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#100% in character

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame dirs. Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise

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#this is so pretty!

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Hellfire is a great song but at what cost.

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The scene in which Quasimodo rings the cathedral bells for Esmeralda was shot the day World War II began in Europe. The director and star were so overwhelmed, the scene took on a new meaning, with Charles Laughton ringing the bells frantically and William Dieterle forgetting to yell "cut." Finally, the actor just stopped ringing when he became too tired to continue. Later, Laughton said, "I couldn't think of Esmeralda in that scene at all. I could only think of the poor people out there, going in to fight that bloody, bloody war! To arouse the world, to stop that terrible butchery! Awake! Awake! That's what I felt when I was ringing the bells!"

CHARLES LAUGHTON (Quasimodo) and MAUREEN O' HARA (Esmerelda) in the HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME (1939) | dir. William Dieterle

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame + transitions

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I have said time and again that Notre Dame is worthy of being deemed a sitcom, and unfortunately my memory is too poor to recall every amusing instance, but the character relationships alone are nothing short of soap-opera-esque.

The book doesn't have a protagonist, but the closest thing it has is this self-loving, luck-hated poet named Pierre Gringo. I mean Gringoire. Pierre suffers at every turn. The only person who truly LIKES him is his platonic wife, la Esmeralda, a really hot chick who the entire city wants to bang and who married Pierre to save him from being killed. The only OTHER person who tolerates Pierre is the archdeacon Claude Frollo, his unofficial adopted father. Pierre isn't Claude's only "son" - the man has also "adopted" his own younger brother, Jehan, a prankster fuckboy anarchist on crack. Jehan is best friends with a sweary soldier named Phoebus, the only man in Paris whose crush on Esmeralda is returned by the girl herself. He can never remember her name. She's withholding from fucking because it will help her find her biological mother; his first time meeting her on a date, he brings her to a whorehouse. The "no fucking" part is told by her platonic husband Pierre to his adoptive father Claude, who has such a poorly contained lust for la Esmeralda that he bites his fucking pillow open and blushes like a little girl whenever her name comes up. He also swears to kill "Phoebus," whose name Pierre says she memorized, no matter who he is. Phoebus happens to be his brother/son's best chum. Claude's THIRD son is a man named Quasimodo, the titular Hunchback of Notre Dame, who ALSO fancies Esmeralda for being the only person to ever be nice to him outside of his dad. He is not Claude's biological son - Claude adopted him when he found the boy abandoned by the church and, at sixteen years old, decided to become his father. Quasimodo's real, biological mom was actually Esmeralda's adoptive mother, who traded her son for a local woman's daughter. The local woman abandoned the boy and spends the rest of her life either looking for her lost baby girl (Esmeralda) or cursing Esmeralda (secretly her baby girl) off for existing. Phoebus is cheating on his girlfriend with Esmeralda. Pierre is almost certainly fucking Esmeralda's goat.

#this is galaxy brain stuff #a tragicomedy sit-com

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GOD HELP THE OUTCASTS, CHILDREN OF GOD

#me too bro #every time

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The Hunchback of Notre Dame story sketches by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi (P2)

#all the concept art is so beautiful and so horrifying at the same time

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Hi hunchback fans. Screen Rant recently made this video where they talk about the Live Action remake of the Disney movie and whether or not it may ever happen

#the hunchback of notre dame #disney #josh gad #screen rant #Youtube

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Notre-Dame de Paris. Quasimodo et Esmeralda (2023)

Illustration for the Gothic novel “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” By Victor Hugo (1831)

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Visual development for Disney’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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A lil something something with Quazimodo and Esmeralda

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Abla Alaoui as Esmeralda ✨

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"The best Disney soundtrack is --"

Shut up. I'm going to stop you there. You're wrong. If the words coming out of your mouth are not "Hunchback of Notre Dame" you're just going to look stupid. You got the choir hitting every goddamn note that humans can produce. You got chanting in Latin. The fucking bells. The full orchestra going as if Alan Menken would systematically come after their families if they didn't play harder. If those 15th century bitches in the film could actually hear the score playing in the background they'd all shit themselves and be on their knees venerating god. Frozen fucking who

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These two are a comedy duo