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What A Cartoon Movie! - The Hunchback of Notre Dame
🕑 Added 2021-07-26 04:01:01 +0000 UTCWhen Jeffrey Katzenberg phoned Beauty and the Beast directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise and told them "you're making The Hunchback of Notre Dame," the two men—and the moviegoing public at large—had no idea how they could possibly adapt Victor Hugo's dark novel into a family friendly movie. Three years and some minor compromises later, Disney's adaptation of Hunchback entered the world, and amounted to one of the most experimental and mature films the company would ever make in its lifetime. And while Disney would create many great films in the quarter-century to follow, few have come close to taking the risks of Hunchback (even if it somehow got a "G" rating).
This month, our summer of the Disney Renaissance rolls on with an ultra-long discussion of 1996's The Hunchback of Notre Dame—just in time for its 25th anniversary!
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Melissa Van Pelt
OK, I'm finally going back through the What A Cartoon! Movie podcasts to listen to them (definitely makes working from home easier and more entertaining), and I thought your mention of the opera adaptation of this novel with happier endings was so interesting, because I saw a stage musical adaptation in the early 2000s, which (SPOILER alert) actually did reinstate the novel's initial tragic ending: Phoebus ends up in the unhappy arranged marriage; Esmeralda is hanged; Quasimodo, in grief, throws Frollo off the cathedral tower and then promises he will stay with Esmeralda even through death. So I just thought that was so interesting that initially the operatic adaptation went away from the initial tragic ending, and then this other stage musical returned to the novel's original ending. But I LOVED this podcast so much; now I'm going to have to go re-watch the movie again.
whythemy
Is it too late to post this? Just stumbled upon an Ecclesiastical Latin version of Hellfire. Fantastic! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0c1QNWH1H8
