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and the distinctive look was incorporated
in the storyboard continuity sketches
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prepared for Golitzen and Lubin
by Johnny Peacock.
1:16:09
"You've got to be careful about masks,"
Rains told the Los Angeles Daily News.
1:16:14
"If they're not exactly right,
they look funny."
1:16:17
Rains downplayed to the reporter
the nature of his Phantom make-up.
1:16:21
"It's not horrible at all," he said.
"Just a scar on one cheek."
1:16:25
Lubin said that Pierce designed
several elaborate make-ups,
1:16:29
tearing them down until the degree of
disfigurement was acceptable to Rains.
1:16:33
This shot is a virtual recreation
of a similar setup
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in Walt Disney's Snow White and the
Seven Dwarfs, made seven years earlier,
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as the wicked queen descends her
staircase, as rats watch in the foreground.
1:16:45
At the bottom of the stairs, the queen
enters her alchemical workroom,
1:16:49
where she transforms herself
into the evil hag.
1:16:52
Similarly, Claudin will go through
a transformation here.
1:16:56
In our practical world,
attics and basements
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are the places
for the castoffs of our lives.
1:17:02
In Freudian terms, basements
evoke all the hidden impulses
1:17:05
and sexual secrets of the soul,
usually female-specific,
1:17:09
with staircase as a male-gender image.
1:17:11
In religious and dramatic terms,
the basement is the lower depths, the pit,
1:17:16
the abode of Lucifer.
1:17:17
Leroux's original choice
of Gounod's opera, Faust,
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as the opera to counterpoint his tale,
was no accident,
1:17:24
with Mephistopheles bursting up to the
stage in clouds of smoke from the depths
1:17:29
to Marguerite,
ascending on wings to her heaven.
1:17:33
In a longer speech-trimmed,
in the original shooting script -
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the phantom tells Christine
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"I came here when my face was on fire
and I was racked with pain."
1:17:43
"I found coolness in that dark water,
comfort in the blackness over it."
1:17:48
"Then I heard you sing. I thought
I had died and you had come to me."
1:17:52
"Then the others sang
and destroyed my heaven."
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"So I destroyed them."