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Overcome, she passes out, and awakens lying on The Phantom’s bed. Having recognised Christine as his childhood sweetheart, a young Raoul runs backstage to meet her and the two arrange to have dinner that evening.Īfter the show is finished, Meg (Jennifer Ellison) finds Christine praying in the chapel to her dead father, whom she believes has been coaching her all these years, and is her angel of music, unaware that her coach has, in fac,t been The Phantom.īack in her dressing room, The Phantom lures her away to his underground lair where she comes across a waxwork of herself in a wedding dress. After almost dropping a piece of set on the opera’s lead, Carlotta (Minnie Driver), the diva leaves, creating the opportunity for Christine to take her role and fulfil The Phantom’s wish for her. After years of secretly coaching Christine Daaé (Emmy Rossum), he plots to make her the star of the opera. After he tells her that he loves her, she looks so sad, because she wants nothing more than to comfort him but there's absolutely nothing she can do.Within the opera house lives a disfigured musical genius known only as The Phantom (Gerard Butler). He actually thinks that Christine has decided to stay with him, and then she has to silently take off the ring he gave her destroy his hopes again. She takes a few steps toward him, and when the camera moves back to him his open mouth moves into the slightest hint of a smile.

At the end, the Phantom's sitting there alone, crying, and looks up to see Christine.

But after she seems to meet his advances head-on and we see how deeply she affects him in return during The Point of No Return, when she subsequently rips it away he just stands there staring at her in betrayal and disappointment so strong that it overrides even his lifelong ingrained urge to hide his face from the onlooking crowd.

When his mask has been removed previously he has immediately, compulsively covered his scar out of shame, both as a child and when having an otherwise intimate time alone with her in his lair. When Christine tears the Phantom's mask away in front of the whole crowd, it's a triumphant moment for her for resisting and rebelling against his continued hold over her.