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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]], even during its time of release although it was a massive financial success. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Rays).
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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]], even during its time of release although it was a massive financial success.release. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Rays).
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Aside from being a massive financial success of the time, this is the only Universal Horror film to win an Oscar, winning the awards for Art Direction and Cinematography.
Aside from being a massive financial success of the time, this is the only Universal Horror film to win an Oscar, winning the awards for Art Direction and Cinematography.
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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]]. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Rays).
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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]].film]], even during its time of release although it was a massive financial success. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Rays).
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* DissonantSerenity: Aside from his outburst of rage when he believes his music has been stolen, Claudin as the Phantom talks in an extremely gentle, fatherly manner to Christine, which makes him even more chilling with the murders he commits.
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* DissonantSerenity: Aside from his outburst of rage when he believes his music has been stolen, Claudin as the Phantom talks in an extremely gentle, fatherly manner to Christine, Christine and almost never raises his voice to anyone else, which makes him even more chilling with the murders he commits.
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* TakeAThirdOption: Christine is confronted by Raoul and Anatole at the end, who demand she choose between them. She chooses neither and pursues her singing career unhindered by marriage prospects, leading the two men to awkwardly go to dinner together as friends.
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* DissonantSerenity: Aside from his outburst of rage when he believes his music has been stolen, Claudin as the Phantom talks in an extremely gentle, fatherly manner to Christine, which makes him even more chilling with the murders he commits.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Instead for a having skull for a face, the Phantom only has an acid burn around his right eye.
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* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Instead for a having skull for a face, the Phantom only has an a very nasty acid burn around his right eye.
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** All signage is in French, except for the notice plastered over the opera's billing, which says, in English, that the Opera is closed until further notice.
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* SequelHook: Averted. As Christine and the boys escape, the camera zooms into the collapsed chamber where Erique's violin and mask are laying in the rubble. Modern audiences half-expect a hand coming into frame to pick up either, to suggest Enrique survived the cave-in.
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* ScarsAreUgly: Rather than being born deformed like other versions, this iteration of the Phantom was a normal person who was disfigured with etching acid.
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* CompositeCharacter: Due to the intention to have Claudin be Christine's father, since in the original story Erik and Mr. Daae were two different characters, with the latter long dead by the time of the story.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Due to the intention was to have Claudin be Christine's father, a new character named Anatole took his role in the love triangle.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Due to the intention was to have Claudin be Christine's father, a new character named Anatole took his role in the love triangle.
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* DecompositeCharacter: Due to the intention was to have Claudin be Christine's father, a new character named Anatole took his role in the love triangle.
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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]]. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Ray's).
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* AbominableAuditorium: In a twist on the usual appearance of this trope, the Paris Opera is a perfectly reputable business with no seedy underbelly... up until Eric Claudin moves in following his disfigurement and begins the Phantom's reign of terror.
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* DeathlyUnmasking: [[spoiler: Claudin's final unmasking occurs right before he ends up getting crushed under the collapsing sewers.]]
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* ThePrimaDonna: Biancarolli, played by Jane Farrar, who is strangled to death by the Phantom to make room for the unsuspecting Christine to take her place. Amusingly, Farrar played the same type of role in the next year's (1944) movie Film/TheClimax, which was intended originally as a sequel to this movie.
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* ThePrimaDonna: Biancarolli, played by Jane Farrar, who is strangled [[spoiler:strangled to death by the Phantom to make room for the unsuspecting Christine to take her place.place]]. Amusingly, Farrar played the same type of role in the next year's (1944) movie Film/TheClimax, which was intended originally as a sequel to this movie.
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* ThePrimaDonna: Biancarolli, played by Jane Farrar, who is strangled to death by the Phantom to make room for the unsuspecting Christine to take her place. Amusingly, Farrar played the same type of role in the next year's (1944) movie Film/TheClimax, which was intended originally as a sequel to this movie.
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While this film is considered a core part of the [[Franchise/UniversalHorror Universal Monster]] franchise [[FirstInstallmentWins it is usually overshadowed by the]] ''[[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 [[Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera1925 1925 silent film]]''.film]]. However, it is this 1943 version that is included in Universal Monsters DVD sets due to the fact that it is still owned by Universal whereas the 1925 film fell into public domain. Though the 1925 film is still the one used on all of Universal's other merchandise (besides DVD and Blu Ray's).
