The Phantom of the Opera1986

[Madame Giry is pulling Raoul down hallway]

Raoul:
Madame Giry, wait-

Madame Giry:
Please monsieur, I know no more than anyone else.

Raoul:
[fiercely] That's not true!

Madame Giry:
[halts and turns] Monsieur, don't ask. There have been too many accidents.

Raoul:
[incredulously] Accidents? Please, Madame Giry, for all our sakes.

Madame Giry:
[takes a shaky breath] Very well. It was years ago. There was a traveling fair in the city. Gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina. One of many, living in the dormitories of the Opera House.

[Shows a young Madam Giry and her friends walking through the Gypsy fair grounds]

Gypsy:
See the wonder from the East!

Evil Gypsy:
Come. Come.

[Beckons onlookers]

Evil Gypsy:
Come inside. Come and see the devil's child!

[The group walks into tent and sees young boy huddled in a cage with a sack thrown over his face; the gypsy yanks bag away from boys' face and starts to beat the boy with stick; the group laughs and throws money while young Madame Giry watches with pained expression on her face; the groups leaves and young Madame Giry looks behind in time to see boy strangle the gypsy with noose; she grabs the boy's hand and they both run from the pursuing crowd; she hides him in an lower entrance to Opera]

Madame Giry:
[back to present] I hid him from the world and its cruelties. He has known of nothing else of life since then except this opera house. It was his playground and now his artistic domain. He's a genius. He's an architect, and designer, he's a composer and a magician! A genius, monsieur!

Raoul:
But clearly, Madam Giry, genius has turned to madness.