Watching The HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME** Disney's darkest film...? (reaction)

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Hey guys thanks for all the comments telling me about g- word. I didn’t know at the time it was a slur especially since it was blatantly said in this Disney movie. Then again it was mostly said by the “bad guy” so I could of figured it out. Sorry for using it and saying it as many times as I did. 🙂 Hell Fire is literally still stuck in my head... get it out lol Thanks for watching✨✨💎

[@GeekGal84]

What they don't tell you is that this is the light version. Read the book and alot of 'good guys' in this movie are FAR from good in the book...they had to tone it down soooo much. Don't get me wrong, this is one of the best of Disney's work and the voice actors were amazing, all of them. Oh and gypsy is an offensive term for the Romani. Kinda like... the well, there are racist words for every race. The priest was in Beauty and the Beast, there was Cogsworth :) And Demi Moore was Esmerelda.

[@psychozombieproductions7739]

There's a darker disney movie called the black cauldron

[@victoriajackson2653]

Plz watch avatar the last Airbender

[@callmema14]

It's addicting

[@humanintelegence]

i HIGHLY recommend the Annapantsu cover of hell fire

[@andrewjodon1433]

Frollo is legit one of the scariest Disney villains solely because of how real he is in the fact there are actually people like him in society even today.

[@psychozombieproductions7739]

The horned king is the scariest villian

[@tamamonomae5416]

I told this very reason to a friend when they asked me who I thought was Disney most frightening movie.

[@MiyahSundermeyer]

A lot of people act like Scar too

[@aliezahjuarez1212]

Ye

[@entertainmentlife430]

I agree

[@reinagarcia9693]

“Quasimodo, you look kinda built. He’s a skinny old man...work wit it” Lakia language for : if you don’t fold this man like a piece of paper

[@memyselfandi7782]

*wheezes*

[@cerisejaxel9636]

This cracked me up considering *SPOILER for HOND stage musical* Quasimodo literally threw Frollo to his death in the stage musical!

[@ambriaashley3383]

that's right 😂😂😂

[@Hai_im.cat1]

*Better scramble like an egg before you get folded like an omelette*

[@Monie71793]

💯😩😩🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@reinagarcia9693]

“Choose me or the fire” sir, fire everyday

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Say it again lol 😂

[@summerrose8110]

Frollo didn't want to marry Esmeralda. He had a disturbing fetish for her. He wanted her as a slave to please him.

[@reinagarcia9693]

@@summerrose8110 it was really just that he found her tempting cuz she is beautiful but like he’s gross about it

[@memyselfandi7782]

@@reinagarcia9693 true

[@metalex568]

@lovelies YES DO IT!!

[@doryanburlison6998]

Fun Fact: Disney didn’t write another villain song for years because “Hellfire” was done too well. It wasn’t until “Princess and the Frog” that they started doing it again.

[@RandomDragonEXE]

That makes sense since they both slap

[@LA_HA]

The team that created this song is extraordinary. Disney knows how to pick these teams. This soundtrack is easily the most beautiful Disney soundtracks ever

[@hydrokineticpowerhouse]

@@LA_HA Still what were the smoking when they wrote a guy like you? This ain’t Beauty and the Beast and honestly that would be an insult to Be our Guest. They hit the nail on the head with every other song in this movie. How did they miss so badly?😆😆😆

[@LA_HA]

@@hydrokineticpowerhouse Good lord, can we Please pretend that horrible song doesn't exist? Uuuugh. I will choose to believe the team was forced to write it under pain of being imprisoned at a CIA black site, so had no choice but to do it. You can't think clearly under threats like that, right? Right???? haha

[@AyosDesignz]

That is incorrect. While perhaps not as memorable to most there were other villain songs made between this movie and the princess and the frog movie.

[@Longshanks1690]

They don’t make movies like this anymore and they’ll never make villains like Frollo ever again.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Yea Frollo is way outta there from the villains Disney produces these days.. he was a good villain though.

[@scoutart1508]

@@LakiaJaiTV may i suggest another underrated animated movie that is actually a non disney + Spanish animated film with a USA NASA SETTING ELEMENT and won the Spanish academy award for best animated film?

[@joshualowe959]

Why not?

[@Mari17897]

Hal from Megamind is a realistic villain. He's not like Frollo, but he's pretty realistic.

[@memyselfandi7782]

@@Mari17897 fair

[@sebbstree6519]

it always bothered me that many people considered Hans as the worse villain when Frollo another level of evil. he made Quasimodo ashamed of his appearance, kept him locked for 20 years and manipulated Quasimodo into believing that frollo was the only one who could tolerate him. and the part where he tell Quasimodo that her mother was going to drown him as a child EVEN THOUGH HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS GOING TO DO IT ALWAYS GIVES ME THE CHILLS

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Maybe they mean Hans is the worst as in He isn’t a good villain lol. anyone who thinks Hans is the best villain is probably from this generation and never seen an older Disney film.

[@a.g.demada5263]

But he was right for one point : people are afraid by Quasimodo without know him. The scene of the humiliation show us humans are sheeps

[@andrewjodon1433]

Also Frollo was commiting genocide which included the death of Quasis own mother.

[@sebbstree6519]

@@andrewjodon1433 right, like people were like “OmG Hans wAs going to sTab Elsa he is the most evil villiaN” but frollo here BURNED a whole city to the ground and killed a lot innocent people for YEARS

[@mycssgsb2703]

If I haven't knew frollo I would put Mother Gothel up there😅

[@memyselfandi7782]

"She died? (Quazis mom) That's dark Disney!" *laughs in the rest of the movie*

[@sRp517]

*laughs in earlier disney films*

[@AmaraJordanMusic]

I read this just as the last captain of the guard was being whipped offscreen. Accurate 🤣

[@whisperingshadowXI]

Enjoy your 666th like for this comment. I find the moment to be quite... topical.

