The thing I love about Esmeralda and Quasi not ending up together is, first of all, the progressive affirmation that a guy and a girl can love each other as friends and not romantically in the slightest, and also because I feel like while Frollo saw Esmeralda as the embodiment of evil, shown by Hellfire, Quasi saw her as the embodiment of good as shown by Heaven’s Light, and ended up kind of idolizing her, which isn’t very healthy, due to him having been deprived of friendship and kindness his whole life. Frollo’s and Quasi’s views on her are direct opposites of each other. Phoebus, however, saw her as a person, and had a much healthier relationship with her, so I’m glad they ended up together and Quasi and Esmeralda could still be close friends.

@jessicamacaulay7462

2 жыл бұрын

That's exactly how I see it too! Also, if you think about it, Esmerelda is probably the first woman he's ever even had any interaction with whatsoever, so that's a lot of pressure on her :p haha

@LangkeeLongkee

2 жыл бұрын

While that makes sense I found this a weird time to do that. Like “yes your physical appearance doesn’t matter and you’re worthy of love, except your crush will like the sexy tall buff blonde and not you”. I get that guys and girls can be friends, I’m literally gay, but was a weird time to say that.

@hinasakukimi

2 жыл бұрын

@@LangkeeLongkee i think it's the perfect time. not being considered conventionally attractive does not mean you get underdog points. the reality is, hot people may not be into you *and that's okay*. that's why it's so important. as someone who has been bullied for being ugly my entire life, it's a really reaffirming and realistic message to tell me that i'm still worth something even if beautiful people don't love me back or consider me beautiful. i'll always appreciate hunchback for that, FAR more than your run of the mill "ugly awkward guy gets the hot girl at the end!!" movies.

@fairydoom7311

2 жыл бұрын

@@hinasakukimi This! I also like that Quasi was kind about her 'choice', and didn't feel entitled to her just because he had feelings and she gave him attention.

@HobGungan

2 жыл бұрын

As a romantic, I'd have preferred Quasi and Esmeralda ending up together. But this is arguably better and more thematically appropriate for the reasons you mentioned. It's fine. He's fine. It's fine.

Frollo is easily the scariest Disney villain in my opinion, since he’s completely realistic. He’s racist, xenophobic, he has urges he can’t control towards young girls, is entirely manipulative, and of course takes advantage of his position of power. It’s not a villain that you can brush off as not real like people who do magic or turn into monsters, he’s just a genuinely sick man. There are many like him even today. Disney was at its prime when it wasn’t afraid to be dark.

@sierrastanley3109

2 жыл бұрын

Most scary thing is is he thought he was in the right.

@alexandriapahlow7263

2 жыл бұрын

@LittleMissMonster I totally agree 👍

@leandrodavidgarcia5711

2 жыл бұрын

I think cruella And gothel are worst, but frollo it's near

@creatingpulsars9979

2 жыл бұрын

@@leandrodavidgarcia5711 Cruella was literally only a threat to dogs but you think she's worse than a man who murdered tons of people in order to try to force a woman to sleep with him on the threat of burning her alive? oh-kay.... interesting choice.

@baronbrummbar8691

2 жыл бұрын

@@leandrodavidgarcia5711 idk ... Gothel just kept her as a golden duck for imortality ... and cruel wasn´t really evil just very arogant and reckless

The brilliance of Frollo's villain song, Hellfire is: The whole room is covered in hellish red, as he is begging for forgiveness for his actions, then a soldier that we never actually see his face, enters and heavenly blue light comes from the door to contrast, Frollo was given a chance to stop and repent if he did nothing after the soldier came, but he just told him to get away.

@wisygirlywopitty770

2 жыл бұрын

Thus why he asked god to have mercy on her ( Esmeralda ) and on HIM ( Which is a proof that right at this moment he knew he was completely in the wrong and went with it regardless... oof )

@thefattestdragon8451

2 жыл бұрын

Also: in the background chorus -most likely sung by the people in the red cloaks- they say, when translated to English, something along the lines of "My faults" after he says "It's not my fault."

@narnia1233

2 жыл бұрын

Oh that’s really interesting. Yeah, that interruption does jar him out of his downward spiraling thoughts (for a brief moment). It’s true that could be representing the moment good steps in to give him a chance to turn away from evil. To look to the light instead of darkness. But he does reject it and continues down into his path of ruin/evil. That’s really cool, though. That good does step in and give him a chance, even during his worst.

