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Because he realized that to love is to let go. He'd done a lot of things wrong even though he loved her, and letting her go was his final act of love, his redeeming choice. That is the theme of the story as it is in all versions (ALW and the original novel.) He realized she would be safer and happier with the stable and sane, normal looking Raoul, and he let them go so that she could be happy. It can be validly interpret that in that film she loved him (the Phantom), which he found out by her kisses. Which I think helped him in his choice. For one, they had shared 10 years of bonding and friendship in that film, and the final scene at her grave implied that she'd been longing for the Phantom all her life. And even in the original novel, he said he saw his "living wife" in her eyes, which originally was how he was able to let them go.
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∙ 14y agoGaston Leroux The Phantom of the Opera gives the answer in why Phantom helps Christine.
It began when the Phantom discovers Christine crying in her sleep for she is alone, frighten and without her father to help. He sings to her as means to comfort her. He soothes with his calming voice, voice that had be the Angel of Music that her father had spoken about. Then he heard her sing, it was beautiful but needed training, the Phantom had secretly begun to teach her. The Phantom could sing any range, break the crystal with his beautiful voice. Being lonely. they had fallen for each other, for different reasons, Christine saw him as her father's Angel of Music, a teacher, but the Phantom saw as a woman who could be his wife. He taught her for three months before Raoul, her childhood sweet heart had enter her life.
Chapter XII-I had heard him for three months without seeing him. The first time I heard it, I thought, as you did, that that adorable voice was singing in another room. I went out and looked everywhere; but, as you know, Raoul, my dressing-room is very much by itself; and I could not find the voice outside my room, whereas it went on steadily inside. And it not only sang, but it spoke to me and answered my questions, like a real man's voice, with this difference, that it was as beautiful as the voice of an angel.
"We were accompanied by a music which I do not know: it was behind the wall and wonderfully accurate. The voice seemed to understand mine exactly, to know precisely where my father had left off teaching me. In a few weeks' time, I hardly knew myself when I sang. I was even frightened. I seemed to dread a sort of witchcraft behind it...
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∙ 11y agoChristine is torn between Erik and Raoul. Erik is her 'Angel of Music' who had taught her to sing and guided and guarded her after the death of her father and they had bonded because of that. Assuming we're talking about the 2004 film, that time period lastet even 10 years which certainly is bound to deepen the relationship even if she was left in the impression that he was an angel and not a man. Erik's also supposed to have a supernaturally beautiful singing voice which she also fell in love with. She continued seeing Erik's beautiful soul and also his tragedy, when she learned he was nothing but a man. Raoul however, was her childhood friend and sweetheart with whom she shared many dear memories and with his sane and protective nature he was the feeling of safety when Erik begun to show his darker side, too.
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According to Joel Schimacher, the director of the movie; "Christine's relationship with Raoul is a romantic awakening as a teenager but her pull towards the Phantom is very sexual, very deep, very soulful union."
According to Emmy Rossum, the actor who played Christine in the movie; Christine and the Phantom had a bond over so many years in which they shared so much together which is why she and Gerard Butler (the Phantom's actor), during the filmiing between the shoots, wanted to create a great affect friendship, too. This indicates that Christine and Erik were supposed to have shared a great affect friendship over those years.
According to Gerard Butler, the actor of the Phantom; Erik began with a genuine desire to protect the child Christine from the world's evils and to take care of her but then in time as she grew older, his feeling for her changed into more complex and he became obsessed.
So, Christine was torn between her two genuine loves but she ended up choosing the safer love, likely because she was very young, lived in the 19th century society, and the situation in the lair was very confusing and scary.
Remember how she once sang to him: "Angel or father, friend or phantom; who is it there staring? ... Angel, oh speak, what endless longings echo in these whispers? ... Wildly my mind beats against you, but the soul obeys!"
Although the Phantom wasn't all Erik was, it was still a big part of him - a part so deeply rooted that it wouldn't just suddenly go away, and she likely realized it in the final lair scene. So in the end, when finally given her choice, she made the only smart choice she could've posisbly made.
However, the last scene with the old Raoul at her graveside may imply that while Christine had been a beloved wife and mother in her marriage to him, her heart had always belonged more to Erik. Also, as she leaves Erik's lair with Raoul, she seems to be singing to Erik "Share each day with me, each night, each morning." - that is indicated in the original script too that can be found in the Movie Companion book.
