The phantom of the opera

the film centered around the feeling and relationship of 3 persons: christine, raoul and the phantom.many of the plots happen in an opera house. christine is a chorus girl of the opera house. the phantom is a man who has a horrible face and who always wears a mask.he hides underground the opera house. he is gifted in singing and he secretly teaches christine without her knowing his existence. he appeared to other people as a phantom and terrorizes them. raoul and christine knew each other when very young and when they recognize each other in the opera house, raoul and christine show good feeling over each other but this has angered the phantom who also has a passon over christine. the phantom and raoul starts a series of struggle even to take the other's life in order to win christine. eventually christine choose to live with raoul but at the same time her sympathy shown to the phantom has soothed him to accept her decision and leave them alone.

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i saw this movie before and i revised the plot by referencing wiki. i write this summary out of my overall impression of the movie on my own words.

The Phantom's makeup was designed to resemble a skull. Lon Chaney attached a strip of fish skin (a thin, translucent material) to his nostrils with spirit gum, pulled it back until he got the tilt he wanted, then attached the other end of the fish skin under his bald cap. For some shots, a wire and rubber device was used, and according to cameraman Charles Van Enger, cut into his nose and caused a good deal of bleeding. Cheeks were built up using a combination of cotton and collodion. Ears were glued back and the rest was greasepaint shaded in the proper areas of the face. The sight was said to have caused some patrons at the premiere to have fainted.

The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
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