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Ahoy, squirts! Quint here with today’s Behind the Scenes pic!
The Phantom of the Paradise is one of my favorite “culty” movie. I love Rocky Horror to death, but if there was any justice in this world Phantom would have as big of a cult following as Rocky does.
Paul Williams’ catchy music, the punk/disco update to the old Phantom of the Opera story, a hotter than the sun Jessica Harper (yes, she’s still hot even after witnessing her seizure dance from the film), Gerrit Graham’s hilarious character known as Beef… there’s so much to love about this movie. It fires on so many cylinders, keeping it constantly engaging.
So, if you haven’t seen it, cure yourself of that.
Today’s pic features Paul Williams sitting in the Paradise talking with producer Ed Pressman (back to the camera) and is enlargeable!
Thanks to Ari from Swan Archives for sending this along. If you dig Phantom of the Paradise as much as I do you’ll want to click through to see all the groovy stuff he has collected over the years!
Hope you guys enjoy the pic (click for the bigger version)!
If you have a pic you think should be included email me. I’m looking for the iconic, the rare or the just plain cool behind the scenes shots to feature here.
Tomorrow’s pic heads into the monkey business zone. See you folks then!
-Quint
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- Alien
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- Stephen King’s IT
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- The Empire Strikes Back (Luke with Slate)
- Rebel Without A Cause
- Taxi Driver
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- Tommy Chong Meets The Blues Brothers
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- Hard Boiled
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- The Lady Eve
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- The Gold Rush
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- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Readers Talkback
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Phantom of the Paradise ALWAYS blew away Rocky Horror. If not for Tim Curry, Rocky Horror would be shit, and even with him, the second half sucks big-time. Phantom is non-stop all the way through. Winnipeg definitely was right on with this one! (Any big Phantom fan knows what I am tlaking about!)
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Come on, Quint. He made the movie. Just a slight oversight, dontcha' think?
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Not an hour after listening to Adam Corolla's podcast from last week in which he extols the virtues of this movie ad nauseum does it show up here. I think Paul Williams is stalking me.
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If someone doesn't know Brian De Palma made this movie that's on them, not me. Just sayin'. :)
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Phantom of the Paradise is a great film, it's true. But a)it's pretty depressing, b)lacks an inspiring message like "Don't dream it, be it", and c)the music's not as memorable. The only song I can ever remember *clearly* when I'm done watching it is that one the Phantom sings that goes 'To work it out, I let them in/All the good guys and the bad guys that I've been...' I've never met anyone who sees Rocky and can't remember the songs.
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The fact that Phil was not right in the head (Because his parents were first cousins) and had a nasty habit of killing people (Or threatening to kill them more often) and the fact Swan is based on him just makes the film a bit more creepier. I'm guessing in the redo Fox wants, it'll be based on Simon Cowell. Although I'm not sure what deals with satan Simon's made to be in the public consciousness this long...
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My Chemical Romance riffed on that line for their song "Sleep".
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I met Jess Harper at the 25th anniversary of Rocky Horror. I said I dunno if I love you more as Phoenix or Janet Majors
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I met Jess Harper at the 25th anniversary of Rocky Horror. I said I dunno if I love you more as Phoenix or Janet Majors
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that predicted not only the coming of Punk, but of the Urban Cowboy (pretty, hold that for later). And the Antler Belt!
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Shame really. This film rocks.
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Nov. 30, 2010, 8:41 p.m. CST
If any justice in the world Hedwig and the Angry Inch
by Dirk_The_Amoeba
Would be second only to Rocky Horror. But I do loves me some Phantom.
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But I fucking can't! The songs are too catchy and there's just something about it that makes me like it. Damn you Phantom! I think I'll get this on Netflix now because Lady Porkington hasn't seen it yet, although she hates Rocky Horror with a passion. She's a good lass.
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Nov. 30, 2010, 9:31 p.m. CST
Why does it always have to be one or the other around here?
by ExcaliburFfolkes
Liking films isn't a mutually exclusive pastime. Both The Phantom of the Paradise and The Rocky Horror Picture Show are marvelous films. And so is Hedwig and the Angry Inch, for that matter. No need to limit yourself or choose up sides.
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went back to get it the next day (payday), and it was gone. in my defense, if i don't get a certain amount of coffee in me every day, i get a nasty headache. STARBUCKS won, i lost
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Good point.
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Big hit in my hometown. <p> http://www.phantomoftheparadise.ca/why.html
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was Janet Majors in 'Shock Treatment'. I do not know if she played Janet Majors on stage, but Susan Sarandon was Janet in the 'Rocky Horror Picture Show'
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This flick truly captured the music and soft rock ballads of the time - the track ''old souls'' in particular. Yes, it's dated - but that's the beauty of it. I mean, we're talking De Palma here folks + Rod Serling narrating at the beginning. Plus John Chambers at the makeup helm and that iconic ''owl mask'' An real classic....Thanks Quint!