My favorite line in the whole movie is "what makes a monster and what makes a man". They make that reference multiple times in the movie because Quasimodo's whole life he's been told he's a monster based off his looks, when he has a heart of gold. And Frollo looks normal(ish, he uuugly) and yet he's a monster inside full of hate and greed. The line shows that in the end what we look like means nothing when it comes to who we are. How we treat other people is what defines us, especially people that r different than us.

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly, that's the point. In the french version, Feollo is voiced by the same guy as Scar

@realityisascam

2 жыл бұрын

As much as I hate frollo, calling him ugly drives home the exact point this movie was trying to make in regards to society.

Victor Hugo, a French novelist and poet, is the creator of this story. It is a beautiful story but it is actually super heart-wrenching. I don’t want to give it away (even though this basically does) but the ending of his novel is not at all as joyful as Disney has portrayed it. We read it in French class when I was in high school and it just killed me. Also - Hellfire, one of the greatest villain songs in Disney history in my opinion. Frollo is absolutely terrifying

@jessicaHcat

2 жыл бұрын

I read the original novel when I was 11 (after watching the Disney version about 100 times), and I threw the book on the floor after I finished reading it 😂 Little me was mad that my childhood was ruined.

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

I'm french and Victor Hugo is one author we studied at school.

@AliciaNyblade

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, yeah, I read the novel when I was 13 and before then, I was only familiar with the Disney film. Needless to say, I was NOT prepared for the ending. It stayed with me for weeks and I've loved Victor Hugo ever since.

Not sure if you noticed, but the song Esmerelda sings in the church shows her character in such a brilliant way. All the people around her, the rich, "normal" members of society sing when they're praying "I ask for wealth, I ask for fame, I ask for glory to shine on my name" while Esmerelda, who has practically nothing, sings "I ask for nothing, I can get by, but I know so many less lucky than I, please help my people, the poor and downtrod." It's such a great scene

@mikephelps9238

Жыл бұрын

I consider her prayer to be a genuine one, because while the “normal” people ask for nothing more than wealth and fame for themselves, she prays for not just herself, but for her people, showing her care for her fellow gypsies.

The scene of the crowd turning from fun to cruelty in a heartbeat is so frightening because we have seen things like this on TV. Crowds that just turned on a dime in the grasps of Crowd mentality. Especially one like this where most of them are probably medium to highly inebriated

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

It's show us how much people are sheeps

@zourou319

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah herd/mob mentality is really scary.

Interesting fact: in the original book Quasi _was_ almost completely deaf from the constant bell ringing. They brought thus fact back in the musical stage production which, in my opinion manages to elevate this story even more

@whitevine9544

2 жыл бұрын

I love the play. I found it here on KZread with 2 or 3 versions of it. The first one I watched got me at the end. I haven't read the book, but I believe they took somenof the ending and spoke about it. Oh man. I personally don't like Esmeralda's dance song. It just isn't my favorite, but that's the only thing I can hate on from the play. If I ever have a chance to see it in person anywhere by anyone I will.

@spartanchief1785

2 жыл бұрын

@@whitevine9544 you have links to them?

@whitevine9544

2 жыл бұрын

@@spartanchief1785 they both are on here. Look up The Hunchback of Notre Dame under Maddie Stewart and Brady Love.

this movie taught us that everyone has value and being different makes us awesome

@salliejones6002

2 жыл бұрын

I guess

@nathancruz9172

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed.

Just a fun fact that is slightly unrelated to this movie but... When Notre Dame cathedral caught fire in 2019, it was really tragic. Even with money and donations to make repairs, they needed concrete plans to figure out how to repair the damaged parts. The developers of Assassin's Creed Unity, because Notre Dame is a fully explorable location and landmark in the game was one of the cathedral's saving graces. Designers and developers of AC: Unity spent over a year scanning, studying, designing and creating the digital model of the entire cathedral for players. Because it represents the cathedral during the 1700s, it served as a very helpful reference to restoration efforts. Using laser point technology, photographs, and scans over the years of the entire thing, it contributed to the start of the restoration efforts. Today, Notre Dame is still being repaired, but we've been promised by the French government it will be ready in time for the 2024 Olympics.

@AlyssaK83

Жыл бұрын

The good thing about that fire is that the stained glass windows were completely unharmed by the fire. Structures can take a long time but can be repaired but those windows are irreplaceable and would have been a far greater tragedy.

"The church" is Notre Dame cathedral. It was on fire quite recently, you may have heard of it. A lot of it was destroyed and it was very tragic :( The cathedral was actually slated for demolition back when Victor Hugo wrote the original story, and the popularity of the books made the French government decide not to destroy Notre Dame, as it was now a popular tourist attraction.

