I didn't notice anything wrong with the filming of it...
I'm actually pretty sure that the sword fight was put in to make Raoul look better and give him some more heroic action (as in galloping wildly after Christine bareback on a white steed... even if it is -- realistically, given where he gets it from -- a prosaic carriage-horse rather than a prancing white charger). Also, he gets to defeat the Phantom and then nobly spare his enemy -- well, he has to, or there wouldn't be any more plot, but we all know that if the Phantom had won that duel then Raoul would have been dead mutton and Christine would never have been seen again :-p
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Date: 2017-08-20 07:02 pm (UTC)I'm actually pretty sure that the sword fight was put in to make Raoul look better and give him some more heroic action (as in galloping wildly after Christine bareback on a white steed... even if it is -- realistically, given where he gets it from -- a prosaic carriage-horse rather than a prancing white charger).
Also, he gets to defeat the Phantom and then nobly spare his enemy -- well, he has to, or there wouldn't be any more plot, but we all know that if the Phantom had won that duel then Raoul would have been dead mutton and Christine would never have been seen again :-p