The VERY Messed Up Origins of Hunchback of Notre Dame | Disney Explained - Jon Solo 

Thanks for watching, SoloFam! Sorry again about the delay :( Hope you enjoyed this episode. This was definitely one of the darker, straight up weirder stories we've ever covered and I tried to do it justice! Don't forget to SMASH that like button btw ;)

Fun fact: in the original nove, it's not Quasimodo's deformities that make the Parisians ostracize him, but his _red hair_ of all things, as per the attitudes of actual medieval Parisians.

“I’m thankful I’ve never been rejected like that” weird flex but okay

Frollo is NOT in love with Esmeralda he's in LUST with her.

The hunchback of Notre Dame is like one of the most underrated disney movies I stg

In the musical Esmeralda dies and Quasimodo lays next to her dead body untill he dies. :(

"Every attempt to improve or repair the Notre Dame only made it worse" this hits home right now.

"There is everything I've ever loved". Heavy AF.

"He even goes on a tangent about the architecture of Notre Dame and how any attempts to improve or repair the building have only made it worse..." *Fire starts at Notre Dame due to maintenance* HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

I'm watching this coz the notre Dame is burning rn

If you think he loved architecture then you will appreciate his absolute passion for the sewer system in Paris in Les Miserables

I mean, the book was written by the same guy who wrote Les Mis... old Vicky just loves to kill his characters

As a kid i was confused why frollo smelled esmeralda and why he freaked out about her good looks. I just thought he didnt want to believe that a gipsy could be pretty. How wrong i was...

Frollo wasn’t “in love”...he was 100% *obsessed* with her. *BIG* difference. 🤦🏻‍♀️

That ending is wow

RUN QUASIMODO RUN! THERES A FIRE! SH*T HE HAS AIRPODS IN HE CANT HEAR US!!

The original story’s ending where Quasimodo says “There is everything I have ever loved” after killing Frollo hits me really hard for some reason 😢🥺

Why did you skip the fact that Esmerelda has a husband? Like her husband, Gringiore, is my favorite character and i think its important to mention the fact that they took the character out of the movie and acts like esmerelda is a single pringle. Also, esmerelda is 15 and her husband is 25.

After this I wouldn’t be surprised if Disney makes “IT” a Disney movie. Lol 😂

The real story is absolutely crazy

So basically, it's an ancient story about how someone adopts a deformed baby, only to become a bad parent to him, then the dad, the deformed guy, and some other guy all fall in love with the same woman, who was kidnapped, and the woman dies after finding her real mother. The deformed guy then either kills himself to be with her, or sleeps with her dead body for the rest of his life, which is how his skeleton was found around hers. That's depressing...

Praying for Notre Dame. What he says at 3:48 has now come true.

So I watched the movie for the first time recently. Loved it. Watched the musical. Jaw dropping. Reading the book now. Mind blown. I’m in awe of how underrated this masterpiece of a story the Hunchback of Notre Dame really is. It ripped my heart to pieces in the most beautiful way, which is the best writing. Thank you Victor Hugo for giving us the world of Notre Dame.

I always heard that mr. Hugo's book was partly fictional after they discovered the body of a Jispy woman who had been hung being hugged by a, also dead, man with a crooked back. Then he made the story off of that

The fact that he didn’t leave her side even after when she was dead is incredibly sad. That was the one important thing to him and he was found laying with her :(

It is a wonder a Disney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame even exsists, given how dark and disturbing the original story got. But I am not complaining since it has one of, if not the best Disney villian song: Hellfire.

“So he does what any man would do. Sends his adopted servant to kidnap her” I’m dead that’s hilarious

Notre dam burn's down today April 16 2019 ... Sad : (

The gargoyles Victor and Hugo appear to be named after author Victor Hugo who wrote the novel, he also wrote Les Miserables.

I'm guessing you read the wiki and not the book? Good summary regardless. Let me add that Esmeralda was only 16 years old or so, Phoebes was in the process of stripping her naked and couldn't even remember her name when he was stabbed by Frollo, making Phoebes a very dark character as well; I can't believe he married her in the movie. Also Frollo had a brilliant mind. I think the theology of the Church was not enough for him and that is why he turned to alchamy and dark magic, not because of Esmeralda. Give me Les Mis any day over this depressing book!

the book version of Quasimodo is truly frightening,

Great review but you got one thing wrong; Frollo wasn't in love with Esmeralda he was obsessed with Esmeralda. Not the same thing.

Only thing I disagree with is the fact that Frolo wasn’t “in Love,” with Esmeralda. He Lusted, after her.. I’m splitting hairs, but yeah... GREAT VID. You got a subscriber off this.

I don't even want to know what would have happen if Disney made the phantom of the opera.

