Since Christine can't sing, Agnes Nitt is used as her backup voice, giving Christine the spotlight. Agnes, who has the talent to be the new diva is seen as too fat. Here she meets Christine, a thin talentless girl who the Ghost of the Opera House seeks to make the new diva. Agnes, who has a beautiful singing voice has left Lancre to seek a career in music, singing in the taverns before joining the Ankh-Morpork Opera company, which is being haunted by a ghost, to sing in the chorus. Since they are one short after the departure of Magrat Garlick who left to become Queen of Lancre, they journey to Ankh-Morpork to bring Agnes Nitt back to join their coven as well as to obtain the money owed to Nanny Ogg by the publisher of her book, The Joye of Snacks. The story begins on the heath with the two Wittches Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg (as in Macbeth) discussing when they will meet again and realizing that a coven needs three witches not two. Agnes Nitt, a girl from Lancre fits the role of the large buxom traditional looking opera star while Christine who is patterned after "Christine Daae" from the Phantom fits the more modern opera soprano style. Throughout the story there are references to the ongoing debates in operatic circles between on one hand the traditional large women who can sing but don't look anything like the character they are playing - the 50 year old "fat lady" playing the part of the consumptive young heroine - and on the other hand the young thin woman who looks the part but doesn't have the lungs to sing the role. The story pokes fun at opera in general and the Phantom of the Opera in particular. The title is a reference to the most well known song from the musical entitled "Masquerade". The story is an obvious parody of The Phantom of the Opera, which was originally a novel by French writer Gaston Leroux and made famous by Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical version and earlier by the Lon Chaney film adaptation in 1925.
#Masker til maskerade series
With some nice action sequences and a pretty good soundtrack this is a very entertaining movie.Maskerade is the eighteenth novel in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett. Anthony Hopkins who is never bad does not disappoint us here, Banderas has the right charm to play Zorro, Zeta-Jones is absolutely stunning and Wilson and Letscher are very good as the villains.
#Masker til maskerade movie
It sounds a little simple and may be it is, but for a movie like this it is a perfect story. And now he has an evil plan that will kill a lot of people. Rafael also made sure the brother of Alejandro was killed by his helper Capt. His wife was murdered and his daughter was taken by Rafael a long time ago.
His daughter Elena (Catherine Zeta-Jones) is actually Diego's daughter. Their enemy is Don Rafael (Stuart Wilson).
He needs another one and Alejandro Murrieta (Antonia Banderas) is the chosen one. Don Diego de la Vega (Anthony Hopkins) was Zorro but is too old now. With this hero all you need is a nice story and 'The Mask of Zorro' has a nice story. His weapon of choice guarantees some spectacular sword fighting scenes as well. He looks quite cool and not stupid, weird or childish like Batman, Superman, Spider-Man and all of their villains (except The Joker) and he has no superpowers like them, although sometimes it seems that gravity does not really apply to him.
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