I have to get this off my chest. One of my biggest pet peeves about Phantom is when phans compare the stage musical and the 2004 movie. You cannot compare the stage musical and the 2004 movie. The reason is you can't do this is Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum, and Patrick Wilson are Hollywood actors, not Broadway and West End actors. Hollywood often does not cast Broadway and West End stars in film adaptations of musicals nowadays. For this reason, you can't measure Hollywood stars' vocal chops by Broadway and West End standards. I think Gerry, Emmy, and Patrick were amazing. Emmy was beyond qualified and suited to play Christine in my opinion because she was part of an opera company in her childhood. I'm aware that Phantom is a musical with operatic elements, not an opera. However, Emmy had the closest type of vocal training when it came to her role and that's enough for me. The Phantom is not a trained singer in the book. He taught himself to sing so I think they made a good choice by casting Gerry.

You can still be a superb singer, have a good ear for operas, train a young woman how to sing in operas, and a talent for writing operas without having been trained. I am saying that Gerard is an amazing singer for the film, not the stage musical. Music and voice experts, I respect your opinion even though I disagree with it. In my opinion, Emmy, Gerry, and Patrick were not miscasted. Emmy, Gerard, and Patrick are just what Christine, the Phantom, and Raoul should sound like to me. Also, Hollywood is going to make the Phantom "hot" to make more money. I don't think Gerry is hot in Phantom. West End, Broadway, and Hollywood are two different mediums.