Even after they "Disney-fied" the original story, it's still the darkest Disney animated movie and I remember reading that the Disney film barely kept it's G rating because of some of the themes in it. To this day it's still one of Disney's most underrated films.
Have you seen The Dark Cauldron? It's the darkest Disney movie marketed for kids I've ever seen. Hunchback is definitely underrated, I agree with you there
I really enjoyed your telling of the differences of the two. Funny how even with Disney cleaning up the racier bits, the animated movie is still not for the kiddies, without Mom and Dad explaining a bunch of stuff.
Uhm..how is it not for kids??? The disney version????? My parents didn't have to explain anything to me and this movie is still one of my favorites and severely underrated. Truly not understanding how it's not for kids when all of us grew up watching this as kids. I guess kids today really aren't the same. The entire premise of the Disney version is how far evil people will go but justice will always prevail, so how is that not for kids?
@@OGamerGirl92 I agree! I was always left to “fend for myself” because my mom always had to take care of my younger autistic brother and my stepfather wasn’t exactly a caregiver outside financial needs. And my real dad was half a continent away. So my mom used the TV as a babysitter. But I never had to have anything explained to me
My parents didn’t need to explain anything to me. You don’t give kids enough credit foe figuring stuff out. Their questions, if any, require actual answers, not explain way…I mean, explanations
I read the books it’s pretty dark as a gothic novel Disney tends to clean up stories but this one was still pretty dark even though it changed a lot it still manages to be dark and I would love to see a faithful live action adaptation
Actually, aside from Disney, there have been a number of adaptations of the book. Including one released the following year, starring Mandy Patinkin, Richard Harris and Salma Hayek.
i had heard the most of the disney films come from old tragic book stories. in colllge i was required to take 18 century english, where i read old stories for my English degree and when i read the stories i couldn't help think how could i turn the current story i was reading at the time into a diney film lol
Frollo was old enough to adopt Quasimodo when Esmerelda was an infant. Quasimodo is 4-5 years older than her as well. Phoebus is probably closer to Frollos age and Esmeralda is *16* It's all kinds of creepy. Also even after her death, she is picked up and held by Quasimodo despite rejecting him. Then her husband ran off with her goat.
You’re an ignorant. It’s called Romanticism. She was at the verge of being a woman, and an allegory to men’s belligerence. Also, in the Disney version, she’s much older.
@@dritzzjoney or you could look at it as we now understand, that life expectancies for women were decimated by not allowing their bodies to mature before forcing them to bear children.
After the heartbreaking fire that very nearly destroyed the Notre Dame cathedral, I was considering buying the book for my Kindle at one point. After seeing this video, I am SOOOOOO GLAD that I didn’t do so!!! Ironically enough, it was actually Victor Hugo’s novel that saved the cathedral from being demolished in the late 19th century due to diminishing tourism. Amazing how a really “dark and twisted story” can actually save a treasured landmark
It is a very dark and twisted novel. It became a bestseller of its day, and yes, inspired the preservation of Notre Dame. Maybe someday you will be able to read the actual novel "Notre Dame" by Victor Hugo. There are a few other characters that are understandably left out of the Disney movie. You may like the 1939 movie. It is darker than Disney's as it is not made for children, but is closer to the novel. It too leaves some of the darker elements out.
Yes it's tragic, but it is a very beautiful, dark novel. My favorite novel of all time. I first read it when I was 18 or 17 and I am still touched by it.
I love the movie! It really tones down the horrific aspects of the book. But it keeps just enough of them that it works. Plus Quasimodo is accepted as who he is!!
as a gipsy myselfe i love this story in the book and in disney's movie because it shows somehow my people's story how hated we were in the world and esmeralda's story is very close to what my people have been throu in greece italy france and spain in these times
You know, I came up with a theory. 'Notre-Dame' means 'Our Lady' in French. So 'Notre-Dame de Paris' means 'Our Lady of Paris', which ofc means the cathedral, but can it also stand for Esmeralda, the lady who every man in Paris wants? In Hugo's book the cathedral is described as something pure, divine and beautiful, but disrespected by the city. Most characters in the book are... depraved. But who's described as pure and beautiful? Esmeralda, who's disrespected by the city. Who's responsible for the church's mistreatment? The clergy and the government. Who mistreats Esmeralda? The government and archdeacon Frollo. There's more. The book says that Notre-Dame has kept gothic architecture alive, and with the cathedral withering away gothic architecture is also dying. Now people, who do we think of when we think gothic? Gargoyles. Gargoyles are big and scary-looking. Who else is big and scary looking? Quasimodo, who dies with Esmeralda. The story is not something separate from the 'save Notre-Dame' theme, it is an allegory for it.
