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Re:Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
yeah,the beginning of the novel is really dull ,lol...it's true.and i think Webber's really a great guy,i mean i like the whole music from beginning till the end too...sooo beatiful..i love it soo much!and some of the scenes in the movie are soo magnifacant!very nice~
and you 're really helpful to me!Thanx a LOT!!!hee hee...i feel better now.^_^
the problem is that,i dont even know the names of the songs...i only heard them in the movie...i dont know their names...how should i search?
maybe i should just serch the name of the movie and then to see if i can find some lyrics related?
wow...i hope you 'll help me when i find those lines ,heehee!
im just back home from school,and im going tomorrow..i think i'll be back home this weekend..then i'll do some webserch then*_*
THANK YOU A LOT!!!
Peace
Selva
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ricogurl
April 6, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
Yes, it is sad and haunting and beautiful. It was a while ago I read the novel, and I remember enjoying reading it very much. But I don't remember what was in the beginning at all. I imagine it may have been rather dull. That would sure explain why I don't remember.
Yes, I remember looking at the trailer for the movie and being delighted to see that the music was based on ALW's score. He is brilliant and I loved the entire musical from beginning to end, which is really something to say. Most musicals, there are at least one or two songs that you just want to skip when you come to them. Not in Phantom of the Opera. It totally rocks.
Don't feel too bad about missing lines here and there. Maybe English being a second language for you has something to do with it, but don't count on it. We native speakers always have parts we can't figure out. We often make things up that sound right and aren't. I put a post about these misheard song lyrics, called "Mondegreens" over in the Slang/Expressions board. I hope people find it fun to read.
Anyway, if you are inclined to do some web searching, you'll have no trouble finding the lyrics to the songs. I find that it works better to look for a unique line from the song, rather than searching for the song title. That way, you're more likely to find more actual copies of the lyrics and fewer sites that simply talk about the song without telling you what the words are. So instead of searching for "Prima Donna", for example, I search for, "Prima Donna first lady of the stage," to make sure it pulls up actual lyrics.
Let me know if I can still be helpful to you in understanding the music once you know what the words actaully are. That's something I like to think I could actually do a better job of than the Internet. :-)
Zhu ni hen gaoxingde kanyinyue!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera selva
yup.it's soo haunting,eerie a story..romantic too.i havent watched the opera so..im not sure how it is(i bet it's good!!!)...i read the novel at first...the beginning of the book is a little boring (i have to say lol)...but when i end reading it..i cried...totally moved...that phantom could have been something if he had a even normal face...im sooo sorry for him..and his love...
talking about the music...totally cool!i mean in the movie...i think it's still Webber's...so beautiful...i do love what they sing in it...!melodious...beautiful...just one thing...heehee...sometimes i dont know what they sing...lol..my english is not that good enough lol...it's said that "that rare movie musical that is as good as it is on stage,hauntingly beautiful"...what do you think about the movie?i like it...hee hee
Peace
Selva
This is a reply to message # 48863
Language pair: Chinese, Mandarin; English
Category: Films/Movies
Post date: April 4, 2005
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Mark S.
April 5, 2005
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Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
yup.it's soo haunting,eerie a story..romantic too.i havent watched the opera so..im not sure how it is(i bet it's good!!!)...i read the novel at first...the beginning of the book is a little boring (i have to say lol)...but when i end reading it..i cried...totally moved...that phantom could have been something if he had a even normal face...im sooo sorry for him..and his love...
talking about the music...totally cool!i mean in the movie...i think it's still Webber's...so beautiful...i do love what they sing in it...!melodious...beautiful...just one thing...heehee...sometimes i dont know what they sing...lol..my english is not that good enough lol...it's said that "that rare movie musical that is as good as it is on stage,hauntingly beautiful"...what do you think about the movie?i like it...hee hee
Peace
Selva
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ricogurl
April 4, 2005
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Re:Phantom of the Opera
I agree completely. It's a haunting, eerie story, and my favorite version so far was the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical. I could listen to that sound track for months on end.
