 Thanks for checking out this movie review. Sorry my voice just cracked there Let's dig into Phantom of the Paradise and yes, this is actually my very first time seeing the film even though it is from 1974 I believe And this film came out two years before the film Carrie And I'm saying that because this is a Brian de Palma film and he also did Carrie Carrie is where I think he started really gaining a lot of attention. Although I know Phantom of the Paradise At least nowadays is very fondly thought of. I don't know if it was actually successful back then One of the other things to note on this There's a character named Phoenix in the film and her her real-life name is Jessica Harper and while I was watching I was just like She looks so familiar. She looks so familiar and then I looked it up on internet movie database and I was like That's what it is. She's Susie Banyan in Suspiria. Yes, the Dario Argento original 70s Suspiria, which is a very nice film and is actually in my collection somewhere over sorry here further over here But anyway, yeah, let's talk about this currently Phantom of the Paradise is streaming on the Shutter streaming service, which you know a lot of the movies I'm going to be doing reviews for are on Shutter because I'm digging Shutter and they have a lot a very good selection there This is a no spoiler review, but it's basically an adaptation of Phantom of the Opera So if you know the Phantom of the Opera story, which I'm sure a lot of people do because it's been around for a very very long time Then you basically know this film, but this film kind of takes that formula and just kind of like Messes with it a whole lot makes it a lot crazier updates. It makes it basically a rock opera Yeah, and it's nuts. This is a balls to the wall film Brian De Palma went all out the whole thing is basically a satire of kind of the music industry and kind of Kind of a party excess and music excesses and just the excesses of the 70s I'm kind of making fun of that and you really see that in the film But it blends so well with the formula of the Phantom of the Opera So like I was saying if you know Phantom of the Opera, you will definitely see the parallels in this film to Phantom of the Opera I haven't seen any Phantom of the Opera movies but I've actually gone to a live performance of the musical Phantom of the Opera and It's good. It's a great story and the musicals amazing because obviously they put a lot of production into it and this film Phantom of the Paradise is A lot of production into that as well. It's a very Good-looking film one of the big things for me is the camera work is Unbelievable in this film like that's one of the things that really keeps you interested in this It just looks so cool and the camera work. It's doing like a lot of interesting things It's taking a lot of interesting angles on characters like the guy who is the Phantom of the Paradise Played by William Finley who does a pretty good job because a lot of his acting He had to mainly do facially under a mask and in order to get emotions through a mask Which you know, it's obviously not like fully fully covered his face But it's also very it's still very hard though, and he did a really good job with that But yeah, where was I going on that? I'm sorry. I had the side tangent on that, but yeah So Phantom of the Paradise. Oh, yeah the camera work like they had some really interesting perspective shots on his face when he was doing his facial acting with the mask on and It's just like stuff like that to just kept me so interested because that the camera work isn't It's not formulaic. It's not Your typical camera work with films although it did remind me a little bit in the style In the way the directing was the way the acting was in the way the camera work was especially Reminding me a bit of a clockwork orange, which is a awesome film if you've not seen clockwork orange from the time From time from the same time period a very good film starring Malcolm McDowell. Love that film So yeah, it reminded me a little bit of that for some reason but it's It's nuts though like I'm watching the film and I'm just like this is over the top But it makes me wonder what people thought about it back in the 70s when it was released Like if I'm looking at it right now and thinking man, this is really crazy and over the top Did people back in the 70s think it was even more crazy and over the top? Because crazy over the top wasn't in its heyday back in the 70s. I don't think as far as film goes We've seen a lot of things over the decades You know being into film and you know, I know if you're a horror fan You know watching this right now, you know what I'm talking about I'm sure you've seen a lot of horror films and there's a lot of nutty crazy stuff But it didn't all originate in the 70s and before that so I would just wonder what people's response was to this film when it came out Because it's out there man. It's a nutty rock opera that at times. It's just like a gigantic party Especially at the end. It's like this crazy blowout So I have my notes on here. You want to make sure