The Phantom of the Opera
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The Phantom: Softly, deftly, music shall carress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

Christine Daae: Angel of Music, you've deceived me. I gave you my mind blindly.

The Phantom: You will curse the day you did not do, all that the Phantom asked of you!

Firmin: What a way to run a business. Spare me these unending trials. Half your cast disappears but the crowd still cheers. Opera, to hell with Gluck and Handel; have a scandal and you're sure to have a hit.

Raoul: Say you love him, and my life is over!

Auctioneer: Lot 666, then...a chandelier in pieces. Some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera-a mystery never fully explained. We're told, ladies and gentlemen, that this is the very chandelier that figures in the famous disaster.

Phantom: You try my patience...make your choice!
Christine: Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you...you are not alone!

Phantom: Our Don Juan must lose some weight...it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age.

Monsieur Lefevre: Perhaps we can frighten the ghosts of so many years ago... With a little illumination.

Lefevre: Gentlemen, good luck. If you need me, I shall be in Australia.

Phantom: What warm, unspoken secrets will we learn.beyond the point of no return?

Christine Daae: The tears I might have shed for your dark fate, grow cold and turn to tears of hate!

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Continuity mistake: At the end when Meg steps out of the water, her pants are wet. However, when she enters the bedroom and finds the Phantom's mask, her pants are perfectly dry. (02:10:35)

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Trivia: The candles that light instantly as they emerge from the water in the Phantom's Lair were not computer effects - special air-sensitive candles were used. Luckily, the scene was captured well in the first take, as when they tried to re-shoot the scene the candles wouldn't work again.

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Question: Who is the old man in the wheelchair who puts the music box with the monkey on Christine's grave at the end?I thought it might be Raoul but the box belonged to the phantom and he hated the phantom.

Answer: It is Raoul. He gets the music box because Christine obviously loved it, shown by the fact that she had obviously described and remembered it in such great detail many years after last seeing it. He buys it for her as a gift of love, even though she has died.

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Answer: It's also a symbol that Raoul recognized Christine still loved the phantom. Possibly more than him. The love triangle is complete as neither man truly had her. Raoul spent his life with her but she loved the phantom. The phantom missed out on spending life with her but got her love.

Answer: It's Raoul. When the auctioneer sells him the music box, he addresses him by his title, The Vicomte de Chagny.

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