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Big Damn Kiss: Christine and The Phantom's kiss seems to go on for about five minutes.(And, of course, has never been destroyed by a fire.) The real Palais Garnier, which the OpГ©ra Populaire is based on, also hadn't been completed yet.

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Artistic License В– History: In Real Life, Paris in late 1870 was under heavy siege by the Germans, whereas in the film there's nary a hint of the Franco-Prussian War.

Giry, and both The Phantom and Christine.

Christine's backstory gets a little more development as well, showing how she came to the opera house as a young girl.

It's explained how Madame Giry came to know and unofficially 'work' for the Phantom when she was a teenager and he was presumably around ten, she helped him to escape from a travelling fair where he was abused and exhibited as a human oddity, and showed him a place to hide in the opera house.

No, he existed in flesh and blood, though he assumed all the outward characteristics of a real phantom, that is to say, of a ghost.

He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition of the managers, or the absurd and impressionable brains of the young ladies of the ballet, their mothers, the box-keepers, the cloak-room attendants, or the concierge. Yet, just as this new production will further ensure the continuation of the legend, it might perhaps help rescue his creator from the wings of literary acclaim where he has stood for so long. It is also a sad fact that the image of the Phantom has obscured Gaston Leroux himself вЂ“ for few people knew his name and even fewer have read his books. The first was a much abridged version performed as part of a Grand Guignol season at the Little Theatre in London in 1935 and then, in 1975, the Actors Company mounted a performance with Edward Petherbridge in the title role and Sharon Duce as Christine. In France, strangely, it has scarcely appealed to dramatists at all, and there have only been two notable productions in England. The story has not fared much better on the stage. Most recently, the original concept was abandoned in The Phantom of the Paradise (1974) when the Paris Opera House became a New York rock вЂ™nвЂ™ roll theater, and the Phantom a demented disc jockey preying on pretty teeny-boppers!

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Two years later, in 1962, Hammer Pictures revamped it as one of their series of вЂHammer HorrorsвЂ™ with Herbert Lom and Heather Sears. Twenty years on, LerouxвЂ™s story was shabbily treated in a Spanish version, El Fantasma de la Operetta, which portrayed the Phantom as a blood-thirsty villain bent on murdering chorus girls. Interestingly, all the sets for the original Chaney picture were used in this remake and the photography won an Oscar. The second version was made in 1943, this time with sound and in color, and starred Claude Raines as a revengeful Phantom who has been scarred by acid. Although the former stage manager turned actor was always reluctant to reveal just how he achieved his terrifying appearance, he firmly denied wearing any kind of mask: вЂњIt was the use of paints in the right shades and the right places вЂ“ not the obvious parts of the face вЂ“ which gave the complete illusion of horror,вЂќ Chaney said. The moment when Chaney snatched away the mask from his famous DeathвЂ™s Head also provided one of the great moments of screen history, (reportedly causing many people among the early audiences to faint!) as well as setting a standard for all who have since played the role.

With that film, Chaney not only made himself an international star but placed the story of The Phantom of the Opera firmly alongside those other great horror classics, Dracula and Frankenstein. Indeed, it is arguable that if Chaney, the Man of a Thousand Faces, had not starred in that hugely influential 1925 silent movie, Gaston LerouxвЂ™s story might well have remained in obscurity вЂ“ as the original book most certainly has done for many years вЂ“ instead of inspiring a whole series of screen and stage adaptations during the past half century. It is not just the figure of the mysterious music lover that haunts the story of The Phantom of the Opera but also that of the remarkable American film star, Lon Chaney Snr., for, more than anyone else, he created the image most readily associated in the public mind with the tale вЂ“ that of the disfigured man skulking through the labyrinths of lвЂ™OpГ©ra masterminding the career of his beautiful protГ©gГ©e.

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Prior to the 2004 movie version of The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Joel Schumacher and starring Gerard Butler and Emmy Rossum, the Phantom has undergone several screen adaptions.

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