About the movie 'The Phantom of the Opera'?

Question

The Phantom with the distorted face. How did he get it. Is he a leper. Acid thrown on his face or something? And I don't understand one thing. He pretends to be the angel of music guiding Christine, right? BUt he is actually an abandoned man who lives in darkness and finds hope in his "obsession" of the voice of Christine?

Answer 1

He was born with a deformed face. He was in love with Christine, and because he'd never been a part of society he didn't exactly know the proper way to express it. He also wanted to use her talent to get his work portrayed to others.

Answer 2

In the play/movie, they don't tell you where he gets his distorted face. Only that he is a "freak" in a sideshow act as a child. He is in love with Christine's voice and tricks her into thinking that he is her dead father. She doesn't really believe that it isn't her father till the end.~~~

Answer 3

he was born that way and put into a freak show as the devils child and he is rescued bya girl who puts him under the opera house and he lives there with his masks and scares cristine and the others by killing people for no reason but in the end he lets her go be with rolphe its a great movie i love it very much it chould be a classic

Answer 4

you actually do understand the Phantom. He is an isolated character who finds 'hope' in his prodigy, Christine. He uses her innocenece to make her 'love' him.

His history differs depending on what you are reading/watching. The new movie and the play have a similar history. The old black and white movie (which is pretty seperate from any other Phantom plot) shows him aas a man who's face is ruined by acid. The book, by Gaston Leroux, is pretty detailed. Here is what is in wikipedia (its a lot better than any decription I can give, but you should read the book, its VERY good)

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The Leroux novel gives few details about Erik's past, although there is no shortage of hints and implications throughout the book. Erik himself laments the fact that his mother was horrified by his appearance and never allowed his father to see him. It is also revealed that "Erik" was not, in fact, his birth name, but given or found "by accident", as Erik himself tells in the novel.

Most of Erik's history is revealed by a mysterious figure, known through most of the novel as "the Persian" or "Daroga", who had been a local police chief in Persia and who followed Erik to Paris; some of the rest is discussed in the novel's Epilogue. Erik was born in a town outside of Rouen, France. He was born hideously deformed, and was a "subject of horror and terror" for his entire life. He ran away as a boy and fell in with a band of gypsies, making his living as an attraction in freak shows, in which he was known as "le mort vivant (the living death)." During his time with the tribe, Erik became a great illusionist, magician and ventriloquist. His reputation for these skills and for his beautiful singing voice spread quickly, and one day a fur trader mentioned him to the Shah of Persia. The Shah ordered the Persian to fetch Erik and bring him to the palace.

The Shah-in-Shah commissioned Erik, who proved himself a gifted architect, with the task of constructing an elaborate palace. The edifice was designed with so many trap doors and secret rooms that not even the slightest whisper could be considered private. The architecture was arranged for the purpose of carrying sound to a myriad of hidden locations, so that one never knew who might be listening in. At some point under the Shah's employment, Erik was also a royal assassin, using a unique noose referred to as the Punjab Lasso.

The Persian dwells on the vague horrors that existed at Mazenderan rather than going in depth into the actual circumstances involved. The Shah pleased with Erik's work is determined that no one else should have such a palace as his and orders Erik to be blinded. Thinking that Erik could still make another palace even without his eye sight the Shah ordered Erik's execution. It was only by the intervention of the daroga (the Persian) that Erik was able to escape.

Erik then went to Constantinople and was employed by its ruler, helping build certain edifices in the Yildiz-Kiosk, among other things. But he had to leave the city for the same reason he left Mazenderan: he knew too much.

By this time Erik was tired of palace life and wanted to "live like everybody else." For a time he worked as a contractor, building "ordinary houses with ordinary bricks". He eventually bid on a contract to help with the construction of the Palais Garnier, commonly known as the Paris Opera House.

During the construction he was able to make a sort of playground for himself within the Opera House, creating trapdoors and secret passageways throughout every inch of the theatre. He even built himself a house in the cellars of the Opera where he lived, hidden from man's cruelty. We also know that Erik was composing an opera entitled "Don Juan Triumphant." In one chapter after he takes Christine to his lair, she asks him to play for her a piece from his Don Juan. He refuses and says, "I will play you Mozart, if you like, which will only make you weep; but my Don Juan, Christine, burns." He originally planned to go to his bed and "never wake up" upon its completion but by the final chapters of the novel, Erik had expressed his wish to marry Christine after his opera had been completed

Answer 5

i thought he was born with it. Because in the beginning wasn't he a circus freak(with a bag on his head)? who they lady takes and he escapes with her? so thats what i thought

Answer 6

how the pahnton got the scark on his was by getting whipped when he was a child.

Answer 7

idk...i thought it was just a mask he had