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

As a french, I was shocked when I heard about the fire. My little sister, who studied in Paris at that time, told us she could see the smoke since when she lived

@AlyssaK83

Жыл бұрын

The good thing about the fire is that the stained glass windows were not harmed by the fire. Structural damage, though extensive and time consuming, can be fixed; those windows are irreplaceable and couldn’t be replicated. Silver lining is that the game Assassin’s Creed Unity used Notre Dame as one of the explorable locations thanks to digital mapping with a full layout of the entire church. Thanks to this game, reconstruction of the church is made easier and will be fixed by the Olympics of 2024.

15:55 you just witnessed one of best disney villain songs and one of greatest musical moments in disney history. Tony J did a really good performance as Frollo in this film.

the Romani people were once nomads who emigrated from northern India but Europeans called them G-y-p-s-i-e-s because they thought they came from egypt

@LangkeeLongkee

2 жыл бұрын

Yes and that word is considered a slur

@Pollicina_db

2 жыл бұрын

@@LangkeeLongkee Where I live romani people wear it like a medal, they call themselves gypsie all the time

@LangkeeLongkee

2 жыл бұрын

@@Pollicina_db Um, because it's THEIR slur and it's THEIRS to claim, that does not mean you get to call them that. As a black sapphic with autism I can call myself the R word, the N word or the D word if I want, they're my slurs to reclaim, but that doesn't mean you can call me any of those things. I cannot speak for others, not everyone has the same opinions about their slurs. Some people are fine with others using certain slurs that apply to them if it's not used with malice (personally, only ablesit slurs bother me when friends say it even as a joke), but that is not a green light to start using slurs whenever you want, regardless of intention.

I like this movie as an adult but seriously though this movie so unbelievably dark and heartbreaking. I love Esmerelda. From a character design standpoint, she’s stunning. What I like about her is she’s human. It’s not like she wasn’t shocked by Quasi’s appearance and also probably felt bad for thinking his appearance was a costume but she makes the genuine conscious decision to not be judgmental and to not only be kind to him but invite him into her family to escape the hell that was his imprisonment. She’s genuinely kind, smart, just and a boss. Also, from what I’ve heard, there are bones in the catacombs under Paris in part stemming from the black plague. If I remember correctly, I definitely could be wrong, but ill people where sent underground to essentially quarantine. But they couldn’t bring those who passed above ground for fear it would spread disease.

The Romani people, often derogatively referred to as "gypsies", were originally from Northern India, but started to leave after an invasion from (what is present day) Afghanistan about 1000 years ago. They adopted a nomadic lifestyle and, over the next few centuries, gradually started migrating westward towards the Anatolian Peninsula, and from there into Europe. It is not uncommon, even today, for them to be met with hostility and suspicion in nearly every European country they reside in. I traveled around Eastern Europe in 2011 as part of an Anthropology course, and the ethnic Czechs and Slovaks I met in the rural villages we stayed in were always curious why a group of Canadian students would be travelling through their part of the world. When we explained that we were there to do ethnographies on the Romani, they became sullen and almost personally offended at the idea that the most interesting thing about their country for us were the gypsies, who they viewed as little more than parasites.

Both Frollo and Scar are so conniving and twisted, it's crazy. This will forever be an amazing movie

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

It's funny because in France, this two characters are voiced by the same guy

@mevb

Жыл бұрын

Only that while Scar is the typical villian who doesn't deny being evil and proud of it, Frollo "denies" being evil and see himself as good despite his manners and actions are obviosuly not.

in the live musical, quasimodo is actually nearly deaf because of the bells ^^ the ending is also a lot more different, but I won't spoil in case you ever end up watching it on your own. but needless to say, it's a lot darker than this.

@HobGungan

2 жыл бұрын

Which is why I will never have anything to do with the stage version. I want my happy ending and singing gargoyles thank you

What I love in the Hunchback Of Notre Dame is Esmerelda. She is my favorite Disney heroine. She's beautiful, she's free-spirited, Kind-hearted, passionate... not to mention feisty, sassy, spunky, strong-willed and a total bad ass, which I respect 100% ^-^ Also I love how Disney designed her... my parts about her design are her hair, her eyes and eyebrows... Mostly her eyes.

