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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.
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The phantom, a ballet dancer
who had been tortured and scarred
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by Mussolini's Fascists. He is hunted
by an American GI toting machine guns.
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In the 1990s Wolfgang Petersen,
the director of the acclaimed Das Boot,
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began preproduction on an elaborate
but aborted version of Phantom
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that would have been set
in Nazi-occupied 1940s France.
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Don't be surprised if a future phantom
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comes traipsing off
a Bosnian or Iraqi battlefield.
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The presence of the great Romantic
pianist/composer Franz Liszt
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clearly places this version of the story
in the early 1880s,
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when Liszt was in his old age.