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∙ 12y agoThe Phantom, or Erik likes Christine Daae because of her beautiful voice and her love for him as her teacher.
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What are the lyrics to the Last Song from the movie Phantom of the Opera?
PHANTOM: Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair! Down we plunge to the prison of my mind! Down that path into darkness deep as hell! Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? Not for any mortal sin, but the wickedness of my abhorrent face! CHORUS: Track down this murderer! He must be found! Track down this murderer! He must be found! PHANTOM: Hounded out by everyone! Met with hatred everywhere! No kind word from anyone! No compassion anywhere! Christine, Christine ... Why, why ...? MADAME GIRY: Your hand at the level of your eyes! ... at the level of your eyes ... This is as far as I dare go. CHRISTINE: Have you gorged yourself at last, in your lust for blood? Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh? PHANTOM: That fate, which condemns me to wallow in blood has also denied me the joys of the flesh ... this face - the infection which poisons our love ... This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing ... A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing ... Pity comes too late - turn around and face your fate: an eternity of this before your eyes! CHRISTINE: This haunted face holds no horror for me now ... It's in your soul that the true distortion lies ... PHANTOM: Wait! I think, my dear, we have a guest! CHRISTINE: Raoul! PHANTOM: Sir, this is indeed an unparalleled delight! I had rather hoped that you would come. And now my wish comes true - you have truly made my night! RAOUL: Free her! Do what you like only free her! Have you no pity? PHANTOM: Your lover makes a passionate plea! CHRISTINE: Please Raoul, it's useless! RAOUL: I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her! Show some compassion ... PHANTOM: The world showed no compassion to me! RAOUL: Christine ... Christine ...Let me see her ... PHANTOM: Be my guest, sir ... Monsieur, I bid you welcome! Did you think that I would harm her? Why should I make her pay for the sins which are yours? Order your fine horses now! Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes! Nothing can save you now - except perhaps Christine ... Start a new life with me - Buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me, and you send your lover to his death! This is the choice - This is the point of no return! CHRISTINE: The tears I might have shed for your dark fate grow cold, and turn to tears of hate! RAOUL: Christine, forgive me please forgive me ... I did it all for you, and all for nothing ... CHRISTINE: Farewell my fallen idol and false friend ... We had such hopes and now Those hopes are shattered! PHANTOM: Too late for turning back, too late for prayers and useless pity! RAOUL: Say you love him and my life is over PHANTOM: All hope of cries for help; no point in fighting! RAOUL/PHANTOM: For either way you choose, he has to win/you cannot win! PHANTOM: So, do you end your days with me, or do you send him to his grave? RAOUL: Why make her lie to you, to save me? CHRISTINE: Angel of Music ... PHANTOM: Past the point of no return - RAOUL: For pity's sake, Christine, say no! CHRISTINE: ...who deserves this? PHANTOM: ... the final threshold... RAOUL: Don't throw your life away for my sake! CHRISTINE: When will you see reason ...? PHANTOM: His life is now the prize which you must earn! RAOUL: I fought so hard to free you ... CHRISTINE: Angel of Music ... PHANTOM: You've passed the point of no return ... CHRISTINE: ... you deceived me. I gave my mind blindly. 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 ... CHORUS: Track down this murderer He must be found!... PHANTOM: Take her - forget me - forget all of this ... Leave me alone - forget all you've seen ... Go now - don't let them find you! Take the boat - swear to me never to tell The secrets you know of the angel in hell CHORUS: The Phantom of the Opera is there inside your mind! PHANTOM: Go now! Go now, and leave me! Masquerade... Paper faces on parade... Masquerade... Hide your face so the world will never find you... Christine, I love you... CHRISTINE: Say you'll share with me, one love, one lifetime... RAOUL: Say the word and I will follow you... CHRISTINE: Share each day with me, each night, each morning... PHANTOM: You alone can make my song take flight - it's over now, the music of the night!
What happened to Erik at the end of phantom of the opera?
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Phantom of the Opera-At the end, the Phantom lets Christine go. Christine and Raoul actually leave the Phantom's lair together in the boat. The Phantom is left in his lair and is sitting in his throne and throws his cape over himself. When the mob enters the Phantom's lair they lift the cape but only his mask is there. The end.
Why did Meg kill Christine?
She kills her because Christine ends up staying with the phantom in the play Love never Dies and Meg kidnaps their son Gustav and when Christine and the Phantom go after Gustav, Meg shoots Christine, killing her.