[@lizaharris5930]

Given his lyrics about her body, I think he wants her in a inappropriate way. Yes he is definitely disturbed.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Yea he definitely wants her in an inappropriate way lol

[@sadeevans9537]

It even more creepy as Esamelda is 16 years old

[@BeanSparrow]

@@sadeevans9537 in the orginal yes but the ages in the disney version are diffrent as can be seen on disney wikia

[@LA_HA]

@@BeanSparrow Yes, she's definitely an adult in this version. He's creepy, but not That creepy...in This version

[@thelittleunicorn6196]

yeaaaah, he tried to "r word" her

[@elliegd]

“kinda wanted somebody to die” me, staring at the book: 👀

[@dangosandlemons]

Ohh yeahh I remember

[@Skye_Writer]

Omg, the book is soooooo tragic. I grew up on so many movies about Quasimodo (the Charles Laughton/Maureen O'Hara version was always my favorite) and was SHOCKED when my father told me how the book ended. I read it afterwards, and it was even sadder than I had been told.

[@accousticalalanna290]

Yeah, really dark! Especially about Quasimodo.

[@DisneyFanatic2364]

"Gypsies" is what they called the Roma (or Romani), an ethnic group in Europe. They were called "gypsies" because they were thought to be from Egypt. These days it's preferred not to call them that because the term is inaccurate, as they actually came from India. Anyway, most Roma are dark-skinned, if you're wondering how other people can tell. Their traditional dress is also a tip-off too (at least in the medieval setting). Edit: yes, I'm aware that some Roma are not offended by the term gypsy and even refer to themselves as such. However, while living in Romania I was told that if I didn't know the individual's preference, "Roma" was more respectful. And I only heard "gypsy" when my white Romanian classmates were talking trash about them. So my preference not to say "gypsy" is really due to the culture I was raised in. You are right though that as a white person I am not the ideal spokesperson. I am just repeating what I was taught while living in a country with a high Roma population.

[@anneshields2010]

Yeah think their called travellers now theirs the traditional travelers with the dark skin and hair like Clopin and Esmeralda and the. the Irish travellers you see on my big fat Gypsy wedding

[@justarandompeople3782]

Hey, you're here! 😀

[@LangkeeLongkee]

Many desi consider “g*psy” a slur

[@LucianCorrvinus]

Just to add, the Roma are a community, a people that would consider themselves to be different and have chosen to retain their Culture and ways by living and marring almost exclusively amongst themselves. They have done this for centuries. Because the Culture remained separated it had specific ways of dress, adornment, language,, manner,lifestyle,values, and standards that were partcular and identifiable by those outside it. They have adopted some things from outside the original culture, but reinterpreted it, putting their stamp on it,making it still an identifier. There are several communities in Europe, England Ireland and North America from my understanding, where they mostly live an updated version of the same way they always have. And are fiercely proud and one might say uncompromising in their History, Culture and Lifestyle.

[@stuffwithsoph8264]

@@LucianCorrvinus Thanks for the info but, England and Ireland are also Europe lol

[@raunjisto2925]

God Help the Outcasts always gets me emotional, especially when the others in the church pray for wealth, fame, love, etc, but then Esmeralda, who has very little, only prays for those less fortunate than her.

[@eway44]

Yeah, Esmerelda prays for the things people SHOULD pray for

[@thelonesomegrifter6718]

She is a QUEEN I’m not religious I like don’t pray to a higher being due to the fact I don’t believe and that’s at higher being but Esmeralda she’s a queen she deserves happiness. And Quasimoto also deserves happiness

[@sarasamaletdin4574]

I would love the song anyway but as a Christian it hits even more.

[@stephsoohall6841]

@@eway44 while everyone else pray for things that can be erased over time

[@teamarrow7225]

Yes, it shows the things other people long for and want but don’t need. Then esmeralda cuts through all of that with “I ask for nothing!” Showing she has enough to live and she doesn’t need more than that but other people need some assistance and they’re the ones society turns a blind eye to

[@vanisucre]

One of the scariest things about Frodo is that he actually thinks he is doing good and that somehow he's actions are justified.

[@elissao.6585]

Totally.🙌😬

[@bullishgroup8304]

The meaning behind this makes it so much better Basicly he in his own fucked up way loves her and wants to saver her but he sees her as a sinner and is dragging him down with her so in the bible the flames of hell burns away the slag of sin aka i burns away your sin so throw his eye's he will save if she chooses him or he will save her by burning her sins away and let god save her but in his song were he smothered her scarf he believes he's damming him self to hell for this by acting in place of god He's post to be a evil insane but tragic villion

[@thelonesomegrifter6718]

Entitlement.... also if you have a bunch of Yasmin around you all your life saying that you’re the supreme leader all your life your ego will skyrocket... I have Roto and I’m not giving him an excuse he had so much narcissistic personality disorder just wreaking off of him... I hate him but like he’s a good villain if you get what I mean.

[@bogwinkled]

@@thelonesomegrifter6718 nah i understand

[@joshualowe959]

It's Frollo

[@bethanygreen430]

*spoilers for the book* i feel so bad for esmeralda especially in the book; she's only 16 and has to deal with getting married to like a 40 y/o, getting creeped on by a douchebag phoebus, being harrassed and framed for murder by frollo, and then burning at the stake literally 5 mins after finding her birth mother like 😭

[@heynhamnham]

Wow I thought she'd just be killed, there's so much more information there

[@silverstarlightproductions1292]

Well, she also stupidly gave herself away because she was infatuated with Phoebus who, in the book, was a total Chad who just wanted her for a one night stand.🤦‍♀️

[@annamachavariani8178]

Yeah. Like... Book Esmeralda isn't really a "YASS REBELLION" type of girl either. She's just trying to vibe, but no one will let her.

[@BoxOKittens]

Well she wasn't burned, she was hanged. And what makes it worse is that her adopted dad, Clopin (the jester guy in the movie) tried to save her, but he got killed before he could reach her. Then after her death, Quasi kills Frollo and then lays down next to Esmeralda's body and basically dies of exposure. They definitely couldn't have all that in the Disney version, though.

