When Christine removes the Phantom's mask, he pushes her down on the floor. Right after he says 'Curse you,' the camera goes back to her: she is half laughing. [She's not half-laughing, she's breathing heavily.]
The Phantom of the Opera (2004) - 90 corrections
Directed by Joel Schumacher, starring Ciarán Hinds, Emmy Rossum, Gerard Butler, Minnie Driver, Miranda Richardson, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Ellison
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When Christine removes the Phantom's mask, he pushes her down on the floor. Right after he says 'Curse you,' the camera goes back to her: she is half laughing. [She's not half-laughing, she's breathing heavily.]
In Masquerade, the "gold people" are near the top of the stairs. They are not supposed to move, and if they were to, it would be noticable. But when the Phantom comes up, they are now moved to the bottom of the staris. [Yes, the "gold people" are situated at the top of the stairs during the beginning of the Masquerade, but the last time we see them at the top is at the end of the part where Andre, Firmin, Carlotta, Piangi, Meg, and Madame Giry are singing, right after we switch to Christine and Raoul who are noticably not in the main room where the "gold people" are, and we watch them for about 30 seconds. That is enough time for the "gold people" to have moved down to the bottom of the stairs. And you will notice that when Christine and Raoul begin to dance that the "gold people" are down there and that is long before the Phantom appears.] In the scene where the Phantom sings "stranger than you dreamt it", the shot right before it shows the mannequin of Christine, the Phantom says "oh Christine" but his lips are saying something else. [His lips are saying "Oh Christine" just as they're supposed to. It might appear to look different at a glance because his lips move drastically to pronounce the letter "s" in "Christine"(due to intense emotion his speaking is slightly stressed) and his chin moves down when transitioning from the letter "s" to the "tine" part, making it seem as though he has mouthed too many syllables for that one phrase. But when you watch it several times you can see that he is saying "Oh Christine."]
In the graveyard scene Christine enters with her hair covered with a shawl. In the next shot the shawl is over her shoulders. [In between the two shots (Christine walking between two rows of statues, and when she starts to sing), there are several seconds when she is not in sight, while the camera is on a hooded statue. There was plenty of time for her to push her shawl back.] Corrected by Twotall If Gustav Daaé died leaving his daughter in utter poverty, why is he buried in the largest mausoleum (which, presumably, cost the most) in the cemetery? It can't be a family mausoleum, since he's Swedish, not French, and the only reason Christine remained in France is because he died. [No-one in the movie says anything about "utter poverty", that's an assumption. Christine might have inherited some money from him, and besides, at the time most succesful artists had patrons in the form of admirers. One of these might have been a big enough admirer of Daaé to have paid for a grand mausoleum, as a tribute.] Corrected by Twotall During the rooftop scene, Christine is clad in a flimsy, sleeveless dress, barely covered by a shawl, yet she doesn't seem to be cold at all. [She is wearing a floor-length cloak, and the fact that she ran to the roof would have given her enough adrenaline to keep warm. Not to mention the tension/ apprehension of all that occurs on the roof] In the Don Juan opera, just after Carlotta's solo, she and the chorus sing their final chord as they point into the audience. The camera moves across towards centre stage. Minnie Driver, obviously thinking she is out of shot stops singing, laughs and jokingly fights for position with the man standing next to her. [Minnie Driver doesn't get out of character at all, and doesn't laugh. This is Carlotta being Carlotta, bossing people around, scowling at and pushing the man, trying to upstage everyone and take up the spotlight in spite of having lost the main role in Don Juan to Christine. This bit you mention is very reminiscent of "Prima Donna," where she swats people around her.] Corrected by Sereenie The chandelier is gaslight. When it breaks off and falls from the ceiling, the gas should have been disconnected. Instead of burning brightly all the way to the floor and starting a fire, it should have gone out and plunged the theatre into darkness. This is what happened in the real Paris Opera house, in the original book, and on the Broadway version. Only in the movie is the chandelier capable of starting a fire after being disconnected. [Nowhere in the movie does it say (or show) that it's a gaslight chandelier (only the stage lights are shown to be gas-powered). In fact, it very much looks like candlelight all over. A candlelight chandelier would act just as it did in the movie, setting everything on fire.] Corrected by Sereenie Throughout the movie, especially when the Phantom sing to Christine on the way to his lair, synthesizers and electric guitars are used. These were not yet invented. [This is part of the movie score and it's definitely not intended to convey that these instruments are somehow being played nearby.] Corrected by wizard_of_gore When Raoul