The Phantom of the Opera newspaper articles and interviews relating to the Paris Opera House, and the character Erik (the phantom) who fills the roles of the "mad genius", disfigured monster, and one of three in a love triangle all at once. Fitzpatrick argues that all of these elements make the book good for light reading. Myers agrees that the novel makes for a good "airplane read", but says that it fails in terms of being a good mystery novel. She claims that one of the book's downfalls is that one of the important characters - the mysterious Persian - is introduced too late in
Phantom of the Paradise movie which they saw together more than 20 times was "Phantom of the Paradise", Brian De Palma's 1974 rock musical, based loosely around "Phantom of the Opera" (both this and "Electroma" feature 'a hero with a black leather outfit and a helmet')." The electrocution scene in "Romeo's Distress" was created in tribute to Beef's death on stage. Phantom of the Paradise Phantom of the Paradise is a 1974 American musical rock opera horror comedy film written and directed by Brian De Palma, and scored by and starring Paul Williams. In the film, a disfigured composer writes his music for a