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Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney)
Jan. 8th, 2012 03:20 pmI finally made time to watch this. Unlike Fox and the Hound, Pocahontas, and other Disney movies I've been rewatching, I think I liked it less on this viewing than I did when I originally saw it.
Minor complaints:
- I dislike anthropomorphized animals in "realistic" animated movies. Horses rolling their eyes at a joke told by their rider, a horse that looks evil when its rider does something nasty, a goat that understands political situations and knows just which man in the crowd to butt. My patience for this has grown less over time, so it probably didn't bother me as much the first time I saw this movie.
- This was a slightly bigger point. In the movie, the gypsies were brown skinned. Quasimodo's mother (and assumedly his father) were gypsies. Why in the world was he pale white?
- Things were way more heavy-handed than I recalled. Yeah, I know, kids movie and all, but still.
- I didn't like the ending. After the whole city turned on Quasimodo because he was ugly, suddenly they just accepted him in the end.
The music/songs were outstanding. A lot of the scenes were good fun.
I really liked the Clopin character a lot. The coloring, the shape of his face, the design, he's really interesting to look at, somehow the shape is really satisfying. (Link goes to fanart, but none of the screenshots I could find were crisp and sharp.)
I think at least part of why I like it less now is because I can see the truth in the fiction: The harm that religion can do. In big ways (the church going after the gypsies) and in smaller more personal ways (the very human nature "lust" being considered a sin, thus Frollo's issues).
Unfortunately this was another example of a movie where I very much noticed how slowly time seemed to be passing. It was only an hour and a half long, but it felt like it took five or six hours to watch the whole thing. This is strange as I mostly enjoyed it. It never hooked me, I never lost myself in it, but I wouldn't call it a bad movie.
Minor complaints:
- I dislike anthropomorphized animals in "realistic" animated movies. Horses rolling their eyes at a joke told by their rider, a horse that looks evil when its rider does something nasty, a goat that understands political situations and knows just which man in the crowd to butt. My patience for this has grown less over time, so it probably didn't bother me as much the first time I saw this movie.
- This was a slightly bigger point. In the movie, the gypsies were brown skinned. Quasimodo's mother (and assumedly his father) were gypsies. Why in the world was he pale white?
- Things were way more heavy-handed than I recalled. Yeah, I know, kids movie and all, but still.
- I didn't like the ending. After the whole city turned on Quasimodo because he was ugly, suddenly they just accepted him in the end.
The music/songs were outstanding. A lot of the scenes were good fun.
I really liked the Clopin character a lot. The coloring, the shape of his face, the design, he's really interesting to look at, somehow the shape is really satisfying. (Link goes to fanart, but none of the screenshots I could find were crisp and sharp.)
I think at least part of why I like it less now is because I can see the truth in the fiction: The harm that religion can do. In big ways (the church going after the gypsies) and in smaller more personal ways (the very human nature "lust" being considered a sin, thus Frollo's issues).
Unfortunately this was another example of a movie where I very much noticed how slowly time seemed to be passing. It was only an hour and a half long, but it felt like it took five or six hours to watch the whole thing. This is strange as I mostly enjoyed it. It never hooked me, I never lost myself in it, but I wouldn't call it a bad movie.
