A New Obsession...

Hello people. I'm not so depressed any more. Taking the whole of this week off. So I won't see a glint of camo green except that in my cupboard. Good riddance. Damn frigging tired of the army and damn sick of it. I've accepted my sordid fate. Sigh.

Anyway. I've got a new thing to obsess over now. To go absolutely mad over now. To go googoo gaagaa over. It is...

Encounters : The Phantom of the Opera

The new movie starring Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Patrick Wilson and Minnie Driver has just been opened here in Singapore officially on the 23rd December 2004.. But I managed to watch a midnight sneak preview during a weekday. In total, with the one I watched yesterday at West Mall Eng Wah (which had horrible speakers), I've watched it a total of 4 times!!! And that's still not enough in my opinion! The movie is excellent through and through.

The day I watched Phantom for the first time in the largely empty Jurong Point GV cinema was the day I entered a state of speechless euphoria. I was in awe of everything. The moment the overture started. I was taken aback. It was so beautiful to the ears. Jarring chords. Loud. Deafening even. That was how good it was. And this was at midnight. :)

Anyway, the sets are gorgeous and large... though I thought the lair looked kinda cramped and smoky... too many candles burning and too much smoke. The Opera House is a beautiful set complete with plush red velvet seats and an enormous chandelier made specially for the movie by Swarovski. Expensive definitely. And the stage they have... excellent to put a production of Phantom the stage version in the movie!!! It's just me being a bit mad. And the lair. Dark gloomy. Just as I imagined it would be. What I would pay to be in that boat rowing across the small canals together with the splendidly beautiful Emmy Rossum. And the most spectacular moment was when the chandelier fell. This mammoth of a behemoth falls down from the ceiling without so much as a warning and falls on the screaming audience... starting fires all over the opera house. Loved the moment. It was so dramatic and over the top. The Phantom would be proud of his accomplishment.

Emmy Rossum - Sigh. What can I say of her? Pretty. Beautiful. Ravishing. Lovely hair. Lovely voice which can be improved further if she trains harder. Pouty lips suitable for long bouts of soft kissing. And she has that wide-eyed innocence thing perfected to a pint... that mindless look that says "I'm not thinking anything". And she's got electrifying chemistry to boot too with Patrick Wilson as Raoul and Gerard Butler as Phantom. Seriously. You should look carefully into each couple's eyes when they are together. It's so sensual at times...

Just like the Point of No Return. I thought that it was the sexiest version of the song yet. Emmy wears this dress that has these shoulder things... slips i think that reveal the shoulders. That keep... guess?... slipping down. In the beginning. One slip slips. Then she pulls it up again. Next the other slip slips. Then she pulls it up again. Then when she's singing with Gerard (Phantom) in the duet... both slip at that exquisite moment and she knows how the audience will love this moment. I did. Then Gerard did the 'pull her close to him' thing then held her hands as they went slowly across his tummy, her breasts and her neck. It was so hot it was flaming. As was the stage. There was real fire on stage. Wow.

So you guys should seriously watch this show. Wonderfully exceptional show. And get the movie soundtrack too... the one with the pink cover. That says "The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Special Edition". About $31 at HMV Heeren if I'm not wrong. That's where I got it from. Oh yeah... from now on... I'll include a quote for each entry I do. Till next time. Cheerios and Happy New Year everyone. May your dreams and wishes come true for next year. 2005 yeah baby yeah!!!

"Remembrance was a Buddhist philosopher's trick. Rather than asking her mind to search for a solution to a potentially impossible challenge, Vittoria asked her mind simply to remember it. The presupposition that one once knew the answer created the mindset that the answer must exist... thus eliminating the crippling conception of hopelessness. Vittoria often used the process to solve scientific quandaries... those that most people thought had no solution."

(Angels and Demons, Dan Brown)