My Featured Novel

I. About the Novel:The Phantom of the Opera

The Phantom of the Opera (French: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra) is a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux. It was first published as a serialisation in Le Gaulois from September 23, 1909, to January 8, 1910. It was published in volume form in late March 1910 by Pierre Lafitte.  The novel is partly inspired by historical events at the Paris Opera during the nineteenth century and an apocryphal tale concerning the use of a former ballet pupil's skeleton in Carl Maria von Weber's 1841 production of Der Freischütz. It has been successfully adapted into various stage and film adaptations, most notable of which are the 1925 film depiction featuring Lon Chaney and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical.

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera

II. Versions of the Novel in the Mass Media

Movie version

The Phantom of the Opera is a 2004 British film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux. It was produced and co-written by Lloyd Webber and directed by Joel Schumacher. It stars Gerard Butler in the title role, Emmy Rossum as Christine Daaé, Patrick Wilson as Raoul, Miranda Richardson as Madame Giry, and Minnie Driver as Carlotta Giudicelli.

The film was announced in 1989 but production did not start until 2002 due to Lloyd Webber's divorce and Schumacher's busy career. It was shot entirely at Pinewood Studios, with scenery created with miniatures and computer graphics. Rossum, Wilson, and Driver had singing experience, but Butler had none and so had music lessons. The Phantom of the Opera grossed approximately $154 million worldwide, despite receiving mixed to negative reviews, which praised the visuals and acting but criticized the writing and directing

 

The Song of the movie:Think of Me

Theater version in Nagoya

Works Cited （参考文献）

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera

III. About the Author

Gaston Leroux

Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 1868– 15 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.

In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel The Phantom of the Opera (Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, 1910), which has been made into several film and stage productions of the same name, notably the 1925 film starringLon Chaney, and Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. His novel The Mystery of the Yellow Room is also one of the most famous locked-room mysteries ever

IV. My Reaction

A. Reaction Point - protagonist

• main character
• Eric is called the Phantom of the opera and the angel of music in the central character in this novel. It can be said that Eric's romance story.
• He has a very tragic life in the novel. I thought I saw his  kindness in the scenes he let Christine. He thinks he has a complex on his face and thinks that it is because of his face that she dose not like it, but in fact, he thought there was a problem inside of him.

B. Reaction Point -character

• the persons or things that are the focus of the plot
• Christine Daaé: A young Swedish soprano singer at the Paris Opera House with whom "The Phantom" falls in love

           Raoul, Vicomte de Chagny: Christine's childhood friend and love interest.

          

• I think Christine and Raoul were tied with great love. Christine decided to marry Eric and she kissed him because it is a manifestation killing love for Raoul. In the end, I think that it was good for them to be connected.

C. Reaction Point - cartharsis

• release of emotion
• On the roof of the opera house, Christine tells Raoul that Erik abducted her. Raoul promises to take Christine away to a place where Erik can never find her. Raoul tells Christine he shall act on his promise the next day, to which Christine agrees. She, however, has pity for Erik and will not go until she has sung a song for him one last time. Neither is aware that Erik has been listening to their conversation and that he has become extremely jealous.
• This eavesdropping leads to kidnapping Christine. It is just a moment when the feelings of Eric exploded. I think it was full of shocks to what was betrayed by Christine and jealousy of Raoul

D. My General Opinion

Eric is unloved ,not for only love distorted. I sympathized with such loneliness,sadness.
I watched both the movie and theater,but reading the novel was fun.
I encourage this novel to many people.