One of the greatest and most underrated Disney animated movies purely because of the soundtrack and score. The music from this film is second to none. Better than Lion King, better than Beauty and the Beast, better than all of them.

I was in Paris about a month ago and I happened to see the Notre Dame the day it caught on fire. After I came home I had the sudden urge to watch the Hunchback of Notre Dame.

OMG YESS!! I've been waiting for another messed up origin

Pinocchio is a pretty dark story 🤥

but why is his skin clearer than my future???

in the book, Pheobus (idk if I spelled it right) even brings his new mistress to Esmeralda's execution!

In the movie, Frollo named Quasimodo because it meant “harsh figure” but in novel, Frollo named Quasimodo after the name of the day he adopted by Frollo. Which was Low Sunday or Quasimodo Sunday

It’s a Victor Hugo book. What did you expect?

I love both the movie and the book.

Something I like about this movie is it showing how two different men react to unrequited love... one wanting to destroy her and one risking his own life to save her.

Victor Hugo's descriptions of the architecture is not uncommon for his writing style. He assumes you know NOTHING of the setting. While he's not one of my favorite authors, but I have to give him credit for that.

Even a hunchback that resembles quasimodo appears in courage the cowardly dog

I was actually in a musical for Hunchback of Notre Dam and it took elements from both stories, in this one the story actually begins with the question “what makes a monster and what makes a man.” And in this story Frolo and his brother r raised by Notre Dam but, unlike himself, Frolo’s brother is not as faithful to the practice and eventually is banished from Notre Dam and runs off with the Gypsies, he has a son and when he is dying and the mother of the child is already dead he decides its best to give him to Frolo as the child has no one else. Frolo sees the child, calls him a monster and tells his brother how “the wicked shall not go unpunished” and that’s why the child is like this. From there the story is pretty similar to the Disney version with only some minor changes and a tavern scene, and in the end Esmerelda is saved by Quasimodo only to still die. The Gypsies father with the help of Phoebus to protect Notre Dam but eventually the guards get in but she is already dead. Frolo comes and tells him this was for the best but in a rage Quasimodo pushes him off the roof, using his own words “the wicked shall not go unpunished” before Phoebus comes to find her dead and dies as well from the wound in his shoulder. And years later they find Esmeralda’s skeleton, with Quasimodo’s holding her. It’s really sad throughout, especially when there r songs such as the one where the Gypsies r forced to flee their home, and Phoebus offers to go with them to stay with Esmeralda and while they sing of their love Quasimodo sings about how he will never be loved before everyone, including the Gypsies, comes together singing about how they must find another Court of Miracles or home.

so I'm guessing the book didn't have any talking gargoyles

Who is here after it burnt down :(

I now want to see a hard R movie of this live action... dark as hell and everything

Everyone dies ecxept phoebus

How original do you wanna get? The story Disney based their animation on, or the story that the story which Disney based on is based on...or all the way down? Because Cinderella can get really really messed up if you go back far enough...ALL fairy tales are messed up because they probably originated from folklore told by drunk farmers to freak each other out lol

Also, Esmeralda believed she could only reunite with her mother if she was a virgin. She was willing to give that up because of how much she loved Phoebus. By stabbing Phoebus, Frollo ended up preventing the act. So (if Esmeralda was right) Frollo accidentally helped the mother and daughter find each other.

I have to wonder whose idea it was in the first place -- Victor Hugo does not exactly lend himself to 'Disney movie'. It's a good movie, but I can't believe it got made to begin with.

Read the book first :)))) I don't even know why they made this into a kid movie when it's so messed up in the book.

“So he does what any man would do when he falls in love. Orders his adopted servant to kidnap her” 😂😂😂 I choked

Esmeralda:I'd rather die than marry you Frollo: Next morning body of a gypsy hanging in the court

The biggest frustration I had with the movie is the fact that Claude frollo is 32 in the book

*fire starts* Qausimodo: this is fine.

Dunno how to spell her name, but, ✨ "Ezmerelda"?? is the most beautiful Disney lady / princess ✨ to me. I dunno who is behind her character design, but magnificent job. 🌟💕

*watching RU-vid video. *sees new video from Jon solo. *watch this instead

‘So if that’s how Disney decided to tell the story, imagine how dark the original was...’ Me: 😳😅

I watched the live musical of this and it made me bawl my eyes out :( My heart was absolutely broken when Quasi died after Esmeralda, entertwining his body with her own :( so so depressing...UGH!!!

And at the end when the guy finds the skeletons the hunchback is hugging Esmeralda and he pulls them apart causing the skeletons to crumble to dust. The end.

“Like Fire, hell fire, this fire in my skin This burning desire is turning me to sin...”

