Gerard Butler - Phantom's mask

[@sonic99rae]

Yeah, I would so choose Phantom over Raoul :3

[@kaylamoniz5677]

Sameee the mullet is unforgivable lol

[@cryptochrome3090]

Ummm he kidnapped threatened and harassed her???

[@koolaid4705]

Yes gerard butler is zaddy

[@jasminnemcdonald94A]

I rather you didn't!

[@sofi6026]

easily lol

[@Exceltiaawesome]

"An eternity of THIS before your eyes!!" Me: Where do I sign up?

[@jaz1558]

lol same, hey ARMY!

[@christinedaae8500]

@Storm Master Oh, I agree! I love you, Gerard Butler! You will always be my Phantom of the Opera!😍. Hugs and Kisses from Christine Daae!

[@eyb0sswelcometothericefiel752]

Things could always be worse. That half isn't as bad as it could be

[@nataliebolduc2659]

I volunteer as tribute

[@mastermind0981]

yes, now that I am lonely

[@Atiny_NZ]

1:36 I'm sorry but he still looks hot.

[@elizabethwestermann6971]

YASS

[@Mari-mp1nn]

Don't be sorry girl. I agree, he still looks sexy, heck if the Phantom came to my room and swept me away, I'd stay with him haha.

[@staykingdom9713]

ohhh yeah

[@maxthebat_]

+misskahu I agree :3

[@maxthebat_]

+Angie Huesca same here

[@aqueenwaits]

Gerard is too gorgeous to hide under this mask.

[@Rache28]

+aqueenwaits I completely agree with you, he looks like a God!

[@aubreyalvarez7396]

But 👏🏼 the👏🏼masks👏🏼are👏🏼hot👏🏼

[@Charming_Celestial]

The mask is sexy as hell, BUT I do wish we had more scenes with his bare face, because he’s absolutely gorgeous either way 😮‍💨💕

[@Charming_Celestial]

@@aubreyalvarez7396 True!! lol 💗

[@janetyoutube8935]

Even so he looks beautiful! ♥️

[@doughcake34]

Oh god.. That scene at the end when she gives him his ring... You can feel the utter pain in his eyes, such a wonderful piece

[@Charming_Celestial]

And yet people have the nerve to say he’s a horrible actor in this 💀

[@xcarsan]

.... all this time i thought that was his hair.

[@emmastone8068]

Same .... Lol

[@tyler_danico6635]

James Ryder indeed

[@imadefault5181]

In the movie his hair went from black to brown

[@amaranthinedragon154]

I guess you could say that his makeup routine was.....*puts mask on* stranger than you dreamt it

[@dankhnw8]

2KGodKal 23 ikrr! I was so confused

[@thomascarroll5750]

Him being given the ring back and hearing the distant echo of Christine's singing as she exits the cave and a tear rolls down his cheek is one of the most powerfully cinematic moments I have ever seen. It's in that moment that he realises that she is in fact the true Phantom of the Opera - in that he will never be able to hold her again or hear her sing another sheet of his music. The most vital piece of his music and life is truly gone and he is condemned to spend the rest of his life contending with that heartbreak. Such a powerful moment.

[@marypoppinamolly197]

Literally traumatized 11 year old me LOL… drowned my sorrows in tons of fanfiction where he gets his happy ending

[@milenapammer3476]

Fantom je njegov zivot.❤ Fantom is his life.

[@GrofDantes]

@@milenapammer3476tako je … jedan jedini

[@Charming_Celestial]

@@marypoppinamolly197 I’ve been watching this movie since 2008 and I’m STILL looking for comfort fics to soothe the pain in my soul after every rewatch 😭 Poor Eric deserved so much better

[@mr.howlington3496]

I've never heard Gerard speak outside of the movie, so I spent the first fifteen seconds of this video having a complete spaz attack from hearing that gorgeous accent.

[@Charming_Celestial]

Same!! 😭

[@AmandasArtChannel]

I met him in person and he was soo nice to give me his autograph

[@krystalharwood8664]

lucky you!