I hit everything I just kind of take notes as I'm going through So yeah, I just said it's very stylish. It looks very stylish. It looks very polished. The directing is Outstanding a lot of the acting is really good too And I do have to say one of the things that really carries this film in my opinion is the performance of Paul Williams The guy who plays the main villain by the name of Swan. He is a weird-looking dude He's a wacky dude. He plays his part oddly But he's also creepy and his voice his voice is this mixture of like kind of like a little raspy a little sinister a Little bit high-pitched. It's just really weird and just like his presence He's a great villain and I feel like the way he goes around and he's kind of like very brooding and all of his scenes are So good Chloe Sorry my cat. She did not like the film and she's voicing her opinion right now Yeah, so just like his brooding moments like every every single scene with Paul Williams in it I feel like he steals the show because he's this very cold Calculated weird quirky brooding Creepy dude, and he just permeates everything Everything and I think it's interesting because you have him on that side And then you have William Finley's character of the phantom Phantom of the paradise on the other side and they're both like wacky characters who are over the top and they are Doing crazy acting in different ways and when they're like juxtaposed in the same Scene it is nuts So you're just kind of like looking over here and you're like, oh my god, that's nuts. Oh my god That's nuts, but it plays really well Chloe seriously Sorry about that Man, she's trying to sing she's heard the she heard these songs Phantom of the paradise And she's just she's trying to belt him out too, but you know cat language doesn't doesn't go through So yeah another one of my notes I was just saying you'll you'll see the parallels You'll definitely see the parallels in this with that with Phantom of the Paradise and Phantom of the Opera It I think it's an awesome like fun cool update to to Phantom of the Opera Obviously, it's not like a new update because it's from the 70s, but I don't even know how old family opera actually is I'm assuming it's well before the 70s because I feel like it's been around for a long time I wrote down that it's over the top, but it's over the top in a very fun way. It's very enjoyable There are plenty of films out there that are over the top You're just like this is ridiculous come on with this but with this they did that but found a way to make it super super fun so Brian De Palma good job. Obviously. He's an amazing filmmaker. We all know that now But back in the 70s people didn't really know that that he was gonna be that great It's very frantic that's another thing I wrote down it moves really really quick the story moves very very quick It doesn't take its time to really establish things But I think that it gets the point through enough that it doesn't really need to take a whole lot of time So the pacing is really really good, but at times you just feel like we're moving we're moving we're going This is so frantic. I like it's over here, and then it's over here But if you're into that type of film which I kind of am and I think it works really well for a rock opera Don't you? I think that I think you'll really enjoy it Yeah, and that's pretty much all my notes on it I think the the end is so it's such a crazy sensory overload, which actually there's a lot of really cool Visuals in this film like I was kind of saying with the with the artwork in the art I'm sorry the the camera work in the directing. There's so many cool visuals and the costuming actually too But in the end like the very end scene it's just like things are going nuts nuts nuts and you're kind of like sensory overload But it's cool. It's good. It becomes a little psychedelic trippy crazy Which makes sense because it was the 70s that was the time for that type of stuff, but yeah I mean overall I did enjoy this film. I thought it was it was a good time. It was a raucous time is a raucous film, so I always do star ratings on these so out of five stars with haves in play I Give this a four. I don't think I can go any higher than that But I think it's well done for what it's supposed to be and it's it's a good time I would definitely recommend it if you're watching this and you haven't seen it if you are watching this and you have seen it Comment down below. Let me know your thoughts on fan of the paradise I know I've heard from some people online prior to me seeing this film We're like oh my god You have to see this film that like there are people would just like a love love love this and to me It felt kind of similar to Rocky horror picture show So I don't know if anyone else kind of feels that way. It feels like some of the same ideas were carried over I don't know that I don't think there was anyone in common between the two films But there are some ideas that seem like they're mirrored in a sense So yeah, but anyway, thank you everyone put a comment down there. 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