In the Disney is also touching, especially when she defended Quasy from the crowd and also her song. She is a deep character in the cartoon too, i would say even deeper than in the original (in the original was more an average teen with a crush, added some compassionate acts and fierceness) with her social consciousness.
@@Zivanovaable I do think she's touching in the Disney version, but in a different way. The Disney version is someone you look up to. Original is someone you want to hug and protect. However, I think the original Esmeralda has this vulnerability that makes her very endearing. She's so vulnerable and precious that her author decided in his self-adaptation to give her a happy ending. Novel Esmeralda, because she has other relations that aren't romantic and are more platonic (the Duke of Egypt and Gudule), hopes and dreams, you do care about her more as a character.
@@Lilas.DuveteuxI agree. In the movie she’s more mature and wise, but in the book she’s still strong and likeable (especially considering the other characters). Also it’s more realistic that a teen in the medieval era would’ve been like that compared to the film. Her death is very sad and really drives the anti-clerical/anti-monarchical message Hugo goes for. But I liked how Quasimodo stays by her till the end. Even in the depraved world of this story where everyone wanted to use this girl, someone truly loved her.
You left out Pierre, the guy she pitty marries and then won't let him touch her because she's in love with Phoebus. Also, it's No-truh Dahm, not No-ter Dayme.
@@alan_ancy There is always someone that truly loves you. It’s not really something some people have. It’s just a fact there will always be someone who truly loves you. Although it’s not known sometimes, but it’s there. /lh
The fact book had a Priest chase after a 15-year-old girl and Disney went "Nah lets make him a Judge to show goverment is worst with kids instead. Don't want those Chruch goers burning Mickey dolls at the Disney store again
This is the most real life movie I saw and loved, even if it was very sad. It was also the one that got me thinking there s a lot in this world to protect myself from, but also a lot of interesting things to experience. Made me think about choices, it s one of my favourites places because of this story.
If you're talking about in the movie, I'm sure she found Quasimodo abandoned or something like that. You can tell she had a caring heart to protect in just the brief few moments you see her. I suspect Disney intentionally made her and Esmeralda dress how each did to show they both have a caring heart to look after the outcast without giving his mother a whole lot of back story into her character and how she found him. Sometimes we don't need a back story because we can piece it together with the information we are given and then other times a back story is needed to fully understand someone's motives.
It’s was a nod to the original story of how originally Quasi was given to her mother and she was stolen when swapped…. Same with her death nods to parts of the book
@@whitevine9544I don't think she found Quasimodo. I think she's his real mother. Children don't always have to look like their parents to be their child.
@@sofiastern1653 true, but the man told her to shut the baby up and that may have been her husband. Without the writers ever coming out in saying what the story is, we can only put what we think into it. After seeing people say they think she wasn't his biological mother, I have to agree. It makes sense that in the movie that the people most hated are the most caring, well at least some of the women in the story from what we see.
I personally prefer the Disney. It was dark enough to be interesting, but not depressing like the book. Esmeralda was more likeable and interesting in the animated. She got more personality, social consciousness, and she is an actual Romani. In the book was just a plain naive girl and pretty infantil. That she came out white has a disgusting message. It tells a girl can be good, with moral and attractive just if she isn't Romani. 😕
Honestly I found the book kinda boring. Esmeralda and Quasimodo aren’t that likable in the book so when they died I didn’t feel sad when they died. The movie definitely made Esmeralda and Quasimodo a lot more likable and relatable.
Reminder that Victor Hugo never intended this story to be a fairytale. It is a very grounded and realistic fairytale parody. It was more of an excuse for him to write something taking place in the notre dame cathedral and describe its architectural treasury, something he admired a lot. Disney really did him bad, ignoring the point of the novella and making it into a stereotypical fairy tale. I am kinda glad he wasn't alive to see that movie.
