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Professor L. Petrie is the main character of The Phantom of the Opera (1962). Loosely based on Erik (The Phantom), this Phantom shares similarities with the Lon Chaney rendition as well as the Claude Rains rendition. He died after saving Christine Charles by pushing her out of the way of the falling chandelier, letting it hit him instead.
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- Overview
- In the Original Novel
- 1925 Lon Chaney silent film
- 1943 Claude Rains remake
- Hammer Horror Herbet Lom version
- Phantom of the Paradise
- 1986 Maximillian Schell TV movie
- Robert Englund 1989 version
- 1990 Charles Dance miniseries
With the exception of the Dario Argento/Julian Sands version, every version of the Phantom is seen wearing a mask, an image fixed into the minds of the world since its publication in 1911, though most tend to instantly think of the white half-mask from Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage musical.
In the Leroux book, Erik mentions having worn a mask even as a child, because his mother couldn't bear to look at his skull-like face. Erik wears a black mask that hides his entire face, and the original cover of the novel depicts Erik wearing a simple black domino mask that hides 3/4 of his face. He also wears a false nose when attending the Opera...
In Lon Chaney's 1925 silent classic, Erik wears a unique mask, one that resembles a normal face with a dust muffler under the nose. He also wears a cap with this mask, making him resemble a regular Middle Eastern man when masked. However, Erik is hardly seen with his mask on, mostly keeping his deformed face in view of the audience.
in Universal's 1943 remake starring Claude Rains, Erique Claudin wears a bluish-white mask that covers 3/4 of his face, stolen from the Opera House's costume closet after his face was disfigured by acid. The mask also serves as a disguise when the Phantom sneaks about on-stage
during a production where the actors wore similar masks. Erique's mask is seen next to his violin on a pile of rubble after his supposed death.
In the 1962 Hammer Horror version, this Phantom, like the Claude Rains version, had his face scarred by acid, and wore a white cloth mask that hid his entire face, save for one eye. He wears this mask during most of the film, only removing it in a few scenes toward the ending.
In Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise, Winslow Leach becomes the Phantom after getting his face caught in a record press that mutilates half of his face and renders his right eye useless as a result. Winslow hides his scarred face with a silver owl-themed helmet/mask. Strangely enough, this helmet also has a black lens over the right eye hole...
In the 1986 Maximillian Schell version, this version of the Phantom wears both a stone-gray mask that resembles a statue's face, as well as a mask that resembles his face prior to his disfiguration, once again by acid, though strangely enough his unmasked face looks similar to Lon Chaney's skull-like deformity, looking nothing like an acid disfigur...
Robert Englund's Phantom in the 1989 film had a very grotesque variant of the mask. Erik Destler made a deal with the devil that people would love him for his music and it would live forever, but that his music would
be the only thing he would be loved for, and as a result, his face was mutilated, missing his hair, teeth, nose, and one ear. Destler disguises this with a wig, false teeth, and sews flesh to his face, obtained from his victims, covering the stitches with makeup. At the masked ball, he wears a simple skull mask with his Red Death costume. In the modern day, Destler wears false prosthetic faces, making him look completely normal.
The 1990 Charles Dance TV miniseries had Erik wearing multiple masks on top of a plain white base mask, and Erik's deformed face is never shown on camera. With the white base mask, he possesses a gold Apollo mask that he wears while teaching Christine, a black mask he wears during moments of rage, a skull mask that he wore while Joseph Buquet was s...
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Herbert Lom in the 1962 version of The Phantom of the Opera. In this version, his name was "Professor Petrie". William Finley in the 1974 rock-musical version of The Phantom of the Opera, Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise. Robert Englund in the 1989 horror film version of The Phantom of the Opera. In this version, his full name was "Erik ...
Trivia:-Petrie was played by Herbert Lom, who would eventually be known for playing as Charles Dreyfus, a recurring antagonist in the "Pink Panther" series. -Years before this film came to be, Universal and Hammer kept coming to and away from this film's production, never quite sure if it would work after the success of the 40's original.
Mar 15, 2023 · The post-WWI masks also notably featured false eyes, to replace an eye lost in combat. With that, here's another Phantom design feature that was lost over time. The Phantom was originally going to ...
Apr 14, 2023 · The symbol for that show since the beginning has been the mask, not just the iconic one used in the ads and branding, but of course the one worn on stage by the actor playing the Phantom. (NY1 Photo)
Masks Symbol Analysis. The mask that the “Phantom,” Erik, wears over his face symbolizes his vulnerability and the injustice he suffers from, as he is forced to hide his face because it causes too much horror in other people. Although the mask gives Erik some control over his life, as it allows him to decide when to reveal his real face, it ...