[@elizabethswann3154]

i will buy it for anything you want

[@keizelcestona7155]

So lucky 😭😭

[@Ah1My-Spinach-Puffs1]

Gerard·Butler /jer·are·d butt·ler/ noun Def: the only beautiful "disfigured" singing, blue eyed scottish lad you'll ever want!"

[@dotandgrahamxxxx4487]

What a lovely man

[@Ah1My-Spinach-Puffs1]

Amen to that!

[@christinedaae7130]

@@Ah1My-Spinach-Puffs1 What handsome Phantom! I love his so much! I would hold him and love on had forever!

[@the.fairyonearth]

wAIT HE'S SCOTTISH?

[@TheHunkyDoryMan]

AMEN!!!!!!!!!

[@SooBeautyFull]

Gerard Butler is pretty cute, but with that dark, long hair and everything else that makes him the Phantom...WOWZA

[@sammyeagleson5352]

I've noticed that in some shots the deformity does look pretty gnarly while in others, not so much.

[@carolynegeng9675]

I'm assuming those are lighting effects to enhance the "tortured genius" vs "deformed sadist" tropes. It's pretty interesting, how the lighting can affect the storyline.

[@67angie]

And beneath the mask there is no disfigurement at all, even the ear is "cured" then 😉

[@BroadwayBabyAA]

I notice that as well, it varies from scene to scene. Like one big telltale...with the half mask you can’t see anything. With the black full mask you can’t see anything either...but isn’t the disfigurement that whole half of his face? Ah well.

[@zpmears]

Alina Alcántara the phantom may use a type of foundation to cover it up.. he’s super insecure about it so I wouldn’t put it past him 🤷🏼‍♀️ either way it’s still my favorite musical 😌

[@rachaelthorpe4465]

I think (totally might be wrong, don't quote me) that the first time Christine takes off his mask, something falls off the part where his ear and his hair are on the scarred side of his face. Like he had made a prosthetic to cover it up, and when she took the mask off, it came off too. I just watched the movie, and I THINK that's what I saw lololol.

[@NikkiLurkio]

Gerard Butler is gorgeous and his role in Phantom of the Opera was amazing. I was blown away by it, and I am relate so much to his emotional and mental pain. Beautifully played.

[@Charming_Celestial]

He’s such an amazing actor, I hate how broadway snobs make horrible jabs at his Gerard by saying he’s a terrible actor and singer 😭

[@DramaBabe18]

1:40 still hot as hell. My god. I would not hesitate from throwing myself onto him lol.

[@melitaharris228]

DramaBabe18 I agree

[@WTH828]

get in line, girl!

[@giannapatsy698]

I'd kiss him right now

[@Macifur]

I want to kiss his face so bad, I would've stayed with the Phantom smh.. He's beautiful.

[@sharon102645]

Even with the makeup, he was still gorgeous!

[@kileymcdonnel6705]

I’m telling this story here because I have nowhere else to put it: I have been in love with this version of Phantom of the Opera since it came out in 2004, it bred my passion for music, and I even credit the movie for why I started singing. Almost 3 years ago, I had a run in with Gerard Butler and, for some reason, I FORGOT that he was the phantom… I blame the fact I hadn’t watched the movie in a very long time. To this day I regret not going up to him and telling him how much the movie and his performance impacted me, I hope we’ll somehow randomly meet again and I can properly geek out. I have a feeling not many people bring up this movie to him since he’s gone on to do many other films. So here’s to hoping I can thank him properly in the future!

[@cookiecrumbler8892]

If it's important to you to let him know the impact this movie has made on your life with you starting to sing there are still ways to reach out: social media or writing a letter (the old fashioned way). No way to know if he'll read it but at least you know that you have done your part. I read a short story with an old woman who was too afraid to live and reach out to people, whether it was writing that fan-letter to her favourite artist or inviting her helper to a cup of coffee, that it stayed with me and your story reminds me of it. I don't know how accurate it is, and I honestly mean no offence, but it's always a good idea to let people know the positive impact they've done in our lives :)

[@elisedarkshade756]

(Correct me if I'm wrong) I know that the POTO was meant to be scary or horrifying. BUT! I love the fact that the phantom was devilishly handsome and beautiful in a sense. I loved that part of the movie.

