phantom of the opera how is it romantic?

It is romantic in the musical sense, as in the music is evocative of the Romantic period.

It's a beautiful story, and a well-done show, especially when you understand all the classical music/opera homages involved (some call them stealing, but if so, composers have been doing for way longer than ALW).

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It does exists, they show it on TPOTP movie 2-Disk DVD.

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I think falling in love with someone's voice is really sexy, and romantic as well....Christine has a very dramatic choice to make in the end of the show, and it hits me everytime.

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right on Chason!

I don't find the relationship between Erik and Christine romantic at all, like SporkGoddess said, Erik is cleary a psychopath. I think the romance of the story comes from Christine and Raoul's relationship, or it should anyway.

Of course it's romantic--it's about fantasy and seduction and make-believe. The fact that the personality under the Phantom persona is just as ugly as the face behind the mask hardly matters; it's the mask, not the uglified makeup, that's the emblem of the show. It's aaaaall about the fantasy.

The Phantom is suppose to be human. I think he first fell in love with her voice and circumstances. They were both orphans. To gain her trust and to help her talent, he had her believing he was her Father. I don't believe though that was so much his gimmick as it was her own perception. He is just the Phantom of Music to her. An angel she believes is sent by her Father to watch over her. So he goes along with the idea.

In time he falls in love with her. It does turn into an obsession when he starts believing he can make her love him back. That isn't so abnormal except when he begins to realize she wasn't falling for his charm. This is his flaw though. She actually does care for him but his actions, like murdering people , have ruined whatever could have been. His jealousy over Raoul adds fuel to the fire and puts the Phantom in a jealous rage.

I just figure it is what happens when a guy spends too much time locked up in the sewer or maybe on the internet. It's easy to start believing all kinds of things. The hard part is convincing someone else to feel the same.

So the way the Phantom tries to woo Christine is kind of romantic. He truly believes she is gifted and wants her to succeed at the Opera. It is only when she falls for Raoul that things get ugly. Of course we have read of many people who go mad, after falling in love, so it is a sad story with a lesson in it too. You are never going to impress anyone by murdering people. Just not a very successful dating maneuver.

She does only kiss the Phantom to save Raoul but I believe she truly cares for him. Mostly out of pity. She tells him it is his murderous ways that have turned her completely against him. If he hadn't, she may still have rejected him as a suitor but she would have embraced him as a friend. It is a very sad story. Creepy in the way that he hunts down his rivals or anyone who he thinks is standing in his way of getting what he wants. That's the madness though. You don't have to grow up like he did though to act so foolish. Plenty of creepy, dangerous people around, even in every day life. Luckily there aren't too many of them though.

Lotti and Raoul were childhood sweethearts. She still expresses that she has a crush on him. The Phantom learns some of this when Lotti and Raoul are talking together in her dressing room. At that point they are not a couple but they both are in love. Clearly the Phantom realizes this and it leads him to murder. He had done it only one other occasion that I know of. I haven't read the book.

She is forgiving the Phantom for stringing up and trying to murder her Fiance? For trying to force her into Marrying him? The other deaths? I doubt that. It just seems she feels sorry for his unfortunate life. She already knew he was scarred and lived secluded because of his perceived rejection of his disfigurement. So, I don't think she really forgives him for what he has already done. She just feels so sorry that it has all driven him to madness on her account. It just doesn't appear to be forgiveness to me.

If you believe some loonies, in the movie the Phantom isn't a crazy psychopath but he is possessed and that's what makes him drop chandeliers on people's heads. Christine's kiss at the end breaks the spell a la "Beauty and the Beast".

You all need to seriously check this out. Some scary s**t.

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Updated On: 10/14/07 at 12:56 PM

zietojo what are you on its totaly romantic did you watch the whole thing.

^^No kidding! I know I was ready to give Erik his,"get of jail and the looney bin card" right there and then! No, I'm afraid not. To forgive a lunatic like that is to spit in your fiance face and call him desperate.

You are forgetting too that Eric chastises Christine for even considering to go out with Raoul. Even if the Phantom didn't interfere, she would have Married Raoul. Yes, Spork those words are in the Movie, that she did pity him but now she hates him.

I don't see any action on Erik's part that is worthy of pity. Especially after he tries to kill Raoul. Erik is a nutty as a fruitcake. He kills the stagehand yes, because they didn't make Christine the lead. Part of that was his romantic obsession with her though. He didn't want to hear or see anyone but Christine. That and Raoul did not leave his box empty, a clear challenge on Raoul's part in defiance to the Phantom's demands.

No forgiveness, I was probably reaching even for pity. She kissed him merely to save Raoul's life.

I think that Erik made her curious but I never saw that she was actually in love with him. To me the story shows how obsession turns into madness or are one in the same. Sure an attractive person may end up with someone less attractive because of love and merit. This however is not a good example of that kind of story to me.