History Film / ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004

* CallBack: A small one: in the Phantom's lair at the end, Raoul has blood on his shirt in exactly the same place that the Phantom wounded him at the cemetery, as though the relatively fresh wound had reopened at some point in his struggle to get to Christine.

* DirtyOldMan: Andre and Firmin ogle Meg and Christine when they first arrive, causing Madame Giry to pull them off to the side and make them watch the ballet from a distance.

* FallingChandelierOfDoom: This time around, the Phantom sends the chandelier falling towards the stage once Christine unmasks him.

** In-universe as well: in the rehearsal for Hannibal, the dancers are performing with chains, suggesting that they are captives, in midriff-baring costumes.

* HallOfMirrors: A straight version of the trope appears in the film, when Raoul follows the Phantom down a trapdoor after ''"Why so Silent"'' and finds himself trapped in a mirror maze.
* HotterAndSexier: For starters, the ballerinas have their midriffs completely exposed, Meg's cleavage is prominently featured in her completely different Masquerade costume, and the Phantom himself makes several appearances in an open white shirt.

* MaleGaze: During "Music of the Night," the camera treats us to several loving closeups of Christine's, ahem... attributes.

* SnowMeansLove: As Raoul and Christine embrace on the Opera House Roof, it conveniently starts to snow.

* TorchesAndPitchforks: The mob that chases after Erik at the end of the film.

* CastingGag: Ramin Karimloo, who portrayed Raoul and the Phantom on [[UsefulNotes/BroadwayAndTheWestEnd West End]] did a cameo appearance as Christine's late father, making him the only actor to play 3 of Christine's loved ones.

* AdaptationalJerkass: Normally just a harmless prankster, Joseph Buquet is a creepy drunkard in the film, who not only enjoys scaring the staff with his stories of the Ghost, but leers at the women of the opera and even tries to force one to kiss him, causing an angry Madame Giry to put his noose around his neck.

* RoadTripAcrossTheStreet: During the second verse of "The Phantom of the Opera", he Phantom places Christine on the back of a horse and uses it to carry her the length of a short corridor before abandoning it again.

** In the movie, when Carlotta is on the verge of walking out (for the first time) and the new managers appeal to Lefevre on how to convince her to remain, his response, right down to tone and inflection, is very familiar from another Andrew Lloyd Webber production: [[Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat "Grovel--grovel, grovel!"]]

* RoadTripAcrossTheStreet: The Phantom places Christine on the back of a horse and uses it to carry her the length of a short corridor before abandoning it again.

** In the movie, when Carlotta is on the verge of walking out (for the first time) and the new managers appeal to Lefevre on how to convince her to remain, his response, right down to tone and inflection, is very familiar from another ALW production: [[Theatre/JosephAndTheAmazingTechnicolorDreamcoat "Grovel--grovel, grovel!"]]

** Emmy Rossum's costume in "Think Of Me" is practically an exact copy of that worn by Empress Elisabeth of Austria (Sissi) in [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/Empress_Elisabeth_of_Austria_with_diamond_stars_on_her_hair.jpg the famous portrait by Franz Winterhalter]], right down to the hairstyle and the diamond stars in it. It doesn't hurt that Rossum is a dead ringer for the empress to begin with.

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* OedipusComplex: Gerard Butler was deliberately cast to resemble Ramin Karimloo, who played Christine's father, and later, played Raoul and the Phantom on West End as well.

** This could be unintentional but behind the conductor during "Think of Me", there's a woman dressed almost exactly like {{WesternAnimation/Cinderella}} in her ballgown.
** The bit with the horse alludes to a similar scene in the novel and something that was intended for the musical had the mechanics worked.

* CanonDiscontinuity: It would be impossible to make a film adaptation of ''Theatre/LoveNeverDies'' without breaking continuity with the movie, since it had established that [[spoiler:Christine dies in 1918, with the implication that it was because of the [[UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu flu pandemic]]]].

* AdaptationalJerkass: Joseph Buquet is a creepy drunkard in the film, who not only enjoys scaring the staff with his stories of the Ghost, but leers at the women of the opera and even tries to force one to kiss him, causing an angry Madame Giry to put his noose around his neck.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Raoul is a naval officer in the book, but is a cavalry officer in the film and shows off his fencing skills accordingly.

* CockFight: Raoul and the Phantom duel in the graveyard over Christine, replacing a scene in the stage show where the Phantom antagonizes Christine and Raoul.

* DarkReprise: "Phantom's Notes II" got really dark when it was combined with "Why So Silent?", where he's threatening everyone with a sword.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: You have Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson with an American accent (although it's barely noticeable), Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds and Jennifer Ellison with an English accent, Gerard Butler with an English accent though he sometimes has a case of OohMeAccentsSlipping during his singing, making his Scottish accent show off, Minnie Driver with an Italian accent since, after all, she's Carlotta, aaaand... Miranda Richardson with a French accent. The mix of American and English accents could be acceptable since we are after all in France, but the fact that Madame Giry seems to be the only person with a French accent breaks it all.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: You have Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson with an American accent (although it's not very noticeable), Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds and Jennifer Ellison with an English accent, Gerard Butler with an English accent though he sometimes has a case of OohMeAccentsSlipping during his singing, making his Scottish accent show off, Minnie Driver with an Italian accent since, after all, she's Carlotta, aaaand... Miranda Richardson with a French accent. The mix of American and English accents could be acceptable since we are after all in France, but the fact that Madame Giry seems to be the only person with a French accent breaks it all.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: You have Emmy Rossum and Patrick Wilson with an American accent, Simon Callow, Ciaran Hinds and Jennifer Ellison with an English accent, Gerard Butler with an English accent though he sometimes has a case of OohMeAccentsSlipping during his singing, making his Scottish accent show off, Minnie Driver with an Italian accent since, after all, she's Carlotta, aaaand... Miranda Richardson with a French accent. The mix of American and English accents could be acceptable since we are after all in France, but the fact that Madame Giry seems to be the only person with a French accent breaks it all.

* CastingGag: Ramin Karimloo, who portrayed Raoul and the Phantom on West End did a cameo appearance as Christine's late father, making him the only actor to play 3 of Christine's loved ones.

* HotterAndSexier: This is largely due to the choice to hire younger, prettier actors than are usually cast in the stage show (Gerard Butler especially). Emmy Rossum being only seventeen (having had her 17th birthday just three days before filming started) to Butler's thirty-five makes "Point of No Return" kind of... uncomfortable. However, considering that Christine is actually ''supposed'' to be 16-17, and the Phantom is roughly Madame Giry's age, one could argue that this discomfort is actually rather appropriate.