You’re reading from said website, so I feel as if I can predict that you love genre films too. I’m writing for a horror website, so that should be obvious. So, why do I love PotP? On Genre Filmmaking
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Apparently, hearing such a banal and disrespectful commercialization of a piece of art, along with his own experiences of the commercialistic corruption of art in the film industry, inspired him to write a movie that critiqued such culture.Ībove all else, I’m writing this piece (my first article for this site, so hi by the way) to communicate the love and admiration I have for this film, and share it with you, so to hopefully inspire you to seek this film out as well. Additionally, it is rumored that De Palma had the initial idea for the film after hearing The Beatles “A Day in the Life” played in an elevator. The first being that Swan’s record label in the movie was initially to be called “Swan Song Enterprises,” however, due to a threat of lawsuit from Led Zeppelin’s label of the same name, it was changed to “Death Records” in post-production. I’ll spare you a retelling of PotP’s production process, which you can find better written and more thoroughly documented elsewhere, however I will note two interesting points.
However, in an escape that leaves him deformed, Leach finds his way into Swan’s newest, highly anticipated theater, “The Paradise,” where he takes to the shadows as his new vengeful persona, “The Phantom.” With Swan’s new muse, Phoenix (Harper), set to perform the Faust cantata to open the Paradise, the stage is set as Leach seeks retribution against Swan. Because of actions taken to try and get his music back, Swan has Leach imprisoned. It sounds like a fever dream, and yet, it got made.Īs a brief synopsis, PotP concerns a struggling singer/songwriter, Winslow Leach (Finley), who mistakenly signs his masterpiece, a cantata based on the story of Faust, over to the powerful and duplicitous record executive only know as “Swan” (Williams). PotP is a rock opera horror comedy, inspired by works such as Faust, Phantom of the Opera, and The Picture of Dorian Gray, released a year before The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and starring frequent De Palma contributor William Finley, a pre- Suspiria Jessica Harper, and the masterful musician Paul Williams. Initially, Phantom of the Paradise ( PotP), sounds like an impossible hodge-podge of genres, elements, and inspirations.
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