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I know this is random, but I've been thinking about this movit a lot lately.
I think I can safely call The Hunchback of Notre Dame my favorite ever Disney movie. It has the fun elements that make Disney movies so great--especially the things that appeal to kids right alongside the things that only adults would understand let alone enjoy--but it has such a deep, mature, and complex plot, with such beautiful character development, I almost don't believe it's really Disney.
Most Disney movies (at least recently) seem so shallow and simplistic, it's almost as if they're trying to make movies that only 4-year-olds can enjoy. They all follow the same pattern, the same formula, from which they cannot break lest box office sales suffer. Like they would, it's Disney--they need only flash the name and children the world over would go see "Two Girls in a Cup". Ok, maybe not THAT, but you get my point.
I think the thing I love most about HoND is that the main character doesn't get the girl at the end. It's like someone at Disney realized that the good guy doesn't have to fall in love to be happy. Quasimodo falls for Esmerelda, we ll know that. But Esmerelda doesn't end up with him, she gets with Phoebus. Why? To illustrate to the indoctrinated masses that you don't need other people to feel happy, you don't need "love", you need only acceptance. Quasi triumphs in the end by leaving the sanctuary of the church and joining the rest of the city. Not only does he get recognised by the people as a human being, but he accepts himself as worthy of being one of them. He doesn't NEED Esmerelda, only himself.
I also love some of the adult themes in the film. Disney rarely ventures far from what children will accept/understand, so to see a Disney movie where lust is a prevalent theme is quite refreshing. Frollo, the villain, openly (well, to the audience anyway) lusts after Esmerelda, which is shown obviously in the song Hellfire and in a scene where Frollo actually smells her hair. It's somewhat disturbing, but it's so incredible too, so frighteningly accurate to how it might be. Especially because, in the song Hellfire esp., Frollo is fighting with his riteous religion (if you call what he does in God's name riteous) and his lust. It's absolutely amazing....
Anyway, I know I'm random as all hell, but I just wanted to write it down somewhere. Good night!!
Hellfire by Frollo: ]http://youtube.com/watch?v=fRO-M4XyAbM
NoMoreLabels91 · Tue Feb 19, 2008 @ 10:20am · 1 Comments |
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