{"id":165,"date":"2005-07-03T17:47:57","date_gmt":"2005-07-03T20:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=165"},"modified":"2005-07-03T17:47:59","modified_gmt":"2005-07-03T20:47:59","slug":"phantom-of-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Phantom of the Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">W<\/span>e watched Joel Schumacher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0293508\/\">&#8220;Phantom of the Opera&#8221;<\/a> last night, a movie heavily inspired by the popular &#8216;Phantom of the Opera&#8217; stage musical from the hand of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thephantomoftheopera.com\/home.asp\">Andrew Lloyd Webber<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>It includes all the songs that were part of that musical too which keeps me thinking that this movie was made to <em>satisfy<\/em> the needs of all those Phantom of The Opera (the musical) fans. I mean, what&#8217;s the point of making these kind of these movies if you&#8217;d be able to watch them in your local theatre on stage?\n<\/p>\n<p>While it was enjoyable, at certain scenes it became <em>ad nauseam<\/em> because the music appears to be so repeative. There was only one section of music that woke me up and which I instantly recognized: the music of the Phantom&#8217;s own &#8216;Don Juan&#8217; (<a href=\".\/wp-content\/don_ju_an.mp3\">20+ sec. fragment<\/a>). Utterly brilliant, because it is <em>atonal<\/em>. Hey! More of this stuff please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We watched Joel Schumacher&#8217;s &#8220;Phantom of the Opera&#8221; last night, a movie heavily inspired by the popular &#8216;Phantom of the Opera&#8217; stage musical from the hand of Andrew Lloyd Webber. It includes all the songs that were part of that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=165\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}