In the book, the Phantom says that no one had ever kissed him before, not even his mother. The fact that Christine did so willingly softened his heart and allowed him to let her go. I don't know about the rest of you, but I think this is the sweetest part of the film.

Does anyone else tear up when Phantom sings "Christine, I love you"? I do.

In the part where he's singing Masquerade, Erik has such a child-like innocence in his eyes

This scene always has me in tears. Mostly the part where he's sitting all alone with the monkey. That was his only friend, and he didn't want to be lonely. :(

Once Christine walks back in to give back his ring, you can see so much hope and sadness behind his eyes. Then after she leaves it's as if you can see all that hope disappear which always makes me cry. Just watching as his last glimmers of hope for a perfect, fairy tale love die.

I don't dislike the phantom because of his appearance! Like Christine said: this haunted face holds no horror for me now it's in your soul that the true distortion lies.

I really dont see how people can hate this film, ive seen the musical and this film and they are both brilliant, gerard butler does an amazing job at the phantom and kudos to emmy for her part aswell, along with patrick. To say its live singing aswell! I cry everytime i see this scene, such brilliant acting :(

Did anyone else's heart break in this scene? Oh Phantom...

This is what happens in you are never loved and still not loved when you love.

2:35 when Christine came back, the fact that he might have hoped that she came to live with him makes it even more sad :(

Love the part when she sings, "You are not alone!" Because most of the people in this world who are cruel or wicked are just misguided and lonely and that sentence is all they want to hear.

The at the Masquerade part I always break down. And after that; he's basically saying since she's gone his life is over. Which is perfectly in sync with the book. Ok enough fangirling and back to crying~ QnQ

Because as much as he loved her, he was also abusive and he realized that. He loved her enough to let her go because he wanted her to be happy.

"It's over now - the music of the night..." That is probably the most heartbreaking thing I've ever heard. Gerard Butler has the best emotional portrayal of the Phantom like, ever. Michael Crawford was mood as the Angel of Music part of the Phantom, but he didn't have the tortured grit that Gerard does. So, brb, crying. ;A;

Does anyone else want to cry for the Phantom?

I was like maybe what 8 when I saw this my sister showed it to me and I cried. This was such a beautiful piece and my heart broke for the phantom. My sister asked why I was crying and I told her is not fair he just wanted to be loved!!!

Makes me cry every single time.

This is the saddest part of this movie I think. When he's sitting there watching the monkey singing to himself. It just breaks my heart. This movie is beautiful.

When I watched this is music class, i almost started crying but others started laughing at him because of how he looked and stuff.. It was really really sad.

The part where Erik says "Christine, I love you" and then Christine knowingly sings a verse of her and Raoul's song with the Phantom right there always always breaks my heart. Because, being the audience, you can tell throughout the movie that Christine never loved the Phantom the way she loved Raoul. She may have felt drawn to Erik, believing him to be her father's spirit (angel of music) and they both shared a passion for music but in the end, Christine was terrified of Erik and pitied him. I

The poor man's whole life has been nothing but a whole masquerade. He sacrificed everything for the sake of hoping to find someone who would love the man beneath the mask... and she chose someone else. Poor Phantom...

This bit always makes me cry, but seriously can't Christine and Raoul at least wait until they're out of earshot! Talk about rubbing salt in the wound...

I think Gerard did an amazing job in this movie, yeah the deformity was played down and stuff but that is t his fault

'Christine I Love You' this always makes me cry

ah this is so raw... the end of the song kills me - how open he is, no defenses up, vulnerable, just raw. Then she's a butt and humiliates him, rejects him, betrays him... :'( the look he gives her when she rips his mask off makes me feel like curling up in a ball sobbing. Especially the end, when she kisses him, then later returns the ring.. He looks so hopeful when she comes in, then is crushed and cries... UGH. The Phantom had a horrible, empty life, and then didn't even get Christine...

