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Koukol 5	POTO Question	Lead	[-]
Nov 11 12 5:41 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the book Is there an explanation for Erik's deformed face?
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Gojira		#1	[-]
Nov 11 12 6:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Born that way.
Kingkongkessler		#2	[-]
Nov 11 12 6:45 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	His parents Kess
Koukol 5		#3	[-]
Nov 12 12 1:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks guys. In the film they say he's a homocidal maniac...was he described this way in the book?
Rookheeya		#4	[-]
Nov 12 12 3:22 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Well, he didn't escape from an institution for the criminally insane, but he was certainly dangerous and had his issues. However, the existing version of the movie was made because the audience at the time wanted a true villain and wanted him to be punished for his crimes . The original backstory of the Phantom was closer to Leroux.
jplibby		#5	[-]
Nov 13 12 11:27 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Koukol 5 wrote: Thanks guys. In the film they say he's a homocidal maniac...was he described this way in the book? He's just misunderstood.
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Green Hornet.movieserialmess...		#6	[-]
Nov 14 12 12:24 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Absolutely. I've always seen the Phantom as much more of a sympathetic character than the movie makes him out as. Sure, he's got anger issues, but only because he's had to endure year after year of being constantly made the bad guy and exiled from society simply because he had the misfortune of that face. He just wants love and to no longer be made the bad guy. Universal really flattened out the character and made him into a 2-dimensional murderous maniac. What a shame. I still love the movie tho - for all its flaws, it's definitely a favorite.
HalLane		#7	[-]
Nov 14 12 7:22 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	In the book, he was kind of an international mechanic for hire, constructing elaborate death traps for the amusement of Oriental potentates. He'd been imprisoned in the Paris Opera sub-cellars too, I think, and later chose to construct his own customized retirement getaway there, with all the latest death traps. He was so ugly as a kid (how ugly?) his mommy gave him his first mask, and he wore masks all his life. His skin was slimy and fetid to the touch, kinda icky. And he pretended to be Christine's father's ghost in a graveyard, or something like that. The dude got around.
Koukol 5		#8	[-]
Nov 14 12 2:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	HalLane wrote: ... He'd been imprisoned in the Paris Opera sub-cellars too, I think,... If true then Universal's imprisoned as a homocidal maniac isn't far off...they sort of just read into it to make him a monster. I prefer that as Chaney already did a sympathetic character with the .hunchback..
HalLane		#9	[-]
Nov 28 12 7:08 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	<< If true then Universal's imprisoned as a homocidal maniac isn't far off...they sort of just read into it to make him a monster. << The Universal film was surprisingly faithful to the book. He was smart, resourceful and even sympathetic in the book, but certainly had the touch of the psychopath about him. The elaborate "heat" and "flood" rooms in the film were not so far off -- in the book, he stocked the cellars with dynamite and a suicide switch, effectively designing his own tomb.
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