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"I fired his lungs and I looked into
the face that was no longer human."
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"Something snapped in my brain.
I... I! I had done this!"
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"I had smashed that face to pulp,
and for what?"
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"They did this to me."
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This talk alarms Christine, particularly
when the phantom throws her in a car
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and begins driving through Paris,
mowing down the population.
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Taking her to his dungeon, the phantom
begins pumping out on the organ
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the melody of his "The Devil Triumphant".
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At this point, of course,
Christine has to take off his mask.
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And she sees a perfectly
normal-Iooking man.
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"You shrink from me
because I have killed," he says.
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"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?"
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"There are a million dead. Two millions!
They lie in rows and rows."
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"That is real killing."
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Of course, Christine,
being the angel of mercy,
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picks up the manuscript of the
countermelody, "The Angel Triumphant".
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And she begins to sing it as the music
master plays "The Devil Triumphant".
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As the two melodies merge together,
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the phantom dies,
apparently of a broken heart, at his organ.
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As Lipscomb noted on his third draft, this
was definitely not to be a "horror picture".
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"You must feel that he is a superman, and
it's not to be a modern gangster picture."
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This is the first of
several unfilmed adaptations
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that have attempted to process
recent world wars and events of violence.
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Themes of Frankenstein are melded with
themes of All Quiet on the Western Front.
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Another script prepared in 1957,
written by Franklin Coen,
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screenwriter of This Island Earth,
had placed the Phantom saga
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in the ruins
of post-World War II Milan, Italy.