The one glimpse of hope at 2:58 where the Phantom thinks Christine came back to be with him...gets me every time :'(

I think it was to show him that she did love him because the story goes that the reason she kisses him twice is because of how much passion she felt while kissing him the first time. So I think she did actually love him the whole time but he was very cruel to other people and she did sort of see him as her father's ghost , but at the end when they kiss she realizes that she is in fact in love with him quite deeply and strongly.

"Forget all of this. Forget all you've seen." I think it will take years of therapy for that to happen...

his scene in front of the music box breaks my heart

i found this scene to be very emotional powerful to think of all this time he tried to help her then in the end she choose another a really powerful ending

I cry every time I watch this movie. When I saw it on Broadway I bawled my eyes out!!! The people sitting next to me were staring at me like I was crazy.

The first time I watched this, I burst into tears.

The most beautiful Kiss in history

the part where the phantom sings "Christine I love you" just kills me. He is just so defenceless, raw and vulnerable at this point that it makes me feel so badly for him! I just wish he had connected the "love" and "you" with his air. It would've been so much more effective! I'd love to say that Id choose the phantom, but if this was a real life situation, i know I'd choose raul, despite how pretentious he comes off as!

I'd call that the final insult rather than compassion. The Phantom, Eric, looked at her when she returned and there was hope she would stay with him. Only to end up that she gives him the ring. The ring that was supposed to, from Eric's point of view, symbolize their love. Perhaps I'm looking too into this, but I felt that it was more of a salt on the wound deal.

The most heartbreaking kiss in all moviedom...

i feel his pain when he breaks the mirrors

*bawling my eyes out* ITS SO SAD! I would love you Erik!!!!!!

I feel that people would not fangirl over him as much if he had the original book appearance of the yellow parchent-skinned rotting corpse instead of the movie's sunburn.

I worked at my school's production for this show, and man, even though I've seen it about 567329831 times now, this scene always makes me cry D':

I watched this movie a billion times, and I cry more every time TT_TT

every mirror he shatters.....it shatters my heart. he just wants someone to love him for him and doesnt want to be lonley all his life

Christine, I love you...

Raoul awkwardly just stands there, watching his girlfriend making out with the guy that's trying to steal her from him.

I die when he sings "Christine, I love you." OH WHYYYY. Why didn't she choose him? He loved her so much. :'(

I love how she puts on the ring right before she kisses him!!!!!

I love this musical so much, I also tear up at this part and think "poor phantom/Erik" but I also always think " If he was a kid the same time madame Giry was and she has a daughter the same age as Christine... Then he must be really old!

Right or wrong, it's the power of love. Those voices REALLY help drive it home. Thanks for posting!!

I think of it perhaps as a way of them trying to make it up to him - Raoul's singing responsively with Christine, promising to always care for her. Sort of like a father giving away his daughter (with the "father" being the Phantom, in a messed-up mentor kind of way?)...

It makes me cry in 3:40 Cristine made the wrong decision :(

She wanted to leave him something of hers to keep, and it was a kind of final goodbye thing in her eyes i guess. The ring was given to her from Raoul so it is hers.

This part kills me

Just finish wiping the tears off my face for the scene before this and then have to start all over after watching this one.

I rarely cry in movies, but every time I see this movie I am on the edge of bawling. i love the phantom and I definitely would've chosen him, but this is the type of story where it just cannot end that way. its sad but it is so powerful in a story like this! and the actors are so great in this movie. it's just so good!!

I remember in the original book, Eric (the phantom) killed himself about a year after Christine left him.

Even with or without he still looks HOT!!!

Am I The Only One That Cries From 1:15 To 5:06?

No, i cry and scream "PICK THE PHANTOM DAMMIT!!!"

