monkey music box from phantom of the opera movie

Both items have positive memories for OG, not for Christine. So a balance of childhood memorabilia is established in OG’s lair with that “doll” (negative) and with that music box (positive). Imagine how rotten it must have looked like to scare Christine hard enough to faint. Sometimes I end up thinking as well that the real reason Christine got terrified of the doll wearing a bridal gown is she realized that it’s not really a doll. Sometimes I can’t help but think that he trained Christine to sing in the same way that his mom sung. Besides, much of his attraction towards Christine is based on how much she looked like his mom.

He turns the knob so that it can play his mother’s song. The box was the only positive memory he has from his previous life. Madame Giry mentioned how OG used to be a part of a circus troupe where he was one of the freaks.

His most cherished possession other than Christine (let’s face it, OG treated her like property too) was this box, a memento of his life as a circus freak. The box was just like how Christine described it to him since she got close enough with OG to know other details of his life. At the beginning of the story anyway, if the 25th anniversary edition would be based, some of the participants in the auction were shown shaking their heads suggesting that they are not willing to spend more on a music box like the one up for sale. So let’s try focusing on circumstances surrounding the music box itself. Then again, Webber has rights to the story that gave him freehand to launch a sequel, perhaps for the sake of catering to fans that still hoped that Christine would end up with OG.

Because the moment we start analyzing the importance of this music box to the story, we would realize how the ending of the film version closed the story cleanly enough to avoid any possibility of a sequel. An onslaught of ideas ravished through my brain fast enough to remember the spoilers I read from “Love Never Dies”, the sequel that Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote for this musical.

Monkey music box from phantom of the opera movie