“which disney film has the best music” discourse is Irrelevant considering no disney film is even close to the caliber of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)
Tag: the hunchback of notre dame
I don’t know why this is occurring to me at 11:30 in the evening, but I’m stuck on the gargoyles from The Hunchback of Notre Dame so here we go.
I’ve heard about that one guy who hated the gargoyles with a passion and what they did for the pacing of the movie, so he cut every scene with them out and otherwise left it alone. I’m inclined to support the idea, personally, since the trio doesn’t really fit with the rest of the film and their existence as forced comic relief for an otherwise incredibly dark movie is jarring. However, I do appreciate some of their humorous moments, so instead of cutting them altogether, I’m thinking about their wasted potential.
I feel as though the gargoyles were supposed to be a Greek Chorus of sorts, except they were scripted by someone who has no clue what a Chorus actually does. They had narrative moments, and they had their bouts of exposition, but always to Quasimodo who’d lived there all his life and shouldn’t have needed to hear it. Instead of being deliberately (coyly?) vague about whether these characters are imaginary friends or not, the writers could have just changed the slightest thing: Quasimodo can’t hear them. Poof, instant correctly-handled Chorus.
Having an actual Greek Chorus in mind, they could even take over Clopin’s role of narrating as well? They could still have their funny asides because comic relief does often fall to the chorus when the story itself is dark. Suddenly there’s no need to explain their presence either or specify how real they are. They’re just representations of the spirit (or the Eyes) of Notre Dame.
Final, very pressing question: How has my life reached the point where midnight homework screeches to a halt because I’ve been struck with the need to write extensive Gargoyle discourse on the tumblr.com?
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“Not all men!”, you’re right, Quasimodo, the bell ringer of Notre Dame, would never do this.
Broke: Hunchback of Notre Dame and Phantom of the Opera have similar stories
Woke: Victor Hugo and Gaston LeRoux both saw the same disfigured man on the streets of Paris and wrote novels about his love life.
Frollo: It was for love.
Quasimodo: Cool motive, still murder.
Quasimodo: [yeets frollo off the cathedral]
My favorite thing about Victor Hugo is that the Notre Dame Cathedral was a huge eyesore on the verge of collapsing and was planned to be demolished but Victor Hugo was like “hey 😦 I like that building” and wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame to save it. and it worked
In the book he described the cathedral in the state it was in but also in comparison to what it looked like in the 15th century before it got all fucked up in the French Revolution. His book got translated into a fuck ton of languages and was distributed all around Europe. Tourists who were fans of him would go to see it while in Paris and were appalled to see just how bad of shape it was in and it started to become stain on paris’ reputation.
So finally the king funded the Hella expensive restoration which I imagine was one really fucking gnarly project, the structure it’s self being the tip of the ice burg because of how many religious artifacts and statutes and junk that had been ruined.
So thanks Vicky that’s one hell of a beautiful tower.
So you’re telling me that we still have the Notre Dame Cathedral because of fanfiction?
yes.
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