The Phantom Of The Opera Animated Movie

[Heberto Calderon]

Onthe opening night of Romeo and Juliet a series of strange occurrences befall the Opera house; A cat is murdered and Diva Carlotta falls ill. These are attributed to the mysterious Opera Ghost by Monsieur Rober. Monsieur Buquet discredits the rumors of a ghost and threatens to sell the box reserved for the Ghost unaware that he is being observed from the rafters. During the performance the Opera Ghost watches the new leading lady Christine Daa intently from the shadows in Box Five.

After the performance, in the guise of the spirit of music, The Opera Ghost praises Christine's performance and asks that she may come to love him. As the spirit of music he has been giving her singing lessons for the last three months unseen behind her mirror. His conversation is rudely interrupted by the arrival of the indignant Raoul de Chagny. Meanwhile the body of Monsieur Rober is found hanging in Box Five with a note from the Opera Ghost warning Buquet not to sell his box. Returning to Christine's room, he beckons Christine towards her mirror. Passing through her mirror she is dismayed to see that the spirit of music was a man after all and bursts into tears. Erik introduces himself and shows her his masked face before he covers her mouth and carries her unconscious through the underground passages ways, across the lake and to his home.When Christine wakes, Erik asks to play for her certain that his music will make her love him. She agrees but only as a means of distracting him while she tries to escape. She runs from the room into the underground passages only to find herself back in Erik's home much to his amusement. Christine demands that she be freed and asks why Erik has brought her to his home and what sort of a man is he. He insists that he loves her and only wants an opportunity for her to fall in love with him. When Erik tells her that she shall never see his face, she promptly rips off his mask and recoils with a

scream. Erik lets out an anguished howl and sheds a tear before he angrily forces Christine to look upon his face. His angry dissolves into sobs where he admits that his father had never seen him and his mother made him wear a mask. Seated and kissing the hem of her gown, Erik makes Christine promises but doubts that she would ever return if he let her go. Christine assures him but he keeps her underground for two weeks until she promises she will never see Raoul again. Erik in turn threatens to kill Raoul if she breaks her promise but allows her to go free. However he overhears Christine's betrayal when she confesses her love

for and makes plans to meet Raoul de Chagny at the Masquerade Ball the following evening. At the Masquerade Ball Erik arrives as The Red Death and injures a clown by grabbing his wrist in an iron grip and only releasing him to pursue Christine and Raoul. He follows them to the rooftop and from Apollo's Lyre witnesses them kissing and making an escape pact. During the performance of Romeo and Juliet Erik causes the the crash of the chandelier and, during the ensuing confusion of the accident, abducts Christine.

Erik bounds Christine's hands behind her back as he implores her to love him. He has even made a handsome human like mask so that he can resemble a normal man. As Christine weeps Erik gives her the ultimatum; Marry him or he will blow up the Opera House.Erik unties her and leaves to let her think on her decision and returns to discover her talking with Raoul and Daroga. Erik presses a mechanism which heats the torture chamber to an unbearable temperature to demonstrate the seriousness of his threat. Erik in particular taunts Daroga commenting that he is no longer chief of the Persian police because he pursued Erik to Paris. Daroga explains to Raoul that years ago he sought Erik on a charge of murder. When a body was found and identified as Erik's, Daroga was celebrated and given a generous pension (which he lives on). He relocated to Paris and discovered Erik in the opera Cellars. The men compromised; Erik would not reveal that he was still living and would commit no murders and Daroga wouldn't reveal his location. As Erik broke his word by killing Rober, Daroga began hunting him again. Erik pulls the curtain to conceal the viewing glass of the torture chamber before leaving Christine again. Erik returns for his final answer and is surprised to see that to see that Raoul and Daroga are miraculously unharmed. Christine agrees to marry

Erik so long as Raoul is allowed to live. Erik floods the cellars and in doing so floods the torture chamber causing Christine to beg for Raoul's life.Erik releases them and Christine stands by her promise to Erik. Erik bids her to come forward is moved to pity that Christine would allow him to touch her face for Raoul's sake. He gives her a wedding band and tells her to think of it as a wedding present and to go with the man she loves. As he kneels before her, Christine kisses his forehead. He sheds a tear and knowing that he is ready to die now. He marvels that he has been kissed by a living woman and bids Christine a good by as he places himself at his organ and begins to play. He plays his magnum opus on the organ with such anguish that the roof caves in. Daroga, Christine and Raoul escape while Erik dies under the rubble. From the river, Christine laments that all Erik wanted was for someone to love him as she is comforted by Raoul. Daroga agrees and says that Erik is now beyond man's hate and perhaps god would pity him.