@creatingpulsars9979

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah Esmeralda is one of the best leading ladies disney has in my book

@nathancruz9172

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

@LadyJadiAfina1989

2 жыл бұрын

she is tied with Pocahontas & Merida for me I love all 3 of em

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

What is interesting is the fact she has green eyes because normally only the villains have this eyes' color. In her case, it's because her name means emerald

@rachelblanchard7431

2 жыл бұрын

Yes. I totally agree. Esmerelda has very beautiful green eyes. I love her eyes.

3:00 in the book he becomes deaf and has to be teached sign language. Also Captain Phoebus is such a jerk, while Esmeralda does fall in love with him he's a womanizer and not only just watches her execution, he had the power to prove her innocent and just remained silent, then just gets married to a different woman, Esmeralda dies and Quasi gets depressed and starves to death next to her body, the book is dark as F.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the great works of literature by Victor Hugo. This is a very good adaptation of the book. one of my favorite Disney movies for sure.

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

I'm french and I can confirm it. I learnt one of his poem at school

@MovieEnforcer

Жыл бұрын

I’m gonna be honest I actually like the movie better than the book. The book has its moments but I honestly found it kinda boring. Quasimodo and Esmeralda aren’t likable in the book so when they died I didn’t find it to be that tragic.

"You gotta wear earplugs man, you're gonna lose your hearing!" Haha! In the novel, Quasimodo is deaf.

Frollo has always been one of the scariest villains for me, even as a kid, because he is so realistic. What makes him a villain are traits that are easily found among human beings instead of magical elements that remind you that this wouldn't be able to happen in real life. That fact that you could know a Frollo in real life scares me more than most other villains.

@nathancruz9172

2 жыл бұрын

Me too.

This is inspired by "Notre-Dame de Paris" from Victor Hugo, without a doubt one of the most famous french book and french author, but even as a french, I've never read the book.

@ashleypenn7845

2 жыл бұрын

It's suuuuuuuuuper depressing. Les Mis is better. Still depressing but at least the ending didn't make you wanna lay down and die of misery.

If there's ONE movie I had to recommend that (I believe) is underrated is "Babe". It's heartwarming, it's funny, it's sweet; I think you'll really like it. Simply put, it's a story of a pig as a sheepdog

@crystalwagner5993

2 жыл бұрын

YES!! One of my childhood favorites!

@patch1752

2 жыл бұрын

I love that movie

@narnia1233

2 жыл бұрын

It is a really good movie. It’s one where you want to cry too, even as an adult, lol.

@BeanSparrow

2 жыл бұрын

oh yes babe is amazing

"Just push him off the edge", "Just give him a nudge", I died when he said that lol

It seems that most reactors dont realize the catacombs under paris is real. The tunnels full of skeletons are real. It is so extremely dangerous to go in that it is illegal unless on a tour. Its amazing to think the city of love is built on top of millions of the dead.

Best moment for me: “Silence!” By Frello and “Justice!” By Esmeralda after And In the church, you can't fall in love, that's why Frello asks for forgiveness in his song

@jessicamacaulay7462

2 жыл бұрын

He asks for forgiveness because he's lusting after and objectifying a woman, which is a sin. Not only is it a woman, but it's also one of the gypsies who he believes are all killers and thieves, so that makes his attraction even worse in his eyes.

You should watch Klaus! It's an animated Christmas movie that came out a year or two ago. SO good. They did 2D animation but used 3D for the lighting. Really new and interesting. You'll love it and probably cry. But it's okay to cry.

This film really digs deep into the more serious themes than any other I’ve seen from Disney and I respect that. It was probably a big step for Disney, aside from maybe The Black Cauldron. THOND is a powerful and entertaining Disney film, one of the best in the Renaissance era in my honest opinion!

I watched this 101 times in French class and loved every second the songs are so good especially hell fire

@artsysabs

2 жыл бұрын

That's a couple times 😂

@narnia1233

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I watched it in French class and in French. It’s actually really beautifully sung in French too. I loved it.

@a.g.demada5263

2 жыл бұрын

As a french, I'm glad you liked it

_Through the roofs and gables I can see them. Everyday they shout and scold and go about their lives_ _Heedless of the gift it is to be them_ One of my all-time favorite lyrics from an all-time underrated soundtrack.

The music in this movie is my absolutely favorite The story is my absolute favorite Frollo is a great villain in the movie. They paint him much darker here than the book, but I love it. It works for the story.

