Fanart Thursday plus Phantom of the Opera Casstoon

[espanolbot]

Ninja Babes by ~Illustrious-Crackpot on deviantART


BOBAHEX by ~elliotfernandez on deviantART


Batfamily by ~chocomantha on deviantART


Huntress, Bane page1 by *marciotakara on deviantART


here we go by *NorthernBanshee on deviantART


Leaving... by *NorthernBanshee on deviantART


Disbelief by *NorthernBanshee on deviantART


Proxy Case Closed by ~n8twing on deviantART


Donna Troy Goodbye by ~n8twing on deviantART


Bumblebee and Herald Jam by ~n8twing on deviantART


When She Returns.... by ~Puzzle-of-Life on deviantART


The Blackbat by *JenZee on deviantART


Bats and Claws by *Taclobanon on deviantART


Fsbot Black Bat vs. Scarecrow by ~Maximiliani on deviantART


Friendship is Magic by `Yamino on deviantART


Fluttershy Comic by `Yamino on deviantART

And a bit from me, in which I wonder how a modern version of the Phantom of the Opera would work,


I have to note that I AM a fan of the story... some parts don't really translate that well in a modern setting if you think about them too hard though.

Comments

[aaron_bourque]

However, Phantom of the Opera could easily be adapted to a futuristic sci-fi setting.

Strange, that.

[tsunamiwombat]

"The Phantom was actually a sophisticated composer AI all along!"

[richardak]

But if she went to meet him willingly, why would the police arrest him?

[kaete]

They're probably arresting him for all the threatening notes sent to her workplace and attempted murder with stage lighting. ;)

[espanolbot]

Because a teenage girl going to meet a violently jealous (and much older) man who had been grooming her while pretended to be someone else could be compared to some of the darker things that happen on the interwebs.

Sex offenders trawling for victims and the like.

Not that the Phantom's interest in Christine was protrayed a being sexual in the book... but it wasn't exactly healthy for either party involved either.

[richardak]

But Christine was twenty years old in the novel; she had studied at the Paris Conservatory.

[tsunamiwombat]

I've always disliked POTO for glorifying stalker and abusive boyfriend behavior, then justifying it in the sequel by making the Phantom the 'better choice' ultimatly.

[tsunamiwombat]

Not that I think it's a bad musical and yes I know it was written to be a self depreciating love letter, but when you analyze it...

[aaron_bourque]

musical

It was a book first.

An AWESOME book.

[sinisterlink]

"An AWESOME book."

Indeed it is. Honestly, I love the book AND the musical, but for anyone that doesn't like how Erik is somewhat "romanticized" in the musical or movies I would definitely recommend the book since he is straight up crazy like whoa in it.

[aaron_bourque]

recommend the book since he is straight up crazy like whoa in it.

Prototypical cartoonish supervillain in a dark, gothic, horror story.

Straight up crazy like whoa, indeed.

[espanolbot]

It amuses me how people have gone on to romantised old horror monsters considering how they were protrayed in their original forms.

Like Erik being about fifty, balding, looking like an albino version of the movie's Red Skull with retroreflective black eyes, who once crushed an old lady to death with a chandelier because she replaced his prefered opera box janitor. Oh, and he literally smelt like death in the book.

Or Dracula, being a moustached, hairy palmed semi-rapist who fed babies to his mini-harem of oversexed vampire girlfriends.

Yet both are protrayed as being young, good looking(ish) and a lot less unpleasant in their pairings with the female protagonists.

Hm, actually both book have the interesting thing of having fair competant female protagonists for their time, but like Mina was eventually brought into the Anti-Vampire group as a more or less equal member (after a lot of patronising remarks from the male members), Christine ALMOST manages to convince Erik not to go up with his evil schemes, but the boyfriend's attempts to rescue her only make him worse.

Christine kind of has the problem of everyone thinking that she's an impressionable idiot, including her fiance Raoul, when most of the time she's got the situation with Erik more or less under control, and it's only other people's (not unreasonable) assumption that Erik is going to murder her on a whim too and thus in need of rescuing, which escalates the situation. Admittedly she does start off as kind of naive, but she gets better, unlike Raoul.