The animated Erik is one of the most faithful depictions of the deformity. Erik resembles a corpse head: with discolored parchment like skin, no nose and glowing eyes in the dark sockets of his skull. He is also one of the few on screen Phantoms to be born with his deformity.

Erik in this adaptation is one of the most beloved by the fans and had an influence on Susan Kay's Phantom. He is charming with a dry sense of humor that is lacking in most adaptations. He is highly intelligent

The Phantom of the Opera is a 1988 animated film produced by Emerald City Productions in Dublin, Ireland. It aired on HBO in 1987 and was released on VHS by Celebrity Home Video in their Just for Kids imprint.

Christine has been acting strange the last days: she first of all got the lead part on a new opera and she's arrogant with people. A masked Phantom lurking in the shadows is haunting her, keeping her away from other men, striking revenge on the world above, but he also has a good side, a side that was tortured since childhood.

Anime and Manga Crayon Shin-chan has an Opera Phantom spoof in one of their AU-stories from a 2004 issue, released around the same time as the Gerard Butler version. This particular phantom is played by Shin-Chan, and given it's country of origin the phantom wears a noh-inspired mask rather than a European one. The episode Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine "Vissi d'arte, Vissi d'amore" is a reference to the book. The phantom turns out to be the boyfriend of the opera singer Aiyan, who is living underground with him since people wouldn't approve their relationship.

Asian Animation Bread Barbershop: In "Choco's Blind Date", Bagel offers Choco to go to a play called The Phantom of the Office with him. It's actually a different play meant to give Bagel a chance to propose to Choco.

Comic Books The Phantom is a minor character in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. During "The Witch and the Warrior" Wonder Woman's fight with a brainwashed Superman takes them past a billboard advertising the Broadway musical the Phantom of Gotham, complete with a white mask and red rose on a black background. Wonder Woman (1942): Bedwin Footh is a bitter actor who wears a mask and lives in the sewers and tunnels beneath a theater.

Fanworks In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Atticus is shown reading this book. Princess Tutu Abridged: Episode 12, also known as The Prince and the Raven: The Abridged Musical, parodies the refrain from "Phantom of the Opera" in "The Raven of the Ballet", which, by pure coincidence of the source material, also features an underground lake set piece and a kidnapped lover.Fakir: (sees underground lake) Let me guess... [Opening chords from "Phantom of the Opera" play] Fakir: Called it. The Ultimate Evil: Valerie Payne reads a passage from the book at two different points to illustrate how she and Shendu view one another.

Literature The Case Files of Ibrahim Helsing has a character named The Phantom of the Opry as part of a Noodle Incident. Goosebumps: The book "Phantom of the Auditorium" centers around a ghost haunting Brooke and Zeke's middle school when their class decides to revive a cancelled play from 70 years ago. The ghost in question fits the Theatre Phantom trope, and the play itself is blatantly based on the original Phantom (to the point that the Raoul expy Eric outright got his name changed to Raoul when the book was turned into a musical itself). Phantom is based on the original novel with influences of the musical. The Phantom of Manhattan serves as a sequel to the musical. Maskerade is Terry Pratchett's Discworld parody of the novel. In There's More Than One Way Home, Anna thinks that her dining room chandelier is worthy of The Phantom of the Opera. In Wicked Good, Archer's mother Rose has the Phantom of the Opera as her ringtone.

Live-Action TV Doctor Who: A couple of times. The story "The Talons of Weng-Chiang" partially homages the novel with its plot element of a hideously-disfigured madman hanging around a nineteenth-century London music hall. In "The Caves of Androzani", horribly-scarred and masked Anti-Villain Sharez Jek has a Stalker with a Crush fixation on the Doctor's companion Peri which is obviously inspired by Erik and Christine. In an episode of 227, after the third night in a row that the Jenkins' cousin Ed has roamed the hallways, moping about his wife leaving him, one of the other tenants angrily snaps "Who does he think he is, The Phantom Of 227?!"

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