{"id":1746,"date":"2012-11-04T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/averral.com\/blog\/?p=1746"},"modified":"2012-11-04T21:16:46","modified_gmt":"2012-11-04T21:16:46","slug":"why-phantom-deserves-christine-over-raoul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.averral.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/why-phantom-deserves-christine-over-raoul\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Phantom Deserves Christine Over Raoul"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pgz6PnHkmpY?list=SPA797EEE5713506BF&amp;hl=en_US\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<em>The Phantom&#8230; is a genius and extraordinary artist.<br \/>\nGerard Butler as Phantom brings it up another notch&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<h3>The Case for The Phantom &#8211; And Why Christine is Dumb<\/h3>\n<p>He  taught Christine how to sing, manipulates the directors into giving her  the leading role in the play, and demands for payment from the opera  for his upkeep. He is able to use smoke bombs and build a dungeon&#8230;  literally&#8230;\u00a0 a lair where he can spy on the activities of the musical  through his secret tunnels and trapdoors.<\/p>\n<p>If he did not make  Christine a star, she will just be another girl in the show, and Raoul  would not have noticed her. Could you imagine the disappointment he  experienced when she chooses Raoul over him? After all he had did for  her, to make her a star? It is a love gone awry. Christine was blinded by societal expectations, Raoul&#8217;s charming good looks, and wealth&#8230; and playful childish love. A childhood playmate does not equate to a lover. Enough said.<\/p>\n<p>Yes&#8230; the Phantom is a murderer, who is able to  murder people without a thought to attain his means. Do you discount  that he has been stunned by people all his life because of his  disfigured face? Do you know he was put in a circus show, as a freak?  How much empathy can he have for people if they had only taught him humiliation and unkindness. If he has to kill for love, he will jolly well do it gladly, heartlessly.<\/p>\n<p>The Phantom&#8217;s love for Christine borders on obsession and insanity, however, it is because he is able to  feel passionately. As a savant, he creates musical scores, and gadgets  to aid his exploits. Just look at the dungeon that he built for himself. Look at the way he makes the warden his obedient partner in crime (she is the only person in the opera who knows his real identity). If he is not obsessed in love, he will not be watching over Christine since she was a child, and groom her into a Prima Donna, the lead opera singer.<\/p>\n<p>I am glad the sequel, Love Never Dies, did a justified ending to The Phantom&#8217;s Plight. No spoilers here.<\/p>\n<p>I reserved two tickets for the Melbourne version of Love Never Dies, a year before it was released. However, I never returned to Melbourne. 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