@creatingpulsars9979

2 жыл бұрын

I mean he was still pretty dark in the book.... but so was Phoebus (or he was an ass at the very least) and Quasi was also pretty dark due to the mental health issues he had. Pretty much everyone in th book was darker except for Esmeralda who was younger and less... bold? i guess might be the best term for it.... doesn't matter lol. Overall the book was much much darker, so I'm not sure where this is coming from... lol

@prettykit4

Жыл бұрын

The man responsible for this music is also responsible for the music in Beauty and the Beast, Tangled, Aladdin, Hercules, Pocahontas and The Little Mermaid. There’s more but those are his most notable and award-winning. His favorite is actually the work he did on the hunchback of Notre Dame but that’s the one he did not get awarded for ironically

At least the disney version ended much happier than the novel lol. Everyone is dead except for Phoebus, who's actually a jerk in the book. Esmeralda, who's only 16 in the book gets hanged, Clopin the jester character, who is actually her adopted dad, died trying to save her. Quasi finds out she's dead, kills Frollo, then lies down beside Esmeralda's dead body until he too dies. The end. Also, in the book Quasi is deaf and partially blind, and is treated like a stray dog by the townsfolk. If I'm remembering correctly I don't think he even knows how to talk.

@monquand9296

2 жыл бұрын

if peoples are intesrest in, it is a book named "Notre Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo :)

The ultimate Disney musical! 👁👁❤️

This was one of my favorite Disney movies as a kid and it still holds up.

Ultimately, as evil as Frollo was, something to recognize, systemic oppression in society was the ultimate villain. Frollo wasn't physically strong, he had no magic powers. He was a JUDGE, an ELECTED official and a member of the clergy. He was only a threat because of the power society gave him. They let him do this and why? The first major cruelty we see against Quasi as an adult was not from Frollo but from the crowd proving Frollo's words to Quasi right. The first injustice we see against Esmeralda was from the soldiers. Frollo was a product of the time, culture and privilege he was born into and he was cruel and horrific long before the acts of this story and they never did anything because it was never so extreme that they didn't actually agree with him. It took people like Phoebus and Esmeralda (who was shamed for being roma but beloved for being beautiful, she was the "acceptable" "other" and in the book she wasnt even roma by blood but had been stolen by them which is a whole other thing to unpack). I just think it was rather brave of Disney to actually have a story where the villain's power was granted to him and even enacted and enforced by society as a whole, motivated largely by religious indoctrination. Even the Priest who is portrayed as good wasn't actually a good guy when you think about it. He literally gave a baby to the man who just tried to kill him after murdering his mother because the priest felt it would be a good lesson for the adult, allowed that adult to isolate that baby in a tower then used that child for free physical labor while isolating them from all society. We're never given any indication that the Priest would try to reach out to quasi. if anything we're given the distinct impression that he didn't judging by Quasi clearly not being welcome on the lower floors. Priest is a bad person too. The we have some of the good guys, like Clopin, singing about hanging out heroes without even bothering to take a second to ask on question because they've been so mistreated it's safer to assume the worst yet they're literally singing and taking sincere enjoyment out of doing a public hanging.... as the good guys our heroes were trying to save!!! like..... "but the dead don't talk, so you won't be around to reveal what you've found" "we've got good nOOSE tonight" ... but not a villain song. A supposed to be fun characters we like song.... Good for the team who made this film for doing that.

This is definitely in my top 5 favourite movies. I saw this when I was 6 in theatres and lots of the darkness went over my head.

I think it's okay to research a subject, like historically, but obviously looking up the plot of a movie is different 😂

Hunchback is truly an underrated masterpiece

This is my favorite Not-For-Kids Disney Movie. I did a podcast with a friend and we ranked all of the Disney movie up to the Renaissance Era, and this movie won

3:00 Quasimodo was actually very deaf in the book. It made him even more tragic. It would also be tragic if Frollo did indeed smash the gargoyles, as yet another way to hurt Quasimodo. They are only stone, but they are real to him. And they are the few friends he has.

24:54 Well, that was in fact the Goofy scream JV. ;) They featured it a lot over the course of the animated films like how most movies incorporate or use the Wilhelm scream.

The way I see the gargoyles, is that they are in Quasi's head but they are manifestations of the "magic of Notre Dame" that is an external force that shows itself differently to people. You could call it God - it is a church after all - but as a nonreligious person whose childhood religion was not Christianity, I prefer to think of it as sort of a mystical energy bestowed onto the place by the people who put meaning into it, and I think that Victor Hugo himself would be more agreeable to that interpretation since he wrote the book after falling in love with the building itself rather than any sense of religiosity. I think whether the gargoyles fighting off the guards was literal or what Quasi imagines as he's doing it all himself is open to interpretation, and I actually don't prefer one reading over the other and like to just think of it as perpetually ambiguous. Also I will always love and defend the gargoyles as worthy inclusions to the narrative, even though I'll be the first to admit their integration wasn't perfectly executed.