As a kid, I read the kid's classic version of the book, and when I finally watched the movie as a teen, I was actually disgusted with the movie ending. I felt sad when I read the end about the two skeletons fused together and the workers couldn't pry them apart. Though I did love watching the movie all the same. But I haven't read the book as an adult yet...🤔
I remember going to the movie theaters as a little kid, there were movies I remembered seeing there, but they were only in parts. This was the first movie I remembered seeing in its entirety at the cinema. I was 4.
The best version of all is the 1939 one with Charles Laughton. Commentators have said, 'If Laughton doesn't break yr heart, you haven't got one." Others have said 'It's one of the greatest and bravest performances ever." Laughton was considered one of the greatest of actors.
Me when I turned 11) mum gave it to me as a birthday gift. I read it straight away and I'd never been so shocked by a book before. It didn't help that afterwards I chose to read "The Man Who Laughs" to see if the author gave his heroes a happy ending at least in that book😅
I think you meant it the other way around. "Strong women are the bane of weak men". The way it is worded is showing that weak men can stop strong women.
I love the real story. There is a very beautiful musical (i think only in french and italian though), that keeps the story similar to the book. It's called Notre Dame de Paris from Riccardo Cocciante
It's funny how we're more phased by it when we grow up than when we were kids. It's probably because as kids we don't realize just how dark it is, how scary the power imbalance between Frollo and Esmeralda is, how truly horrible is Frollo's ableism towards Quasimodo and what his desires towards Esmeralda actually are. I recently watched it again and I was a lot more scared by it now than when I was little.
Djali was a female. Also, Phoebus DID know there was someone else in the room, even if he didn't know it was Frollo. Frollo met Phoebus in the street disguised in a heavy black cloak and after trading a few threats, Phoebus relents because he needs money to pay for the room , as all of his money was spent on alcohol. He lets Frollo accompany him to the room where he's supposed to meet Esmeralda, and Frollo spies on them from a closet.
just ruined my fav book growing up. i loveddd Esmerelda soooo much.. but some how knew her life was like this JUST AINT WAT IT TO BE TRUEEEEEE. but thissss THIS IS BLASPHAMY
Nice video, but what irks me is how people pronounce Notre Dame. The one ending in (DAHM) is a cathedral in Paris famous for its hunchback, the one ending in (DAYM) is a university in Indiana famous for Rudy!
I read Notre Dame de Paris for my NAB (high school assessment). Got an A lol. But I read it in English except I think it had a French copy of the preface and blurb maybe - which is mandatory as it was for English class. Not that I'd be able to fully understand it anyway even if the school had a French copy 😂
I thought it was a great novel when I read at 6yo. Disney has cornered the market on Waterdown Fairytales and novels. I'm sure if they ever do a Dickens novel, it will end with children being adopted, somehow, by rich happy families too.
That’s kind of the purpose of Disney tho. To give these stories that are originally heartbreaking in nature new life and happily ever afters. I truly have always admired Disneys approach to handlings stories like the grimms fairytales and the like.
@@purevenus6359 I don't agree that Disney thinks that way but, sure. I just prefer to hear the original story and I've always been that way. To each their own. I've tried to get my daughter into Disney but she likes Pixar. Youngins...🙄🤣 Maybe one day she'll watch the Little Mermaid with me. Im glad for the remakes simply because theirs more character development and Disney added music. It is cute. But they would totally do that to a Dickens story if they ever did one. 😆 It would be pure comedy to me. 😆
Esmeralda's Face She's Scared Of This Guy He's Barley Saying That He Can Save Her If She Becomes His Offers A Choice Choose Him Or The Fire Esmeralda She Responds By Spitting On His Face Judge Frollo He Was Furious Esmeralda's Glare and Anger At Judge Frollo Esmeralda's Face How Judge Frollo He's Out Of Control and Insane
@@specterman2000 I was talking about Laughton. Laughton always wanted to play Quasimodo but it was disastrous. It is Quasi (no pun intended) impossible to play Quasimodo after Lon Chaney. I am only talking about interpretation.
