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Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
Finally ,im back home from school!
Hahaa,am i funny?i like making people laugh though i dont know if it's a problem doing"Heehee",well...i dont think it's giggling *_*is it? i wont use it if it's soo weird LOL...personally i think it's fun LOL
and the way you told me is real helpful...after i serching for the "The Phantom of the opera is there in side your mind",i not only found the lyrics of this song but also a site which has almost all the lines to this opera!!!!im soo excited!im now just watchin the movie again and the lyrics make it so much more comfortable to enjoy!
Think of me/Think of me fondly when we've said goodbye/Remember me/Once in a while, please promise me you'll try/When you find that once again you long to take your heart back and be free /If you ever find a moment/Spare a thought for me/We never said our love was evergreen/Or as unchanging as the sea/But if you can still remember/Stop and think of me
this part is awesome!and i like it soo much "the phantom of the opera":
In sleep he sang to me
in dreams he came
That voice which calls to me
and speaks my name
And do I dream again
for now I find
the phantom of the opera is there
Inside my mind
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im still watching now...if i dont understand something...please help me !Thanx a lot !!!
Plus ,thanks for trying to say those 3words in Chinese...woot!
and i hope you have a great day there!
and thanx again!you are SOOO nice to help me with this!
Peace out
Selva
PS:what dose "a Prussian sailor" mean?is it just mean a sailor or something else?
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ricogurl
April 8, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
You're very funny Selva. If you keep giggling like that, people are going to want you to share your "medication" with them. What's going on? Have you been having a lot of dental work? :-D
You really don't need to know the titles of the songs at all. Any little snippet of the words that happens to stick with you will be much more useful. Try searching for this string: Where in the world have you been hiding? Really you were perfect. It'll probably work better if you don't put it all in quotes. This will bring up the song called "Angel of Music." If you tried searching for "Angel of Music," you'd probably get so many sites about Greek mythology or new age spiritualism that you'll have a terrible time pulling out anything that has anything to do with Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical.
Of course, once you've found the words to one song, you'll probably find a bunch of them all together, if not all of them. So you'll get all of the titles of all of the songs anyway, fairly quickly.
If you just don't have any snippets of the songs swimming in your head, don't worry; I've got plenty. Try some of these:
The Phantom of the opera is there in side your mind
Prima donna first lady of the stage
Think of me once in a while please promise me you'll try
What I love best asleep in my bed and the angel of music sings songs in my head
Turn your face away from the garish light of day and listen to the music of the night
Say you'll love me every waking moment turn my head with talk of summertime
Masquerade every face a different shade
In sleep he sang to me in dreams he came
If these don't find you the whole batch, I'm a Prussian sailor.
Anyway, I hope you have a great week at school, and I look forward to helping you out with the lyrics next weekend. But watch that giggling—I hear it can be contagious…
Zhu ni hao,
Make
Sac Ca USA
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera selva
yeah,the beginning of the novel is really dull ,lol...it's true.and i think Webber's really a great guy,i mean i like the whole music from beginning till the end too...sooo beatiful..i love it soo much!and some of the scenes in the movie are soo magnifacant!very nice~
and you 're really helpful to me!Thanx a LOT!!!hee hee...i feel better now.^_^
the problem is that,i dont even know the names of the songs...i only heard them in the movie...i dont know their names...how should i search?
maybe i should just serch the name of the movie and then to see if i can find some lyrics related?
wow...i hope you 'll help me when i find those lines ,heehee!
im just back home from school,and im going tomorrow..i think i'll be back home this weekend..then i'll do some webserch then*_*
THANK YOU A LOT!!!
Peace
Selva
This is a reply to message # 49033
Language pair: Chinese, Mandarin; English
Category: Films/Movies
Post date: April 6, 2005
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Mark S.
April 6, 2005
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natalia
April 6, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
yeah,the beginning of the novel is really dull ,lol...it's true.and i think Webber's really a great guy,i mean i like the whole music from beginning till the end too...sooo beatiful..i love it soo much!and some of the scenes in the movie are soo magnifacant!very nice~
and you 're really helpful to me!Thanx a LOT!!!hee hee...i feel better now.^_^
the problem is that,i dont even know the names of the songs...i only heard them in the movie...i dont know their names...how should i search?
maybe i should just serch the name of the movie and then to see if i can find some lyrics related?
wow...i hope you 'll help me when i find those lines ,heehee!
im just back home from school,and im going tomorrow..i think i'll be back home this weekend..then i'll do some webserch then*_*
THANK YOU A LOT!!!
Peace
Selva
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ricogurl
April 6, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
Yes, it is sad and haunting and beautiful. It was a while ago I read the novel, and I remember enjoying reading it very much. But I don't remember what was in the beginning at all. I imagine it may have been rather dull. That would sure explain why I don't remember.
Yes, I remember looking at the trailer for the movie and being delighted to see that the music was based on ALW's score. He is brilliant and I loved the entire musical from beginning to end, which is really something to say. Most musicals, there are at least one or two songs that you just want to skip when you come to them. Not in Phantom of the Opera. It totally rocks.
Don't feel too bad about missing lines here and there. Maybe English being a second language for you has something to do with it, but don't count on it. We native speakers always have parts we can't figure out. We often make things up that sound right and aren't. I put a post about these misheard song lyrics, called "Mondegreens" over in the Slang/Expressions board. I hope people find it fun to read.