In the stage adaptation of the movie, Esmeralda dies from smoke inhalation.

I love this movie!! This was one of my favorites as a kid!! I always felt like this movie was Tangled before Tangled 😂.

“Original Disney material” 😂🤣😅

21:22 I snorted at that JV. That was hilarious! Disney is 100% about music numbers at the worst possible times! 🤣🤣

This movie is the adaptation of " Notre-Dame de Paris " a book of Victor Hugo, one of the most famous french writers (I'm french) but the real story is most darker than the movie. The story takes place in 1482 and yes, a lot of châtiments of this time are include. I think the old man is in the cage as a punishment or humiliation. My favorite moment is when the gargoyles say to Quasimodo that they're made of stones and thought he was make of something stronger. I hate to admit it but Frollo was right about one thing : the world is cruel and dangerous for people who are different. In the french version, he voiced by the same guy than Scar.

Yay 😁 so glad you reacted to this! Frollo's villain song is imo the BEST villain song of all Disney animated films. Even beating Scar's "Be Prepared" (but only just 😉) x

This is the darkest movie. I mean Frollo literally sings this song about wanting Esmeralda, and if she doesn’t choose him, he’s going to burn her and he hopes that she burns forever in hell.

imo this is one of the best disney movies ever! this is based on victor hugo’s novel and i think it’s a good movie to let kids approach with this type of literature (that is obviously more complex and there’s not happy ending of course) (: also, frollo is the best villain imo because he is realistic, he’s a mean man with no super powers; he isn’t a strange creature, he’s just an evil man and he represents perfectly people that really exist in our society. plus, this movie explains and shows many things that were typical of the period (ex. the scene of the carnival) and i think it’s a good way of introducing history to children!

All of the Latin choral parts are actually relevant to the parts of the story they appear in. Look up the translations sometime. It's a great hidden gem for us language nerds (and/or Catholics).

The reason why Esmeralda didn't fall for Quasimodo is because frollo saw her as a demon Quasimodo saw her as a angel phoebus was the only one who saw her as a person.

You can found a song: belle notre de dame song (that talk about Esmeralda) this is a French song by 3 singers

JV constantly being surprised at a Disney movie being a musical is hilarious to me

Even if some think that the gargoyles Victor, Hugo and Laverne (who are by the way named after author Victor Hugo, who wrote the book, and Laverne of The Andrew Sisters) are out of place of this dark movie but to me they don't as they counter every dark moments to not only make it more kid-friendly but to balance the movie as it would be very dark otherwise, they bring the comedy (along with the Feast of Fools scene which is a more happy and upbeat part of the movie to show the world isn't just be a dark, cruel place that Frollo paints out) into the movie.

This is my favourite Disney movie. I still remember being 12 sitting in the cinema and here this score in the begining here those bells, i was 12 and i started to cry i still have tears in my eays even if i have watched this movie 1000 times.

Yea Frollo is supposed to be an intelligent, but he misses the obvious signs of holding a baby. In the book and in several of the adaptations, Quasi has hearing loss due to the bell ringing. In this version, they just ignore that issue. In the book and in many adaptions, the talking gargoyles are in his head, but in this version, they're real. The church of Notre Dame has damage to the door with the door nob in real life, and Frollo damages it just like that when he breaks in. It was a cool little detail. It seems like Frollo was the one who didn't want Quasi to call him father. I recently stumbled across a rough draft of this film with a very different story, and there was a line where Quasi said, "Yes Father." and Frollo said something, "Don't call me that." or "I told you not to call me that." Gypsies are a group of nomadic people discriminated against cross Europe. They got nearly wiped out in the Holocaust, Gypsy is said to be a slur by some in the group, while others identify by it. There's no consensus. I just go by whatever the individual from that group describes themselves as. Romani or the Roma is the proper term for the group according to some, but other says that Romani is just one of the subgroup of gypsies. It's a very diverse group of people. Yea, it's known as Disney's darkest movie for a reason. Disney did an expanded stage musical where they just went all the way with the more mature content. Frollo's entire Hellfire song is him basically fighting with his own conscience. Everytime he says a nasty phrase, the background vocal respond in Latin with words to a confessional prayer and it basically says my fault, my fault the entire time. The level of detail in that is incredible.

