Anyone read the book?

Okay thank you.

And much better.
The Disney film is a hideous travesty.

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I'm not gonna spoil anything, but you'd be surprised how dark it is. It goes much deeper into Frollo's mindset, and the ending, ooh boy.

The film is a travesty that distorts and changes the characters. Quasimodo is only a supporting character: Shoberl changed the title of the book (it's Notre Dame de Paris) in his early (unauthorised) English translation and gives a misleading impression of his importance. It was inspired partly by Scott's Quentin Durward and partly by Lewis's The Monk, but is far more complex psychologically – more like Dostoevskii at times, especially re: its tragic hero/anti-hero. Monsieur the Archdeacon of Josas still breaks my heart every time.

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At the end of the book, Esmerelda dies and her body is thrown in a massive grave. Quasi then kills Frollo in retaliation before going into the grave with Esmerelda's body and embracing her corpse. Then then starves to death there, never leaving her side. Years later, when the tomb in open, people try to separate the two skeletons, and they crumble together into dust. So, yeah, it's pretty dark and twisted.

Personally, that is why I never really rated the Disney version particularly high on my animated films list Disney or otherwise. While the Disney version is enjoyable and has a dark and sinister vibe despite the fact that they sanitized the story for children, I always liked the Charles Laughton version better than the Disney version but of course the Laughton film is often seen as the best screen version of the novel even though it also took some liberties and even had an influence on the Disney version in some ways such as the character designs, especially Frollo and maybe it was just me, but Esmeralda's design in the Charles Laughton version was an influence on the Disney version. Of course, I need to get a chance to watch the Lon Chaney version and speaking of the Lon Chaney version, I read that in both it and a ballet version Phoebus is good like in the Disney version and I think both of those versions influenced Disney in that sense. Though Gringoire is present in the Chaney version, I think the ballet also merged Phoebus with Gringoire like the Disney version did. All the same, I would welcome a version of Hunchback that stays completely true to the novel with no liberties. Phoebus surviving and ending up in an unhappy marriage would be fine, but if we got a modern day version where Frollo succeeds in killing him as well as Esmeralda getting executed and Quasimodo starving himself to death by Esmeralda's corpse after he kills Frollo would be fine. If in this hypothetical version, the only person who survives is Gringoire, that would make perfect sense. Honestly, while in the book Phoebus gets what he deserves by having to deal with an unhappy marriage, if Frollo successfully killed him in the book, I would've kind of liked that better too. Another detail I almost forgot was that I believe Frollo was a judge in the Laughton version and if we get a version where Frollo is a priest and they keep his lust towards Esmeralda intact, that would be fine with me. I hear some fans of the source material say the Anthony Quinn version of Hunchback the most faithful to the novel more so than any other version including the Laughton version, I have never seen it but I do recall reading that both Quasimodo and Esmeralda die in that version but since it's seemingly out of print, there is almost no way I can check it out.

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