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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
by Victor Hugo
Beautiful.
Les Miserables is my favorite work of fiction and I love Disney's version of this story, so I had high expectations. Not all of them were met, mostly because the depth of his message wasn't as obvious as it is in Les Mis, but I absolutely appreciate what this story offers. The characters are everything to the story, and it's cool that Paris and the cathedral are two of those characters.
It's interesting how different most of the characters are from their Disney adaptations. I love Esmeralda still; I love her sweetness and her never-closed heart and her sense of innocence in all things. Quasimodo is so interesting and his experience probably broke my heart the most. I can't help liking Pierre even though he's an idiot. Frollo is so freaking evil, but in a way that displays the twisted and destructive thought patterns religiousity can plant in people. And yeah I hate Phoebus.
Hugo is an expert at social commentary, and the scenes featuring the king and his men tell us so much about why the society these characters live in runs the way it does. The people in general had a sickness about them; the story explores players, victims, and outliers of that system.
Les Miserables is my favorite work of fiction and I love Disney's version of this story, so I had high expectations. Not all of them were met, mostly because the depth of his message wasn't as obvious as it is in Les Mis, but I absolutely appreciate what this story offers. The characters are everything to the story, and it's cool that Paris and the cathedral are two of those characters.
It's interesting how different most of the characters are from their Disney adaptations. I love Esmeralda still; I love her sweetness and her never-closed heart and her sense of innocence in all things. Quasimodo is so interesting and his experience probably broke my heart the most. I can't help liking Pierre even though he's an idiot. Frollo is so freaking evil, but in a way that displays the twisted and destructive thought patterns religiousity can plant in people. And yeah I hate Phoebus.
Hugo is an expert at social commentary, and the scenes featuring the king and his men tell us so much about why the society these characters live in runs the way it does. The people in general had a sickness about them; the story explores players, victims, and outliers of that system.