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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.

Young gerard butler phantom of the opera