18 quotes
A Choice Between Love and Destruction
The Phantom/Erik
You have your chance of saving him. Will you be the bride of Erik, or do you prefer to watch your lover die? If you turn the Scorpion — you have said Yes and spared de Chagny. Turn the grasshopper — and the Opera House is blown to a thousand bits!
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A Plea for Freedom in Love
Christine
If you love me as you say, let me go. I promise to be your slave forever.
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A Confession of Underground Love
The Phantom/Erik
I have brought you here — five cellars underground — because I love you! For long weary months I have awaited this hour! So that which is good within me, aroused by your purity, might plead for your love.
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Embracing the Burden of Unwanted Appearance
The Phantom/Erik
Feast your eyes! Glut your soul on my accursed ugliness!
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Description of a Mysterious Figure
Maid
I have seen only the cloacked figure of a man who hides his face and will not speak!
Joseph Buquet
His eyes are ghastly beads in which there is no light — like holes in a grinning skull! His face is like leprous parchment, yellow skin strung tight over protruding bones! His nose — there is no nose!
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Desire for Happiness Amidst Humanity
The Phantom/Erik
I am human like other men — I will not be cheated of my happiness!
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The Transformation of Erik into a Legend
The Phantom/Erik
Men once knew me as Erik, but for many years I have lived in these cellars, a nameless legend.
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A Mysterious Figure Enters the Celebration
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Into the midst of the reverly, strode a sprectal figure, robed in red.
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Devotion Beyond the Mask
The Phantom/Erik
Look not upon my mask — think rather of my devotion which has brought you the gift of song.
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A Timeless Horror Masterpiece in Cinema History
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A masterpiece of horror that shocked cinema for decades!
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Redemption Through Love and Hatred
Phantom
That is where I sleep. It keeps me reminded of that other dreamless sleep that cures all ills — forever!
Christine
You — You are the Phantom!
Phantom
If I am the Phantom, it is because man's hatred has made me so. If I shall be saved, it will be because your love redeems me.
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Love Over Fear in the Phantom's Warning
The Phantom/Erik
My dear Christine - You are in no peril as long as you do not touch my mask. You will be free as long as your love for the spirit of Erik overcomes your fear.
[letter to Christine]
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The Phantom's Warning Against Ignorance of Suffering
The Phantom/Erik
Beneath your dancing feet are the tombs of tortured men! Thus does The Red Death rebuke your merriment!
[as the Red Death]
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Perception of a Monster's True Nature
Christine
He is a monster — a loathsome beast!
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Celebrating Modern Horror Cinema's Masterpieces
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The greatest horror film of modern cinema!
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Love and Warning in Music
The Phantom/Erik
Since first I saw your face, this music has been singing to me of you and of — love triumphant! Yet listen — there sounds an ominous undercurrent of warning!
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The Enigmatic Black Lake of the Phantom
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A black lake, hidden from man and the sun, leading to the Phantom's rendezvouz.
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The Paris Opera House: A Hidden Sanctuary
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Sanctuary of song lovers, The Paris Opera House, rising nobly over medical torture chambers, hidden dungeons, long forgotten.
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