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Shortly afterwards, Raoul and Christine become engaged. The Phantom overhears them, and decides to win Christine's love, once and for all... or, failing that, punish them both for their arrogance.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical was itself made into [[The Movie|a movie]] in 2004 after years in [[Development Hell]], starring Emmy Rossum as Christine and Gerard Butler as Erik, the Phantom. In 2011, London's Royal Albert Hall hosted a 25th anniversary staging that was released on video the following year. The musical finally finished its run in April 2023.
Leroux's novel had quite a few film adaptations long before the musical arrived in 1986. The first was a Russian production, which is only known due to surviving publicity material and the film is lost. The second, most famous, and more faithful excluding some minor quips (the titular Phatom's and Ledoux's backgrounds and the whole final act) was the 1925 silent film with [[Lon Chaney]] as Erik (which has since fallen in the public domain and may be watched [http://www.archive.org/details/ThePhantomoftheOpera here] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20120924054906/http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5224364451553593147 here]. And [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/The_Phantom_of_the_Opera/854375?trkid=2361637 on Netflix]{{Dead link}}, if you have it.). While the novel and many films saw the Phantom as pitiable, the image of him as an outright romantic figure is one established by the musical and its fanbase.
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