That movie always annoyed even as a kid. This could have been one of my favorites but now all I remember is that emeralda went for the handsome guy instead of the one who did everything for her. So annoying
Someone explained it once in a way that actually made sense. Going off of the movie version and not the book. If you think about it, Frollo lusted after/Wanted Esmeralda but he saw her as wicked, broken, something to be fixed. Quasimodo, Loved her fiercely but put her on a pedestal. To Goddess-like heights whereas Phoebus, saw her as an equal, and loved her for who she was and accepting her as a human able to make mistakes… I thought that was a pretty cool theory.
But It Was Too Late For Her To Awake But If We Put A POTC 3 Style Twist And Say She Was Taken Out To Sea And Was Laid To Rest And Quasimodo Would Also Get Closure By Laying Him To Rest Aswell
I dunno from this video febas or whatever his name is spelled like, doesn't seem like a creep. Just an unfaithful man. I mean she was 100% obsessed with him. Unless there's more to it of course
What If Esmeralda Was Still Alive YES She May Have Survived Due To A False Issue And God Punished Frollo And Rewarded Quasimodo And Esmeralda By Being Reincarnated So They Can Be Together
But it's not the same story. They didn't change a few details, they changed the whole mind of it. They made it more accessible to a lot of people who might be discouraged by a big book, but at what price?
@@veroniquelebeau2692 Not the same story, because of that they changed the title itself From Notre Dame de Paris to Hunchback of the Notre Dame. Here Quasimodo is the main character, in the book is Esmeralda (strictly after the cathedral itself). But it isn't damaged the book, they changed the story but kept close to the writers style. You can watch the Goodtimes animated movie, its pretty closer to the book. 😉
The story is worse than the Disney… but at least they aren’t dead… what I mean by bad is the death and other things the story is nice but literally meaning bad as in you know… actually I give up explaining what I mean lol And I’ll still be able to eat lol
I don't , because I think Esmeralda doesn't deserved that fate. She was a kind soul. 😢 I prefer the Disney and the other movie adaptations in which she remains alive.
Jesus, how much of this video is "You're not gonna believe it", "You'll find out something bad about them", "Something's coming that's a big reveal!" Take away the plot bait and it'd be 2 minutes long...
The Time Has Come Gypsy You Stand Upon The Brink Of The Abyss Yet Even Now It Is Not Too Late I Can Save You From The Flames Of The World And The Next Choose Me Or The Fire -Judge Frollo ❤️🖤💜🔥 Te Llego La Hora Gitana Estas Al Borde De Muerte Pero Todavía no es muy Tarde Puedo Salvarte de las llamas de este mundo y del Siguiente Elegieme O El Fuego-Juez Frollo ❤️🖤💜🔥
I remember seeing this film on DVD VIDEO disc (in BD Player). I liked Disney's version. Esmeralda as an Afro-American in Paris, and I remember she was one of the artists in the Circus, she drummed and danced and showed off her goat arts. She was dressed as a Gypsy fortune teller.
She was Gypsy (Rom) not Afro-American(why would she be Afro-American in 14-15th century France? Wouldnt she be just black?). Dont you dare americanize everything :D
This sounds like the most realistic love story to me. Proof that love, like any other emotion, is not so end all,all empowered divinity. Despite the fact society, likes to immortalize such a lie to use as shame, blame, & manipulation of the individual for sacrifice, & enslavement as something to be a noble cause.
Wait.... I didn't finish Victor Hugo's Novel, but if I remember well as far as I read, she was described as a brown skinned woman. How is it possible for her to be brown skinned as the daughter of a French woman and a nobleman? Either way, if anything in the original story is sad and dissappointing to me, it is definitely that she is not really Romani.
There's a character named Fleur-de-lis?! 🤣🤣🤣 IDK about European French, but that sounds EXTREMELY weird to my French-Canadian ears (I'm technically American, but I have relatives in Canada still). That's like a Canadian being named "maple leaf."
Not all do. The Roma are not the only Gypsies there’s Hungarian gypsies & Irish travelers & multiple tribes & clans within each. My sisters dad was half Roma & he still had contact w his dads side growin up, he talked about it a lot
Roma are just one type of gypsy though. There are many types including Irish Travelers or "tinkers". Gypsy is just an all encompassing term. Calling all gypsies Roma is like calling all Europeans French. As for feelings of the term, that's more on a case by case basis. Pretty much every gypsy I've met preferred the term gypsy because it's more recognizable than Roma or Traveler.