[@doodlemunchkin2222]

I remember finding this out when reading some parts in the book to compare it to the movie in middle school and having my childhood ruined from finding that out. It was so depressing-I felt so bad for her. Plus her poor mother. Sees her for 5 second before being helpless but to watch her get burned at the stake.

[@jaistashu1560]

I didn't understand it when I was younger, but now that I'm older, I can see that if Quasimodo had gotten with Esmeralda, it would've framed Esmeralda as a trophy. We see Quasimodo respecting Esmeralda's decision to be with Phoebus, and what Quasimodo really needed was acceptance. That's what he was rewarded with at the end.

[@konanxhidan3202]

I really hate how Disney portrayed Phoebus as a hero so they could pair Esmeralda with him instead with the deformed Quasimodo (who was actually the *ONLY* person who cared for her). Disney ignore the fact that Phoebus was also the reason why she died in the book. He was always cheating on his fiance, was only interested on Esmeralda because he wanted to take her virginity (and throw her away after that) and couldn't care less that she died for a crime she never committed. *He NEVER helped her.*

[@jaistashu1560]

@@konanxhidan3202 Okay, yeah, but there's SOOOOO much different from the original Victor Hugo work that it isn't a problem (in my eyes) that Phoebus is a hero here in Disney's Hunchback. Now, if he didn't do anything heroic in this movie and only wanted Esmeralda's virginity and STILL ended up with her, then that'd be screwed up, but that's not what happens. In the movie, Phoebus DOES help Esmeralda, and their developing romance is consensual and mutual (fast, too, but that's just Disney). It doesn't really make sense to be mad about this change because Hunchback is so radically different from La Notre Dame de Paris down to the message, theme, characterizations, etc. It's so different that it's like comparing Harry Potter with Game of Thrones. Both are fantasy, both have magic, both have death/killing. Disney's Hunchback is basically fan fiction set in an AU of La Notre Dame de Paris in which the fan writer has changed the genre and wanted to focus on the hunchback and how cool his story could be if he were the main character. Actually, it's a fan fiction of another fan work--the Hunchback comic published decades ago. My point is that it doesn't make sense to be mad about this adaptation change because Pheobus isn't that terrible person in Disney's Hunchback, and the change isn't romanticizing cheating or being a terrible person. Additionally, the point of the original work was to say that buildings have history, and we shouldn't tear down old architecture. Disney's Hunchback's point/theme is heavily focused on justice. Why get angry about a character who only shares the same name with a terrible person in an entirely different text? The characterizations are entirely different--opposite, even. Jerk-Phoebus had no place in a Disney movie focused on justice, so he was altered into a decent person/left out entirely. P.S. If Quasimodo got Esmeralda, then that would support/defend/embolden jerks who whine about the friendzone. "I cared about you, so you have to be my girlfriend!" What Quasimodo needed was acceptance, not a romantic relationship, and that's exactly what he was rewarded with at the end.

[@vitoriadias7990]

@@konanxhidan3202 Esmeralda also wasn't that nice of a girl in the book, she didn't even like Quasi. And Quasimodo was super obssessed with her. Also, they both died alongside Frollo in the book. So, if you wanted the book, we would get a whole other story. Phoebus wasn't the only one severily changed. All of them were.

[@brigidtheirish]

It also examines the Madonna-Whore Complex trope. Frollo sees Esmeralda as a whore. Quasi sees Esmeralda as a Madonna. Phoebus sees Esmeralda as a person and so is the one Esmeralda chooses. Frollo can't accept rejection. Quasi has trouble accepting rejection at first, but prioritizes Esmeralda's happiness. Because of that, Quasi gets to keep Esmeralda's friendship. I think it's beautify.

[@marti9734]

​​​@@konanxhidan3202THIS IS NOT THE FUCKING BOOK. IN THE BOOKS FROLLO WAS ALSO MORE SYMPATHETIC... ESMERALDA DIDNT LIKE QUASIMODO IN THE BOOKS SHE WAS ALWAYS SCARED OF HIM QUASIMODO IN THE BOOKS IS DEAF

[@blinkforlife7902]

The scene where Quasimodo asks to leave the bell tower is giving me very much Tangled, “YOU WILL NEVER LEAVE THIS TOWER, EVER!”

[@Sam-0827]

Frollo 🤝 Mother Gothel

[@blinkforlife7902]

@@Sam-0827 I swear they would’ve been best friends lmao

[@anib8863]

They're both selfish, narcicistic, manipulateive gaslighters, match made in hell.

[@ebaugh7320]

Do you think the movie 'Tangled' was inspired by this?

[@spongebobisahottie9521]

@@ebaugh7320 no bc it’s based off of “Rapunzel” a German fairytale published by the brothers Grimm in 1812. Same goes for the “Barbie as rapunzel” movie. (Btw sorry if this came off as rude. That wasn’t my intention.)

[@summerrose8110]

Quasimodo sees Esmeralda as an angel. Frollo sees Esmeralda as a devil he wants to rape. Phoebus sees Esmeralda as a human. And I like Quasimodo and Esmeralda as friends. Not every character needs a romantic interest.

[@laurajanco2i]

This movie gave Quasimodo and Esmeralda the hope that the book took from them.

[@unikracoon1913]

I mean... Esmeralda is Quasimodo's love interst, they just dont end up together

[@summerrose8110]

@@unikracoon1913 You don't get it. They're better as friends.

[@unikracoon1913]

@@summerrose8110 I agree but she is his love interest, as in there relationship is part of the intrigue of the movie. that's what love interest means

[@summerrose8110]

@@unikracoon1913 I'm not stupid. I know what love interest means, but you're missing the point of the film.

[@TheCourtsOfLove]

Fun trivia fact: When Frollo in the original looked into the fire - Esmeralda was practically naked which they obviously had to adapt and change for a kid-friendly audience.

