Wacht ff hoor, ik moet het ff op me laten inwerken....
ok, nu het op me ingewerkt is kan ik met een gerust hart zeggen dat ik geen woorden heb voor hetgeen wat ik net heb gezien....
Wat een geweldige film is dit zeg!!! Een kruising tussen THIS IS SPINAL TAP, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW en THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ben ik bijna van m'n krukkie afgeflikkerd van genot,
Considered by many to be one of Brian De Palma's best films, Phantom Of The Paradise is a lunatic technical exercise, making up in energy and zeal what it loses in an under-sized budget. Its place in the De Palma canon is debatable; all I know is that it's better than the first film of his I saw, Mission To Mars. Because De Palma doesn't believe in restraint, this isn't just a cautionary re-working of The Phantom Of The Opera as a fable about the corrupting powers of rock-n-roll fame; no, it's nothing less than a movie about Satan, complete with Christ symbolism. In its last third, the film goes completely insane and loses all sense of proportion. Up to that point, it's a fun film, a self-reflexive time capsule with many laughs.
De muziek is zoals ik al hierboven plaatse ronduit geniaal, het schmieren van de cast is perfect en ik geloof dat ik Brian De Palma's latere fouten compleet vergeten ben bij het zien van deze meesterlijke stijloefening!
The story concerns Winslow Leach, a talented singer-songwriter who's unnatractive personally. Spotted by mega-producer Swan (Paul Williams, best known for writing the theme for "The Love Boat"), he's quickly duped into handing over the labor of his love, a "pop cantata" (read: rock opera), not coincidentally about Faust. When he finally catches on to Swan's treachery and attempts to do something about it, the cops arrest him for some cocaine planted on him by Swan. In jail, he hears one of his songs, having been cheapened (in his view) by Swan's band, The Juicy Fruits. He escapes from jail to sabotage the record factory, but things go horribly wrong, and the deformed Winslow jumps into the lake. When he re-appears, he's intent on wreaking vengeance, but Swan convinces him that they can work together to improve his work. Unfortunately, deception once more awaits Winslow.
En nu even niet storen, want ik ga hem nu weer kijken!!
Er zullen toch genoeg De Palma fans zijn die hem ook wel willen zien toch?
Gorro, had je ooit nog eens verw8 dat dit een verplichting zou zijn?