It makes you wish that you could teleport into to the movie and follow him through that tunnel behind the mirror and then tell him everything will be okay. Q_Q

She loved both of them. giving the phantom back the ring was letting him know that a part of her was deeply in love with him. If you watch other versions she bursts into tears when he says he loves her and she forces the ring back into his hand. I love emmy rossum but she isn't my favorite christine. other girls bring so much more passion to the role.

sometimes i think the Phantom is like Quasimodo. they are both disformed and lost the woman they loved. they both suffered from pain and torment, but most of all, they're both from france.

42 years of bad luck! That's what he gets for breaking mirrors

epic final

I honestly cried when she gave him back the ring! :( Beautiful play/movie! :)

I think I'm the only one who sings along to Erik's parts whenever I watch the movie. Sad part is, I'm a girl.

The first two shattered my heart. The third one showed the genius of the Phantom. You think he wants to kill himself: but really he knows he's better than Christine, the Opera, and the World. The third mirror is hope, not despair. The Phantom keeps his hope.

1:10, she looked back, Raul. She looked back at Erik while you two were singing your love song to each other? You didn't see it cause you were busy rowing that thing through the murky waters of the Phantom's dungeon. But I thought you should know...

bawling. all over again even after i've watched this movie 8 times. i cannot even begin to describe my passion for phantom of the opera.

i cried so hard oh phantom and why did they to see sing that song when they left

I bawled out my eyes whenever Christine handed back the ring.

Raoul: Where's your ring? Christine: Um ...

This scene kills me, every time.

That is true. In the novel he has yellow skin, shrunken eyes, misshapen teeth and a face like a skull. Lon Chaney (RIP) is the only one who got it right.

I would have chosen the Phantom...

i love this movie

i start crying when he sings its over now the music of the night

Pff, obviously Christine is such a bad kisser that Erik (the phantom) starts crying of how bad it was, and therefore tells her to leave him forever, forgetting all of this.

That was probably his first and only kiss. The first time anyone had shown him real love. Poor Phantom... We love you!

I cried with the Phantom.

I love this part I cry every time :'(

My heart is more broken then yours, everyone compares me to the phantom based on my love of music but general outsider personality derived from early years of torment, and compares my best friend to Christine based on her beautiful voice and personality.

It's over now the music of the night... cannot listen to that line :'( it's never over

Her mind is the Phantoms but her heart belongs to Raoul - Dumb choice though, the Phantom ALWAYS loved her but she had to sing to get Raouls attention.

3:38 makes me cry every time.

Anyone notice that Christine puts on the ring, right before she kisses the phantom, interesting symbolic gesture... Well all three symbolicly implied meanings: Putting on the Ring Choosing to kiss the phantom & then the Phantom choosing to let them go.

2.00 makes me cry!! :'( poor phantom!!

Oh, it starts as love, turns to obsession, and then becomes love once more. In the book it's basically the same, only FAR more depressing in the end. Especially because he explains himself to the Daroga... he says how all he every really wanted was to be loved for himself, and that was why he let her go. He was crying because she kissed him on the *forehead*. o.o

This movie breaks my heart every time.

so was her putting on the ring before she kissed the phantom a sign that she would have stayed with the Phantom to save Raul?

Made me cry

Aaagh feels...

This kiss was beautiful!

I love this movie I always cry :''''((((((

I like your interpretation...I just can never get over the fact that it's the ring Raoul gave to her in the first place lol

Absolutely! It breaks for him every single time I watch it.

0:00-0:51 fave part of the movie for sure!!! LOVE IT!

crying that is all

it makes me cry when i watch this

DYING :'( Why didn't the fool choose him! He loved her so so so much!!!!!!!!

I would have too. I honestly think the Phantom loves Christine more than Raoul had loved her. Even though the Phantom wasn't really an angel, he seemed like one, he looked over Christine ever since she was a little girl and he trained her to become a great singer, she should have thanked him at least for everything he has done for her. She should have stayed with him, she could have sneaked him out and had a new life with him and maybe taught him to be good natured and not to kill.