Orca Wail
01-01-2004, 09:06 PM
Wow...i have too much spare time and too much Phantom on the brain...
Recently, I got CMI. With as little cheating as possible, I beat the game in Mega-Monkey mode. I wish it was longer, and with a more explosive ending, but such is life. Sometime in the near future, I will install and play EFMI. I may cheat b/c I see it is one hard motha. But whatever...
In, oh, 1911, Gaston Leurox wrote the novel Le Fantome de l'Opera, or The Phantom of the Opera. It fizzled as a literary success, and made a few awful movies. In 1986, Andrew Llyod Webber made it into one of the most succesful musicals of all time. It gained a legion of female fans, and blah, blah, blah...
What am i getting at?
LeChuck is starting to remind me of the orginal Phantom...the one in Gaston's novel. I think i'm a little crazy for thinking this way, but here it is...
THING #1 : Both Erik(the Phantom) and LeChuck both have some grisly features in common. Both stink- Erik's hands "smell of death" and LeChuck...er..."The smell takes some getting used to." They also both have glowing eyes, however, Erik's yellow eyes can only be seen in the dark. And both are missing a nose.
THING # 2: Both love a woman they can never have. In the novel, Erik tries to win the love of a chorus girl, Christine, by lanching her singing career. Christine will never love Erik, however, because of Erik's deformity and she loves another man (Raoul). LeChuck tries to win Elaine by offering her immortality. Elaine will never love LeChuck for obvious reasons.
THING # 3: Both are foiled by a heroic, slightly dumb blonde handsome young man. Erik's enemy is the dashing young Raoul, who Christine really loves and plans to marry. Raoul never really foils Erik, but when it becomes apparent that Christine will never be happy without Raoul, Erik stops his advances and gives up.
LeChuck, however, never gets it. Guybrush has to blow him up to stop him.
Evidently, Erik is by far a more romantic figure then LeChuck, but the similarities can not be denied.
Disscuss. I am waiting.
...
...
...
...AND BOYCOTT THE 2004 PHANTOM MOVIE!!!
Recently, I got CMI. With as little cheating as possible, I beat the game in Mega-Monkey mode. I wish it was longer, and with a more explosive ending, but such is life. Sometime in the near future, I will install and play EFMI. I may cheat b/c I see it is one hard motha. But whatever...
In, oh, 1911, Gaston Leurox wrote the novel Le Fantome de l'Opera, or The Phantom of the Opera. It fizzled as a literary success, and made a few awful movies. In 1986, Andrew Llyod Webber made it into one of the most succesful musicals of all time. It gained a legion of female fans, and blah, blah, blah...
What am i getting at?
LeChuck is starting to remind me of the orginal Phantom...the one in Gaston's novel. I think i'm a little crazy for thinking this way, but here it is...
THING #1 : Both Erik(the Phantom) and LeChuck both have some grisly features in common. Both stink- Erik's hands "smell of death" and LeChuck...er..."The smell takes some getting used to." They also both have glowing eyes, however, Erik's yellow eyes can only be seen in the dark. And both are missing a nose.
THING # 2: Both love a woman they can never have. In the novel, Erik tries to win the love of a chorus girl, Christine, by lanching her singing career. Christine will never love Erik, however, because of Erik's deformity and she loves another man (Raoul). LeChuck tries to win Elaine by offering her immortality. Elaine will never love LeChuck for obvious reasons.
THING # 3: Both are foiled by a heroic, slightly dumb blonde handsome young man. Erik's enemy is the dashing young Raoul, who Christine really loves and plans to marry. Raoul never really foils Erik, but when it becomes apparent that Christine will never be happy without Raoul, Erik stops his advances and gives up.
LeChuck, however, never gets it. Guybrush has to blow him up to stop him.
Evidently, Erik is by far a more romantic figure then LeChuck, but the similarities can not be denied.
Disscuss. I am waiting.
...
...
...
...AND BOYCOTT THE 2004 PHANTOM MOVIE!!!