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where she mistakenly approaches
an underwear-clad male mannequin
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to ask where her beloved has gone.
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If that's not silly enough, she and Raoul
have a rendezvous at a Parisian café
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which has a small café orchestra, where
a banter song between the two of them
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goes back and forth, full of risqué lyrics.
:59:23
The opera being staged
is Gounod's Faust,
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and the music master explains
to Christine that he had always hoped
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there would be someone like her,
someone to be the Marguerite to his Faust
:59:34
and save him from himself.
:59:38
The music master explains to her
the horrors of the First World War.
:59:42
"They made a killer of me,
the most sensitive creature in the world,
:59:45
the kindest man, who would
not even kill an insect!"
:59:48
"Yet one day I found myself
in battle on the great attack,
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killing, killing, killing my fellow men!"
:59:55
"I remember looking
into the face of one man."
:59:57
"He was a boy, very young."
1:00:00
"I fired his lungs and I looked into
the face that was no longer human."
1:00:03
"Something snapped in my brain.
I... I! I had done this!"
1:00:08
"I had smashed that face to pulp,
and for what?"
1:00:12
"They did this to me."
1:00:15
This talk alarms Christine, particularly
when the phantom throws her in a car
1:00:20
and begins driving through Paris,
mowing down the population.
1:00:23
Taking her to his dungeon, the phantom
begins pumping out on the organ
1:00:28
the melody of his "The Devil Triumphant".
1:00:31
At this point, of course,
Christine has to take off his mask.
1:00:35
And she sees a perfectly
normal-Iooking man.
1:00:38
"You shrink from me
because I have killed," he says.
1:00:41
"Tell me, where did I learn my killing?
Where is the scar I told you of?"
1:00:45
"On my face? Ha! I have a scar, a frightful
wound, but it was not on my body."
1:00:51
"I got it in the war, and to nearby people
who don't do the killing, am I a killer?"
1:00:57
"There are a million dead. Two millions!
They lie in rows and rows."