[@elisedarkshade756]

Elise Darkshade I also haven't read the books, but from what I heard. It seemed to me that the way they, (made the movie different from the rest),...romanticized and made the Phantom beautiful in this movie it was just a unique sweet and touching feeling you know.

[@ollib9320]

+Elise Darkshade Well... in a way it's kind of fucked up that the modern world is so obsessed with physical beauty that we can't let a character who's _meant_ to be ugly actually _be_ ugly.

[@elisedarkshade756]

Understandable.

[@ellianavonseggern2996]

I personally hate it because you have to love him for who he is inside he is a repulsive monster but you learn to love him for who he is inside That's why I love Phantom of the Opera

[@embrymilo5316]

J D I disagree. The point of his character is to show how cruel humans can be to each other. They were brutal to him. Violence is all he knows because that’s all he ever saw. But when Madame Giry saves him, he saw kindness for the first time. He learned love by how she treated him. Then it is only natural that he would be curious and when he met Christine, she flipped his whole world around. He saw that there were people (her) that weren’t cruel and violent. People willing to look past looks and see the person on the inside. I don’t think his face is what made him appealing in this movie. At least, not to me. I was more inspired at how his inside was. How he still had emotions other than hatred after all he’s been through. I thing Gerard was the perfect Phantom because he showed raw emotions like I haven’t seen in acting before. He is a really good actor. I think that no matter what a person does or says, sometimes even just the littlest bit of love or care towards them can change them. Even murdering psychopaths have souls and emotions. Even if they are just hidden beneath hundreds of thousands of layers of lies, deception and trickery. Murder. Betrayal. Oftentimes the people who act the ugliest have seen the ugliest things happen. He was raised in torment, and so that’s all he knew. But Christine showed him another way. Just my opinion. 🤷‍♀️

[@mydogspet]

I see a mirror between Gerard Butler as the Phantom and Tom Hiddleston as Loki - both of their performances changed these characters forever. In a sense they re-wrote both parts by making them so sympathetic. Now it's hard to see either as the true bad guy depicted by the original story.

[@anacristinatretchikoff3902]

GERARD BUTLER, A BEAUTIFUL PHANTOM ....HE IS SO GOURGEOUS !

[@junkmale5552]

He's such a beautiful man and it's so adorable when he spouts with his phantom make-up :3 his accent can melt women as if they're butter, that's how handsome and talented and Scottish he is

[@anastasiasviridova8029]

My heart breaks when I see this little hope in his eyes when Christine comes to him in the end

[@jadetaylor8727]

Same same same I was a puddle of tears for DAYS

[@42bwawa12]

The mask couldn't hide his handsomeness

[@levig2366]

Gerard B has cast in some of my favorite films, Phantom being one of them

[@user-we9nr9de1h]

I felt for the Phantom. Cried every time.

[@MICHAELMYERS37]

Me toooo😢

[@RB35MrIzuna]

That's how Zuko should have looked

[@phoenixwing5133]

RB35MrIzuna YASSS

[@WhizKidNate]

But the scar is on the wrong side!

[@CrustyMuffinsify]

Ang will forever be his Christine 😂

[@oliviab4388]

Zukoooooo

[@IslesGirl3]

@@WhizKidNate THE SCAR ISN'T ON THE WRONG SIDE! xD I loved that line

[@shaymary5247]

I swear, all those makeup artists & costume designers, directors, light & sound workers... they derisive WAY much more credit than due. However, being behind the scenes, it's easier to be distracted by the main characters ON the STAGE. And boy, do they all do a magnificent job! So legendary to say the least!!!

