The Phantom’s brutality is retained – he’s still a repeated murderer and the story keeps the most iconic of the set-pieces – but the Phantom feels more like an ineffectual loser than a true movie monster. I wonder if that’s also the reason that he’s never really portrayed as that much of a monster, even in the depths of his insanity. Apparently Claude Rains was afraid of being typecast as a “freak”, and so the eponymous character’s scars are significantly downplayed. Of course, the production history of Phantom of the Opera suggests that there are a lot of reasons why the finished product ends up so mangled.
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