Rupert Julian
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But no one is going to mistake Derrick Borte’s film for Rupert Julian’s The Phantom of the Opera , Martin Scorsese’s Raging Bull , or Michael Mann’s The Insider .
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Directed by Vincent Gallo
influenced by The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Visuals
(His eyes are as wired-open as Lon Chaney's in The Phantom of the Opera, only Gallo didn't use wires.)
A Cure for Wellness (2017)
Directed by Gore Verbinski
influenced by The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Visuals
If anything, Verbinski (working in an unencumbered R-rated register, from a darkly adult script by Justin Haythe) seems more indebted to classic Lon Chaney silents like The Phantom of the Opera and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, early examples of body horror undergirded with deep psychological damage.
Crimson Peak (2015)
Directed by Guillermo del Toro
influenced by The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Themes
It’s not quite Lon Chaney’s “The Phantom Of The Opera” for a new generation and thematically it’s more of a snack than a meal.
The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
Directed by Joel Schumacher
influenced by The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Plot
But I love phantomly films, and am a fan of The Phantom of the Opera — from the eerie 1925 silent version starring Lon Chaney, to the bloody slasher 1989 version featuring Robert Englund, I’ve always been at least somewhat entertained by the story.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera is a pleasant diversion, but it still runs behind Lon Chaney's The Phantom of the Opera and Claude Rains' The Phantom of the Opera.
Lon Chaney had been scheduled to play the role, a wise casting decision after his success in the silent classics "The Hunchback of Notre Dame” and " The Phantom of the Opera .”