[@laryb.5136]

Ikr? It's such a shame only the seen faces get recognition and all the other workers behind movies remain in the dark

[@mikekaraoke]

@@laryb.5136 No they don't, that is why they have a thing called end credits, so Joel Schumacher wasn't in the movie so he didn't get any recognition lol You make no sense!

[@laryb.5136]

@@mikekaraoke that was not the type of recognition we are talking about, me mean they are not presented publicly like actors, actors get famous but not the other people working in the movie behind cameras. Like, no one knows about them. It's nice when they make videos about the process and present the rest of the workers and their work too

[@DarkCydee]

His ferocity and vulnerability is soooo captivating as the Phantom 😍😍

[@LucyS2198]

I'd choose the Phantom 😍👻

[@yanxuanli3538]

isn't Gerard Butler the sweetiest & cutest?

[@gameuser5451]

+yanxuan li and the hottest xDD

[@lilianavalentinaalegrialop2727]

Yes

[@alexandriabaylee]

He is an amazing actor. And I feel like he excels at everything he does!

[@gogumadalpaengi]

Wise words. Leroux wrote, " He asked only to be 'someone,' like everybody else. But he was too ugly." So yeah, Gerard Butler did fully get the phantom's nature...! :O

[@meccamoo7779]

He still have a very cute half.😂

[@skylark1111]

1:42 still handsome despite that disfigured mask. his acting was briliant! the musical has so much inner story so I can relate 💔🖤

[@ggat221]

I'm in love with this film, I watched it like 5 times x3 gerard is so charming:3♥

[@localmetalhead3483]

Chihiro Ogino I watched it like 10 times!

[@embrymilo5316]

I’ve only seen it once (because I don’t really have time to sit down and watch much) but I’ve listened to the soundtrack like 6 times a day 😂😂😂

[@nushkakocherhina4792]

3 times,but I'll never get enough 🤤

[@StormDatIsApproaching]

The amount of comment here saying they're cool with him being a serial killer cause he's hot is honestly more concerning than any crime the phantom's ever done. Y'all are somehow thirstier than Erik

[@TheeMaddyWesker]

Even as the Phantom he was so gorgeous you were amazing!

[@dasomjeong6650]

1:39 OMG what a lovely phantom

[@vivianctk]

By far my most favorite musical. I loved your performance Mr Butler. I felt pins and needles. The emotions that lied within me were so intense. BRAVO!!!!

[@ayass2598]

even with that face you still the most beautiful creature in the universe 😍😍😍

[@beautifulhorror22]

1:23 I love how Patrick Wilson's (Raoul) wig is in the background XD!

[@oceansaver723]

Gahhhh he makes such a beautiful phantom

[@shirsange]

Gerry IS the Phantom. He became the part and created the most believable Phantom of all time, just like he does all of his characters. He is the most talented actor of our time. He can do any character and make them real people. Love him absolutely, Sandy

[@cloudreed1570]

This is Spartaaaa!!!!!

[@aeterna789]

This is OPERAAAAAAA!!!!! *fixed*

[@selinakyle2237]

aeterna789 www.deviantart.com/morelikethis/125194008 :)))

[@christian7978]

I cried so much cuz I felt his loneliness and being unwanted. Also he’s mighty HOT

[@icanliveforever1243]

This should probably be called "The Phantom's Face".

[@dianataylor32]

i never thought Gerald butler could sing but he has the best voice ever

[@katthecrafter6539]

You know whats funny? I was watching The Phantom Of The Opera when I came across this. I was also on the exact scene when Christine pulled the mask of Gerard! Ain't that funnny?!?!?!?!?!

[@embrymilo5316]

Kat TheCrafter why were you watching videos and a movie at the same time?

[@korinakokk6309]

I was not prepared for the last clip

[@elizabethmetzinger4751]

He is so hot

[@heathermcd89]

that little pouty face he made was the cutest thing ever lol

[@Anubis3200]

I still can't believe it's him... he looks so different!

[@christinedaae7130]

I think Gerard Butler was an absolutely handsome Phantom of the Opera! I love his version so much!

