It combines the happy ending with the tragedy end. We are happy for Esmeralda and Phoebus who are no doubt going to live happily ever after, but we are also brought to sorrow over the death of Quasimodo. The hunchback died as he lived, ringing the bells... He rang to the future happiness of the young couple and to mourn his own demise. Rest in Peace.
share...and ends on a far more upbeat note than the novel, in which Esmeralda is hung, and Quasimodo entombs himself with her.
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I disagree . . . reading Hugo's ending is such a powerful experience. you don't feel all nice & warm inside but you really get a sense of the direness of the era & the personal situation of the characters. As great as some of the movie versions are none of them have haunted me like the book has.
sharethe ending moved me to tears but it was still an awesome film
sharei didn't realise what heartbreaking vibe this movie would give off watching it now after the destruction (i mean i realise there are sets mixed with stock footage but the experience of the movie as a whole), i just thought it was a time to check it out and didn't expect this feeling from watching an old movie, i had never seen this version before, though i've seen fairly rare versions made decades later, but recently i saw lon chaney, sr. (i understand this was his breakthrough role) play in a somewhat similar movie "phantom of the opera" (also silent), i love the spiritual dialogue, usually when i watch silent movies i try to find a radio dramatization to listen to at the same time, but it's extraordinary how a silent movie with a few boxes (of words and animation) popping up on the screen now and then has a richer more powerful dialogue by a mile comparing to movies made decades later not to mention movies made today when you hardly can interpret the words the actors are mumbling around the shaky camera and special effects, this 1920's piece is so superior, how about that. it seems like lon chaney's hunchback was the one they used in a bit in the naked gun movies. it runs rather long for a movie of this time, and it's a bit weird this horror flick (featured in the 50 movies horror classics dvd box) still with a tranquillity about it has a children's movie version (i'm guessing that has been changed to have another, spoiler follows, ending than this perhaps along esmeralda's act of benevolence), it's also unusual for a flick like this to take place in broad daylight.
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