The Phantom of the Opera

Corrected entry: In the scene of the Phantom and Christine falling from the bridge into the pit of 'fire', you can see that they are changing positions during the falling.

Correction: No, they don't. The camera changes positions, not them.

Corrected entry: Madame Giry's accent is the only one that is truly accurate. Christine, despite being of Swedish decent and raised by a French woman in a French opera house, is American. Meg, who also is raised in France by a French woman, is Welsh. Raoul, Vicomte de Changy, obviously a Frenchman, is also American. And The Phantom is shown to have been raised in the French opera house as well, yet he is perfectly British. Gerard Butler is Scottish, yet has a flawless British accent in the film, so why is it that his is the only accent that was tampered with?

Correction: Accents are not a mistake, and this submission itself contains mistakes and even contradicts itself. Madame Giry does NOT have a correct accent. Gerard Butler does NOT have a flawless British accent (rrrraging fahhhhrrrrr, anyone?). The movie is not in French, so there is no point for the characters to have a French accent. Their English is supposed to be French, so their English accents represent their French accents, since most characters come from various parts of the country and have different levels of education.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: At the end of the song, "Think of me," when there is a close-up of Christine singing, bubble gum is seen in her mouth.

Correction: Utter drivel. At all times Christine's mouth is completely empty. A screenshot is needed to verify this mistake.

Chimera

Correction: Buquet is attacked from behind - the natural reflex will be to roll over to try to defend himself, which doesn't take long to do and isn't hard. The shot of the Phantom between the two of Buquet gave him enough time to do that.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: During the scene after Christine removes the mask from the Phantom for the first time, he is not wearing gloves as he rips the cover off the mirror; seconds later, he knocks over a candle, and is wearing a black glove on his left hand; yet when he starts to sing "Stranger than you dreamt it" a few seconds later, the glove is gone again. (00:45:30)

Correction: This is incorrect. The Phantom is gloveless throughout the entire scene. If one looks very closely, what is being mistaken as the glove is the Phantom's cuff flying up as he strikes the candle down, but a second later his fingers are visible beneath the cuff once again.

OneHappyHusky

Corrected entry: Throughout the film, when almost any character, particularly Christine, is sustaining a long note, their mouth positioning starts to shift. This makes it very obvious that the characters are lip-synching to their own voices, as moving their mouths would have distorted the sound and quality of the note.

Correction: I, among others, am able to move my mouth while sustaining a long note. It's very easy to do. Obviously the characters in the film can, too.

Corrected entry: During the conclusion of the "Don Juan" scene, when Christine pulls off the Phantom's mask and wig to reveal his true deformity, such a sight terribly frightens everyone in the audience so badly that even Monsieur Reyer, the orchestra director, has put aside the baton and raised a handkerchief to lips, trembling in shock. However, only seconds later, when the camera pulls away, we see him again for a brief moment, calmly directing a 4/4 beat over the orchestra. Quite unusual recovery time, especially given his age and the present scenario.

Correction: The time lapse between Monsieur Reyer trembling in shock and again conducting the orchestra is 7 seconds. Monsieur Reyer is a consummate professional and would attempt to resume order by continuing to do his job. He later becomes shocked and trembles in a second and separate incident when the Phantom and Christine plunge beneath the stage.

Corrected entry: During the final part of "The Phantom of the Opera" (when Christine is singing her high notes) and during the beginning of "The Music of the Night", there is a brilliant white reflection of light on the water. Visible mostly through the grated entryway during the shots of Christine, the light in question has a distinct similarity to sunlight (or light from a set), too golden and bright in color to be moonlight, and far too bright to be a gaslight. It's implied before that Christine is taken down to the Phantom's lair at night, making sunlight inappropriate for the time in question. A few scenes later, when Christine is awoken by the musical box, the "sunlight" is located in the same place. Over the course of at the very least a few hours, the light would have moved.

Correction: The light is either coming from many many candles or several gaslights. It's entirely possible that his lair is situated right below the dancing girls' room(s) and the light from there is shining down in the first part. Once she wakes up, several hours have passed and it's morning, so the sun would be entering their room and filtering into the lair.

Corrected entry: When Andre meets up with Firmin during Masquerade and gets his picture taken, he is wearing a rooster headdress, but during the dance sequence as he's seen on and around the stairs, it's gone. We can see that better when The Phantom sticks the sword in his face.

Correction: A lot of time passes between these shots. He had plenty of time to take it off. Who knows, he probably thought it was heavy or itchy.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: When Christine is approaching her father's grave, to the right of the screen, a jacket is visible lying on a grave, and disappears in some shots.

Correction: There is no jacket. It's the draping of the statue.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: During the rose crushing scene on the rooftop, just before The Phantom runs for the statue, when he drops the rest of the rose and stem, a glove falls to the ground as well. But when he's up on the statue screaming to the heavens, The Phantom is wearing gloves again on both hands.