[@gennaguerra2568]

He is a awesome phantom.

[@sonic99rae]

Team Phantom! XD lol

[@dayab2905]

I just saw this movie and I can't believe Erik was Gerard Butler 😅 great performance 👏🏼👏🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍🏼

[@bathducky]

when he started to pout at 140 i wanted to hug him so badly. He looks so cute there!

[@user-xi1zv2rj8c]

he is beautiful! it is impossible not to love him!

[@user-xv7pf9jv7c]

GERARD BUTLER, A BEAUTIFUL PHANTOM .... HE IS SO GOURGEOUS ! THE BEST PHANTOM !

[@dianehill1047]

I think Gerard Butler is sexy no matter what! and he was amazing in the movie!

[@snowfire1239]

so talented.. personally i like HIM better as the phantom than any other phantom. his voice completely fills in and completes the songs.. i dont know.. thats just me.. but i've seen other phantoms who do great too :)

[@alexiskinsey2120]

Gerard Butler is looks great with makeup & he looks hot

[@Asperwine]

God... His accent... *shivers* :)

[@emagneticfield]

To anyone who has read Phantom by Susan Kay I would like to see that made into a movie. OMG that would be special.

[@jessyyy999]

it's crazy how young he looks with that "leo hair" :D gerry could totally pass as some college guy :D

[@embrymilo5316]

jessyyy999 he wouldn’t have to pass for a college guy. They’d let him in anyway 😂

[@ninarances9074]

Even I think the prosthetic is a bit weak. It's not scary enough. I'm pretty sure there are movies today that features a very disfigured character, but their deformity isn't bad or scary enough, and they still looked handsome or beautiful. It's like the 2012 adaptation of The Man Who Laughs, where Gwynplaine's (Marc-André Grondin) deformed smile isn't scary like the one of Conrad Veidt from the 1928 silent film. Instead, the 2012 film made it look like his smile was just painted on with lipstick, to make it look like it was cut with a knife, but the character still looked handsome. For the 1928 silent film, Gwynplaine's smile looked a lot scarier, it doesn't look like it was cut with a knife, it looks like both ends of his lips were stretched, showing his teeth. And I've been seeing so many comments where people thirst over Erik, because Gerard still looks handsome in this, even though his character is supposed to be ugly, both literally and figuratively. But there are probably some joking about it, like "Haha, they casted a handsome actor to play someone who really isn't, the irony!"

[@melissa12300]

From this to 300, he is a great actor!

[@rizahawkeye2432]

i love his performance and when i watch the part where he picks up the rose🌹 Christine dropped and then starts crying it makes me cry😢 every time

[@victoria6032]

He's still dreamy

[@emagneticfield]

Erik by the description in the book would have the face and hands of Lon Chaney Sr. The angelic voice of Ramin Karimloo and the romanticism of Gerard Butler. Cold bony hands and a smell of death an unearthly voice and a deep passion and romance. I could love a crazy passionate romantic man regardless of looks especially if he made me feel special.

[@SwtAngel2]

I'm glad you can imagine yourself making out with Lon Chaney's phantom everyday. Brava!

[@IslesGirl3]

Gerard: "Turn around and face your fate! An eternity of THIS, before your eyes." Me: *THIS IS SPARTA*

[@anaclaudia38]

They did an amazing job here. Thanks again for uploading this wonderful extras.

[@emagneticfield]

A cry almost every time I read the book or see the DVD of the musical. The story has that effect on me.

[@embrymilo5316]

He is so adorable. Honestly the face thing doesn’t really bother me like if you ran at me screaming or scared me coming around a corner yeah I’d scream but I would do that with anyone. I love him in this part, too.

[@RitsukaAxoyagix]

I would love to only watch this movie until time ends. Truly beautiful and always 100% of the time makes me cry and remember. Love always, Phantom

[@user-xf3yc9yg8v]

Brilliant actor 👏 👍 love😊it😊😊

[@gracetempest2570]

Gerard Butler is able to look awesome with these kind of masks as well ... However, the Phantom, in the movie, not in the book where he's totally psychopathic, is always better then Roul. I'm sorry but it's the truth u.u

[@Fat_Panda_Gamer]

The Phantom form the Book and the Black-and-White were rather psychotic.

