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THE VAMPIRE OF THE OPERA

I beg you! Let me go.

Monster.

Damn you. Damn you.

No. Leave her alone.

It's impossible to stop you. Damn you!

- Julia, are you ok? - I had a scary dream.

- Where's Sandro? - He's at the new theatre.

Come with us, dreaming lady, you must hear the new song...

It's very romantic. - Come on, let's go.

- I've got the recording here. - We'd better rehearse before Sandro gets back,

or he'll get mad.

We can just tell him anything we want.

Dance with me?

Yes, of course, you know I am your slave.

Out of the way!

Just let yourself go in my arms, lovely.

Of course, if you will only let me breathe.

You are the only one for me, you know that.

Don't talk nonsense. No one is able to love.

- I don't believe in love. - So what do you believe in?

In all sorts of things. Lfl like you, I'll kiss you...

But I don't want to feel like a prisoner.

You're so pessimistic it's scary!

That's the way I am. I wouldn't want it any otherway.

Feelings never last forever...

But everyone pretends they do.

Yes, yes!

Most divine leading lady. Will you do me the honour?

Silly.

Why isn't Sandro back yet? We should call him.

He should be here.

And you two should be ashamed of yourselves.

Get back to rehearsing right now.

Do you hear how she talks to us?

- Do you know the number? - No, I don't, I don't...

I keep thinking about him, he knows I'm waiting...

But how do I get in touch with him? Where do I call?

You should never have come here, this place is haunted.

Hello, Julia, it's Sandro. I found a theatre.

Yes, Tony knows where it is. Come at once.

Bye, honey, hurry up!

It's too bad that you won't listen to me.

I saw a woman being chased by a man...

- And then she disappeared. - It's amazing...

My new theatre!

Lfl wasrt the director I'd want you to be!

And if you werert the caretaker...

Cloakroom attendant, tool maker...

Bell ringer and mouse catcher in this old ruin...

I'd take you as my lover!

Would you shave off your moustache for me, dear old man?

I wouldn't make such careless fun of everything if I were you.

But I'm taking you seriously. Very seriously...

See, I'm almost dying!

You might think I suffer from hallucinations...

But these?

"Invisible walls block company. - Leading lady disappears."

"Young actress disappears within the walls of the Aquarius Theatre."

"An actress disappeared within the walls of... a theatre."

Women! They're all the same.

- And you look drunk, not dying! - You must leave this place...

Achille, you're crazy...

The whole thing was staged, she probably ran off with her lover.

Or she wanted to get out of a contract without paying the fine.

These were found in the theatre corridors...

They're all from different years.

And the women who wore them were never seen again.

They must have worn false noses, wigs, and a fur hat.

I don't know why you're trying to scare me, but you know what I think?

If anyone's devouring women around here, it's you!

But your bad teeth leave you the benefit of the doubt...

But if it were you, I'd rather bring you half a kilo of meatballs everyday.

- And that's enough fornow. - The hall is this way.

I don't understand if you're scared, or you're just trying to scare me?

Spiritual scholars have also been here...

- How do you say...? - Mediums?

- Mediums. - I hope they caught the devils.

No one can do that. The mediums felt a presence here...

But they couldn't figure out where or what it was.

- So why don't you just leave? - I can't.

I am bound to this theatre.

You could say I watched it being built...

I'll leave when they throw me out...

Only then.

Very well, but this is now my kingdom.

I dreamt of this show for years but I never found a theatre good enough.

They offered me this, and here...

Even if all of the ghosts of the Punic wars dwell here...

Allied with the pirates of the Caribbean...

My genius will explode! You'll be left dumbfounded, old man.

You'll see a new show...

Recited with words like music...

Dances where the rush of emotions seal the lips...

Oh! Theatre! Oh! Beautiful joy!

Listen, this is madness...

I have warned you enough. I am not the master here...

But what you're doing is wrong.

Foryears, no company has had the courage to perform here.

Achille, I'd fight devil himself just to...

Enough! You're all irresponsible.

Enough. Enough!

Leave this theatre while there's still time.

There are things here that you don't comprehend.

Fools.

Stop! Old ghost...

These are the ghosts that will pack your theatre.

Them?

Crazy, crazy... Crazy.

Old ghost, allow me to introduce my company...

Dancers, mime artists, actors...

And this is Tony. He's to die for... So he says!

- And this is... - I'm...

- Filipo, we know. And this is... - Manuela.

I'm the only one with the brains.

