The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

Gerard Butler: The Phantom

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• [as he leads Christine down the tunnels of the opera] 

  The Phantom : [sings]  Sing once again with me our strange duet. / My power over you grows stronger yet. / And though you turn from me to glance behind, / The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside your mind.

• The Phantom : Did I NOT instruct that Box 5 was to be left empty?

  Meg Giry : He's here, the phantom of the opera!

  Christine : It's him!

  Carlotta : Your part is silent, little toad!

  The Phantom : A toad, madam? Perhaps it is you who are the toad...

• The Phantom : You have come here, in pursuit of your deepest urge. In pursuit of that wish which 'til now has been silent... SILENT! I have brought you, that our passions may fuse and merge. In your mind you've already sucummed to me. Dropped all defenses, completely sucummed to me. Now you are here with me. No second thoughts. You've decided... DECIDED! Past the point of no return. No backward glances... our games of make-believe are at an end! Past all thought of if or when. No use resisting... abandon thought and let the dream descend! What raging fire shall flood the soul? What rich desires unlock its door? What sweet seductions lie before us? Past the point of no return. The final threshold... what warm unspoken secrets will we learn? Beyond the point of no... return!

• The Phantom : You've past the point of no return.

  Christine : [singing]  Angel of music you deceived me.

  [Speaks] 

  Christine : I gave you my mind blindly.

  The Phantom : You try my patience make your choice.

  [tightens the rope around raoul's neck] 

  Christine : [sings]  Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, you are not alone.

  [kisses the phantom] 

• The Phantom : Flattering child, you shall know me, see why in shadow I hide! Look at your face in the mirror

  [magically appears in the mirror] 

  The Phantom : - I am there inside!

• The Phantom : But Christine - fear can turn to love. You'll learn to see, to find the man behind the monster, this... repulsive carcass who seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly... secretly. Oh, Christine.

• The Phantom : Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime. Lead me, save me from my solitude. Say you'll want me with you here beside you. Anywhere you go, let me go too. Christine, that's all I ask of...

  [Christine pulls off his mask] 

• The Phantom : That fate which condemns me to wallow in blood has also denied me the joys of the flesh. This face - the infection which poisons our love. This face which earned a mother's fear and loathing, a mask: my first unfeeling scrap of clothing. Pity comes too late, turn around and face your fate, an eternity of *this* before your eyes!

• The Phantom : Seal my fate tonight. I hate to have to cut the fun short, but the joke's wearing thin. Let the audience in. Let my opera BEGIN!

• The Phantom : [singing as he descends the staircase at the Masquerade Ball]  Why so silent, good monsieurs? Did you think that I had left you for good? Have you missed me, good monsieurs? I have written you an opera! Here I bring the finished score - Don Juan Triumphant! Fondest greetings to you all. A few instructions now before rehearsals start: Carlotta must be taught to act, not her normal trick of strutting 'round the stage. Our Don Juan must lose some weight; it's not healthy in a man of Piangi's age. And my managers must learn that their place is in an office! not the arts. As for our star, Miss Christine Daae... no doubt she'll do her best. It's true her voice is good; she knows, though, should she wish to excel, she has much still to learn, if pride will let her return to me, her teacher... her teacher.

• The Phantom : You will curse the day you did not do / all that the Phantom asked of you!

• The Phantom : Down once more to the dungeon of my black despair! Down we plunge to the prison of my mind! Down that path into darkness deep as Hell! Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? Not for any mortal sin, but the wickedness of my abhorrent face!

• [as they travel to the Phantom's lair] 

  Christine Daaé : Those who have seen your face draw back in fear. I am the mask you wear...

  The Phantom : It's me they hear...

  Christine Daaé , The Phantom : Your/my spirit and my/your voice in one combined. The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside my/your mind.

• The Phantom : [sung]  Christine Daae has returned to you, and I am anxious her career should progress. In the new production of "Il Muto", you will therefore cast Carlotta... as the Pageboy, and put Ms. Daae in the role of Countess. The role which Ms. Daae plays calls for charm and appeal. The role of the Pageboy is silent, which makes my casting- in a word... ideal.

  [spoken] 

  The Phantom : I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in Box Five, which *will* be kept empty for me. Should these commands be ignored, a disaster beyond your imaginations will occur. I remain, gentlemen, you obedient servant. O. G.

