You should have told me you didn't have this version and were looking for it. I would have sent you my VHS tape and let you keep it. :D
Jane Seymour was one of my favorite actresses when I was growing up, and I always thought she would have been wonderful in the role of Christine. Imagine how excited I was when I read the Complete Phantom of the Opera by George Perry and discovered she actually WAS Christine at some point. Unfortunately, whoever wrote and directed this horrible adaption of le phantom had absolutely no idea what to do with her.
First of all, whose genius idea was it to give her an American accent? Everyone else in this movie is using some variety of British or faux!Hungarian accents... did they just decide that having an English actress using an English accent was too obvious? (I tell you, if there was a way to insert Jane Seymour from Somewhere in Time into this movie instead, I would work the technology in a heartbeat.)
You've mentioned hair, which is rather significant. Not just because Jane's using her throwback looks from the Scarlett Pimpernel, but more because Michael York's body is 100% hairless. Maybe the filmmakers felt that they'd just balance each other out during their "love" scenes.
I personally hated the random Leroux thrown in, just because I felt like it was teasing the nipples without any sort of a payoff. You said it yourself... the only similarity in this movie with the original story is it's title. I mean, their were moments when the phansy here was actually quite terrifying. Couldn't you have done MORE with that? I mean, GEEZ! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
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Jane Seymour was one of my favorite actresses when I was growing up, and I always thought she would have been wonderful in the role of Christine. Imagine how excited I was when I read the Complete Phantom of the Opera by George Perry and discovered she actually WAS Christine at some point. Unfortunately, whoever wrote and directed this horrible adaption of le phantom had absolutely no idea what to do with her.
First of all, whose genius idea was it to give her an American accent? Everyone else in this movie is using some variety of British or faux!Hungarian accents... did they just decide that having an English actress using an English accent was too obvious? (I tell you, if there was a way to insert Jane Seymour from Somewhere in Time into this movie instead, I would work the technology in a heartbeat.)
You've mentioned hair, which is rather significant. Not just because Jane's using her throwback looks from the Scarlett Pimpernel, but more because Michael York's body is 100% hairless. Maybe the filmmakers felt that they'd just balance each other out during their "love" scenes.
I personally hated the random Leroux thrown in, just because I felt like it was teasing the nipples without any sort of a payoff. You said it yourself... the only similarity in this movie with the original story is it's title. I mean, their were moments when the phansy here was actually quite terrifying. Couldn't you have done MORE with that? I mean, GEEZ! YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
AMEN!