falls through the trapdoor his hair is down, also when he is in the water. However when we see him climbing out of the water his hair is tied back. There is no way he would have tied it back whilst underwater trying not to drown. [Raoul's hair is not tied back; it is wet and plastered to his head.] Corrected by Sereenie In the film, most of the characters don't wear nearly enough stage makeup. In "Think of Me", for example, Christine would have needed a lot of blush, eyeshadow, eyeliner, etc. just to look "normal" from the audience's perspective. Instead, as you can see by watching the film, she looks pale and washed out. As a professional actress and stage makeup artist, I can assure you that this is definitely NOT a mistake the opera makeup artists would have made. I think it was a choice of the filmmakers so that they would look better up close, but it's still a mistake. [Christine and Meg arrive late for rehearsals (you see them running into stretching practice while all the other girls are already there) and the makeup artists didn't have time to put it on them. Also notice how neither of them are wearing the head pieces and Meg's hair isn't even fixed right.] When Meg Giry enters the Phantom's Lair and wades through the water to step up to the grotto, we see the mirrors that the Phantom just smashed with the candlestick intact. [You are mistaken, they are still smashed.] Corrected by Sereenie In the "Masquerade" scene, there is an up close shot of a female dancer who is lined up on the stairs and is dressed in black, wearing a black mask, and holding a fan. The shot lasts for a couple of seconds, but if looked at closely the girl is Emmy Rossum. In this shot, Rossum looks to her left, covers her face with her fan, looks to her right, covers her face with her fan, then looks directly into the camera. You can recognize Rossum by her distinctive mouth. [Seeing as everyone in this scene is wearing a mask and you base this entirely on the person's mouth, there is no possible way to say who the woman is.] During 'Masquerade', the camera sweeps up the steps to a group of people in cat masks, who strike a pose similar to a pose often used in promotional material for the musical 'Cats,' also by Andrew Lloyd Webber. [It's *very vaguely* similar. If it was intended as a reference, they would have made it *the same*.] Corrected by Sereenie In the scene of the Phantom and Christine falling from the bridge into the pit of 'fire', you can see that they are changing positions during the falling. [No, they don't. The camera changes positions, not them.]
Madame Giry's accent is the only one that is truly accurate. Christine, despite being of Swedish decent and raised by a French woman in a French opera house, is American. Meg, who also is raised in France by a French woman, is Welsh. Raoul, Vicomte de Changy, obviously a Frenchman, is also American. And The Phantom is shown to have been raised in the French opera house as well, yet he is perfectly British. Gerard Butler is Scottish, yet has a flawless British accent in the film, so why is it that his is the only accent that was tampered with? [Accents are not a mistake, and this submission itself contains mistakes and even contradicts itself. Madame Giry does NOT have a correct accent. Gerard Butler does NOT have a flawless British accent (rrrraging fahhhhrrrrr, anyone?). The movie is not in French, so there is no point for the characters to have a French accent. Their English is supposed to be French, so their English accents represent their French accents, since most characters come from various parts of the country and have different levels of education.] Corrected by Sereenie At the end of the song, "Think of me," when there is a close-up of Christine singing, bubble gum is seen in her mouth. [Utter drivel. At all times Christine's mouth is completely empty. A screenshot is needed to verify this mistake.] Corrected by Chimera When the Phantom strangles Joseph Buquet he is face down, but mere seconds later he's face up, much too quickly to have been turned over. [Buquet is attacked from behind – the natural reflex will be to roll over to try to defend himself, which doesn't take long to do and isn't hard. The shot of the Phantom between the two of Buquet gave him enough time to do that.] Corrected by Sereenie During the scene after Christine removes the mask from the Phantom for the first time, he is not wearing gloves as he rips the cover off the mirror; seconds later, he knocks over a candle, and is wearing a black glove on his left hand; yet when he starts to sing "Stranger than you dreamt it" a few seconds later, the glove is gone again. [This is incorrect. The Phantom is gloveless throughout the entire scene. If one looks very closely, what is being mistaken as the glove is the Phantom's cuff flying up as he strikes the candle down, but a second later his fingers are visible beneath the cuff once again.] Corrected by OneHappyHusky Throughout the film, when almost any character, particularly Christine, is sustaining a long note, their mouth positioning starts to shift. This makes it very obvious that the characters are lip-synching to their own voices, as moving their mouths would have distorted the sound and quality of the note. [I, among others, am able to move my mouth while sustaining a long note. It's very easy to do. Obviously the characters in the film can, too.]