Notre Dame is - or was - the oldest Cathedral in Paris. It sadly burned down a few years ago, but they are trying to restore it

This movie is my favorite Disney movie. It’s simply perfect! I love the romance between Phoebus and Esmeralda. And Frollo is the type of villain that you can’t not like. There are some villains that you kind of like, but this one… you can only fell hate throws him. And this movie is so underrated cause it’s a dark movie. It’s definitely not for kids. And the messages, the implicts things… this is a masterpiece. Quasimodo saw Esmeralda as an angel Frollo saw her as a sexual desire, from hell And Phoebus saw her as a women, a human being So it was perfect

If you loved this, there is a broadway musical version that stays slightly closer to the book and expands on the music (with the same team!) and it's freaking incredible, I've listened to it probably hundreds of times now and I still get full body goosebumps.

@MovieEnforcer

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It actually never went to Broadway. I honestly didn’t care for the Hugo novel and found it to be kind of boring. Which in turn is why I’m not a fan of the American Disney stage musical and find it to be highly overrated. Quasimodo and Esmeralda aren’t very likable in the American Disney stage musical so when they died I simply did not care or feel anything. The choir narrating everything really got on my nerves. Flight Into Egypt is boring, lame and forgettable. Say what you want about A Guy Like You but it’s a least memorable. Disney actually did a stage adaptation in Berlin from 1999-2002. It’s a bit closer to the movie story wise but borrows some elements from the Hugo novel A.K.A the good aspects and ideas. The Gargoyles humor is toned down and confirmed to be In Quasimodo’s imagination. Esmeralda actually dies in this. But unlike the American version and the Hugo novel, it’s handled far better and she’s a more likable character. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qoRsxa9vgbXRcZc.html

@luciusfluff

11 ай бұрын

@@MovieEnforcer I don't want Esmeralda to be likeable. She's just a person. She's snarky, irreverent, wild, and does as she pleases. Sometimes that means she is kind, maybe very kind and tolerant compared to how most people were at the time, but she's no angel. She lies and steals and takes advantage of people. Quasimodo seeing her that way is foolish. Quasimodo isn't likeable, he's not a special character because you could LIKE him. He is special because some of us are like him. I identify deeply with him, right down to being socially inept and experiencing a cruel world that took advantage of my naiveté and falling head over heels for anyone who was even kind of nice to me. I agree, I didn't like Flight Into Egypt, of the broadway-specific songs it is the worst, but the adaptation of Someday is gorgeous, Made of Stone is great, and Top of the World is really good at showing the reality behind Quasimodo and Esmeralda's relationship. Their deaths aren't so much meant to be impactful on their own, this is Victor Hugo we're talking about. The things he tended to feature are very real and flawed and, yes, unlikeable people and a distinct sense of nihilism or futility. Characters in his books die needlessly and nobody or almost nobody cared much that it happened, but it speaks quite well to the human condition. The choir narrating is very musical theater in terms of the spoken parts, but it's also important to remember they are the depiction of the saints and spirit of Notre Dame, occasionally as Quasimodo himself perceives them.

actually if u didnt know the old catacombs is basically a mass grave from medieval france

I thinkit is very deliberate that Frollo almost manages to bring the knife down. Of course Quasi is Physically stronger then him, we have seen countless examples of this throughout the movie. But the problem is that Frollos hold is Mentally. Quasi nearly gave up, and Frollo would have beaten him

My grandparents took me in theatre when I was seven in 1996. Those were the days.

If you're looking for recommendations for hand drawn animated movies I'd like to suggest Anastasia. Beautiful animation, great story and songs, and personally one of my all time favourites.

@whitevine9544

2 жыл бұрын

I second Anastasia. One of my favorite childhood movies ever.

yes love this movie and have been waiting for you to make this one also i love the bells at the beginning of it

Out There to this day brings me to full tears.

I have been waiiiting for this! THIS is my favorite Disney movie. Thank you

27:04 have fun getting burned 🆙 in the molten lead, Frollo!

the actual history is actually more darker and scarier than the movie itself

@monquand9296

2 жыл бұрын

if peoples are intesrest in, it is a book named "Notre Dame de Paris" by Victor Hugo :)

Hellfire is the best villain song ever written by Disney and Esmeralda the hottest main female character, change my mind lol

ahhh i was waiting for you to react this! So excited to watch

Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.

This movie was based on the book written by Victor Hugo

@MovieEnforcer

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I’m gonna be honest with you, I didn’t care for the Victor Hugo novel all that much. It had its moments but I found it kinda boring. Quasimodo and Esmeralda aren’t that likable in the book so when they died I simply did not care or feel anything.

