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phantomcat94:

Broke: Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera have similar stories

Woke: Victor Hugo and Gaston LeRoux both saw the same disfigured man on the streets of Paris and wrote novels about his love life.

incorrect-phantom-of-the-opera:

Erik: I’m not ready to be a parent I can’t even raise a spider how do you expect me to kill a child

Christine: Are you sure you worded this right

morbidmalfunction:

Open your eyes, people.

inkandcayenne:

isabelalugosi:

honestly I wish I could dedicate myself to being a giant fucking inconvenience as much as the phantom of the opera did

#i’m not sure that i am capable of being annoying enough #for people to give me a good monthly salary and free theater tickets to get me to stop #but by god i am willing to make the effort

annabellioncourt:

versus-a-blank-paper:

hopsjollyhigh:

thatgirlonstage:

One of the notes to the theater owners in Phantom of the Opera says “My salary has not been paid”. Why is the Phantom asking for a salary. What is he gonna do with it? How much is he asking for? Is he paying for a tuner for his organ down in the underground lake? Does he walk out with his mask and big ass cloak to buy more candles from the corner store down the street? Is there some poor clerk who just has to sell groceries to a weird guy in a half-mask who makes vague death threats at him and then leaves once a month? These are questions that need satisfactory answers

Okay but there are answers and they’re probably more absurd than you think.
He asks for 20,000 francs per month which is, I believe, about 136,000 dollars in US currency today. So that’s what he wanted every month from the managers. In the book, he actually does make trips shopping in Paris, but the mask described for shopping seems like a sort of false nose situation- think Groucho Marx glasses. His deformity is different in the book- one of the main focuses of it is that he has no nose, which makes him look like a skull/corpse. So he is extorting money, and spending at least some of it, but I have no idea what he spends SO MUCH money on. In the book, he has a pretty regular house in the cellars, other than his bedroom, which is an angst cave with a coffin as a bed. My theory is that he just enjoys being a massive inconvenience, and really only spends a fraction of what he demands.
It’s not clear in ALW’s version how he gets out and goes shopping, but the salary thing is definitely taken from the original novel. Basically, the Phantom is the embodiment of the “for $8000 a month I will Stop” meme, except it’s $20k.

I’M DONE.

dammit-daroga:

I can’t get over the fact that the persian’s just like ey erik, how you doin’ buddy? and casually accepts all of the subsequent death threats and is pretty chill about his sort-of friend living under an opera house. but then when it gets down to it, he’s just like oh fuck this, that fucker needs to stop fucking things up, this ends today, and just goes and contributes to shutting that whole operation down.

the fact that he’s friendly with and genuinely cares about this ass-hat, but can still determine when a line has been crossed and turn against his former friend for the good of everyone just astounds me

i just feel like this isn’t a character dynamic we see a ton of and I need more of it.

ange-l-of-musicals:

beeth0ven:

Have you ever thought about how weird the plots to musicals are? For example:

-Singing and dancing about an ex-con and bad revolutionaries who all die

-Singing and dancing about teenagers who commit homicide

-Singing and dancing about broke people dying of AIDS

-Singing and dancing about disfigured opera singers

-Singing and dancing about the early American government (and certain treasurer)

-Singing and dancing about HUMAN MEAT PIES.

There’s some weird shit, y’all…

op is not ready to hear about something rotten

potoincorrectquotes:

Christine Daaé: Did it hurt when you fell?

Raoul de Chagny: From heaven? No, I’m no-

Christine: No, I mean when you fell down the stairs. I watched you fall and just kind of lay there for about ten minutes.

Raoul: …

Christine: We all saw that.

animmenseandtragiclove:

You know, Joseph Buquet, a character who is dead before the beginning of the novel, is in more adaptions of the Phantom of the Opera than the Persian, a character that the whole climax of the novel is told from the point of view of… I just find this strange.