The Final Lair - Gerard Butler, Emmy Rossum | Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera (Film)

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This scene is too sad! I can't help but cry every time! 😢

The phantom resembles me frfr😢

God, the sheer intensity in this scene

He loved her, so he let her go... even though he knew she wouldn't come back. IF THAT ISN'T TRUE LOVE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

I was feeling a pain in my chest and bawling my eyes out in this scene…. I can’t even explain my reaction. 😭

I was blown away by discovering it was Gerard butler!

This is so emotional and contradictory. And beautiful to listen to.

At first, he wasn’t a healthy relationship, yes. This was simply because he didn’t really know what love was and he was so wrapped up in this double identity, thinking no one could love him because of his face (hence why he changed so drastically when Christine removed it, and he put so many words of hatred in her mouth before she even said anything).

He’d heard love, he’d seen it but he’d never experienced it nor had he been around people at all except for those early toxic environments and pure isolation. He experiences love for the first time in that kiss, and therefore finally feels it by Christine’s example. Real love, not infatuated possessiveness (which he confused with love because of his imposed isolation). And he lets them go because now he knows what love is, and what he’d been doing was not so.

He’d been taught unhealthy lessons his whole life, and Christine taught him otherwise so he told her he truly loved her (for the first time and with his new understanding of the word) and let them leave, recognizing what he’d done was not right. Though he had the meaning of it now and could perhaps be the lover worthy of Christine, he realized he had done too much and he COULD let them go because that’s what true love is, happiness for others. (He’d only been isolated with his own, and not the emotions of others, being that hurt child who never got to mature in one way.)

Yes, they say if we looked like our personality. I hear you're a pretty boy, are you and Richard boy friends?

Goddamn it , why didn’t this movie get any awards back then ? 😢

I know alot of people give butler shit for his voice but i look at it like he was alone down there and never had professional training or anything like that so he had to learn everything on his own so it kinda makes sense his voice is a lil bit off and not perfect

Gerard’s expressions of anguish are tearing me up inside. 😢 He was an amazing Phantom.

Emma Rossum’s rendition of this song is my fav.

so rude when she gave him the ring back like how did that make him feel better

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I cry and cry this is my favorite movie and play. I wished she would have stayed with him. They obviously loved each other but he couldn't provide anything for her, outside of his dark world. Ohhhh such a beautiful play/movie

Lyer

Raoul and Christine only asked for one lifetime together which means her and the phantom could meet up in another. Let’s hope ❤

Great music great story all time classic obviously but overall just plain sad 😢brah. Like basically just a two hour movie explaining the deep emotional wounds inflicted on you when you love someone that don’t love you back. Words simply can’t describe how unbelievably painful that is, and that pain will never ever go away. You stuck with it.😢😢😢😢

It broke him , glad he set them free

Sexy butler

He was so fine idc idc 🙄🤚

In shameless, she would’ve just pawned the ring :-)

Such an awesome movie. Love Gerard gorgeous Eyes and those sexy lips ❤

I would’ve picked you Erik😩

It bothers me so much that the second kiss was NOT on beat!!!

The irony of the phantom is that the entire time he is experiencing an idolization of love. He is infatuated with Christine. Once he experiences her kiss of compassion and feels a real moment of human connection, which is true love, he experiences shame, guilt, and empathy. Only by receiving love is he able to die to himself and sacrifice his own desires.

Awesome scene!!!

The Phantom: It's over now, the Music of the Night!
Me: And the Music of the Daylight is just beginning. Don't give up hope. There are more good people in the world. You just need to get out there and find them.

I think Christine gave him that first kiss for Raoul, because she so desperately wanted him to live, but after seeing the Phantom's reaction, she gave him another kiss, for him and him alone.

Fiona from shameless and Christine seem like two completely different actresses, it blows my mind

It's harder to sympathize with him in the book because the narrator constantly calls Christine an innocent child. So kind of yuck, and then Erik has a full on torture chamber where you either bake to death or there's a noose in the room with which to kill yourself.

I fully believe that the author was painting Erik as a vampire. Christine, full of life and purity, and Erik, the walking corpse, emotionally starved. In the book, after Erik would kidnap her for different intervals, she would reemerge seemingly drained of life. Also, the man sleeps in a coffin haha.
In the end, Erik keeps muttering about being. "Alive," inbetween describing the kiss she gave him/he gave her. So he felt alive when she gave him affection, and then he dies when she leaves him. His source of love and affection left him and he died because his life source left.

So Erik was supposed to be painted as this metaphorical vampire in my opinion and was starving for love.

Gerard’s phantom was amazing def my fave. He should have won an award for this. His acting was superb. I like his voice too it’s warm and comforting. Didn’t deserve any hate for that I heard he got at the time.

He sings Christine I love you

It’s so sad. I would have chosen the Phantom. I was raised to fix things. And that’s sad, too.

The hapoy ending he lives unlike the old ones

I can’t even watch this without crying god the actors are so good

At least wait until your out of earshot before singing about your love for eachother.

I know it's going to happen someday. I will play a role as such.

Don't get me wrong, I think everyone did a great job here, but I don't understand why they don't get singers who can act to play these parts and instead they get actors and teach them to sing. Like Beauty and the Beast for example. Emma Watson is a fantastic actress, but she can't sing that well and it's just not as good as it could be. Where's 'Home Is Where the Heart Is'? Or can I get a version of 'Belle' without the almost disturbing Auto-Tune? Everyone was going on about the ethnicity of the actress playing Ariel in the new Little Mermaid when I was just happy that they chose a woman who can seriously sing instead of getting another big name actress and trying to teach her/edit her audio for the part. This is honestly all I gave a shit about.

Phantom is not virgin- in various books, he paid for working girls “flesh” wearing masks. Police interviewed his favs girls who didn’t care about mask,& many men wore masks in red light districts back then. But, this is 1st time he gets kissed by his beloved Christine. In old bw films, & novels, Phantom was monster with skeleton head, no flesh at all, & Christine knew this but wanted to be a costar, under study, or have a singing career, = meeting upper class, & VIP getting of poverty, so she accepted his nightly singing lessons. Today, it defies common sense to have 0 flesh on one’s head, talk, etc., unless U r zombie (TWD series).

Já vi esse filme inúmeras vezes. Essa cena arrebenta meu coração, dói. Queria um final melhor pra ele 😢

Plačem, ako malé dieťa, každé počutie ma stojí SLZU, ach....

This scene breaks my heart

The phantom had an ego problem... He had to win ... He never learned true love and compassion because of his past. Christine showed that to him but she also needed someone loving and caring and soft and stable which the Phanton cant be whereas Raul can.

The phantom is really the mythological capturer of Persephone whereas Raul is her Saviour like Persephone 's mother. This is the mythology we know about about winter/darkness and summer/light.

Raul was the best choice because he was self sacrificing and wanted her to live whereas Eric wanted to win and saw Christine as a prize

Who else is watching this trying to help with the grief of Phantom

“An eternity of THIS”
Bring it on baby