As an historian of horror film, I have had several similar occasions where people have come up to me and made the comment: “Gee, I didn’t know there had been a film made of The Phantom of the Opera before the musical came out.” I cite this because it shows two things – firstly, just how prevalent the musical Phantom of the Opera phenomenon has become and, secondly, how it has altered people’s perceptions as to what the original story was about.
I have heard in mention several times the apocryphal story of someone who was standing in a record store during the mid-1970s and overheard two teenage girls say in amazement “Gee, I didn’t know Paul McCartney was in another band before Wings.” There are probably various other variations on such a story, all of which are used to cite as examples of how today’s youth live in ignorance of what has gone before them.
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