The Phantom Of The Opera(2004) ((HOT))
In this musical based on Gaston Leroux's story, a brilliant masked madman (Gerard Butler) who lives under the opera house falls in love with the exquisite young soprano Christine, (Emmy Rossum). She believes he is the angel of music, sent to teach her by her dead father. But he's no angel and will do anything to make Christine a star and possess her. At first, Christine is mesmerized by the Phantom. He brings her his cavernous home deep below the stage and sings to her, inspiring her to sing with passion. And just as the theater owner sells the place to two scrap metal dealers, the phantom arranges to have Christine get the starring role in the opera's newest production. The new team has a new patron -- a handsome young nobleman named Raoul (Patrick Wilson) who was once Christine's childhood sweetheart. He and Christine fall in love but the Phantom will not allow Christine to be with anyone else, even if it means destroying everything he cares about.
The Phantom of the Opera(2004)
Emmy Rossum: It was very surreal. I had never seen the show. I still haven't. It was something that Andrew Lloyd Weber very much wanted. He was very happy when I told him I hadn't seen the show, I was uncolored by the theatrical interpretation of the character. I wanted her to be a real as if it were a film that wasn't a musical. I went to meet Joel on a Wednesday. I walked in and he asked me to screen test in New York on Saturday. He'd been casting for six months while I had been working on "The Day After Tomorrow" in Montreal. I flew to New York, walked into the audition and it was on a set. There were two hours of hair and make-up and this incredible costume. There were fifty people on set, people touching up my face, people holding booms, giant swooping crane shots, Joel Schumacher screaming action. I don't remember being nervous. I remember being so focused. But I met a lot of people, one of whom was Gerry Butler. I remember he was lurking in the corner, very phantom-like. (Laughs) He was lurking, smoking a cigarette behind this video village. Joel said he told me something and I was shaking. 041b061a72