• Raoul : [Desperate]  Free her! Do what you like only free her! Have you no pity?

  The Phantom : [to Christine, mocking and humourous]  Your lover makes a passionate plea.

  Raoul : I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her! Show some compassion...

  The Phantom : [Suddenly enraged]  The world showed no compassion to me!

• The Phantom : [singing]  Too long you've wandered in winter, far from my fathering gaze...

  Christine : [singing]  Wildly, my mind beats against you

  The Phantom : [singing]  You resist...

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  ... yet your soul obeys!

  Christine : [singing in unison]  ... yet the soul obeys!

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, you denied me...

  Christine : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, I denied you...

  The Phantom , Christine : [singing in unison]  ... turning from true beauty!

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, do not shun me...

  Christine : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, my protector...

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  ... come to your strange Angel!

  Christine : [singing in unison]  ... come to me, strange Angel!

• [last lines] 

  The Phantom : [sung]  You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night.

• The Phantom : Wandering child, so lost, so helpless, yearning for my guidance.

  Christine : Angel or father? Friend of phantom? Who is it there staring?

  The Phantom : Have you forgotten your Angel?

  Christine : Angel oh speak, what endless longings? Echoing this whisper.

  The Phantom : Too long you've waundered in winter. Far from my fathering gaze.

  Christine : Wildly my mind beats against you...

  The Phantom : You resist...

  The Phantom , Christine : Yet/but your/the soul obeys...

  The Phantom , Christine : Angel of Music,you/I denied me/you. Turning from true beauty! Angel of Music, do not shun me/my protector come to your/me, strange Angel!

  The Phantom : I am your Angel of Music... Come to me, Angel of Music.

• The Phantom : Softly, deftly, music shall carress you. Hear it, feel it, Secretly possess you.

• The Phantom : I gave you my music... made your song take wing... and now, how you've repaid me: denied me and betrayed me. He was bound to love you when he heard you sing... Christine... Christine...

• The Phantom : That fate which condemns me to wallow in blood has also denied me the joys of the flesh this face-the infection which poisons our love. This face which earned a mother's fear and loathing, a mask my first unfeeling scrap of clothing. Pity comes too late, turn around and face your fate, an eternity of *this* before your eyes!

• Christine : I remember... there was mist. Swirling mist upon a vast glassy lake... There were candles all around, and on the lake there was a boat... And in the boat, there was a man.

  [walks over to the Phantom, at his organ] 

  Christine : Who was that shape in the shadows? Whose is that face in the mask?

  [touches his face and rips of mask] 

  The Phantom : [covers face]  Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon! Is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little *viper*! Now you cannot ever be free! Damn you! Curse you!

  [now sad] 

  The Phantom : Stranger than you dreamt it, can you even bear to look, or dare to think of me?... This lonesome gargoyle who burns in hell but secretly yearns for heaven secretly, secretly but Christine... fear can turn to love you'll learn to see to find the man behind the monster this... repulsive carcass that seems a beast but secretly dreams of beauty secretly, secretly...

  [crying] 

  The Phantom : Oh, Christine.

  [Christine hands him the mask] 

  The Phantom : Come. We must return. Those two fools who run my theater will be missing you.

• The Phantom : Can you even dare to look or bear to think of me?

• The Phantom : Let your mind start a journey to a strange new world! Leave all thoughts of the life you knew before! Let your soul take you where you long to be! Only then can you belong to me...

• The Phantom : [singing, brokenly]  Masquerade... paper faces on parade. Masquerade... hide your face, so the world will never find you...

  [Christine appears at his side, gives him her ring] 

  The Phantom : [heartbroken]  Christine, I love you...

• The Phantom : Hounded out by everyone! Met with hatred everywhere! No kind word from anyone! No compassion anywhere! Christine! Why? Why?

• The Phantom : [of Raoul]  Insolent boy! This slave of fashion basking in your glory! Ignorant fool!

• The Phantom : [to Christine of Raoul]  His life is now the prize which you must earn!

• [repeated line] 

  The Phantom : I am your Angel of Music... Come to me; Angel of Music...