I've been waiting on this forever!! You're the real MVP

I think Frollo is the darkest disney villain

Victor Hugo is solidly by favorite author of all time, so I highly appreciate this video, and how thoroughly you covered it! In other news, if you think Hugo’s tangents in The Hunchback are bad, you should try reading Les Miserables, which is 1462 pages long. Among its many tangents are, notably, more than twenty pages on the sewage systems of Paris, an in-depth history of the battle of Waterloo, and criminal lingo. Haha, I still love it, though, and I need to reread it. XD

The book is super dark but frankly one of my favorites. The ending really is quite action packed. Depressing but exciting. The Disney film is actually in my top 3 fave Disney films. I think the music is some of the best the Disney co. has ever written. I will never agree with you though on your preference to move past gothic architecture. While reading those chapters of the book where Victor Hugo rants about the architecture of notre dame might have been tedious, if it stopped people from tearing down and changing the cathedral then I'm glad he wrote it. Notre Dame is my favorite place in Paris and is one of the most beautiful places in the world. I am beyond thankful that its gothic architecture has been so wonderfully maintained.

You left out Gringoire. In the first two chapters, he's a pretty important character and in the end, he helps Esmeralda escape from Notre Dame but he escapes with the girl's goat, leaving her and Frollo behind.

I'm probably one of the few that like this film. Hugo is also one of my favorite authors. Yes, long winded paragraphs, but most authors of that time wrote that way. Thanks for the comparison!

Whoa everyone dies in the hunchback novel

The reason why the book ends the way it is is because the lesson of the story is the actions of the character doesn’t matter and the cathedral will always remain. Remember, the book was about the cathedral and gothic buildings just like it.

I definitely didn't catch on to the rapey aspect of Frollo until a few years after this came out when I was old enough to understand what lust was versus love. The movie over all has a decent message like to stand up for yourself, love those who are different and fight for the freedom of the oppressed. But some of the themes are not for kids. Anytime someone sings a entire song about how badly they want they own and sleep with someone, it's beyond creepy. And this movie was low key depressing even as a kid to watch. Great video though, I subbed!

Victor Hugo is all about tangents... read the UNABRIDGED version of Les Miserables. You get the life story of the sister of the priest who allowed Val Jean to keep the things he stole from him so he could start his new life. Hugo was paid by the word... so he used a LOT of them!! :-D

“He’s just not in good shape” 😂

12:56 this is just heart breaking. Like my heart actually hurts at the thought of it

“Unnecessary long passages.” That sums up Victor Hugo very well.

I still say Quasimodo deserved Esmeralda! 💘

You forgot the part where esmeralda isn't actually a gypsy

Great video! I would love to see one for Hercules😊

As an autistic man, I can identify with Quasimodo and his background, which is why The Hunchback of Notre Dame was one of my top 10 favorite Disney movies of my childhood, among Pinocchio, Bambi, The Jungle Book, Aristocats, Aladdin, The Lion King, Toy Story 1&2, and A Bug's life.

I can not even believe that The Hunckback could be even more messed up

It’s not dark or weird it’s classic literature. Classics Illustrated comics put out a very well done version of the Hugo novel in the 1960s and the 1939 Charles Laughton movie is wonderful. Yes the remains of a hunchback and a girl were dug up years later.

"Don't ask me how he impersonates them, I can just confirm that he does"

Dude, this is dark.....

Jon: I’m glad that I didn’t get rejected- Me: lucky Jon: -like that Me: oh I feel you

Walt, if he had been alive, would never had approved of this Victor Hugo novel being made by his studio. As you pointed out, it was to dark and no fairy story for children. A very odd choice for Disney producers to decide to animate at the time.

''There is everything I've ever loved!'' Damn, that's incredibly sad :(

6:47 "So he does what any man would do when he falls in love and oRdErS HiS aDoPteD seRvAnt tO KiDnAp hER" geez 🤣🤣🤣🤣

“ not to be rude, but I get it” 😂💀

Omg when he said that they found Quasimodo’s skeleton hugging Esmeralda’s, thats so sad

Victo Hugo had a really messed up mind bro

That is so sad. 😭😭😭😭 Poor Quazimoto (I think I spelled his name wrong). The Disney movie was so scary... *shivers*

Just to let everybody who is talking about the fire know, the building did not burn down to the ground. It's still standing, although parts of the roof and the spire have collapsed. Now that the fire is out, there are plans to rebuild the cathedral.

Yesss Humpback of Notre Dame! This is so dark, both origins and the Disney version!

I love that you're low key funny. Great video.

The fact that in the book frollo adopted quasimodo for good reasons even though he wasn't a good person really shows how humans are ultimately morally grey. A good person can do bad things and a bad person can do good things.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame is my favorite Disney movie

That's the most overpowered goat if he can impersonate politicians