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Watching Hunchback of Notre Dame tonight b/c despite being problematic, I’m here for disability rep & making the villain a literal incel religious hypocrite.
Hunchback of Notre Dame will *always* be my favorite Disney movie. I could write a PHD thesis on how wonderful this movie is. I’ve cosplayed Esmeralda 4 different ways across 25 years. I listen to the music weekly. This. Is. My. Jam
Look I know this movie so well that I corrected a Disney cast member about a song lyric and WON ask @Li0ness_tweets @GamingLawyerJ
Hunchback of Notre Dame by Disney starts w/ a white man of the law murdering a Romani woman on the steps of a sanctuary for the crime of being an illegal refugee *then* he tries to murder her child for being disabled. It STARTS that way. That’s batshit.
Hunchback of Notre Dame starts w/ a riddle about monsters & men then ends by telling children that disabled people are humans to respect & ableists are monsters to shun.
Look I’m trying to stfu but I love this movie too much
Hunchback movies usually portray the hunchback as mindless, little more than animals. This Disney film went out of the way to demonstrate how Quasimodo is a self-taught exceptional artist.
Every other Disney protagonist: I want fame, fortune, happiness!
Quasimodo: I literally just want a single day where ableists let me go outside. That’s it. That is unreachable to me. Yeah, we’re going there.
Quasimodo: I literally just want a single day where ableists let me go outside. That’s it. That is unreachable to me. Yeah, we’re going there.
How is this a Disney “I-want” song:
Out there among the millers and the weavers and & wives
Through the roofs & gables I can see them
Every day they shout & scold & go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I were in their skin, I& #39;d treasure every instant
Out there among the millers and the weavers and & wives
Through the roofs & gables I can see them
Every day they shout & scold & go about their lives
Heedless of the gift it is to be them
If I were in their skin, I& #39;d treasure every instant
THE FUCKING WINDOWS OF NOTRE DAME GLOW AS THE SUN MOVES OK. Mid 90s. Somehow.
Oh hi Hunchback of Notre Dame by Disney has a WoC sex worker as it’s lead lady & she is never shown to be ashamed or reformed
Sorry. I’m high.
Good time to remind folx there’s a stage musical of Hunchback of Notre Dame by Disney & I have a link to the full original cast
Pole dancing. In a Disney film.
Oh hey here’s the WoC demanding justice from a white bigot of the law. Like, not subtext, it’s explicit.
Let’s have an entire song where a WoC prays to God in a white person’s church & begs he save her people b/c the white parishioners clearly won’t
This is a Disney movie
This is a mid-90s Disney movie
Just b/c someone will eventually mention it, yes the gargoyles suck, yes there are some fat jokes, yes a white woman is the voice of the WoC. Best to acknowledge the bad upfront.
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THIS IS A RELIGIOUS DISNEY VILLAIN
Disney holy shit
In this Disney film, this is the terrorism that happens to a city when an incel is in law enforcement
Oh hey here’s Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame w/ an inter-ethnic romance between a WoC & white dude. In 1996.
Another thing great about Quasimodo: he’s not the perfect cripple stereotype. He has good things but he also has faults. He’s heroic yet petulant over a broken heart. He’s so, so human.
Love how Someday, which is a cut song but still in the credits, is woven through any Esmeralda moment like a leitmotif
The Disney Hunchback musical also had 4 leitmotifs for the 4 lead characters & anyway y’all really should listen/watch that
Just remarkable that there’s no perfect marginalized vs privileged mob here: every group in the film has good & bad elements.
The “Sanctuary” sequence may be in the top 5 Disney animated sequences *ever*. What a stunning use of computer animation. Absolutely radical, cinematic scene.
So in Disney Hunchback the background music for the “Sanctuary” sequence is Dias Irae, Day of Wrath. You think it’s a commentary on the judgement of Esmeralda by the law. But it’s the judgement of Frollo by Notre Dame.
This. Sequence.
The white vet suffering of PTSD just stirred a mob into fighting the fucking police in defense of PoC. Some peak white ally heroics here & I am HERE FOR IT.
The literal church of Notre Dame & the Catholic saints are currently murdering the fucking police in defense of a WoC b/c soldiers can’t be trusted to be just. Just. HOW.
So happy Esmeralda survives but honestly it works better in the musical when she doesn’t make it & Quasimodo has to learn to stand on his own.
Says the disabled Romani character to the white incel
The adoptive father of a disabled child straight up tries to murder him saying he wish he did it sooner so GOD HERSELF STRIKES THE FUCKER DOWN
Throuple!
And our film ends w/ an inter-ethnic couple, disability rep, religious hypocracy rejected, & justice restored for PoC & refugees. Holy hell.
We do not deserve Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame. What an eternal gift.
