Perfect! You can make a movie based on a musical based on a notably older story, and cast Emmy Rossum and Gerard Butler as the leads. I bet it's never been done before.
Oh wait.
From what I remember, the original story has more of a plot than the opera... That might be a better basis for a screenplay than an opera which seems like it's essentially a single, drawn-out scene.
There have been like 300 musicals written based on Phantom of the Opera. Andrew Lloyd Webber's is just the most popular for some reason. :-P Likewise with Chicago, which is based on a story that has had at least two other movies made of it before it became a musical.
I dunno though--there have been movies made of this opera, but imagine the stylization you could employ for source material like this. I had a similar feeling a few years ago about the Emile Zola novel The Ladies' Paradise.
It's just... so strange... as a version of Bluebeard. It seems to be meant to strongly suggest the original tale, while having hardly anything to actually do with it. And I must say I can't see why you'd want a movie of it, there just seems to be so little content... though I'd say that's true even for more usual versions of Bluebeard, really...
Heh, I'd never heard of the legend behind it. I see a lot of opportunity for dramatic expression in the material here through, given the fantastic settings it describes. An opera like this would have to be visually brilliant, and would require superb art direction.
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Oh wait.
From what I remember, the original story has more of a plot than the opera... That might be a better basis for a screenplay than an opera which seems like it's essentially a single, drawn-out scene.
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I dunno though--there have been movies made of this opera, but imagine the stylization you could employ for source material like this. I had a similar feeling a few years ago about the Emile Zola novel The Ladies' Paradise.
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It's so beautiful.
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