igenlode | Found footage

I had the inspiration a while ago that Lars Hanson would have been the ideal casting for Leroux-Raoul in the silent era: he can play fair, delicate and conflicted, but also hot-headed and impulsive.

So I was amused to come across a couple of stills from the Mauritz Stiller "Erotikon" (1920)-- a film which apparently deals with Eros rather than erotica -- which, when taken out of context, could easily appear as shots from a 1920s "Phantom of the Opera" movie with an authentically Swedish Christine!

Raoul is carried away by Christine's singing as she accompanies herself at the piano (Preben Wells and Irene in "Erotikon")

Raoul and Philippe quarrel over the girl (Preben warns Professor Leo in "Erotikon")

Edit (for my records) — a nineteenth-century Raoul:

Cut and pasted from http://fdelopera.tumblr.com/post/89510605313/rewrittengirl-phantoonsoftheopera

rewrittengirl:
phantoonsoftheopera:
history-of-fashion:
1842 Henry Colton Shumway - Henry Peters Gray
That’s it. That’s Raoul.
Oh my gods… I literally thought that WAS Raoul for a moment. I had to do a double take.
Put a little mustache on him, and yes, Leroux!Raoul in the flesh!
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