[ SECRET POST #6654 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6654 ⌋

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[The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall]



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[A League of Their Own]
















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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

While I definitely see your point, to me Christine as a character is pretty massively stunted at the age her father died. If she wasn't so child-like, her belief in "The Angel of Music" would break suspension of disbelief. I like to think she matures throughout the musical, but she's definitely got some trauma-informed mental problems.

[(Anonymous)]

I could see the argument for that, but it makes any romance at all (even with an otherwise functional, good partner) rather creepy.

[(Anonymous)]

Many adults believe in ghosts/angels, though. And Christine has this enforced by the fact that her own father promised her on his deathbed that he'd send the Angel of Music to guide her.

To clarify, *I* don't believe in the paranormal like this. But judging from how many people do, I'm not sure that it can be chalked up to trauma and loss and remaining emotionally stunted in a child-like stage of life.

[(Anonymous)]

+1. And iirc it's only the Schumacher movie that made her a kid when her dad died; book Christine was 20 to Raoul's 21 when they met again at the Opera, and 6 when her mom died and her dad sold their farm. It doesn't give exact ages for when Raoul and Christine first started crushing on each other, but Raoul is described as "a young man" and Christine "did her duty as hostess" before her dad died, so maybe 14, after knowing each other three years, when Christine's dad is still alive but starting to get sick. And then they don't see each other again until Christine's performing at the Opera.

Book Christine entered formal schooling as a musician just after her dad died, when she was probably 16-17, graduated a couple years later, and started getting small parts.

There are fewer clues for ALW musical Christine's age, but in one version of Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again she sings that it's been three years since her dad's death, and she was first played by ALW's then wife, iirc in her mid 20s.

After book Christine convinces Erik to let Raoul go, Erik's only, oldest friend sees Christine reading The Imitation of Christ.

[(Anonymous)]

It's less the belief in the Angel and more the willingness to follow his creepy ass underground.