Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Because, you know, they don't ring all by themselves.Ĭlopin: No, silly boy. Listen, they're beautiful, no? So many colors of sounds, so many changing moods. A long zoom in through the city until we reach the Clopin singing to a group of children watching his puppet show.)Ĭlopin: MORNING IN PARIS, THE CITY AWAKESĪND SOME SAY THE SOUL OF THE CITY'S THE TOLL OF THE BELLS (As the Walt Disney Pictures logo fades off the screen, the chorus heard in the background mixes with the bells of Notre Dame cathedral ringing. Hoc sæculum splendium (This bright millennium)Īccelere fiat venire olim (Let it come someday) But anyone over 13 who's willing to think as well as be entertained when watching a Disney movie would probably love Hunchback.Chorus: Olim, olim, Deus accelere (Someday, someday, God speed)
As some others have written on here, it's pretty obvious this movie isn't for kiddies from its subject matter. I think the only problem with Hunchback is the fact that Disney refused to accept that this is a serious, relatively adult motion picture and would not make any animated movie, no matter how serious, without obnoxiously cute little critters (i.e., the gargoyles) bouncing around to entertain the kiddies, or huge marketing campaigns at McDonald's, etc. This is not a movie for children in any way, shape or form. That scene where Quasimodo holds Esmerelda up in front of the rose window and yells, "Sanctuary!" still gives me chills. The music was also fantastic, by the way, as was the cinematography (although those crowd scenes begin to look really fake after a while). During the entire movie, I was amazed and spellbound. When Disney released this movie, which dealt with extremely heavy subject matter in an extremely tasteful manner, I jumped for joy. I am 17 years old I grew up watching The Little Mermaid and Aladdin.
later, we both ran frantically to go buy the CD and read the book (which, actually, was rather different than the movie, but hey.).
Going into the theater to see this movie, my friend and I (who are "cynical" teenage movie critics) honestly expected to be disappointed, especially after the relatively blah Pocahontas.
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