The phantom of the opera sad incident?
Well, you aren't really giving me much to go on, but seeing other simiar questions, I'm guessing that this is a homework assignment or something? My first knee-jerk response is to tell you to read the book yourself and figure it out. But if you want the cliff notes version, the tragedy of the Phantom's story is that he was an extremely talented man who would have been one of the most celebrated men of his day, were it not for his unfortunate appearance. Basically he had everything going for him except looks, and that one single lack condemned him to a life of isolation and loneliness. From the final paragraphs of the epilogue (de Matteo translation): "Poor, unhappy Erik! Shall we pity him? Shall we curse him? He only asked to be 'someone,' like everybody else. And he had to hide his genius or use it to play tricks with, when, with an ordinary face, he would have been one of the most distinguished of mankind! He had a heart that could have held the empire of the world; and, in the end, he had to content himself with a cellar. Ah, yes, we must needs pity the Opera ghost."
What are some Raoul quotes from Phantom of the Opera?
"Long ago. It seems so long ago. How young and innocent we were. She may not remember me, but I remember her." "Little Lotte, let her mind wander. Little Lotte thought, am I fonder of dolls or of goblins or shoes? Or of riddles or frocks? Or of chocolates?" "Who's is the voice? Who is that in there?" "Where is she? I mean Miss Daae -- where is she? I want an answer. I take it that you sent me this note." "She's not with you then? Monsieur, don't argue. Isn't this the letter you wrote?" "If you didn't write it then who did?" "I must see her. Where did she go?" "Christine spoke of an angel." "Orders, warnings -- lunatic demands!" "I must see these demands are rejected!" "Why have you brought me here? We must return... Christine don't say that. Don't even think it. Forget this waking nightmare. This phantom isn't capable. Believe me, there is no Phantom of the Opera. My gosh, who is this man? This mask of death? Whose is this voice you hear with every breath?" "It's an engagement, not a crime!" "Clearly, Madame Giry, genius has turned to madness."
Which musical theatre songs are about choices?
Uhm... I suppose you could say... Past the Point of No Return - The Phantom of the Opera (whether or not to be together, the beginning at least) Down Once More - The Phantom of the Opera (whether ir not to kill Raoul, to let then go, for Christine to kiss the Phantom, for Christine to choose a life with the Phantom to save Raoul or to let Raoul die for her freedom) Kiss Me - Sweeney Todd (whether or not to be together) A Weekend in the Country - A Little Night Music (to got o the country or not) Hope this helps!
How does Andrew Lloyd's version of the Phantom of the Opera end?
The Phantom ends up trying to make Christine commit to a marriage with him, by threatning to kill Raoul if she won't do so just like in the novel - but in the ALW stage version, The Phantom has trapped Raoul in a hangman's noose and in the film version he ties Raoul to the gate of his lair and puts a lassoo around his neck in means to stranggle Raoul if Christine refuses to marry him (the Phantom.) There's a few moments of huge drama between the trio and eventually Christine chooses the Phantom. She puts on the engagement ring and gives the Phantom two kisses on the lips. Her love, sacrifice and commitment has the Phantom's human side win and he learns the true meaning of love; and thus because he loves Christine, he lets Raoul and Christine go. The Phantom tells Christine the three words ('I love you'), she gives him back the engagement ring and she and Raoul leave. In the stage version, the Phantom weeps into her wedding veil, chanting her name or alternatively 'I love you' and then either dies or disappears. In the film version it's the same except the wedding veil moment has been changed into him breaking a few mirrors in anguish.
The story of the phantom of opera?
Christine Daae was brought up in the Paris Opera house when her famous musician father suddenly dies, telling her he will send her and angel of music to look after her. She grows up and discovers that she is hearing a voice, telling her and teaching her to sing. She believes he is the angel of music but infact he is a disfigured genius, The phantom. He falls in love with her whilst. Although she is fasinated and drawn towards the phantom, she falls in love with her childhood sweetheart, The vicomte de changy- or Raoul. The phantom gets madly jealous, kidknapps Christine, and threatens to kill Raoul. She, to save Raoul, agrees to marry the phantom and kisses him. He then realizes what he's done and then makes Christine go with Raoul, disappearing forever.
How Christine daae sacrifice?