[@LastLaughStudios]

Even in this movie, he's a sociopathic, psychopathic serial killer. A sympathetic killer, but still a killer.

[@gracetempest2570]

Of course, but in this movie he has his reasons to do what he does ... in the book he has them as well, but he's more cruel.

[@Brian_Donlevy]

Grace Tempest Yes, Grace I agree with you. That's why Lon Chaney's Phantom will remain the truest to the character. But, I can watch Gerry's Phantom over and over and never get tired of him. You find something different each time. And, Gerry is the only "manly man" that I can honestly say is also simply "beautiful." :D

[@embrymilo5316]

Grace Tempest I agree. I would choose Eric over Raul any day. Eric is like, “we’re both lonely, so let’s be together and it will be alright okay honey let’s go runaway from these judging weirdos who think they’re perfect” but Raul... Uhg. “Forget these wide eyed fears, I’m here. No one can harm you-” was one of his lines. He doesn’t try to comfort her, only boost his ‘man-card’. He protects her, yeah, but he’s also really possessive. And jealous. Which Eric is too, but Eric has no one. So it’s understandable that he would be afraid of losing her. Sorry, I think I just ranted a little bit. I’m definitely team Eric 😂😂😂

[@gabbie3174]

His little frown at 1:40🥹 Gerard can steal me away whenever he wants😭

[@Astrowla]

God it's hard to recognize you without scruffle.. But AMAZING work. I love you Gerard! And I love the Phantom!

[@skye7011]

Ahhhh I love Gerard TAKE ME MY SCOTTISH BOY!

[@NenadlPopovic]

The best actor and the best Phantom ever!

[@slackerjesus9443]

(newer fan here) but omg i did not know it was Gerard butler playing the phantom.. like whaaat he was brilliant and amazing i am in shock. he's more talented than i ever knew!!

[@babymoondancer]

He's the "Burned In A Grease Fire" Phantom!

[@paigecork1536]

holy mother of fucking god 1:34 I'm deceased😍😍😍

[@eloaxacademisamores]

OMG!!! Gerard have many friends in Mexico City. Frequently he visit to friends and I from Mexico :-P

[@ARagab-ns1ge]

عمر ابن الخطاب مسلسل

[@elizabethboucher557]

I want him

[@watermelen_]

he is gorgeous

[@ilovenycsomuch]

God he is so dreamy it hurts...

[@Toshibatko]

Even with the mask, he's still gorgeous.

[@gracielaruggeri7486]

Most beautiful phantom of the world

[@ashaasiaa]

1:38 daaamn, he's so cute

[@nicholebradshaw587]

Ugh!!! He is much hotter in the movie!!

[@mastermind0981]

This guy is so masculine and handsome and I can't stop watching The point of no return video. Help need to stop.

[@JuliaPeacock95]

Omg when he frowns at 1:38, so adorable...

[@velasixx4458]

I think the phantom of the opera is the whispers of the wind watching you every second without you noticing

[@velasixx4458]

right though!

[@madam-mint]

I love what he does at about 0:47 where he goes "And, uh, this is the eye." *eyelid droops*

[@yolandaelizabethpoletto2590]

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[@angelrose7906]

Even with all the scaring he still looks so handsome.

[@parthxus]

Yeah I relate to the sadness and hatred from people. So I feel him.

[@emagneticfield]

I grew up believing it and I am now 61 years old and that distorted body image still haunts me. Maybe that is why since the first time I read the book Phantom Of The Opera I was mesmerized by it. What we are told as children we internalize and it creates the demons that haunt our soul. I am still that scrawny little girl with the face that seemed to be all nose. I also got a ringworm infection on my head and had to have all my hair shaved off as a child of about eleven.