He is a better singer. But he's too smooth for the character, IMO. I like how rough and rocky Butler's voice is. Suits a barbaric character (which the Phantom is, despite his attempts to be a gentleman). To be fair, though, I suppose it is important that the film Phantom is very sexed up.
I don't know if I really agree with that, which may explain our disagreement to some extent. I've never really seen the Phantom as barbaric or only pretending to be a gentleman - certainly, he can be cruel and ungentlemanlike, but the civilization is genuine, that's not his problem. Being incapable of loving and being loved in a healthy way is his problem. I've also always thought, but that may be a wider shared sentiment, that Raoul is kind of a loser and that Christine is merely settling for him; the Phantom is twice the man Raoul is, even if he's sort of evil.
Also: Butler is hot and Crawford decidedly is not. 
Yeah. That's generally not a factor I care much about in male actors.
Just finished reading The Phantom of the Opera
- 16/08/2010 07:51:19 PM
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I love that book
- 16/08/2010 08:19:04 PM
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Hmmmm.
- 16/08/2010 10:05:46 PM
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it was a book first
- 16/08/2010 10:56:17 PM
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- 16/08/2010 10:56:17 PM
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You don't say.
- 16/08/2010 11:08:40 PM
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- 16/08/2010 11:08:40 PM
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i can repeat the same song for forever for days at a time
- 16/08/2010 11:10:42 PM
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Precisely.
- 16/08/2010 11:16:13 PM
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i presume you've seen that scene in the movie?
- 16/08/2010 11:27:03 PM
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I have, but I'm too used to the CD version of the music to like the movie that much.
- 16/08/2010 11:55:55 PM
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I much prefer Gerard Butler's voice.
- 17/08/2010 06:08:35 PM
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Sacrilege!
- 17/08/2010 08:44:06 PM
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- 17/08/2010 08:49:33 PM
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- 17/08/2010 08:49:33 PM
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Re:
- 17/08/2010 09:01:00 PM
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- 17/08/2010 09:01:00 PM
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Great book.
- 17/08/2010 02:54:19 PM
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