Anyway, if you are inclined to do some web searching, you'll have no trouble finding the lyrics to the songs. I find that it works better to look for a unique line from the song, rather than searching for the song title. That way, you're more likely to find more actual copies of the lyrics and fewer sites that simply talk about the song without telling you what the words are. So instead of searching for "Prima Donna", for example, I search for, "Prima Donna first lady of the stage," to make sure it pulls up actual lyrics.
Let me know if I can still be helpful to you in understanding the music once you know what the words actaully are. That's something I like to think I could actually do a better job of than the Internet. :-)
Zhu ni hen gaoxingde kanyinyue!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera selva
yup.it's soo haunting,eerie a story..romantic too.i havent watched the opera so..im not sure how it is(i bet it's good!!!)...i read the novel at first...the beginning of the book is a little boring (i have to say lol)...but when i end reading it..i cried...totally moved...that phantom could have been something if he had a even normal face...im sooo sorry for him..and his love...
talking about the music...totally cool!i mean in the movie...i think it's still Webber's...so beautiful...i do love what they sing in it...!melodious...beautiful...just one thing...heehee...sometimes i dont know what they sing...lol..my english is not that good enough lol...it's said that "that rare movie musical that is as good as it is on stage,hauntingly beautiful"...what do you think about the movie?i like it...hee hee
Peace
Selva
This is a reply to message # 48863
Language pair: Chinese, Mandarin; English
Category: Films/Movies
Post date: April 4, 2005
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Mark S.
April 5, 2005
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Re:Re:Phantom of the Opera
yup.it's soo haunting,eerie a story..romantic too.i havent watched the opera so..im not sure how it is(i bet it's good!!!)...i read the novel at first...the beginning of the book is a little boring (i have to say lol)...but when i end reading it..i cried...totally moved...that phantom could have been something if he had a even normal face...im sooo sorry for him..and his love...
talking about the music...totally cool!i mean in the movie...i think it's still Webber's...so beautiful...i do love what they sing in it...!melodious...beautiful...just one thing...heehee...sometimes i dont know what they sing...lol..my english is not that good enough lol...it's said that "that rare movie musical that is as good as it is on stage,hauntingly beautiful"...what do you think about the movie?i like it...hee hee
Peace
Selva
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ricogurl
April 4, 2005
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Re:Phantom of the Opera
I agree completely. It's a haunting, eerie story, and my favorite version so far was the Andrew Lloyd Weber musical. I could listen to that sound track for months on end.
Bravi! Bravi! Bravissimo!
I haven't seen the movie yet. I really hope they do it justice. Let me know what you think, selva!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA
Phantom of the Opera selva
Im soo excited about this moving coming out!and soo happy it got a lot awards..im from China,hehe..i love phantom of the opera...it's like one of my fav love stories in this world...the music..the story...the actors n actress.all great....hope that someone would love it too...it's really a great movie!the novel is better though lol...
PEACE
SELVA
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Mark S.
April 3, 2005
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Phantom of the Opera
Im soo excited about this moving coming out!and soo happy it got a lot awards..im from China,hehe..i love phantom of the opera...it's like one of my fav love stories in this world...the music..the story...the actors n actress.all great....hope that someone would love it too...it's really a great movie!the novel is better though lol...
PEACE
SELVA
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ricogurl
April 2, 2005
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Re:Re:Re:Re:Kill Bill
Layla Kill Bill 033005
Not everyone is aware that Kill Bill is based on Chinese Pulp Fiction, and that it is intended to be satirical, as Matthew seems to be hinting. It is very campy, very melodramatic, and when you watch it from this point of view, it is very funny.
It kind of reminds me of Shakespeare's most unpopular play, Titus Andronicus. It was written at a time when a new theatrical Genre called "revenge tragedy" was very popular, good examples of which could be found in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedie.
If you look at, for example, The Spanish Tragedie and Titus Andronicus side-by-side, it appears that Andronicus is trying to one-up The Spanish Tragedie at every turn. Whenever there's a murder in the one, there's a double murder in the second. If a woman's tongue is cut out in the one, she loses her tongue and her hands in the other. When you consider that Shakespeare's Globe Theater didn't have the kind of special effects technology that we take for granted today, but that actors would unfurl, for example, a roll of red ribbon to simulate bleeding from a stabbing wound, it's easy to imagine that Titus Andronicus may have been intended to be very light, tongue-in-cheek, very satirical. Nothing at all like Julie Taymore's very dark, bitter Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins.
Of course, Kill Bill doesn't use rolls of red ribbon any more than Julie Taymore does, but if you look at the special effects in the movie and how they are done, you may find something of the tongue-in-cheek (joking with a straight face) in Kill Bill as well. Anyway, I enjoyed it very much from that perspective, and in fact, I enjoyed it far more than I did Kill Bill 2, which I felt was just okay, and really didn't live up to the promise the first movie had set up for us.
The other thing that you should know about my feelings about martial arts movies is that I'm a big fan of dancing, and the old films with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rodgers, Gene Kelly, and the big musicals with the huge production numbers. Martial arts, to me, is a very special kind of dance, and I really enjoy seeing how actors learn to use their bodies in these movies. I was particularly impressed with Uma Thurman and Lucy Liu on that count.
Layla, if you decide to see the movie, let us know what you think!
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Mark S.
March 30, 2005
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Re:New Police Story
Thanks for the tip, Josh,
My girlfriend and I are big Jackie Chan fans. He's really funny and slick, and his martial arts practice is as graceful artful as ballet, even when he's being clownish.
We'll keep our eye out for the New Police Story.
Best,
Mark Springer
Sacramento, CA USA
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Mark S.
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