[@Gachaco.]

Oh god! I'm glad they changed it.

[@fireflymiesumae]

Actually if they made an uncensored version I'd love to see it

[@stanbily9416]

@@Gachaco. The pervs are fuming 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@knittz]

@@fireflymiesumae she’s 16 💀💀

[@dipalisonar5779]

@@knittz around 20 in this movie though

[@renny2049]

Esmeralda is an underrated Disney character, her and Tiana are apart of my top 5

[@elamplough1]

I'd say that it's Quasimodo who's one of Disney's most underrated characters, as he isn't given the credit he deserves for how entertaining he is. He leads the movie brilliantly and really is a character that should be talked about more.

[@renny2049]

@@elamplough1I agree, i hope this movie gets the live action treatment

[@elamplough1]

@@renny2049 Maybe but if Disney does ever choose to do so then they better make a lot of careful decisions in the process. Live action remakes of animated movies either seem to be fantastic or just plain terrible - I've never seen a halfway point.

[@spookyandwithdrawn20]

Hunchback of Notre Dame = Work of Art

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Agreed 😊

[@megteg]

I just wish they wrote the side character gargoyles differently... or not at all 😬 I get why they did it but it kinda ruins the whole tone of the movie. Like disney was too scared to really go there

[@rickie3041]

I’m pretty sure it was a universal horror film once lol

[@phxsqhenes]

@@megteg I understand but at the same time it’s Disney... they’re aware of who their audience is. If they were to make a more adult version though I’d definitely be intrigued.

[@megteg]

@@phxsqhenes oh yes I can understand that- but even if you look at like, studio ghibli (can’t spell sorry), they have childlike elements along with adult themes but I don’t feel like they get so ridiculous and goofy 🤷🏻‍♀️ just my personal opinion though. I can totally see where you are coming from

[@riakun]

When I was younger, I always wondered why Quasi and Esmeralda didn't end up together. But now that I'm older, I've realized that that separates him from Frollo. Quasi cares for her and values her friendship and is willing to let her go. His arc is about finding acceptance in himself, not seeing himself as the monster, and for people seeing his true humanity passed his looks. Frollo would rather possess Esmeralda, thus, making him the real monster of the story. Also, Quasi is played by the actor who played Mozart in that movie Amadeus (I think that's the name but not sure), for those who are wondering.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

See, you get it! Quasi is capable of prioritizing Esmeralda being happy over his own happiness, and that shows how mature, kind, caring and thoughtful he is, in stark contrast to Frollo. True love means thinking of someone else first, yourself second, and Quasi gets that.

[@EB1493]

His name is Tom Hulce (Quasimodo’s VA) who played Mozart in 1984’s Amadeus

[@riakun]

@@EB1493 thank you! I could not remember his name for some reason xD

[@quadtiggersson1222]

Fact about original book: Ezmeralda was afraid of Quasimodo and yet he loved her. Frollo managed to burn her to death. Years later when someone dig up her grave, he noticed another skeletton hugging her and that was Quasimodo. When She died, he could not handle it so he crawled himself into her grave and hugged her until he died.

[@rebeccaschneider5223]

To be correct, Esmeralda is hanged in the original Novel.

[@fireflymiesumae]

Wtf, that's so sad

[@quadtiggersson1222]

@@rebeccaschneider5223 thank You, i forgot that part. Its been more than 10 years since i read the original, so Dont Remember everything, except some parts :)

[@cheneethompson5756]

Oh my God!

[@fallengabrielle5185]

esmeralda was also actually a french girl. so she isn't a woman of color. Her real name was Agnès. she was kidnapped by the gypsies as a little baby. They replaced her with their own baby in Quasimodo.

[@TheZachValentine]

This is my absolute favorite Disney movie. Easily in my top 3. The song Out There is also one of my favorite Disney songs! Also, I'm okay with Quasimodo ending up with no love interest. He got his acceptance. That's exactly what he wanted.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

True... I love that for him lol

[@hydrokineticpowerhouse]

I love him accepting them at the end and narratively it makes sense. Esmeralda was very selfless and while Quasimodo was fighting for her Phoebus was fighting for the people. Quasi also only loved Esmerelda because she was the first person to be kind to him, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but him putting her on a pedestal and seeing her as an angel much like Frollo saw her as a wicked temptress wasn’t good either. I love the ending, this movie is a masterpiece outside of the gargoyles.

[@lippy88lizzy]

FINALLY someone else *out there* who considers this their favourite Disney film 💜 So many people seem to forget about this one.

[@lovelessloretta6938]

PUUUURRRRRRR HELLFIRE AND OUTCAST ARE BIG BOP ENERGY ✨✨💅🏽💓the composers were in their bags with those songs

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Period 💎

[@lovelessloretta6938]

@@LakiaJaiTV IKDR girl🥰💘

[@lonelyronin2428]

You should here the metal versions by Jonathan Young. I didn't think they could get better, but they ascended.

[@RavenSutcliffe]

@@lonelyronin2428 There's a metal version of Outcasts?

[@vitoriadias7990]

@@RavenSutcliffe No. But there is Hellfire's and The Bells of Notre Dame's.

[@dominiquet.6450]

Since you’re on the animation movies, you such watch The Prince of Egypt next if you haven’t. Greatest movie by DreamWorks

[@liloveable]

And Joseph King of Dreams

[@SkywarDovahkiin]

Yess I feel like she’d love it! Prince of Egypt is top tier

[@del7920]

Yes yes yes yes 🙌🏽

[@ireneguisado4957]

Omg yes

[@stephsoohall6841]

I agree!!!

[@LuminousArc92]

this movie shows how effective "I want" songs are in musicals. Usually the hero gets an I want song (singing about what they want: Beauty and the Beast's Belle Reprise, Little Mermaid Part of Your World) while a villain gets an I am song (singing about how evil they are: Beauty and the Beast Gaston and Village Song) but Hellfire shows how effective it can be to give a villain an I want song

[@Bee17379]

I an?