Christine Daae's sacrifice was her love. In the movie, the Phantom ties Raoul to the gate and put's the lasso around his neck, and forces Christine to choose between him and Raoul. If Christine chose the Phantom, they would be married and Raoul would remain alive. If Christine chose Raoul, the Phantom would kill Raoul. Christine chose Erik and kissed him, Erik feeling such emotion rise let's Daae go free, including Raoul. They leave Erik and he smashes all the mirrors. He leaves through a tunnel behind one of them. In the book, Christine must turn the Scorpion Casket to be married and let everyone live. If she didn't turn it in two minutes, he'd turn the Grasshopper Casket and the whole Opera with everyone inside would explode, including most of Paris. Raoul talks to her through the wall, he tells her not to turn the casket. But before Erik could turn the Grasshopper, she turns the Scorpion Casket to save Raoul. The casket released water that flooded the tunnel with the barrels of gunpowder in it, smothering it so it wouldn't explode. Raoul and the Persian man nearly drown. The Persian man tells to Erik, reminding him that he saved him years ago from execution. Erik retrieves the men, and when he wakes up, Raoul is asleep on the couch and Christine is sent to fetch a hot drink. The next part was confusing... Erik took Raoul and chained him a dungeon (From what I gather.) and Christine kisses Erik. Erik comes to the Persian man and doesn't make sense, he keeps saying Christine kissed him. (I'm going to assume when she did, he freed Christine and Raoul. And they left.) Erik is announced dead a few weeks later, his love for her killed him.
Did roual die in the phantom of the opera?
No Raoul did not die in the book The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux. He married Christine.In the stage and movie of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, the phantom lets him go to be with Christine, demands them both to leave the Angel of Hell.
Who actually killed the phantom?
No one. The 2004 film clearly shows the Phantom had lived even after Christine died at the age of 65. The Phantom probably died later of old age because he was older than Christine. In the original novel he died soon after Christine left with Raoul, and he (the Phantom) died of love, because he loved Christine so much but had to let her go.
What are the lyrics to the Last Song from the movie Phantom of the Opera?
PHANTOM: Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair! Down we plunge to the prison of my mind! Down that path into darkness deep as hell! Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? Not for any mortal sin, but the wickedness of my abhorrent face! CHORUS: Track down this murderer! He must be found! Track down this murderer! He must be found! PHANTOM: Hounded out by everyone! Met with hatred everywhere! No kind word from anyone! No compassion anywhere! Christine, Christine ... Why, why ...? MADAME GIRY: Your hand at the level of your eyes! ... at the level of your eyes ... This is as far as I dare go. CHRISTINE: Have you gorged yourself at last, in your lust for blood? Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh? PHANTOM: That fate, which condemns me to wallow in blood has also denied me the joys of the flesh ... this face - the infection which poisons our love ... This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing ... A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing ... Pity comes too late - turn around and face your fate: an eternity of this before your eyes! CHRISTINE: This haunted face holds no horror for me now ... It's in your soul that the true distortion lies ... PHANTOM: Wait! I think, my dear, we have a guest! CHRISTINE: Raoul! PHANTOM: Sir, this is indeed an unparalleled delight! I had rather hoped that you would come. And now my wish comes true - you have truly made my night! RAOUL: Free her! Do what you like only free her! Have you no pity? PHANTOM: Your lover makes a passionate plea! CHRISTINE: Please Raoul, it's useless! RAOUL: I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her! Show some compassion ... PHANTOM: The world showed no compassion to me! RAOUL: Christine ... Christine ...Let me see her ... PHANTOM: Be my guest, sir ... Monsieur, I bid you welcome! Did you think that I would harm her? Why should I make her pay for the sins which are yours? Order your fine horses now! Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes! Nothing can save you now - except perhaps Christine ... Start a new life with me - Buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me, and you send your lover to his death! This is the choice - This is the point of no return! CHRISTINE: The tears I might have shed for your dark fate grow cold, and turn to tears of hate! RAOUL: Christine, forgive me please forgive me ... I did it all for you, and all for nothing ... CHRISTINE: Farewell my fallen idol and false friend ... We had such hopes and now Those hopes are shattered! PHANTOM: Too late for turning back, too late for prayers and useless pity! RAOUL: Say you love him and my life is over PHANTOM: All hope of cries for help; no point in fighting! RAOUL/PHANTOM: For either way you choose, he has to win/you cannot win! PHANTOM: So, do you end your days with me, or do you send him to his grave? RAOUL: Why make her lie to you, to save me? CHRISTINE: Angel of Music ... PHANTOM: Past the point of no return - RAOUL: For pity's sake, Christine, say no! CHRISTINE: ...who deserves this? PHANTOM: ... the final threshold... RAOUL: Don't throw your life away for my sake! CHRISTINE: When will you see reason ...? PHANTOM: His life is now the prize which you must earn! RAOUL: I fought so hard to free you ... CHRISTINE: Angel of Music ... PHANTOM: You've passed the point of no return ... CHRISTINE: ... you deceived me. I gave my mind blindly. 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 ... CHORUS: Track down this murderer He must be found!... PHANTOM: Take her - forget me - forget all of this ... Leave me alone - forget all you've seen ... Go now - don't let them find you! Take the boat - swear to me never to tell The secrets you know of the angel in hell CHORUS: The Phantom of the Opera is there inside your mind! PHANTOM: Go now! Go now, and leave me! Masquerade... Paper faces on parade... Masquerade... Hide your face so the world will never find you... Christine, I love you... CHRISTINE: Say you'll share with me, one love, one lifetime... RAOUL: Say the word and I will follow you... CHRISTINE: Share each day with me, each night, each morning... PHANTOM: You alone can make my song take flight - it's over now, the music of the night!
