The Sword Fight
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vicomte_de_chagnyI didn't see the whole 2004 movie, but I heard there was a sword fight in it, so off to YouTube I went.
Why did we get that, and not the Phantom throwing fireballs like in the stage show? Did they not have what they needed for the fireball-throwing? Were they unable to film it? Or did they decide a sword fight was cooler?
I know very little about fencing and nothing about filming, and even I know that is NOT how you film a sword fight. *headdesk*
Christine's expression is all "WTF?" I sympathize.
Apparently Patrick Wilson did the whole thing without a stunt double. You know. Just in case I needed any more reasons to love Raoul.
Why did we get that, and not the Phantom throwing fireballs like in the stage show? Did they not have what they needed for the fireball-throwing? Were they unable to film it? Or did they decide a sword fight was cooler?
I know very little about fencing and nothing about filming, and even I know that is NOT how you film a sword fight. *headdesk*
Christine's expression is all "WTF?" I sympathize.
Apparently Patrick Wilson did the whole thing without a stunt double. You know. Just in case I needed any more reasons to love Raoul.
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Date: 2017-08-20 07:02 pm (UTC)I'm actually pretty sure that the sword fight was put in to make Raoul look better and give him some more heroic action (as in galloping wildly after Christine bareback on a white steed... even if it is -- realistically, given where he gets it from -- a prosaic carriage-horse rather than a prancing white charger).
Also, he gets to defeat the Phantom and then nobly spare his enemy -- well, he has to, or there wouldn't be any more plot, but we all know that if the Phantom had won that duel then Raoul would have been dead mutton and Christine would never have been seen again :-p