[@CazuhLynn]

Same with Scar's "I want" song. I always loved it the most

[@stephsoohall6841]

Definitely one of the darkest spots movies made in the 90s

[@Monie71793]

💯

[@benarts2271]

And Frollo faced a problem like the protagonists, ironically 💀 not him casually committing domestic murder

[@iambadatnames5809]

Honestly, this is the best Disney OST to date. That choir! That leitmotif! That juxtaposition between "Heaven's Light" and "Hellfire"! *chef's kiss*

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Agreed 👌🏾

[@LA_HA]

Facts

[@CJCroen1393]

"He's pretty similar to Rapunzel from Tangled" There's a fanartist who took notice of that and made a series of modern AU comics where Quasimodo and Rapunzel become stepsiblings! It's actually pretty good and incorporates a LOT of Disney characters!

[@CJCroen1393]

@@donanderson1020 Morloth88 ^_^

[@ramble4395]

@@CJCroen1393 :)) thank you!! I love her comic and I’m going to be looking for it soon.

[@rachelanastasia1977]

16:22 the saddest thing is he thought he deserved the humiliation thats why he never fought back although he IS capable. 💔 when its time to protect someone else is when he probes that. 😭😭😭

[@memyselfandi7782]

Quasi is actually a Gypsy baby boy, I forgot that soo many times watching this.

[@meridiannemesis]

That's something I never understood, he doesn't look like a gypsy, I know there are gypsies with with lighter skin and blue eyes but he doesn't even look like his mum.

[@nkbujvytcygvujno6006]

There’s a theory that Quasi was abandoned by his birth parents for his appearance and then adopted by that gypsy woman. That sort of thing did happen sometimes. (And then people would use the gypsies’ kindness to say, “See, evil gypsies steal children! They’ll take you away when you’re bad!”) I think that theory holds a bit more water than Quasi being an albino. Albinos can’t produce any melanin, he wouldn’t have red hair if that was the case.

[@memyselfandi7782]

ideally you dont have to look like one to be one. We never see Quazis father or his mother's parents, some things really do skip generations, so try not to think too hard about it.

[@alicjajarzyna4910]

I know that either in the book or the musical (don't remember which one) Quasi is actually the son of Frollo's brother. His brother ran away from home and fell in love with a romani woman. And after he died Frollo started to loathe all romani people thinking the woman was the reason his brother is dead. Maybe that's how he would get red hair. One parent caucasian and the other romani.

[@stephsoohall6841]

@@alicjajarzyna4910 wow I find this interesting

[@skits_3d824]

If you read the book be prepared for a LOT DARKER STUFF.

[@Andji1612]

Like?

[@skits_3d824]

@@Andji1612 read it yourself. The ending will shock you. Victor Hugo version

[@darciaglaucerica]

Frollo was literally fetishizing the poc he wanted dead. Definitely the most twisted and dark Disney villain.

[@jonmercano1138]

G*psie is actually a slur for Romani people. Travelling, nomadic, indo-aryan people that mostly live in Europe. G*psie is considered derogatory because of its connotations of illegality and irregularity.

[@Emisop]

Are you Romani? I've seen many Romani, including two people I know personally that are of Romani decent that said it's not a slur.

[@mossmortis]

It's 50/50 if it's a slur or not. Some don't like it, some don't care about it.

[@lilenwasnothere6867]

yeah, they're actually called romani.

[@ashleyjohnson9651]

@@Emisop yea and you'll probably find a few black people that are okay with the n word but would you still say that word to any black person you see? When it comes to slurs its literally easier to just....not say them.

[@bloodybee3553]

It's not really a slur... it's like saying Negro (NOT the N-word!!!!!) over Native American, it's just another way to refer to them. Although the term Gypsy actually had nothing to do with what society thought of their ways, it's because people thought they were from Egypt (they were from India). Still shouldn't use it nowadays because it is seen as slightly derogatory, but it's not a slur

[@Nymira]

I was thinking today about the Hellfire scene. This man will burn the whole city instead of going to therapy.... male ego

[@allicattkitkat7519]

I don't think therapy exist back then.

[@Nymira]

@@allicattkitkat7519 well duh haha

[@beyondviolet]

@@allicattkitkat7519 closest thing was religion and that clearly didn’t always turn out well

[@SREH1963]

The story's set in the Middle Ages' France, during the last years of the reign of King Louis XI in 1482 in the 15th century to be precise. Therapy was nothing if a dream back then.

[@Bee17379]

If you like seeing people burn down things watch Hamilton the musical and mean girls the musical.

[@MaymoneyInDaBuilding]

Legit my favorite Disney movie and Esmerelda is the best and most underrated Disney woman. She isnt even an official Disney princess.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Definitely Esmeralda is underrated

[@unikracoon1913]

@@LakiaJaiTV "JUSTICE!!!!!" iconic

[@WaywardAce420]

@@jodenise894 Mulan isn’t either, but the film was popular enough to add her to the lineup. This one was not, but if it was, Esmeralda would have been added for marketing reasons.

[@stephsoohall6841]

I was thinking I think she should be one she won’t take crap from no one!

[@brandi3981]

well to be a PRINCESS you should NEED to be a princess its rather insulting they include mulan whos not royal by birth or marriage ditto with pocahantas its BULLSHIT yet actual disney royalty like anna and elsa get excluded i mean i GET in the little mermaid that it's just ariel the sisters are princesses too but minor characters and in the sequel they introduce her daughter who doesn't could cause introduced in a sequel but kida and elonwy need to be counted

[@multiplefandomlover7179]

This is definitely one of Disney's darkest movies, but my Lord your commentary draws me out of the darkness of it because you're so funny 😂😂 Also your editing style is waaay to on-point. I think I've said that before but for real, girl.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Lol thank you 😂

[@stephsoohall6841]

Yes even the lion king was one dark movie as well

[@Monie71793]

💯😩🤣🤣🥰

[@russiangyalrussiangyal8308]

@@Monie71793 ggghuyuhggxxddhgggggfggftggyg&ygiuhjhcfghgghggg

[@Theravingranter]

"It's a Disney movie, the main character can't die." Meanwhile in the musical version of this movie....

