DISNEY’S THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

DISNEY’S THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME WAS RELEASED ON JUNE 21ST 1996

DISNEY’S 1996 THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME IS A 1996 DISNEY AMERICAN ANIMATED MUSICAL COMEDY DRAMA FILM PRODUCED BY WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION AND RELEASED TO THEATERS ON JUNE 21ST. THE 34TH ANIMATED FEATURE FILM IN THE DISNEY ANIMATED CANON, THE FILM IS LOOSELY BASED ON THE BOOK OF THE SAME NAME BY VICTOR HUGO BUT CHANGED IT’S SUBSTANCE  to make it more family-friendly. The plot centers on Esmeralda the Gypsy dancer, VOICED BY DEMI MOORE  Claude Frollo, TONY JAY a powerful and ruthless Minister of JUSTICE VOICED BY TONY JAY  protagonist, Notre Dame‘s kindhearted and deformed bell-ringer TOM HULCE , who adores her (and struggles to gain acceptance into society as well as

from Frollo who plans to kill them all), and Phoebus, KEVIN KLINE the chivalrous but irreverent military captain, who holds affections for her.

The film was directed by Kirk Wise and Gary DIRCETERS OF BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and produced by Don Hahn, producer of BEAUTY AND THE BEAST and The Lion King. The animation screenplay was written by Irene Mecchi and Jonathan Roberts, who had previously worked on THE LION KING and Tab Murphy, Bob Tzudiker, and Noni White, who would go on to

write the screenplay for Tarzan 1999 For The songs for the musical film were composed by Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz and the film featured the voices of Tom Hulce, Demi Moore, Kevin Kline Paul Kandel, Jason Alexander, Charles Kimbrough, David Ogden Stiers, Tony Jay, and Mary WICKS IN HER FINAL FILM ROLE It belongs to the era known as the Disney Renaissance.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame premiered on June 19, 1996 at the New Orleans Superdome and was released worldwide on June 21, 1996. It received positive reviews from critics and was a box office success, earning over $325 million worldwide.

A direct-to-video sequel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame II, was released in 2002. A darker, Gothic stage adaption of the film was re-written and directed by James Lapine and produced by Walt Disney Theatrical in Berlin, Germany as Der Glöckner von Notre Dame that ran from 1999 to 2002.

The story begins one night in Paris, France where a group of Gypsies are sneaking into Paris, but are captured by Judge Claude Frollo, but one escapes with her baby son, which Frollo thinks are stolen goods. The chase ends at the Notre Dame Cathedral, where Frollo breaks the woman’s neck, and sees her baby, who has a deformed look. He goes to a nearby well to kill him, but is stopped by the Archdeacon. Who tells him he must raise the child as his own to make up for killing the baby’s mother. Frollo reluctantly accepts, but he doesn’t want him to be in his home, so he keeps him at the Cathedral’s rooftop, and made him the bell ringer. Frollo named the child Quasimodo as a way to insult his “half formed” appearance.

20 years later, Quasimodo is lonely due to the only human he’s ever interacted with being his “master” Frollo. Quasimodo talks with the Gargoyles, who tell him to go to the annual “Festival of Fools.” Quasimodo accepts, but is stopped by Frollo. Frollo tells him that the world is very cruel, and won’t understand his monster appearance. However, Quasimodo plans to go anyway in disguise so Frollo (who attends the Festival annually) won’t recognize him.

Captain Phoebus returns to the City, and speaks with Frollo about the Gypsy problem, and that Frollo has been killing them, but there’s more and more, and wants to find their home base to end the problem for good. Both Frollo and Phoebus go to the festival.

At the festival, Quasimodo meets Esmeralda, who thinks his ugly look is a mask. Esmeralda later dances to the initial disgust of Frollo, but later develops feelings for her when she dances right in his face. She brings Quasimodo on stage so he can potentially be crowned “The King of Fools.” He gets it, and everyone loves him for it. However, one of the guards throws a tomato at him, so everyone ties him down, and throws food at him. Quasimodo cries to Frollo to help him, but Frollo tells Phoebus to let it continue so Quasimodo can learn a lesson. Esmeralda puts an end to it, to the anger of Frollo, and she gets caught at the Church after meeting Phoebus, who claims she called for Sanctuary meaning the law can’t arrest her. Frollo is angered, but the Archdeacon tells him to leave.

She meets Quasimodo properly, and the two bond, and Quasimodo helps her escape. Once Frollo hears of her escape, he goes crazy and burns Paris looking for her. Frollo then learns that Quasimodo helped her escape, and tells him that he found the Gypsy hideout, and plans to kill them all. Quasimodo and Phoebus plan to get there before Frollo, and warn them all. They find it, but they unintentionally led Frollo there. Esmeralda is about to be executed, but Quasimodo breaks free of his chains, and saves her. A big battle erupts, and it ends with Frollo breaking into the Cathedral to the protest of the Archdeacon who Frollo doesn’t care for anymore. Frollo tries to kill both Quasimodo and Esmeralda, and Frollo admits to Quasimodo that he killed his mother, and he says he’ll do what he should have done 20 years ago. However, he falls with Quasimodo saving him, but Frollo swings to another Gargoyle pillar to kill the two, but he falls to his death.

It’s all over, and the people love Quasimodo, and Esmeralda marries Phoebus.

I LOVE THIS 1996 DISNEY ANIMATED SO SO SO SO SO SO SUPER MUCH. FROLLO AND HIS SOLDERS ARE THE BAD GUYS EVERYONE ELSE ARE THE GOOD GUYS I REALLY REALLY SUPER SUPER LOVE ALL THE SONGS ANIMATION AND THE GOOD GUYS I VERY VERY VERY MUCH HIGLY RECCOMED THIS DISNEY 1996 MOVIE I GIVE THIS 1996 DISNEY ANIMATED MOVIE 50.000000000000000 HEARTS STAR FLOWERS AND DISNEYLAND CASTLE LANDS AND EVERYTHING DISNEYLAND.