Did They or Didn't They?: When the Phantom puts Christine to bed, she's wearing stockings.The expanded backstory also includes the fact that Erik killed the carnival owner as a young boy-granted, the man was badly abusing him (we see Erik being beaten, and when he gets to the opera house he's covered in bruises) and absolutely had it coming, but he's still driven to murder at a very young age.The film goes one step further, showing how she rescued him from said sideshow when they were both very young.

In the musical, Madame Giry tells Raoul what she knows of the Phantom's past, including that he ended up imprisoned in a cage in a traveling fair.Dark Reprise: 'Phantom's Notes II' got really dark when it was combined with 'Why So Silent?', where he's threatening everyone with a sword.Color Motif: Red in the movie musical symbolizing undying love and all consuming obsession.Raoul and the Phantom duel in the graveyard over Christine, replacing a scene in the stage show where the Phantom antagonizes Christine and Raoul. Canon Discontinuity: It would be impossible to make a film adaptation of Love Never Dies without breaking continuity with the movie, since it had established that Christine dies in 1918, with the implication that it was because of the flu pandemic.Call-Back: A small one: in the Phantom's lair at the end, Raoul has blood on his shirt in exactly the same place that the Phantom wounded him at the cemetery, as though the relatively fresh wound had reopened at some point in his struggle to get to Christine.Big Damn Kiss: Christine and The Phantom's kiss seems to go on for about five minutes.(And, of course, has never been destroyed by a fire.) The real Palais Garnier, which the Opéra Populaire is based on, also hadn't been completed yet. Artistic License History: In Real Life, Paris in late 1870 was under heavy siege by the Germans, whereas in the film there's nary a hint of the Franco-Prussian War.Giry, and both The Phantom and Christine. Christine's backstory gets a little more development as well, showing how she came to the opera house as a young girl.It's explained how Madame Giry came to know and unofficially 'work' for the Phantom when she was a teenager and he was presumably around ten, she helped him escape from a travelling fair where he was abused and exhibited as a sideshow attraction, and hid him in the opera house.

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