Who wrote words for Phantom of the Opera?
Hal Prince was the director of the Phantom of the Opera Stage Play in London and New York on Broadway. All I Ask of You from Phantom of the Opera-Songwriters: Sir Andrew Lloyd-Webber,Charles Hart
All you ask of you lyrics?
All I Ask Of You by Andrew Lloyd Webber? No more talk of darkness, Forget these wide-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm you - my words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom, let daylight dry -your tears. I'm here, with you, beside you, to guard you and to guide you . . . CHRISTINE Say you love me every waking moment, turn my head with talk of summertime . . . Say you need me with you, now and always . . . promise me that all you say is true - that's all I ask of you . . . RAOUL Let me be your shelter, let me be your light. You're safe: No-one will find you your fears are far behind you . . . CHRISTINE All I want is freedom, a world with no more night . . . and you always beside me to hold me and to hide me . . . RAOUL Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime . . . Iet me lead you from your solitude . . . Say you need me with you here, beside you . . . anywhere you go, let me go too - Christine, that's all I ask of you . . . CHRISTINE Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime . . . say the word and I will follow you . . . BOTH Share each day with me, each night, each morning . . . CHRISTINE Say you love me . . . RAOUL You know I do . . . BOTH Love me - that's all I ask of you . . . (They kiss) Anywhere you go let me go too . . . Love me - that's all I ask of you . . (CHRISTINE starts from her reverie) CHRISTINE I must go - they'll wonder where I am . . . wait for me, Raoul! RAOUL Christine, I love you! CHRISTINE; Order your fine horses! Be with them at the door! RAOUL And soon you'll be beside me! CHRISTINE You'll guard me, and you'll guide me . . . (They hurry off. The PHANTOM emerges from behind the statue
What is the message of phantom of the opera?
The Beauty is the eye of the beholder. The Phantom is physically deformed either from birth or Andrew Lloyd Webber's Phantom beaten by gypsies, he has able to create beautiful inspiring music, able to teach a young lady to believe in herself the impossible dream. Raoul was physically hansom, he listened to music for he was patron, but had no true understanding of it or the desire to obtain it. Christine loved the phantom, although she stunned about his grotesque appearance but she was torn when he kidnapped Raoul her childhood friend. The Phantom realized it was wrong to force her to love him, that he let her and Raoul go. He died of a broken heart. He saw the true meaning of love in Christine, she was willingly to give him his desire to have a wife in order to protect Raoul from torture and death.
Who was the last person the phantom killed in Phantom of the Opera?
no one in the movie the mob tries to kill him because they think he killed Christine but in the end of the movie he let rauol and Christine go and Christine comes back and gives him the ring back basically showing the phantom she doesnt love him like that and the phantom cries and then he dissapered and they never found him
What happened to Erik at the end of phantom of the opera?
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Musical Phantom of the Opera-At the end, the Phantom lets Christine go. Christine and Raoul actually leave the Phantom's lair together in the boat. The Phantom is left in his lair and is sitting in his throne and throws his cape over himself. When the mob enters the Phantom's lair they lift the cape but only his mask is there. The end.
