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wanna-rock-n-roll-in80s · 2 years

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ever been jealous of a car before?

#me neither #mads mikkelsen #le fantôme #hands #men in suits #I swear I almost can feel these touches #seriously what a man #the man to die for #danish perfection #my gifs #my gifset

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kobikiyama · 2 years

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Le Fantôme

#le fantôme #fashion #cutie #beauty #tattoos

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fredandrieu · 2 years

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#1970s #mandrake #le fantôme #éditions des remparts #the phantom

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weirdlookindog · 3 months

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Henri Lievens - Le fantôme des Canterville (The Canterville Ghost), c. 1970

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#henri lievens #le fantôme des canterville #oscar wilde #cover art #horror art #pulp art #ghost #art #painting

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melit0n · 4 months

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Anytime I see people who say 'Erik should have gotten Chirstine!' I always let out such a loud sigh because they are completely missing the point of the book.

The tradgedy is not, and never has been, the fact that The Phantom didn't get Christine, it's the fact that he never got to be human.

Erik, as a character, is so insanely full of love and yearning and that is exactly what leads people to sympathise with him; to lead them to the point of 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. He's poetic with his suffering and expresses his truama in a obsessive and borderline psychopathic way in order to deal with it and get what he wants. To have what he never had; real affection. To be kissed without his masked chucked at his face.

To be looked at with fondness instead of fear.

Leroux's whole point with the character of The Phantom isn't that he's another man who deserved the girl, his point was how real life literature Others are treated. Erik is both The Hunchback of Notre Dame's Quasimodo and Jane Eyre's Bertha Mason. Both, of which, despite the fact they don't conform to societal standards, still deserve to be treated as humans.

Erik deserves to be treated like a human despite his deformity, despite his otherness that has literally forced him into the basement of an Opera House he helped build; to be loved like any human wants love. Everybody in that book demonises him for such a human feeling and that is the point. That is the metaphorical kick to the chest.

Further, rounding back around to the 'if he got the girl everything would be fine'. If Erik got Christine, he wouldn't learn that the fact he murdered multiple people to get there, that he threatened to blow up half of Paris, that he tricked a young girl into believing he was her dead father, was wrong. If he got what he wanted, with no consequences, then it wouldn't teach Erik anything, because he would never learn what real affection would be like.

That's why, at the end of the book, where Christine shows him genuine love, willingly, he absolutely crumbles because he realises that is what it means to be human. To feel human; pure love given of someone's own accord.

To love is to be changed, as the poets' say, and that's exactly what it does to him.

#I've re-read the original novel if you guys can't tell #will never not get a giggle out of Erik saying 'you great booby' to insult Rauol and Thr Persian #gaston leroux #tpoto #poto #the phantom of the opera #leroux erik #erik the phantom #erik poto #le fantôme de l'opéra

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atomic-chronoscaph · 8 months

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The Phantom of the Opera - art by Annie Stegg Gerard

#annie stegg gerard #the phantom of the opera #gaston leroux #horror art #book illustrations #masque of the red death #le fantôme de l'opéra #erik #christine daaé #easton press #2017

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shinyfire-0 · 4 months

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Places from The Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux

I ended up visiting several places mentioned in The Phantom of the Opera last summer. I found myself on a strange little pilgrimage...

The Paris opera house - the Palais Garnier

La Madeleine - the church in Paris where Erik fantasised about getting married to Christine and playing his nuptial mass on the really big organ

The beach at Trestraou - where Christine's red scarf flew into the sea and

The church at Perros Guirec - where Raoul had his crazy night seeing Christine worshipping the mysterious violinist playing 'The Resurrection of Lazarus'

All links to other posts on tumblr with my photos of these places

#phantom of the opera #poto #erik #erik x christine #gaston leroux #le fantôme de l'opéra #scenes from poto

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yaksha-lover · 6 months

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ok i know phantom of the opera malleus is already a popular concept but can we please acknowledge how that moment in the novel where erik starts crying while thinking of how christine didn’t run away after he pulled off his mask is so malleus coded. like the barest acknowledgement of humanity and empathy (even without romantic reciprocity) after being feared and rejected by the world for so long is enough to bring him to tears and be endlessly thankful for that one moment of acceptance.

it’s so malleus with yuu being his first friend and the only one not to shy away in fear, i can imagine him just feeling so overwhelmed with surprise and joy when yuu does something very simple for him, like when they invited him to the vdc.

#i’ve only read le fantôme de l'opéra #so idk if this is in the movie/musical or not shjsjdjd #but it’s so malleyuu to me (even just platonically)#malleus draconia #malleus x reader #malleyuu #twst #yaksha-lover talks

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opera-ghost · 1 year

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gaston leroux writing the prologue to the phantom of the opera