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Hot and Bothered

Ending Of: The Phantom of the Opera

Hot and Bothered

Not Sorry Productions

Books, Feminism, Intersectionality, Arts, Relationships, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 April 2026

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

For this week’s bi-weekly scene study, Vanessa and Hannah analyze the ending of The Phantom of the Opera. They discuss the black-and-white frame narrative of the film, what makes the phantom hot (and not), and the show's similarity to Beauty and the Beast.


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0:00.0

Masquerade, paper faces on parade,

0:09.0

Maskerate, hide your face of the world who never love you.

0:29.6

I love you. I'm Vanessa Zoltan.

0:43.9

I'm Hannah McGregor.

0:46.0

And this is Hot and Bothered. Hannah, Hannah, it's not fair, because now I'm going to have a positive association with this trash movie.

1:11.9

Yay.

1:12.3

Because I'm having so much fun talking to you about it.

1:15.6

Yay!

1:16.9

We're having a good time.

1:18.8

So, Hannah, can you please summarize the end of this film?

1:24.2

Can I?

1:25.0

Okay.

1:26.2

The Phantom has once again brought Christine to his layer.

1:31.7

Against her will this time. Against her will this time. You know, once again, he says we go down,

1:36.6

but this time, much less consensually. Kidnapping. And Raul follows to try to save her, but he

1:42.8

fails to keep his hand at the level of his eye, and so he gets caught in a classic noce trap.

1:48.3

So I would just like to tell everyone, over and over and over again, it's like no matter what you do, he's amazing with a rope, keep your hand at your eye level.

1:59.4

Because that way, if he tries to lasso you, it won't get your throat.

2:04.2

It'll in part get your arm. Yeah. And Raoul's like, got it. And everyone's like, got it. And he's like, got it. And they're like, we're going to sing it a hundred more times to make sure you've got it. And he's like, no worries, I've got it. That guy keeps his hand up for two

2:18.2

seconds. Yeah, no. I'm concerned about his upper body strength. Like, I feel like he, like, can't.

2:25.1

That checks out. So, yeah. The phantom catches him in a noose and ties him to a gate.

2:33.6

The layer gate. You know? The layer gate.

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