The Animation Courtyard in Disney's Hollywood Studios is reopening next week with tons of newly added decor, and I'm so happy to see that Quasimodo is included in the character handprints outside of the Chinese Theatre!! 😍🔔
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I mean, in the scene where Frollo and Phoebus are talking about the Roma, they see Esmeralda dancing in the distance, and Frollo even talks about "awakening the lowest instincts" when he look in her direction. Sure, he probably didn't desire her yet, but as the Minister of Justice, obsessed with catching Roma, he was more likely to be familiar with such famous figures as Clopin and Esmeralda. She was their most famous, a sort of local celebrity, you might say.
It's annoying when they do that.
Frollo was nothing but a selfish and callous man to the core. He made his point clear that if he couldn't have Esmeralda then nobody could and she and Paris would burn for her insolence.
Quasimodo was heart broken when he found out Esmeralda loved Phoebus romantically instead of him
But the difference between him and the monster was that if he couldn't have Esmeralda then he would rather have her be happy. And i think that speaks volumes about the benevolent man that Quasimodo is.
He cast off his one-sided love in the pursuit of his friends happiness and grasped it for her with his own feeble hands.
He truly is a man of god.
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So in the novel in the final scene with frollo and esme, the original french text translates to “fuck me”. He says “Baise moi! La tombe ou mon lit”. In every translation, you read of it, they change it to “kiss me.” Can someone who knows more about the language than I do give me the proper meaning?
In my perspective, I think that Esmeralda lives in the end not just because it's a Disney movie, and all Disney heroes and heroines must live to have a happily ever after.
But to give Esmeralda fully agency and bodily autonomy.
While I do think that her living on the end to showcase the real difference between Quasimodo and Frollo is a very interesting and insightful theory, that's not how I see it personally.
The whole theme of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame is "Who is the monster? And who is the man?".
Both Quasimodo and Frollo both objectify Esmeralda in different ways on the spectrum.
Similar to the Madonna-Whore complex.
Quasimodo viewed her as an "angel" who can do no wrong and puts her on a high pedestal.
Meanwhile, Frollo viewed Esmeralda as an "exotic beauty", a "witch", and a "temptress" whose body he not only that he needs to claim, dominate, hurt, and control for himself for extremely creepy, gross, predatory, and disturbing reasons.
But also blames Esmeralda, who did nothing wrong, for his own lustful thoughts, actions, and behavior towards her.
Especially inside the Cathedral.
But in the end, Quasimodo let Esmeralda go, respected her, still chose to be her friend, and supported her relationship with a man (Phoebus) she's genuinely in love with just as much as that man genuinely loves her back.
But Frollo?
He chose to proceed to try to claim Esmeralda as his, and attempting to kill her when she refused his unwanted, creepy, fetishizating, cruel, bigoted, delusional, and lustful advances.
And guess what?
He falls into the fiery pit to his demise for it.
Hubs and I were at the local mall and stopped at Boxlunch. I was sooo tempted.
Also Lindsay Ellis is the GOAT [but not Djali]
Do you think Disney will somehow celebrate the 30th anniversary of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, or will it ignore the topic? And if it does, how?
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In the meantime, is there anything about the movie that you've always wanted to know? Or maybe a question that you'd love to ask the production team or the lyricist if you had the chance? 😉
I'm on the hunt online for a fan art of Frollo, where he's in the position of 'paint me like one of your french girls' wearing nothing but his hat, covering himself.
I used to send it to mess with my friend back in college (like 10 years ago) I was able to just google image "naked frollo" and easily find it, but I can't anymore. Does anyone have any recs to find it. I've tried changing the search dates on google, looking on rule 34, and deviantart. I wish I would have just saved it. I've never really used Reddit so any help or ideas would be great.