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re: It's a beautiful love story with a happy ending

Posted by:	LynnO 12:56 am EST 11/03/15
In reply to:	re: It's a beautiful love story with a happy ending - JereNYC 11:37 am EST 11/02/15

If The Phantom is played the right way, he seems like more of an obsessed man (with Christine's voice), and not so much a murderer (which he obviously is). And I've never believed that he raped her because he's tentative and afraid to even touch her. But The Phantom clearly has some sort of pull on Christine, whether it is romantic or how he mentors her voice, but depending on how sexily the Phantom plays the role, people who love the show believe that there is a triangle. Raoul is not written very well in the show, so it takes a special actor to pull it off and make Raoul more appealing than The Phantom if The Phantom is played right. Honestly. At least that is how most fans of the original directed version see it. In the new tour version, The Phantom definitely comes off as a creepy murderer, and Christine is directed to clearly be afraid of him. (I still don't believe that he rapes her.)

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