Shircore, an Oscar winner in 1999 for her work on Elizabeth, based her design for the Phantom's disfigurement on a medical condition, underscoring the character's background as a misunderstood former sideshow freak. We want the audience to see his attractiveness, his anger and his vulnerability. It was about trying to find the real person behind the mask. We didn't want his disfigurement to be horribly grotesque. Christine, however, always looks past that and views him with compassion as she sings, "This haunted face holds no horror for me now / It's in your soul that the true distortion lies." I did not want to bring you 'Freddy Krueger Goes to the Opera!'įrom a costume designer in the Notes section of the official movie website: Like the design of the Phantom's costume and mask, his underlying physical deformity had to be rendered convincingly, without alienating the audience in the process. The Phantom is very disfigured and the right side of his face is quite tragic. From the Q&A with Joel Schumacher on the official website: Even though the make-up in the stage show is grotesque, and very much a copy of the Lon Chaney make-up, I felt the audience is smarter than a lot of obvious prosthetics.
That was a judgement call on the part of the production team.
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