Please No Racist Hunchback Remake 

I’d like to add one more request to your list: If possible, can the actor playing Quasimodo be disabled as well as Roma, even if the disability isn’t one that includes having the hunched back referred to in the title. Disability representation may be more common than proper Romani representation, but it’s still not represented enough, and being othered because of a medical condition is a significant plot point. I’m angry that Disney didn’t take the chance to work with any of the Roma groups who reached out the first time.

Hear me out, instead of doing a shot for shot remake, why not incorporate some stuff from the Broadway musical (and the original 1999 German musical), make the Gargoyles less comedic, and lean more on the dark tone?

Here’s a fun idea, get the guy who played Lucifer on Lucifer to play ether Frollo or Phoebus. That dude’s got the pipes for it.

I love the Hunchback of Notre Dame as a story in general, and I didn’t even know who the Romani were until seeing the Disney film, that they were an actual ethnic group suffering from discrimination. While I agree pretty much every version is pretty racist, but I think the story could still be used to raise awareness about the Roma, if newer versions are more inclusive and less exploitative.

Okay hear me out. While I know Disney is too creatively bankrupt for this, it'd be interesting I think. When you have Frollo going on about his disgust for the Roma have them be portrayed as all the stereotypes so the viewer sees through Frollo's eyes , but when the heroes interact with the Roma they're properly represented as the should be .Plus keeping some of the more "problematic" stuff would keep the story true to the time period of history in which the story takes place. While yes representation is important, we tend to go too far in trying to see everything through a modern lens and it breaks the immersion of the initial intentions of the work. But I'm just a random guy on the internet not a Hollywood elite so what do I know about storytelling and what not.

Oooo definitely excited for Anastasia and Tales! That’s gonna be awesome! Honestly as person that loves learning about other people’s culture, but only want to learn about it from a reliable source. If they were able to better represent the Romani that would be great culture awareness, as I’ve never seen it represented well in anything else. Just yeah I definitely agree though that someone else should write it though. Comedy is not needed here. But it is unfortunate this was my only introduction to the culture and still see the stereotypes pop up when one shows up in a series or movie I watch. But Disney has gotten better at it over time with Thai being represented in Amphibia and Ghost of Molly McGee (Jewish as a bonus) and Polynesian from Moana and Doogie Kamealoha. Before I never knew anything about these cultures before watching those and makes me really appreciate the awareness. :D I thank Blues Clues for being the spark of my interest of learning other cultures, when they made a holiday episode that went over Christmas, Hanukkah and Kwanza. And was so insanely mad how no other cartoons went over Kwanza at the time as I wanted to know more about it. Sadly I didn’t know anyone that celebrates it and internet was not as advanced back then so it wasn’t happening! T-T

It should be live remake yes please do live action Pocahontas from animated 1995 in live action

This video taught me a lot. Thanks. The Hunchback of Notre Dame is still a stunning and gorgeous piece of cinama, definitely worth watching over and over again. It's got it's problems and even Doug Walker was able to see that the portrayal of Roma people was oddly confused but Disney will never make a movie more beautiful than this. Hopefully that remake doesn't come to fruition. It sounds utterly worthless.

They better not remake fox and the hound I'll hang myself if they would

I readt a post by a Rom saying the gipsies in the movie are all ugly which is racist... He probably didnt see the movie because everyone but the main characters (one of which is Esmeralda... And of course Im not countint Quasi) were totally hideous

Really good job. Very informative video.