That is obvious.

My vestal virgin, Roberta. And this...

- This is the beautiful... ...Rosanna with the sensual lips.

Cover yourself, it's cold.

And this is Yvette, born in the city of Lesbo, province of Sappho.

And Aldo, the romantic.

Let us see you smile.

He smiled.

And this is Hilda... Konga... Marta...

Gabriella... Carlotta...

And now, you must stop for a minute.

You have to pay tribute to the most beautiful...

Notice my breathtaking smile.

You silly girl, shut that monstrous, enormous trap!

- Where is Julia? - Beautiful, divine Julia...

The only one! The leading lady was with us but then she disappeared.

- What do you mean, disappeared? - I can replace her, I'm better looking!

Nothing... It's nothing.

Calm down.

- Come on. - Turn on the lights.

Come on, girls. Don't be afraid.

Calm down.

Allow me to introduce myself, I'm Giorgio, master of light and sound.

Shame on you. You ugly!

- I'll smother you! - Leave him alone.

- Have you seen Julia? - No, isn't she here with you?

It's just a cat...

Old man, go find Julia. She must be around here.

Move it! I don't like these jokes.

Gentlemen... Are you looking forme?

Here's your Julia.

Giorgio, the lights. And what are you doing up there?

I'm looking down at you, little earthlings, like an Olympian Goddess.

Why did you disappear? Come on down.

- You could fall. - Then we'll look down at you!

Come down, silly.

- Who are you? - No...

Who are you?

- Sandro... - That was Julia screaming.

- I heard her. - That's impossible.

This way.

- Why did you scream? - What happened?

Julia, what happened?

An old man, with frightening eyes, he was right here...

- He ran away when I screamed. - Take her downstairs.

- We'll find him. - You screamed because of an old man?

Let's go, silly.

This place is like a labyrinth. How will we ever find him?

Come on.

Mind the door.

The noise came from over there.

Here he is.

Damn it, what happened to him?

I really don't like this place.

He just fainted, let's take him upstairs.

Maybe he can tell us what happened when he comes round.

- Why is he lying near the coffin? - It's just a prop.

- It looks real. - Nonsense, just keep quiet.

If it's just nonsense, why don't you open it?

Now you'll see there's nothing to be afraid of.

- What's that? - Can't you see? It's a tailcoat.

- Atailcoat in a coffin? - Probably been here for a hundred years.

Let's hurry up.

Excuse me, but how long can you keep flowers?

- Why? - Because the ones in that coffin...

...Iooked fresh!

- You always have something to say. - I didn't put them there!

Be quiet.

Hey, girls. It's all resolved...

Achille isn't dead even ifhe was about to take off!

What was it? Amonsterwith big teeth?

No, it seems it was someone terribly weak.

- Then he has a look that kills! - What did he do to her?

- Strange! - Julia, they found him.

You frightened him, dear, but he's still breathing.

- Where is he? - Listen, we all want to know...

- What did he do to you? - Nothing, Yvette.

But, Julia, you must have screamed for a reason.

It would be foolish of you to keep it from us.

If there's any danger, you have to let us know...

- Something could happen to us. - Yes, that's why we need to know.

You know this theatre's been closed for years.

There's something here that unsettles me.

The dressing rooms look like Etruscan tombs.

The doors creak, the windows look like eyes...

The curtains like vengeful ghosts... and I'm scared, just like you are.

- But you screamed fornothing. - I still don't understand why?

And I don't understand why he ran away?

You must have scared him.

Me and him, it's like we both saw ghosts...

I saw his... He saw mine. How do you like this place?

Well, we're trying to be brave.

- We're here because we have to be. - I'm going to see the old man.

The stage is the otherway.

There's a way here as well.

Has Julia been to this theatre before?

She said she hadrt.

Just take yourtime, you received a frightful shock.

- Do you know me? - No... No.

How strange.

But I've met you before.

No, old people all look alike to youthful eyes...

We only have one face, though.

Sandro...

Well? Shall we go back to rehearsing?

- Orhave you lost interest? - But, my dear, I thought you...

Not at all. I feel great now.

Very well. Your enthusiasm is contagious.

We'll start immediately. Off to work!

We need to clean the stage. There are so many things to do...

I'm going to make this theatre shine.

- It sure needs it! - It won't take long.

I begged your director to leave this place...

- And I told him the reasons why. - What are they?

There's no point repeating them, you won't believe me.

I've never been in this theatre before, but I recognize it...

