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Actors: Claude Rains, Susanna Foster, Nelson Eddy, Edgar Barrier, Jane Farrar
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Phantom of the Opera |
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Erique Claudin (Rains) is a long-time violinist for the Paris Opera House. He is let go due to his deteriorating skills and has a nervous breakdown. The now out of work musician has anonymously paid for the career of a young operatic understudy named Christine DuBois (Foster) but Claudin is now destitute. His only asset is an unpublished piano composition for the opera, but when he seeks it at the music publisher's office it is not there. He goes berserk, killing the publisher with his hands, and is disfigured in the process by an assistant. In his effort to flee the murder scene he hides in the Parisian sewer system.
As months pass the opera house has become haunted by strange accidents and thefts of items. Star singer Madame Biancarolli (Farrar) gets sick before the opening of a big production. Christine steps in and steals the show. Biancarolli suspects foul play by singer Garron (Eddy) who likes Christine. The phantom appears and threatens Biancarolli for making trouble for Christine. He is angered by her interference and kills both her and her maid. The opera's owners devise a plan to entrap Claudin. They open a new show but without Christine and wait for him to show himself. He appears and drops a giant chandelier before snatching Christine off to his hidden dwelling under the opera house. Claudin plays piano for his beloved but she is mortified when she removes the mask to reveal his true identity and gruesome acid-charred face. Christine is just rescued by Inspector Daubert (Barrier) and Garron as the unstable walls fall down everywhere. Claudin is crushed to death by block, stone, and debris.
--David Fletcher, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 19th century
Horror film?
Yes
Horror Plotlets:
- mad guy with knife likes to slice
Romance
Yes
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- medium/shoulderlgn, curly (woman)
Body type
- ample bosom & buttocks (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- irritated
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average build (man)
How much in movie?
- 80%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 40's-50's
Profession/status:
- unemployed
Eccentric:
Yes
- eccentric
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 80%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- French
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
City?
Yes
City:
- Dirty, grimy (like New York)
- dangerous
Misc setting
- sewers/subways
- building
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- concerned
How many deaths in film?
- 4-8
Unusual forms of death
- asphyxiation
- crushed
Check here if B&W
Yes
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Orchestra/classical
Is this movie based on a
- book
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