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Ward wrote an unforgettable Romantic
concerto for piano and orchestra.
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My concerto!
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Sing, Christine.
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Sing!
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In its spectacle, colour,
thrills, music and dramatic intensity,
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Phantom of the Opera was a popular
entertainment for wartime audiences,
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the equivalent of any legitimate opera
of the gaslight era.
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An echo from the past, the original Raoul -
Norman Kerry-visited the set.
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He seemed pleased to meet
his modern counterpart,
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but it is likely that he had not forgotten
the bitter agonies of 1925.
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Free of the anxieties that
had accompanied the silent film,
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this Phantom was a model
of efficient production.
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All these people at Universal at that time,
it was a family.
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We knew each other when we came to
the set, as if we spent the night together,
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as if we had lived together
in the same house.
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There was one family tie
that retained a slight kink.
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The relationship between
Christine DuBois and Erique Claudin.
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This Phantom is a tragic violinist,
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crippled by arthritis
and dismissed from the orchestra.
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It's no use, Maestro. Something has
happened to the fingers of my left hand.
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He lives in poverty, pouring all his savings
into providing lessons for a young singer,
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who knows nothing of her benefactor.
Why does he do this?
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Isn't it obvious?
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Claudin probably fell in love with her.
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It wasn't obvious in the shooting script.
Claudin was her father,
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a poor violinist who had abandoned
his wife and child in pursuit of his muse.
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Mama Claudin died of grief, and the
infant Christine was reared by her aunt.
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The theme originates in the book with
Christine's affection for her dead father.