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Williams' songs were brilliant..I still laugh thinking about the Beach Boys takeoff ("Carbarators, man!" And Harper sure as hell secured her place in cult film history with this film and "Suspiria"
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This would KILL as a play!
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During the 70's the guy was everywhere then Poof! No where to be found! :(
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Dec. 1, 2010, 12:16 a.m. CST
"I am your nightmares coming true! I am your crime!"
by ExcaliburFfolkes
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Adam brought this film up last week when the dude from Sugar Ray on his podcast.
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http://tinyurl.com/3734flu
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....or Quint is having pre-BNAT 12 remembrances... or Quint is pre-cogging Gerritt Graham's death. Either way, who gives a shit? And that's the hell of it.
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Ishtar is the "short" answer. He and May really didn't survive that disaster. His last soundtrack for a movie, after an incredible string in the 70's. Also his bio says he had an alcohol/substance abuse problem during that time.
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September 2011 in Tempe, AZ. Watch for it!
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Dec. 1, 2010, 4:17 a.m. CST
"Never thought I'd get to meet the devil..."
by MARCEL_THE_NEGRO_PROJECTIONIST
"Never thought I'd meet him face to face... <p> ...Heard he always worked alone, that he seldom wrote or used the phone... <p> ...So I walked right up to meet him at his plaaaaceee!!" <p> (cue violins)
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It really stuck with me. I remember the phantom got deformed when his head was forced into a vinal record making machine. Great movie. Have to check it out again.
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Dec. 1, 2010, 5:01 a.m. CST
I love "The Hell of It", but the rest of the songs are so-so
by ricarleite2
But regardless of that, this is one hell of a freaky movie. I remember watching the last 30 minutes on TV when I was about 10 years old (picking up when the Phantom finds Swan's videotaped contract), and I was absoolutely freaked out by it - made no sense whatsoever, and was so creepy and so bizarre, yet so beautiful.
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"I was not myself last night, coldn't make it right, with apologies or flowers" - if I remember correctly...
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Or, how I liked to call it, "Michael Jackson's Heaven".
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It's just so...creepy. RHPS had great songs going for it ( which is why there's a movie version in the first place, because of its popularity as a musical ) <BR><BR> Phantom is... well... like a late night creepy bmovie, if those existed anymore.
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...Phantom predicts so much - the amorality of 'reality' TV, voyeuristic CCTV culture, the multi-media crossover landscape and it highlights the mechanical nature of the music industry perfectly. One of DePalma's best, and curiously, most underrated movies. No-one puts a foot wrong in this and Gerrit Graham should have been a household name.
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70s movies with original music (musicals or otherwise) are probably my least favorite genre; just awful fucking quasi-rock sounds. Phantom at least has a lot of other things going for it.
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I don't think people really have to dislike one thing to like another. I was just responding to the tone of 'thecat's' post, where he said Phantom 'always blew away' Rocky Horror. RHPS is my favorite film of any kind, so naturally there's a preference there. But I do think Phantom is a great film, and I also love Hedwig. I actually, once again, think Hedwig is a better film the Phantom because the songs are stronger and the work as a whole is more cohesive. But I like, and own, all three. (I also like Shock Treatment, which a lot of Rocky fans seem not to. I think Jessica Harper is great in that as well.)
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Fucking typos.
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I wouldn't know (about that song reference). Never heard 'Sleep.' Can't say I'm really an MCR listener.
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....and the cast....well, lets just say - it fucking rocks!
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Dec. 1, 2010, 8:39 a.m. CST
Actually watched this for the first time this past weekend
by SpookyOtaku
definitely comparable to Rocky Horror. Never noticed how much Paul Williams looked like a midget Bowie.
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Dec. 1, 2010, 8:46 a.m. CST
ExcaliburFolkes- ''You don't know how right you are, goliath!''
by spidar40
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... in Winnipeg, Manitoba.<p> http://tinyurl.com/dmrvvj
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Great performance, too.
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Emmit Otter's Jug Band Christmas<p>That is all.
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Here it is, line creeps in at 1:52- http://tinyurl.com/2egsjyh
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Little Enos rules!
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Nice timing of music and visuals with selected scenes of the cast. Spotted William Finley as a killer in The Black Dahlia. And yes, he's as good lookin as ever. And I've said this before, but look for Sissy Spacek in the credits as set dresser, prior to DePalma hiring her as Carrie, as she's married to set designer Jack Fisk.
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Salutations from the other side!
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That's just so bizarre, because in the case of POTP and Spector, that was life imitating art...and "Black Dahlia" was the reverse...
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I admire the movie for it's pizzazz. It's almost besides the point if i like it or not.
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