It's live-action, but based on your responses to parent/child relationships in other films, I'd love to see you react to Carrie (1976).

A few recommendations... hope you will watch someday: -The Adventures of Tintin -Rango -Who Framed Roger Rabbit -ParaNorman -The Boxtrolls

@LangkeeLongkee

2 жыл бұрын

OMG TINTIN!!!! I love that movie so much

21:01 yeah.... about that.... you should check out photos of the Paris Catacombs. Definitely a different time period, but scarily enough it really wasn't all that long ago in the grand scheme of time.

Every time I see your merch it reminds me of Sophie's song "It's ok to cry" and it makes me want to cry T_T

Esmeralda was 14 in the book for legal family reasons disney had to make her 18 as frolo was liking her to much . in the real story theirs alot of underage lusting . as for Quasimodo i i think he was 20 in the real story and had a friendship with the girl also its kind of miss leading Quasimodo had a mental disability as well disney cut that to. the captain was mid 30s

It's based on a book: The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo. One of the gargoyles was named after him (Hugo). Also im pretty sure Quasimodo was actually Frolo's biological child, and he's what his mom was trying to escape, like Esmeralda later on in the movie. Notice that Quasimodo is Romani but he looks nothing like Esmeralda or any of the other Romani people, and instead looks like Frolo and his people? That's intentional. I'm pretty sure i read somewhere that he really is his son, or at least in the original book he was. As for him calling him master that's not because of some rebellious streak, that is literally part of Frolo's dehumanisinh abuse. He didn't want to acknowledge him as his son, he didn't want to be associated with him so even though he's raising him and taking care of him, he's keeping him at arm's length the whole time and raising him as a servant, (he even lampshades this, when he says he might be of use to him someday in the beginning) and not as a family member, denying him even the tiniest shred of dignity.

The last US public hanging was in 1936 which was not so long ago.

This is awesome!

You don't have to do research, but The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a well known book.

If you haven’t seen them yet, I highly recommend “An American Tail,” “Fivel Goes West,” and “All Dogs Go To Heaven.”

How did I miss this? It’s a classic! At least for us 90’s kids lol. Disney was definitely braver back then. Some of the content definitely went over your head as a kid. Movie is very heartfelt though and has one of the best soundtracks imo. :)

Gaslighting is the word for what's happening here. Forced obedience through emotional manipulation.

Lol dude we get to an emotional part then boom! Patreon/merch ad

This was one of my disney favorites from the 90's! You should also check out the SEQUEL!!!

Recommendations: for animated, try Cloudy With a Chance Of Meatballs. And because you like Star Trek, if you feel like a documentary you should react to Trekkies!

Please react to meet the robinson. It's seem a random plot movie but from the big plot twist it's reveals to be a emotional movie

My favorite Disney movie! It's so underrated, in my opinion.

Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is my favorite Disney movie ever Disney's The Hunchback Of Notre Dame is an amazing Disney movie about the music and Disney Animation 🔔📽🎬🎞🎥

"In church you're supposed to be nice." Hehe, I wish. Church can be the most judgmental place on earth =P

On Patreon do you publish the full film watch along? That would be fun, I’d like to watch the movie along side you. Just saw your announcement on this, but are we able to see the movie too? The entire screen?

This is my favorite Disney movie of all time!!!😊✨

Seen this movie so many times

this movie is one of my top movies from childhood remember watching it when it was first rleased on vhs back in the day its soo good but so are pretty much all disney from that era in my opinion

I'm sure someone else has said this but in case they haven't, g*psy is considered a slur by the Romani people. Disney just didn't do the research before they put it in the movie. I'd recommend not using it, although no one can blame you for not knowing, given the movie made it sound okay to say. Also to answer your question, Notre Dame de Paris is a Catholic church dedicated to Mary, the mother of Jesus. Notre Dame is French for Our Mother, referring to Mary.

@LangkeeLongkee

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair most of the people calling them that in this movie were in and of themselves racist so

Absolutely love this movie and the character were so awesome Tom hulce as Quasimodo killed it but saying that......Tony Jay was absolutely phenomenal as Frollo

THIS IS A MOVIE EVERYONE NEEDS TO SEE! the "controversy" over it comes from those who follow the same hypocrisy as Frollo; seeing corruption everywhere except within. the "do as I say, not as I do" type. That's why God Help the Outcasts is SO important; you don't have to be religious to believe in God's and the Commandments' lessons. ❤ the music is some of the best from Disney always earning chills!❤