And I recognize you, as well.

You ran away when I screamed...

And that isn't normal.

I believe you know a lot more than you let on...

I can see it in your behaviour. What are you trying to hide?

- My name's Julia. - I didn't ask.

- I had to say it. - You must leave.

There's still time.

Go, while the theatre door remains open.

Everything about this place is strange...

I can't explain anymore than I just told you.

I'm going for a walk around the theatre.

Work well.

You really are weak! Heavy work sure isn't for you.

Lift this.

- Will you move? - No.

- See how strong I am? - That was light as a feather!

- Put me down! - I'm as strong as Hercules.

What's got into you?

Now you're going to fly through cobwebs!

Let go of me. Monster!

Keep your voice down.

You protest so much, then you come with me.

I know why you brought me here.

Don't come near or I'll scream.

- May I? - Not yet... On yourknees!

Promise me you didn't join this company because of Julia.

I'd rather fall in love with a lion in the jungle, or a wild horse.

- So you love me? - What a question!

- Promise me you love the moon as well. - What about the moon?

If you love me, you must love the moon, as well.

- Then I love the moon. - No...

An alcove is a place forromantic encounters...

Not for sensual encounters!

Aldo...

I'm going to let you...

You may kiss me but don't take advantage!

- Is that all? - It's enough fortoday.

I love you. Don't you get it? I love you...

I love you!

I want to soar into real art...

Art with a capital letter, great and eternal...

To sigh with Hamlet, "To be or not to be..."

"That is the question."

But this is not it!

We move things around, we clean...

I can't stand it anymore.

I, who cannot dance without singing out loud.

I could say it so beautifully.

If only I had kissed you, again and again...

You wouldn't be so upset.

It's madness. Yes, madness... Madness!

Aurora, help me here.

Rosanna.

Rosanna.

Are you leaving? You're leaving dressed like that?

What are you worried about?

- Would you think me scandalous? - No, not me.

God, I remember you...

And how I love you.

Yes, but no kissing.

Not even one on the forehead?

No, but you may send it by telegraph.

- Julia, what's wrong? - I'm scared...

- I feel someone looking at me. - Who?

I don't know but I'm scared!

- You have to stop thinking about it. - I wasrt scared before...

But this place makes my skin crawl and I don't know why.

You're still shaken up after your encounter with Achille.

- You little chicken! - Funny!

Let's rehearse. I want to move, dance!

- I want to try the stage first. - It doesn't matter, let's take a few steps.

Just to start with.

Then they'll work with a Charleston tempo.

We'll let herhave her way. Giorgio, a Charleston.

I wonder what's on her mind.

- I'm ready. - Let's start.

The show is beginning. Abrutal show.

Sandro! Do you like our work?

- You're on the right way. - Brute! Ugly!

Stop. I can't do this anymore!

Stop!

- Julia. - No!

No!

- Why did you follow me? - Stop it now, what's wrong?

Nothing.

Will you tell me what's going on? First, you insist on rehearsing...

- Then you run off? - I'll make it up to everyone.

Julia. Julia...

Let's go. You don't need to apologise.

No? What, then?

Please try to be reasonable.

- What do you want from me? - To understand you.

You can't.

I love you, Julia.

That's great, you're a lucky man. So what's your problem?

You love me, and because of an absurd prank, we're alone here...

Why don't you take advantage? Kiss me.

- Julia, you really are beautiful. - Is that all?

Okay, let's go back upstairs. We'll take up the rehearsal.

- Fool. - Thank you.

I'm not a sentimental woman, I'm primitive...

I'll neverunderstand your love, so why do you blame me?

You could at least go back to rehearsals. No need to set off an interplanetary war.

You don't understand me.

You love me. The whole world seems so distant...

I feel estranged by everything around me.

When I say yourname, it feels like someone else is speaking through me.

Because I'm living... in a place I don't know.

Julia...

Julia.

Please, let's get out ofhere.

Cursed monster!

I may be your servant...

But this time, I'll fight you!

Pay attention.

The rest of rehearsal will be based on three different themes...

So you'll get a better impression of the different times.

Giorgio, curtains and music.

The sublime sense of Cyrano's kiss...

will articulate the degrading perversions of a turn of the century gigolo...

and the decadence of modern times.

No, that doesn't work at all. Stop!

You need more finesse, more intensity.

We'll start from Cyrano.

Come on, do your best.

- Hurry up. - He's neverhappy.

- Enough. - Let work tomorrow.