Correction: No glove falls. Only the rose and its ribbon.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: As Christine and the Phantom first enter the lair in the boat, when we get the first sweeping look at the living quarters of the lair, we can see the alcove which contains the Christine mannequin, which will cause Christine to faint in a few minutes. You can see that it is totally bare. (00:34:10)

Correction: The mannequin is seen in the alcove, and it is dressed. Whatever that 'bare' is applied to (mannequin or alcove), the mistake isn't right.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: In "Don Juan", when they zoom in on the cello player, the cello has no strings.

Correction: There is only one shot where the cello is seen (around 1:46:10) and it definitely does have strings.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: The Phantom's masks are held on with elastic. However, elastic didn't exist in the 19th century, when the movie is set.

Correction: It's not an elastic, merely a flexible type of string. Silk probably.

Sereenie

Corrected entry: It is not possible that Mme. Giry could have gotten to the mirror room in time to grab Raoul that fast. She would have to go down at least one flight of stairs and several hallways(judging by where Raoul fell through) while still managing to keep a lower profile.

Correction: Everyone was examining the hole through which Raoul fell so they wouldn't have noticed her sprinting to the stairs and through the hallways.

Corrected entry: In "Think of Me", when Christine hits the high note at the end, she has a wide smile on her face. I am a choir student, and I can assure you that it is impossible to sing that note without dropping your jaw a lot more. Had she attempted to, the note would have been painfully sharp. She doesn't have her jaw dropped enough in "The Phantom of the the Opera" either.

Correction: I, among others, am able to hit that note without dropping my jaw very far. You're supposed to smile if you're flat to sharpen it up and perhaps her voice is naturally a bit flat. In "Phantom of the Opera" we can only see her face for a small part of when she's singing the higher notes and her jaw is pretty dropped. Not to mention we can't see her on her highest note.

Corrected entry: During the rehearsal of Hannibal, Piangi walks on stage wearing a hat, in the next shot the hat is under his arm.

Correction: It's perfectly logical that he would have enough time to pull off his hat while the old manager is introducing the new ones. All the other guys take off their hats as well.

Corrected entry: When the Phantom appears at the top of the stairs during Masquerade his hands are empty, yet by the time he reaches the bottom he's holding the score to Don Juan.

Correction: That's because he has the score tucked into his belt.

Corrected entry: At the beginning of the movie when Carlotta is singing her rendition of Hannibal the Phantom drops a background on her. It's impossible that she'd be okay because oleos (which is what holds the background down) are VERY heavy and would at least break her legs.

Correction: The oleos hit the ground right behind Carlotta. She is knocked off her feet by the canvas collapsing only.

Corrected entry: When Raoul is on his way to the Phantom's lair after "The Point of No Return," he falls through the floor and into one of the Phantom's traps. The ceiling above him is lowering, and there is a handle in the water that he eventually turns, causing the gate to rise and he is able to escape. This seems ridiculous: how could a genius like the Phantom overlook this and put the escape to his trap in easy reach of the victim?

Correction: The Phantom actually wanted Raoul to arrive at the lair. The trap was meant to delay Raoul and give the Phantom some time alone with Christine before the confrontation.

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Deliberate mistake: As Christine approaches the Phantom in his lair (just after he has abducted her), we see that she is wearing very dark black eye-shadow. Back in the dressing room after coming off stage, as she talks to Raoul, we saw her face in close up and she was not wearing any eye-shadow at all, even though the Phantom leads her through the mirror just after she has managed to slip on a robe over her undergarments and she has not yet changed to go out to supper (Raoul says she is to be ready in 2 minutes). Her hair becomes 'bigger' and wilder, too. The change in her appearance is a reference to her descending (voluntarily, I might add - he didn't drag her through that mirror) into the Phantom's dark existence and to her sexual awakening. (00:28:45 - 00:37:10)

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Trivia: The candles that light instantly as they emerge from the water in the Phantom's Lair were not computer effects - special air-sensitive candles were used. Luckily, the scene was captured well in the first take, as when they tried to re-shoot the scene the candles wouldn't work again.

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Question: Who is the old man in the wheelchair who puts the music box with the monkey on Christine's grave at the end?I thought it might be Raoul but the box belonged to the phantom and he hated the phantom.

Answer: It is Raoul. He gets the music box because Christine obviously loved it, shown by the fact that she had obviously described and remembered it in such great detail many years after last seeing it. He buys it for her as a gift of love, even though she has died.

mandy gasson

Answer: It's also a symbol that Raoul recognized Christine still loved the phantom. Possibly more than him. The love triangle is complete as neither man truly had her. Raoul spent his life with her but she loved the phantom. The phantom missed out on spending life with her but got her love.

Answer: It's Raoul. When the auctioneer sells him the music box, he addresses him by his title, The Vicomte de Chagny.

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