If you haven't seen the Phantom of the Opera movie and are not interested in spoilers, don't read this. I'm writing this as though you've seen either the movie or the show. I'm just kind of referencing things....
At the end of the Phantom of the Opera movie, the Phantom (Gerard Butler) smashed all his mirrors. He has three mirrors, he smashes them each twice. The final smash shatters the last mirror completely.
Let's give the Phantom 7 years bad luck for each smashing and an extra 7 years for that final smash (especially since there's a bit of a continuity issue with that mirror. He smashes it once and the camera zooms in and you see two spidery places where he hit it.... So let's count the incontinuity and utter shatterage as a third hit on the final mirror.). Two smashing per 3 mirrors plus the extra one. That's 7 sets of bad luck. 7 sets of 7 years of bad luck is 49 years.
Now, the black and white bits of the movie are set in Paris 1919. The colored story (which is technically a flash back. Although I'm pretty sure there's a fancy word I can't remember for when the entire story is set in flash back...) is set in Paris 1870. That's 49 years later.
So... 49 years after the events of the story, the Phantom leaves a rose with Christine's ring on the ribbon tied around it on Christine's grave.
I wonder if the movie people did this on purpose. Like, his bad luck has finally run out and he leaves the ring and rose on her grave?
'Course, if you think about Love Never Dies, this means absolutely nothing since other than loneliness the Phantom has pretty decent luck... But (if I recall correctly... I've only seen it on stage once and it was two years ago....) he also doesn't smash mirrors on stage....
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