[@redballoon9007]

Meanwhile the book version-

[@curtismartin2866]

Josh Gad is producing the live action version

[@Theravingranter]

@@curtismartin2866 I think he's starring in it too.

[@ineffablemars]

“The lord didn’t tell you to throw the baby down the well” omg 😂

[@johncartermusic5777]

My dad took me to see this in theaters when it came out, and it was spectacular on the big screen. One of my favorites and so underrated.

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Yea very underrated 😊

[@summerrose8110]

Back then if your looks are deformed or not normal looking you're considered a social outcast. Frollo abuses Quasimodo emotionally and mentally.

[@crisis53142]

The Black Cauldron is disneys darkest animated film, it was so dark and scary it literally made the head of disney animation at the time lock himself in the cutting room and removing alot of the dark scenes, alot of the themes and its menacing villain, which i still recive nightmares of even as an adult, i can only say that watching that film at 6 scarred me, and i love it

[@memyselfandi7782]

Fair. I can recognize the villains voice and a few visually scary scenes, that's for sure

[@PuccaLover15]

The Horned King scared me half to death as a little girl, yet it was my favorite movie of all time. It was super insanely dark!

[@Alissa13Sk]

This movies soundtrack is out of this world. It’s so underrated but is so incredibly beautiful. Disney soundtracks in general are always amazing but The Hunchback of Notre Dame’s soundtrack just has something else. Every time I listen I feel transported and there’s just so many levels to it.

[@kainn4701]

This Movie actually scared me as a kid 😭😭😭

[@itsflorence5529]

Same

[@itsflorence5529]

And still does

[@sebastianboydtagle0751]

The prologe scared the Shit out of me when I was a little kid 😅

[@unicorntaillightbluebutt3682]

When I was kid I had know idea what was going on except there was she was who or whatever was almost about to cuss at school we watched only half of it

[@stephsoohall6841]

Beauty and the beast begin in scared me as a kid and now I laugh hahah I was afraid of this as a kid what????!

[@AuroraTigress]

I absolutely loved this movie as a child. I rediscovered it as a teen and found it interesting how Disney made a movie for kids about a judge battling with a moral dilemma about his sexual interests vs his religious beliefs and prejudice. Alan Menken's compositions are always beyond perfection.

[@liveinluv]

The one gargoyle is voiced by Jason Alexander who was in Seinfeld as George, for some trivia. I love this movie and Lakia reactions so this is a perfect video. This movie actually makes you feel so many emotions

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Thank you 😊

[@liveinluv]

@@LakiaJaiTV aww you are welcome, I'll always be a subscriber 😊

[@fabrisseterbrugghe8567]

The female gargoyle is voiced by Mary Wickes who'd been a character actress since the 1940s. Bunch back was her last film.

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

This is my favorite Disney movie. Pheobus treats Esmeralda (in disney film) like a human. Frollo treats her like a demon and Quasimodo treats her like an angel. Both are unrealistic views on her that she doesn't like. Where's her and Phoebus can speak on equal terms as he respects her as a person not perfect nor evil.

[@mysteryhuman5531]

Old Disney is unparalleled. Wish they still did stuff like this

[@ovyto6267]

“Quasimodo, you look kind of built; he’s a skinny old man... Work with it” That’s the realest thing I’ve heard on this💪🏾😂

[@OpticalSorcerer]

I've always been curious as to if Quasimodo was truly in love with Esmeralda or if he simply loved her as a friend and mistook his feelings for romance because she was the first genuine kind person he met. I hope it's the latter so I don't have to feel like he was on the losing end of a love triangle. Well, I suppose Part 2 had that one redeeming quality--plus Zephyr, of course.

[@OpticalSorcerer]

@Will N I love all of the DPs, and I do feel bad that she was demoted. I'd add her, Kida, and Meg, though since Greece hated Hercules, I can understand why Disney didn't want to pour resources into advertising Meg, and Atlantis wasn't immediately successful at the time. I loved the family she had with Phoebus and Zephyr.

[@OpticalSorcerer]

@Will N I didn't know that. Too bad it wasn't permanent.

[@OpticalSorcerer]

@Will N And then they went on to do Princess Academy--too bad it didn't work out.

[@JeromeViolist]

People want to talk about how much Pixar pulls at their heart strings, but this movie has made me cry every single time. Tears of sadness and rage and happiness and with the beauty of the music and visuals.

[@pasaniusventris4113]

I was too young to watch this in theaters, but I hear that people in the theater actually yelled “leave him alone!” when the crowd turned on Quasimodo.

[@couragew6260]

18:00 Something that goes past most viewers. You notice the bright light and that the soldier’s face is barely visible when he tells Frollo that they’ve lost Esmerelda. This soldier is believed to be an angel sending a message and giving Frollo a chance to move on from his lust. Of course, Frollo doesn’t notice the signs and doubles down

[@AseelXD]

Frollo is such a realistic villain I can’t get over how realistic he is

[@Sam-0827]

I pray that there is no live action, it's too beautiful for a bad live action

[@emilycurtis4398]

Watch the French musical Notre Dame de Paris, or if the Disney version of the musical comes to the US, watch that one.

[@bapsbaby6441]

I use to be so mad growing up when Esmeralda didn’t end up with Quasimodo

[@stella7530]

i vaguely remembered the movie because i was quite young, i mostly remembered it being very scary and dark.

