place in reality, there is singing. There is even plays within this movie, albeit only short parts of plays are shown, not the entire one. The purpose of why this is my favorite movie is that I view the phantom somehow in a way like me, like a man who is intelligent but is shunned by the world due to his true appearance, the reason why he wears a mask. But also I enjoy how the phantom in the end no longer wears his mask, shattering the mirrors of his underground lair, showing how he no longer cares how the world views him anymore.
Moulin Rouge!
Genre - Musical
Release Year - 2001
Director - Baz Luhramann
Producer - Baz Luhramann, Craig Pearce
Studio - 20th Century Fox
Principal Actors - Ewan McGregor, Nicole Kidman, John Leguizamo, Jim Broadbent, Richard Roxburgh
The Moulin Rouge, if you have seen it, is easily considered a musical. The amount of singing of music, especially music from modern times, is amazing. There are even some songs that contain parts of many songs, like the Elephant Love Medley. I love how the music is very helpful in foreshadowing and moving the story along, with songs like Nature Boy easily giving a brief overview of the main character. I easily enjoy this movie, but I also enjoy it for it tells the story of a love that although is tempted to be broken apart by jealousy, manages to stay together. What I consider it in my way, that nothing can stop something if you want it so much.
However, although I enjoy musicals, that doesn't mean that all my favorite movies are musicals.
Othello
Genre - Drama
Release Year - 1995
Director - Oliver Parker
Producer - David Barron
Studio Company - Columbia Pictures, Castle Rock Entertainment
Principal Actors - Laurence Fishburne, Kenneth Branagh
Othello is a drama for it focuses on the rise and fall of the character's title character, Othello. It is based on the play by Shakespeare, so it also has that for the good purpose of why it is a Drama, the Drama of a person's life as he rises and falls and with the woman he loves seemingly, although falsely, betray him, until his death, in tragic ways. I personally love this story, especially the main villain, Iago, with his constant cleverness always plotting the eventually downfall of Othello, while maintaining the false sense of friendship between Othello and Iago. How can I relate to it, it is not easy, but I relate to it as how at times I feel trapped by so much information that it can be difficult to tell what is true and frustrating, gladly I haven't killed anyone.
Othello is a drama for it focuses on the rise and fall of the character's title character, Othello. It is based on the play by Shakespeare, so it also has that for the good purpose of why it is a Drama, the Drama of a person's life as he rises and falls and with the woman he loves seemingly, although falsely, betray him, until his death, in tragic ways. I personally love this story, especially the main villain, Iago, with his constant cleverness always plotting the eventually downfall of Othello, while maintaining the false sense of friendship between Othello and Iago. How can I relate to it, it is not easy, but I relate to it as how at times I feel trapped by so much information that it can be difficult to tell what is true and frustrating, gladly I haven't killed anyone.
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