[tacitoz]

I'm always surprised by what they did to Frankenstein's monster, he was such a tragic figure in the book and actually pretty smart. I think I may have actually cried when reading the book because both he and Frankenstein had nothing left at the end.
But yeah, the hairy palms on Dracula somewhat baffled me in the book. I guess it's to alienate him because humans never have hair on their palms? Oh god I need to read that book again, it was so lovely written...And yes, Mina was really nice in the book :)

[espanolbot]

Maybe Dracula had hairy palms due to playing with his stake too much?

I think that Frankenstein's monster would be one of the harder horror characters to "sexify", for lack of a better word. People have attempted it with female versions of the character, to varying degrees of success, but the Monster doesn't really work in that respect.

Werewolves, yes, depending on which direction they've gone. The Howling remake seems to be a genderswapped Twilight in NYC (blerg).

Vampires, yes, again depending on which version. The new Fright Night movie does a good balance at making the vampires dangerous, sexy and scary at the right moments.

Mummies, ...depending on the type. If they can regenerate to look like how they were when they were alive, like Imhotep from the Mummy films or that Incan girl from Buffy, then it could work.

Aquatic monsters, people have fetishised merfolk for years.

Aliens, ditto.

Witches and wizards, again, the same.

Ghosts, depending on how they're done.

Zombies, would be the other example of non-sexyfiable monsters, but then Tim Burton went with the weirdness that was Corpse Bride, which tried to make itself the exception.

[tacitoz]

Just look at the nurses in Silent Hill
they're not zombies per-se but they sure look like some, and damn if they're not fetishized...fetished...fetishified...uh
everything can be sexify and even if it can't there will be someone somewhere who finds it sexy. Humans are weird like that.

[hyperactivator]

Behold the sexy Frankenstine.

http://www.google.com/search?q=dean+koontz+frankenstein+comic&hl=en&biw=1600&bih=805&prmd=ivnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=KjtqTuKDCoevsQKhsoXMBg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&sqi=2&ved=0CBwQ_AUoAQ

It's actually a good comic.

[valtyr]

To be fair, Dracula wasn't described as particularly repulsive, just pale and cruel-looking. And he could be adequately personable when trying to make nice.

[salinea]

THANK YOU

[salinea]

Gaston Leroux never wrote any sequel :p

[espanolbot]

Respected thriller novelist Frederick Forsythe did, though it's quality was only middling to average at best, though it did have a lot of details that were translated over to Love Never Dies, which was understandable as Fred was friends with Andrew Lloyd Webber and he wrote the book, the Phantom of Manhatten, as a dry run of how a sequel (to the MUSICAL) could go.

A lot of details are the same, Erik fleeing to America, the parentage of Christine's son, the ending etc. But were also a lot of differences.

There was no Meg/Erik subplot, for example, as well as the revelation that Raoul had been castrated via gunshot while trying to foil a mugging in his youth (which was just meanspirited on the part of the author, frankly). There was also how Erik got his finances, which in PoM was due to him being freaky good at economics and having an assistant that worshipped the demon god of money, Mammon, who acted as Erik's public persona, while in Love Never Dies... errr... Erik gets quite a bit of "help" in that regard, and never thanks those involved for it.

[salinea]

...


You do realise you're talking to someone who's never watched the first Musical in any version, let alone the sequel Musical, and that I was merely mocking the annoyingly Anglocentric assumption that any mention of Phantom (or Les Miserable for a similar case) would naturally refer to the musical rather than the novel it was based on (which I have read, on the other hand, though that was a while ago)?

[aaron_bourque]

You mean you don't know everything about everything? What are doing on the internet?

[salinea]

Reading porn!

[aaron_bourque]

Carry on, then.

[espanolbot]

I was kind of generalising, sorry. :(

[salinea]

It's not a problem, I was just... well you got into a deeply elaborate and informative explanation even though I can't really understand it nor appreciate it to its worth >_>;;

[proteus_lives]

It was adapted in the '80s/early '90s.

"The Phantom of the Mall" I shit you not.

[kamino_neko]

It was also merged with Faust as Phantom of the Paradise, in the 70s. (Not a well-respected movie. I enjoyed it, though.)

[espanolbot]

It had Evil Elton John in it. :D

[kamino_neko]

Always a bonus!