- Hurry, hurry. - Sandro is a slave trader.

Who is it?

You'll just exhaust yourselves.

You're hurting me!

All this horrible closeness makes me sick.

Thief! You stole all my lipstick.

Carlotta, wait for me.

- Aurora. - Yvette?

Why are you always alone?

Do you also believe that friendship between two women is purer?

Greaterthan love, even.

I don't know.

Poor Yvette. You're still thinking of Enrico.

Forget about him.

Yvette. Aurora.

Get back upstairs. Sandro's waiting for you.

Miss Hercules is giving us orders!

I'm sorry.

Forwhat? I don't understand you.

No, no...! This place is cursed.

Enough. Monster.

I'm not afraid of you anymore.

Your face, your eyes, your expression, It's just not working...

You have to abandon yourselves to the poetic intensity of the scene.

And what is a kiss?

Apledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste...

Avow stamped with the immediacy of lips...

Arosy circle drawn around the word ��Iove"...

Akiss is a message too intimate for the ear...

Eternity captured in the bee's brief visit to a flower.

Aworldly communication with an aftertaste ofheaven...

The pulse rising from the heart to utter its name on a lover's lip: 'Forever.'

- Who was that? - Don't joke.

- It might be a ghost. - How fantastic.

It's wonderful that people still perform these plays.

Thank you. But who are you?

An admirer of old style theatre.

I've never missed a show in this theatre.

You've been here for so long.

Also, because once...

People believed in the marvelous language of a kiss.

Alanguage that's lost today.

To us, a kiss is a kiss!

And what is a kiss?

Everything... or nothing?

Apledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste...

Avow stamped with the immediacy of a lip...

Arosy circle drawn around the word ��Iove"...

Akiss is a message too intimate for the ear...

- Abroken mirrormeans bad luck. - Are you superstitious?

- I'm not. - It's all nonsense.

I'm sorry, miss. I hope you're not superstitious.

It's an old building.

Sooner or later, it's all going to crumble away.

I hope I haven't disturbed you.

No! I'm not staying here!

No! I'm not staying here any longer!

Let's get out ofhere. None of us want to stay.

- We're staying. - Yvette's right, let's leave.

No, we're not going anywhere. We're staying here!

All it takes is some stupid prank to frighten you. You're all...

Don't be silly, Giorgio, turn the lights back on.

Rosanna.

Rosanna.

Rosanna, what happened to you? Talk to me.

Was someone here?

Let's leave this place.

- Will you tell me now? - It must have been a dream.

Aldo, let's go away. Let's just leave.

You're out of yourmind. I don't understand you.

- All of you, stay here. - What are you going to do?

I'm going to put an end to all this.

Someone doesn't want us here, that's all.

And I think I know who it is!

Sandro, this isn't a joke. He attacked me...

And earlier, in the mirror...

- while he was talking... - This is lunacy, he's fooling all of you.

I feel like throwing someone against the wall.

You're lucky to be a old man!

- You have no idea how old I am! - Why is everything locked?

I haven't told the others so as not to scare them...

But I tried to open the doors, they're locked!

I can't open them now, I'm only a servant.

Make up your mind! You have very little time...

If you don't open them, I'll burn down the theatre!

- It would mean salvation. - Ours! Not yours!

Go to the door and if you don't open it, I'll nail you to it!

I hear someone calling me, it might be the man in the tailcoat...

- He might be able to help. - You're insane.

Stop her.

- Aldo, don't let him get away. - I'll keep an eye on him

Laura.

I am Julia.

No, you are Laura.

My name's Julia.

Where did we meet?

You are...

You are Laura.

Laura.

I feel as though I've been plunged into a lost dream...

In another life.

Far away. Far, far, away.

But still alive.

Lady Laura.

Why?

Why?

Why do you call me Laura?

I have dreamt for so long ofhaving my revenge.

Who are... you?

Let go of me!

She can't just disappearlike that, she must be buried underneath this.

Help me out.

What is it?

It's blood. It's blood!

- It's impossible. - I want to leave.

It's just that crazy old man.

There must be something here. Help me.

It can't be Julia. It can't be.

It's Julia's dress!

It's that damned tailcoat.

Remember, Laura, I have not forgotten.

Where are we? Where are we?

I have not forgotten.

Remember. Remember.

The castle vault!

Then you'll also recognise my tomb.

Tomb!

Why me?

Stefano.

But there's nothing here.

Keep looking. Don't give up.

Sandro.