Honestly, as a Canadian but who is born little from Indigenous (my family tree was from Eabametoong in North Spirit). While I know I'm not helping about some mentions of racism or any of that. But yet as someone who does character designs and some of that like other artists. But will give notes and some contexts that you, well, mostly miss out as I'm getting at fairly. 4:46 Supposedly this unknown reason for Romanis forcedly left was supposedly may to escape from the sultan, named Mahmud, who's from Ghazni in Afghanistan, who the general, leading a invasion at Northern parts of India which causes a lot of his soldiers to push the populations out of their hometown, other words, as supposedly, nowhere to find and call home outside of India as which they remain travel to different paths around Europe as all know already (at least I search). I know it's not a thing for Romanis as being described as of "Fortune tellers" or "Free-spirited Wanderers, traveling place to place as free as a bird" part, yet I know they were victims since centuries ago to so far recent, yet it is may way to get money from what they have is; Music and Dances that have some that whatever Europe didn't have seen before. Pretty much of a "Freely dancing Wanderers that is seen place and other as a enjoying traveler", while yet I know they are some beggars as well, seemly in the film so too, yet in a criminal way to just look pretend of some Romanis "lose eye sights" or "misses some legs or cannot walk". Yet while they live through Europe in the normal order as what they live in as always. *"All drawn as ugly caricatures with big noses"* I could said it is may be an artistic choice designing when comes to that (don't meant by being racist or not, but idk), yet not only them but represents the differences between of age and characteristics when comes to some background characters or very minor characters seen in screen (plus most of them don't have big noses or so like some woman or children), at least same little most some of Parisians drawn like that as well but not some look too ugly as they were. *"and many of them wear Rags"* Well, suppose said of they are wear those type of clothes more than rags as it is medieval, but however I guess it is a short evolutionary of their clothing since after they arrived in Europe, the weather differences have them to wire something different from India, but I will said this that the clothing for all of them was supposedly make them different then Parisians living in Paris that wore just what they wore seen in most medieval artwork, yet their clothing stand out more to show some of the differences between from ones that were born and raised, and the other that wasn't from here but somewhere else in the world. Think about it, it is quite hard for Romanis to wear the same as they wear from India yet have to be different from what they used to be to get over from winters, falls and bit hotter summers to deal with a lifestyle they never had before from the first time since moving out. While for sure mentions from your video of the inaccuracies of Esmeralda's clothing, while yeah, may be gonna sound "sexual", but yet, her clothing is I can guess, stand out viewable of other people of her kind. About the Court of Miracles (unlike something from Novel), it was served as the hideout and safe harem for the Romanis to just so they can hide from Frollo, since will note this that Frollo was being "taking care" of them one by one for 20 years, pretty much executing every each of them whatever they were caught and arrested. It is pretty much to hide under the city since why or what else they would do if they were easily captured if they were seen on the surface in the entirety of Paris. *"The very first thing they try to do is hang Quasi and Phoebus"* *"And that even then, that's still murder"* Well that was the point because Clopin, leader and king of his people, were only to protect themselves from Frollo's wrath and his arresting to killing of the Romanis from during in 20 years, not to mention shortly was that Quasi and Phoebus were almost hung because they were mistakenly thought as spies sent by Frollo to find their location. The film adaptations between of Esmeralda and Quasi was their nationalities were swapped, hear me out, as I recall from commenters at some other videos, they said that the animators who did with Quasi was a French-born baby as mentions that about that his birth mother died when gave birth to him and was abandoned after his birth before later the Romanis, less one woman, saw the baby, adopted the poor deformed baby as her own, which sadly haven't last long right before to the "tale opening" set from 20 years ago (1462). That's what I only know to hear from. So pretty much to something was that Quasi was only a French male with deformity, adopted by the Romanis, as the adopted mother's lover tells her to shut "it" up, (as her lover did not see the baby as his son) and while surely the adopted mother tells the baby "little one" as have a nice caring for him yet much later killed by Frollo. For any wish listing to see the Romanis seen in the film, it is gonna be hard shortly as I know in the production, as I look around and search, they weren't at least some of known Romani actors between or since, less just I try searching. While as I said Disney's Quasi was different then being a deformed-born Romani as in the novel but was swapped as a French-born, so save up for Esmeralda and Clopin. However, I do think it will be different when it comes to culture music and stuff for the January 6's Topsy Turvy, like since it's a day of Feast of Fools. Even, if any, Romanis will be given training and know how to become an actor in Live Action if any type of groups were invited in the production, just first time being as actors and stuff all. And all in all, when the production was somewhere near finished to show the public, it will be the first time Romanis were shown in the live action screen, pretty much given a nice representation, may or so "a finally" for them.

Why on Earth would a Hunchback remake be racist? The original wasn't racist! It might have dabbled in the stereotypes, but then I'm pretty sure the original Victor Hugo novel did too!