• The Phantom : Take her, forget me, forget all of this. Leave me alone, forget all you've seen. Go now, don't let them find you. Take the boat, swear to me never to tell. The secrets you know, of the Angel in Hell. GO NOW! GO NOW AND LEAVE ME.

• The Phantom : [Mockingly to Raoul]  Order your fine horses now! Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes! Nothing can save you now - except perhaps Christine.

  [to Christine] 

  The Phantom : Start a new life with me - buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me, and you send your lover to his death! This is the choice!

• The Phantom : [to Christine, as he sees Raoul, come to rescue her]  Wait! I think my dear, we have a guest. Sir,

  Christine : Raoul!

  The Phantom : this is indeed an *unparalleled* delight. I had rather hoped that you would come. And now, my wish comes true, you have joined and made my night.

  Christine : [Struggling to get away from the Phantom who has drawn her to his side]  Let me go!

  Raoul : Free her! Do what you like only free her! Have you no pity?

  The Phantom : [Mockingly to Christine]  Your lover makes a passionate plea!

  Christine : Please Raoul it's useless.

  Raoul : I love her! Does that mean nothing I love her! Show some compassion!

  The Phantom : [shouts]  The world showed no compassion to me!

  Raoul : Christine, Christine, let me see her.

  The Phantom : Be my guest, sir.

• The Phantom : Did you think that I would harm her?

• The Phantom : This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing, a mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing...

• The Phantom : [to Christine]  Pity comes too late, turn around and face your fate: An eternity of this

  [gestures to himself] 

  The Phantom : before your eyes!

• The Phantom : Now, let it be war upon you both!

• The Phantom : Did I not instruct

  [the crowd gasps] 

  The Phantom : ... that Box Five was to be kept *empty*?

• The Phantom : Too late for prayers and useless pity!

• The Phantom : [after Christine pulls off his mask and glimpses his face]  Damn you! You little prying Pandora! You little demon - is this what you wanted to see? Curse you! You little lying Delilah! You little viper!

• The Phantom : [singing to himself]  Masquerade / Paper faces on parade / Masquerade/ Hide your face, so the world will never find you

• The Phantom : [sung]  Christine Daae has returned to you, and I am anxious her career should progress. In the new production of "Il Muto", you will therefore cast Carlotta... as the Pageboy, and put Ms. Daae in the role of Countess. The role which Ms. Daae plays calls for charm and appeal. The role of the Pageboy is silent, which makes my casting-in a word... ideal.

  [spoken] 

  The Phantom : I shall watch the performance from my normal seat in Box Five, which *will* be kept empty for me. Should these commands be ignored, a disaster beyond your imaginations will occur. I remain, gentlemen, you obedient servant. O. G.

• The Phantom , Christine Daaé : Past the point of no return. The final threshold! The bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn... We've passed the point of no... return.

• Passirino : Master?

  The Phantom : Passarino... Go away, for the trap is set and waits for its prey!

• The Phantom : [singing to Christine]  Your chains are still mine! You belong to me!

• The Phantom : Slowly, gently, night unfurls its splendour. Grasp it, sense it - tremulous and tender. Turn your face away from the garish light of day, turn your thoughts away from cold, unfeeling light - and listen to the music of the night!

• The Phantom : [to Christine, talking about himself]  This loathsome gargoyle, who burns in bell, but secretly yearns for heaven. Secretly... secretly...

• The Phantom : [seeing Christine's engagement ring on a necklace chain around her neck]  Your chains are still mine! You belong to *me*!

• The Phantom : [On a number of threatening and ordering letters]  I remain, Gentlemen, Your obedient servant.

• The Phantom : You alone can make my song take flight. Help me make the music of the night...

• The Phantom : [singing]  Too long you've wandered in winter, far from my far reaching gaze...

  Christine : [singing]  Wildly, my mind beats against you

  The Phantom : [singing]  You resist...

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  ... yet your soul obeys!

  Christine : [singing in unison]  ... yet the soul obeys!

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, you denied me...

  Christine : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, I denied you...

  The Phantom , Christine : [singing in unison]  ... turning from true beauty!

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, do not shun me...

  Christine : [singing in unison]  Angel of music, my protector...

  The Phantom : [singing in unison]  ... come to your strange Angel!

  Christine : [singing in unison]  ... come to me, strange Angel!