Wow... how to start on GC's post... (Who's in your avatar anyway?)
you said: Make it that the people funding the theatre come in for a fundraiser event and get entertained by the number in the lobby. There's a point then.
Thats how I saw that number.... you didnt? I agree that in film it had very little point, but I did see it as entertainment...
The Phantom being Red has had something to do with him shocking everyone all along.. but I have never truly understood why. The Mickey Mousing... well.. its was there, it worked, and really, had you not known the show/music, do you think you would have noticed it?
The lair, yeah, I can see how you thought it was cool.. and I did too, but really he wasnt complaining about his home, wasnt he complianing about his way of life?
Though the arms, and the manaquien ... ewwwwwwww
umm.... I agree about the Chandelier, and the All I ask of You scene...
As far as Christine... I think thats up to interpretation.. I never thought that seeing his face was that catlyst. When he scolds her for removing his mask, she;s sees a side of him that he is not familiar with, and it scares her.
She;s in love with Raoul anyway, thats a side line.
As a theatre geek who sang waay too much of the PotO songs.. I always felt she didnt turn on the Phantom until The Point of No Return.
ugh.. I have to stop, the phone rang... silly work getting in the way.
