I just finished watching, "Phantom
of the Opera" with my family. I wonder if this story was
written about the time that vampire obsessions started. Charming,
evil vampire--young, beautiful girl who unwittingly puts her life in
danger.
Yeah, "Phantom of the Opera"
is just another vampire story. A story about a creepy guy stalking
and trying to take advantage of a young, naïve girl.
The gravestone at the end of the movie
for Christine shows her lifespan: 1854-1917. Apparently the whole
Opera nightmare took place in 1870 when Christine would only
be—that's right—sixteen-years-old.
Obviously, the
actress had to be older, right? I thought—she's gotta be 20 at
least. So I looked it up and nope—she started acting when she was
fourteen, and starred in “Phantom of the Opera” when she was
eighteen. The girl you see on the screen with that creeper stroking
her neck really is hardly more than a child. She's barely
considered adult at eighteen. From the very start of the show
you see her in a ballet bikini followed by low-cut, off-shoulder
dresses and see-through skirts. That's probably why I thought she
was older... Keira Knightley was only seventeen/eighteen when she
did Pirates of the Caribbean too. And sixteen when she did a Robin
Hood movie where she makes out with some twenty-something guy...
Ok... I just looked
it up to see... The actor she makes out with was thirty-two...
Geez. He could be her dad! (P.S. Never watch that movie, “Princess
of Thieves” if you wanna watch a good movie. I watched it when I
was only like fifteen, and I was still amazed at how badly made the
movie and the acting was... If you wanna watch a movie to make fun
of, then yeah, it was pretty hilarious for that. One of the only
things I remember from it is that her friend runs like twenty feet to
save a guy from being shot by an arrow while the dumb guy just stands
there the whole time...)
I guess it's always
disturbed me how young girls are showed in media. If they start when
they're older—well—they're adults and can make their own
decisions—but when their parents are still legally responsible for
them—why aren't they a little disturbed that their daughter is the
sex appeal in a movie? Doesn't that bother them? How do they see
their children? What are they to them?
I just
read a disturbing article related to this from a friend's blog. It
talks about how they have started selling bras for girls as young as
six, and how the writer saw an eight-year-old at the airport and
said, “I hope her parents are proud. Their daughter was the
sexiest girl in the terminal, and she's not even in middle school
yet.” :
http://strengtheningmarriagesandfamilies.blogspot.com/
Oh, dear. I just looked up the age of the Raoul when he played in "Phantom of the Opera." He was thirty-one. Man, he looks younger... The phantom, Gerard Butler, was thirty-five...
I guess guys don't get exploited into acting and singing when they're children as much as girls do.
Ok... once I start I get really addicted to looking stuff up. "Dracula" the book, was first published in 1879, and "The Phantom of the Opera" (the french book) was first published in 1909.
Here's some articles related to my post:
Phantom of the Opera:
Christine/ Emmy Rossum: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmy_Rossum
Princess of Thieves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_of_Thieves
Love interest, Stephen Moyer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Moyer
Keira Knightley: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keira_Knightley
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