One thing i just never got about the Phantom of the Opera’s many remakes/spin-offs is that the Phantom’s fate is not the same as in the original book, even once.
<<spoilers ahead>>
in the original book, the Phantom dies of a broken heart after being rejected. However in every remake he dies in literally any other way. Ceiling debris (1962 remake/Emerald City cartoon), bomb explosions (Phantom of the Mall), getting shot (1998 film, 1990 miniseries, the Phantom of Hollywood), etc. There’s so many different ways he dies, yet not once do writers just.. do what the book did. Even though it’s literally a remake?? Idfk anymore
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Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor at a pub. Shepperton, 1963
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Rooney Mara on the set of Mary Magdalene (2018)
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scans from Japanese Graphics Now! (2003)
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Rock Hudson and his boyfriend Lee Garlington in a candid snapshot taken in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico while they were on vacation in 1963. Rock, then 38, met Lee, 25, on the Universal Studios lot the year before where Lee was working as an extra in films. "He was the biggest movie star in the world, and the rumors were that he was gay," Lee stated in a 2015 interview with People magazine. "So I thought, 'Let me get an eye on him.' I stood outside his cottage on the Universal lot, pretending to read Variety, which was probably upside down at the time. He walked out and down the street. He looked back once. That was it." The pair started seeing each other shortly afterwards and went to great pains to hide their relationship. "Nobody in their right mind came out," Garlington explained. "It was career suicide. We all pretended to be straight. I'd come over after work, spend the night and leave the next morning. I'd sneak out at 6 a.m. in my Chevy Nova and coast down the street without turning on the engine so the neighbors wouldn't hear. We thought we were being so clever." After a female fan broke into Hudson's estate and slept in their bed while they were out of town, their paranoia about being outed increased. "In a drawer on a side table were pictures of me with no shirt on," Garlington said. "She didn't find them, but it shook him up. He realized he was vulnerable. He put gates on the house after that." Though they broke up in 1965, Garlington had lifelong fond memories of Hudson. "He was a sweetheart. I adored him. Rock had no pretense. He was always casual. He liked to wear chinos and moccasins around the house and hang around and watch television. We'd go on road trips and sometimes he wouldn't tell the studio where he was going." Following Rock's death from AIDS in 1985 at the age of 59, Garlington learned how much their relationship had meant to Hudson when his biographer, Sara Davidson, revealed he'd told her in his dying days that Lee was his "true love". Garlington recalled: "I broke down and cried. I just lost it. He said his mother and I were the only people he ever loved. I had no idea I meant that much to him."
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Oh, this is my favorite behind the scenes image ever {link to original post here 👁️📻}
To explain, in Wendell & Wild the teams used different sized puppets to make the characters look smaller depending on the scene (this was especially used when they were on screen with Buffalo Belzer).
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