It looks just like Julia.

No, it's Laura.

It's Lady Laura, I was her most trusted servant.

- Actually, much more than a servant. - How it resembles Julia!

It's Laura...

Amedium, one of many who came to study the phenomenons in this theatre...

said that in the space of perhaps hundreds of years...

Laura's soul will find another body to occupy.

And only then, perhaps through some mysterious process of reincarnation,

the forces of evil that live in poor Stefano,

will be destroyed.

Laura.

Look... Look at your victims.

I destroyed them as you destroyed me.

They wait for each new moon. Their souls will remain young...

But I can still kill them!

This is the curse that weighs on my soul.

That allows me to go on living, to destroy beauty.

Because your beauty destroyed me many years ago.

- Laura. - No, Stefano!

You were my damnation.

You!

Laura.

Say you love me. Say you'll love me forever.

Nothing can crush the love I feel for you.

Stefano, these brief moments I share with you...

They make my life complete.

I can't stand to think of yourhusband...

Laura, come away with me.

- Today... Now! - I'm scared, Stefano...

I'm scared of life outside these walls.

Countess.

- What is it, Delphine? - The Count has returned.

- Go away. - I had to warn you.

Go, Delphine. I'll be there shortly.

- We must leave each other. - Laura, no, it's impossible...

I'm going mad, I have to tell yourhusband that you're mine.

Quiet, Stefano... Quiet.

Tonight, enterthrough the passageway in the rocks...

- and wait forme in the chain room. - Yes.

But your servant came instead, to bury me alive in a tomb.

And so I called out I implored...

The will of all of the cursed forces of evil inside me...

He was walled up, bound to his terrible curse.

Dead and alive forever!

And since that day,

I have been witness to the most despicable acts of horror on human lives.

I had to serve him. Serve him forever.

Because no force on earth can defeat him.

I don't want to anymore. Help me.

Stop me before his will for destruction overpowers me.

The time has come for revenge.

Forces of evil that inabit me!

I offeryou this soul.

Forces of evil that inabit me!

The moment for my revenge...

...has come!

Unleash your rage and torture your victim!

Devour her soul!

Let us rejoice in her painful death!

She's yours. Devour her alive!

Drink her blood.

Make her suffer. More!

Forces of evil, feel the rage...

My time has come!

As much as you hate me, and as much as I fearyou...

- I cannot hate you! - Hate me...

I need yourhate to attack you.

For all the harm I've caused you, please forgive me.

I love you. I still love you.

Forces of evil that keep me alive...

Damn you!

Laura, go away.

Laura... Go away!

Leave this accursed place.

Run, and don't stop until dawn...

Because I can only strike you if you stop.

Go away!

Go away.

Laura.

Laura!

You mustrt stop...

He'll draw you to him if you remain here.

Aurora!

It's madness to stay. He'll get you.

Untie me.

I feel completely lost. Where am I?

Here's Julia. Julia knows what to do.

- What happened? - Sandro...

Sandro.

I had to tell you something, but I don't remember what it is.

What happened?

I don't remember anything.

Where have I been?

What happened to me?

Lady Laura. Lady Laura!

Here comes Stefano.

Forgive me, they were too strong for me.

Help. He's coming.

You must leave.

Hurry... Hurry!

Stefano.

They can't leave the stage, it would be the end.

There's an invisible barrier you cannot pass.

- Keep moving. - Let go of me!

Move.

Carlotta, keep moving.

It will be the end if you stop.

Giorgio, don't let go of me no matter what happens.

Calm down.

I can't go on... I can't go on!

Julia, do you know where Rosanna is?

Stefano.

Stefano, where are you?

- Julia! - Rosanna!

- What are you doing here? - Where's Rosanna?

I know where to find her but I have to go alone.

Take them back upstairs, otherwise they'll have to dance again.

You will come with me.

You'll come with me. Don't be afraid.

She disappeared into the painting.

How is that possible? The painting doesn't move.

Look at the writing.

"That the flames of destruction stay away for all eternity."

We have to find some torches. The fire will destroy it.

Forces of evil, nourish yourselves...

Because I live... I live for all eternity...

Formy revenge!

We have to trust the writing.

Stay back.

Get back.

Watch out!

To the stairs. Get back to the stage.

You can't escape, monster! Get him!

Yourfate is sealed!

Sealed!

The nightmare is over.

He's nothing more than dust.

Hurry.

Adaptation - Marija Nielsen

� Artus Films - 2012