[@godschildjcreigns2976]

Sameeeee💯💯

[@FeatheredWingz]

If Phoebus' voice actor (Kevin Kline) sounded familiar to you, he also voiced Tulio in The Road to El Dorado. That would be the most likely place people in our generation would know him, other than as Phoebus. More recently, he played Belle's father, Maurice, in the live action Beauty and the Beast. He's been acting since the late '70's tho.

[@heatherstickland5284]

It's really cute that you make that comparison between Rapunzel and Quasimodo because the fandoms likes to make them basically step siblings or really good friends that are basically siblings because they have shared interest and really overbearing awful guardians that they always are trying to cheer each other up

[@I_Luv_DILFS]

The fact that Esmeralda was 16 in the book makes concerned

[@morganqorishchi8181]

I mean, I get what you're saying, but the author was trying to call out predators in the church by putting that in his book and I think that's kind of cool. He was anti-predator in the 1400's, that's kind of awesome considering how sexist everyone was back then.

[@kaylemkerr6989]

@@morganqorishchi8181 Wasn’t Hugo interestingly a sex addict though? I think I can recall hearing/reading that somewhere.

[@TheSamuelbest12]

16 back then was like 25 for us, people back then died with 35

[@I_Luv_DILFS]

@@TheSamuelbest12 True but STILL

[@gavrildangelo2306]

Honestly this movie and Princess and the Frog have the best opening scenes in my opinion

[@kay-ci9li]

Agreed!

[@Bee17379]

Tangled too!

[@jazzyj3059]

Man, Frollo thought he was doing God’s work, but he was actually working for the other guy 😑

[@Sonicsgirl13]

He was driven by what he thought were God's wishes but was really his own selfish needs and own fears. His own sins. Thus, damning him to Hell for all eternity.

[@jazzyj3059]

@@Sonicsgirl13 😔 exactly

[@fireflymiesumae]

@@Sonicsgirl13 facts

[@cambenji]

tbh one of my favorite lines ever is in Out There when he says “heedless of the gift it is to be them” calling out normalcy in our society and basically saying that all people who fit into the typical societal mold really don’t realize how lucky they are

[@sassyseraphify]

There is a very real, thematic reason why Quasi didn't drop Frollo when he had the chance (or otherwise hurt him throughout the film). The lesson of the story is "who is the monster and who is the man." Frollo's line before dying makes it clear as well. "he shall smite the wicked and plunge them into the fiery pits" right before the demon-faced architectural piece springs to life to do just that. Frollo is "the wicked" and to offset that, Quasi had to be pure of heart/sin. Letting Frollo fall would be tantamount to killing and so Quasi wouldn't have the same contrast in the end and thus it would further muddy the point that Frollo was the monster.

[@lilenwasnothere6867]

spoilers for the musical: in the musical, quasimodo kills frollo himself by throwing down the cathedral after esmeralda dies. that version of frollo is simultaneously more sympathetic and somehow worse than the animated version, as he is even more human.

[@the_iris_of_my_eye3271]

He's also played by Patrick Page who can make anyone sympathetic

[@lizaharris5930]

I have a feeling this movie is why they had to “sugarcoat” things for a while. Frozen 2 and rays is showing them goi back to covering topics that are heavy or “dark” for kids. I imagine parents whined it was too dark for kids. To answer your questions: Gypsies are travelers but I forget where they originally came from. I think out there means living among the people like a normal dude.

[@charliearcher5029]

Gypsies originate from Romania, they are Romani people (at least thats where they are from in the film)

[@randomblasian5943]

@@charliearcher5029 actually that’s a misconception. They originated from India which is why they have darker skin and different ways of dress. They were called gypsies because it was believed they originated from Egypt. The name Romani (or Roma) is the name that was adopted for them because there is a large portion of their community that currently live and have lived in Romania for centuries. The term Romani or Roma is used for them more often now because the term gypsy is not only incorrect since they didn’t come from Egypt but it also has a negative connotation to it due to the hundred of years of it being used to degrade them

[@sgauden02]

FROLLO: "And he shall smite the wicked, and plunge them into the fiery pit!" GOD: "Your wish is my command!"

[@randomguy56789]

I’m really happy that more people are watching this underrated gem and that it’s finally getting the recognition it deserves

[@doryanburlison6998]

There was a lot of speculation whether the gargoyles were actually sentient beings or if they only existed in side of Quasi Modo’s head. The movie claims they were only in his head but there’s a lot of scenes in the movie that make me think they were alive.

[@bookishbutterfly]

DANG! What are the odds of me listening to the soundtrack of this and you posting about it? "God help the outcast" and "out there" are my favorite songs from this ✨

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Same lol

[@leilahussain9171]

Literally my favorite Disney movie. I could watch it everyday and not get bored. It’s just so *chef’s kiss*. But I also can’t believe my parents let me watch it as a kid.

[@entertainmentlife430]

I just found out that in the book esmerelda was 16 but in the movie she is 28 so frollo being into her isn't quite as creepy. Still creepy though.

[@QuasarYGO]

I liked in the end we notice that Frollo is what makes a monster and Quasimodo is what makes a man.

[@raepark1000]

Classic Disney just hits different

[@hayleyhjw]

“Work wid it” KILLED ME 😭😭😂

[@odaliasucks7407]

I rewatched this with my brother recently and... Oh My Gosh how is this rated G?

[@silverstarfinder]

That spot where Frodo and Phoebus were captured by the Romani, that was the catacombs of Paris. They set the Court of Miracles up there because the catacombs are a well-known maze where people have simply disappeared because they’re so complex. So the soldiers/Frollo needed to be led there or they would never have found the Court. Edit: just to clarify, the catacombs are where they put all the dead bodies of people who died during plagues and other things during the long history of the city. Mostly plagues.

[@Rockneda]

Hellfire song is expressing his feelings of boiling blood of sin temptation for Esmeralda. So he desires her but hates her for being the wrong women commoner /poor and not the proper woman he wish she was. As he desires her, he blames her for spelling him with “dark magic” for feeling that way.