Bravi! Bravi! Bravissimo!
I haven't seen the movie yet. I really hope they do it justice. Let me know what you think, selva!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA
Phantom of the Opera selva
Im soo excited about this moving coming out!and soo happy it got a lot awards..im from China,hehe..i love phantom of the opera...it's like one of my fav love stories in this world...the music..the story...the actors n actress.all great....hope that someone would love it too...it's really a great movie!the novel is better though lol...
PEACE
SELVA
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Mark S.
April 3, 2005
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Phantom of the Opera
Im soo excited about this moving coming out!and soo happy it got a lot awards..im from China,hehe..i love phantom of the opera...it's like one of my fav love stories in this world...the music..the story...the actors n actress.all great....hope that someone would love it too...it's really a great movie!the novel is better though lol...
PEACE
SELVA
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ricogurl
April 2, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Kill Bill
Layla Kill Bill 033005
Not everyone is aware that Kill Bill is based on Chinese Pulp Fiction, and that it is intended to be satirical, as Matthew seems to be hinting. It is very campy, very melodramatic, and when you watch it from this point of view, it is very funny.
It kind of reminds me of Shakespeare's most unpopular play, Titus Andronicus. It was written at a time when a new theatrical Genre called "revenge tragedy" was very popular, good examples of which could be found in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedie.
If you look at, for example, The Spanish Tragedie and Titus Andronicus side-by-side, it appears that Andronicus is trying to one-up The Spanish Tragedie at every turn. Whenever there's a murder in the one, there's a double murder in the second. If a woman's tongue is cut out in the one, she loses her tongue and her hands in the other. When you consider that Shakespeare's Globe Theater didn't have the kind of special effects technology that we take for granted today, but that actors would unfurl, for example, a roll of red ribbon to simulate bleeding from a stabbing wound, it's easy to imagine that Titus Andronicus may have been intended to be very light, tongue-in-cheek, very satirical. Nothing at all like Julie Taymore's very dark, bitter Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins.
Of course, Kill Bill doesn't use rolls of red ribbon any more than Julie Taymore does, but if you look at the special effects in the movie and how they are done, you may find something of the tongue-in-cheek (joking with a straight face) in Kill Bill as well. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much from that perspective, and in fact, I enjoyed it far more than I did Kill Bill 2, which I felt was just okay, and really didn't live up to the promise the first movie had set up for us.
The other thing that you should know about my feelings about martial arts movies is that I'm a big fan of dancing, and the old films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, Gene Kelly, and the big musicals with the huge production numbers. Martial arts, to me, is a very special kind of dance, and I really enjoy seeing how actors learn to use their bodies in these movies. I was particularly impressed with Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu on that count.
Layla, if you decide to see the movie, let us know what you think!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Mark S.
March 30, 2005
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Re:New Police Story
Thanks for the tip, Josh,
My girlfriend and I are big Jackie Chan fans. He's really funny and slick, and his martial arts practice is as graceful artful as ballet, even when he's being clownish.
We'll keep our eye out for the New Police Story.
Best,
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Mark S.
March 11, 2005
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to sonia gomez
well,we can help each other.i happen to be an indian with quite good command over english and i know german too though have never got a chance to practise it.i will be only too happy to tell you about our culture and movies.what kind of movies do you like by the way?
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barun m.
March 11, 2005
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has anyone seen the notebook?
well,this movie is soo romantic..(the notebook)i know it may be the same old stuff as many people would think..but it's really romantic,and i cried ...i wonder if there is something like that in the real world...so beautiful..if you like it too...tell me please
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ricogurl
March 10, 2005
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Re:True
This is interesting:
I was curious enough to check this out on the International Movie Database (IMDB), and I found out that there is a 2004 movie called "True" and a 2005 Movie called "Paris Je t'aime" Both feature Natalie Portman, but they sure don't seem to be the same movie. There are also other movies by both names. Jennifer, can you make any rough guess about when the movie was made? Does 2000 make more sense than 1965?
Mark Springer,
Sacramento, CA USA
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Mark S.
February 20, 2005
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