[@ToruKun1]

"What you want her to do, marry you? You're sick!" It's worse in the book, "Choose me or the fire" is just the G-rated Disney version of when Esmeralda's about to be hanged and Frollo tells her "My bed or the gallows" (he tried r*ping her when she was stuck living in the cathedral too, she had to blow a special whistle to get Quasimodo to rescue her (in the book he's deaf)).

[@potatololita2072]

I missed the notification and the way I literally freaked out trying to pull down my screen so I could click

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Lol

[@broadwaybrook2319]

Quasimodo's singing voice during "Out There" is so amazing! Stephen Schwartz really kills it with his "I Want" songs ("Out There," "The Wizard and I")

[@everestcanyon5647]

Actually, Tangled was based upon an old German Fairy Tale, Hunchback of Notre Dame was a French book from like the 1700s I think. It might be more likely Repunzel inspired Hunchback of Notre Dame if you go back to the roots of the stories, but I'm not sure. It could also just be a classic story trope.

[@JonasRoxoxox]

In the book she’s 16 and he’s 56 In the movie she’s 20 and they say he’s in his 30s but looks like the 56 that’s in the book

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

No, in the book he is 30-35 but he looks way older.

[@mahadsudi6863]

@@ladyofnoxus6733 frollo is 36 in the beginning of the movie

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

@@mahadsudi6863 ok I was correcting her on the book. Not the movie.

[@mahadsudi6863]

@@ladyofnoxus6733 ok then

[@ladyofnoxus6733]

@SimStudios Yeah I don't know where she got that he is in his 30s in the Disney film. Lol 😂 The book He just appears older because he is balding, and is stressed due to being an archdeacon and an adoptive father to quasi who is deaf, and half blind and is I believe (don't quote me) is mentally disabled.

[@bellapryn22]

As a child of the 90s this was one of my favorite movies. It "underperformed" because Disney marketed it as a lighthearted, comedic, family, movie and people were not ready. Favorite line..'I had a little trouble with the fireplace'.

[@liliks14]

"does he like her ? " oh you're too pure to hear what i'm about to say . Frollo is an old creep secretely lusting after Esmeralda .Think Harvey Weinstein but in a church . I first saw this as a child , i'm still scarred today as an adult because of that villain song :D but i agree it's a great song

[@mynameisjd9086]

In the OG storyline, Frollo was his uncle, and Quasimodo’s father died of disease after being separated from Frollo for years

[@theroyaljules39]

Yeah it’s like that in the musical too. Personally I think the musical is the best version of the story because it incorporates the best parts of the movie and the book.

[@alyssakays367]

Frollo is actually a judge, not part of the church. I agree, “God Help The Outcasts” is so underrated.

[@morganqorishchi8181]

Judges had to get certified through the church in France pre-French Revolution. He may not be in the church, but somebody in the church looked at him and went, "Yeah, we should give this guy the right to run a city."

[@alyssakays367]

@@morganqorishchi8181 he may not have been creepy when he was certified. 🤷‍♀️

[@xanny1729]

i didn’t even read the title i just saw your channel name and clicked😭

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Period 💎... lol

[@hunacean]

Gipsies, or more elegantly and less rudely Romani, are a nomadic ethnic group from India that settled down in Europe in the middle ages. While usually associated with fortune-telling, dancing, and music most of them made a living as tinmen and other artisan's producing cheap everyday goods. This did not sit well with the proud guild artisans of Europe and since they weren't even part of the Judeo-Christian culture they were looked down on. Later the development of manufacturing and even later the industrial revolution ran them out of business forcing them to the edge of society. They are still around in Europe in a considerable population, but unfortunately, they have still not recovered, and live with a few exceptions mostly below the poverty line. Also unfortunately harsh racism is still very common against them.

[@maem7462]

God Help The Outcast is an absolute amazing song and the singers voice is gorgeous. It gives me chills every time I listen to it. Also the animation in that sign is astonishing it’s so good

[@heartcherriz]

The festival of fools...It’s like he won and he lost at the same time? Got called ugly but is also praised 💀 But I definitely love this movie, all the characters were amazing and are more memorable than some Disney movies from today.

[@afrolynx9827]

Before we had Elsa's belting vocals, we had Quasi's. Out there STILL gives me chills. Tom Hulce was just a great singer.

[@richardlevy1459]

I adored this film There are some very crazy dark Disney films predating this like “The Dark Cauldron” This film had depth I loved the juxtaposition of the songs: FROLLO: Stay in here QUASIMODO: Out there QUASIMODO: heavens light FROLLO: hellfire

[@littlesparrow303]

Yes your doing my favorite dark Disney movie!! This deserves more love & it’s so amazing. I have a Esmerelda Funko pop

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Yea I’ll say its underrated given that I never seen and I love Disney movies lol

[@kitkrat9332]

I like how they actually make Quasi’s (hope I spelled that) face looks messed up instead of giving some glasses and calling him ugly. I love Quasi

[@chhmookie1555]

I was just thinking about this movie 😭😭

[@LakiaJaiTV]

Really lol

[@KPAproductionStudios1970]

Moral of the story. Never judge someone with a physical deformity, or a physical or mental disability PERIOD!

[@fashioni.star.]

You should watch Cartoon Saloon’s film Wolfwalkers, it’s gorgeously animated and the villain is in a similar vein as Frollo

[@evangeliaiviioannou8405]

I love how at the start, the words 'the man and the monster' implied Quasimodo as the monster due to his appearance, but in the end the monster has been Frollo all along.

[@nehankhan1584]

Frollo was very much in lust with esmeralda. He prob would’ve kept her in prison and had his way with her 🤢

[@michellea273]

Hellfire is definitely in the top 3 songs from Disney . The orchestra is just SO AMAZING.

[@jericaaynegilbuena1721]

When the "we're surring, flying" soundtrack comes on hahaha lmao

[@ellaphx]

I love when people sing along to this stuff because they know they have a good voice and they’re vibing it.