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@seekjustice No, I definitely wouldn’t want to read it.  I have no idea what the original characters were like.  I just know Phoebus was really nice in the ’23 version, and that in both versions Esmerelda was an adult.

Maybe you would enjoy the “cleaned up and adjusted” versions better. 😛

Well, I don’t like the Phantom anyway, so no argument t…[Read more]

@rochellaine CC permit?

@catwing Poor Gary!

@rochellaine Phoebus is also the epitome of abusive man 🙁 Victor Hugo was just really into murder (he’d be even more frightening to meet than me!) Anyway, that’s my rant for the day on why I didn’t like the book. I also just don’t really like the gothic horror genre. I didn’t like The Phantom of the Opera much either when I read that.

@catwing Poor Gary! 🙁

Lesson to all book characters: Never try to learn more than is good for you, and if you do, and someone threatens to eliminate you, go to the police, then get your CC permit. 😛

@seekjustice I can’t write a long discussion post right now, but I just went back and read the synopses of the two versions I saw and apparently they were modified a bit so not everyone dies, 😛

The 1923 version, (a really big film in it’s time) changed the story drastically, allowing Phoebus to survive with Esmerelda. 😀

The classic Charles…[Read more]

@rochellaine I messed up your tag…

@seekjustice Indeed.
He found out to much and his conscience was weighing on him. Someone decided to eliminate him.

@catwing Redeeming characters is the best, isn’t it? I love doing it! (What happened to Gary!!!???)

@rocellaine oh, well. Itchy fingers. *shrug*
Too bad.

@seekjustice Whoa… and I’m just here quietly torturing my characters and half hoping I can redeem all my villainous characters (except for the one who represents Satan. Duh.), while knowing I will probably have to let someone go and not be redeemed. *sobs* But somehow it will be good… I…[Read more]

@valtmy

See above answer to @Rochellaine 😀 Part of the other reason that I found it really difficult was that Claude Frollo, who is the archdeacon of Notre Dame and the main character of the book, lusts after Esemerelda, who is only fifteen/sixteen years old. He even comes extremely close to raping her. When she consistently refuses his…[Read more]

@rochellaine

Well, in the book, everyone, everyone dies, with the exception of the small goat and the useless poet. Quasimodo drops a beam on Jehan Frollo’s head, pushes Claude Frollo off the roof, pours molten lead on everyone else. Esmerelda gets hanged and finally Quasimodo starves himself to death. That’s only the ending, the rest of it is w…[Read more]

@catwing It great 😀

@catwing Problem is, I’m not at all interested in that stuff. 😛

@catwing I’m sorry!  I meant to say something like “that’s great!” in the last post, but I’m having trouble typing and I guess I got mixed up.

@valtmy Thanks!  What are you working on?

@seekjustice Hm, well, I wonder if the adaptions I saw changed anything?  Because I got the impression the story was sad, but I was happy by the end.  At lea…[Read more]

@seekjustice Yep! (I have see or read neither)
@Rochellaine Cool, my mom is kind of interested in that stuff. I find hearing about it interesting. 😉
Praying you feel better too!
@valtmy Heyo!

@rochellaine

The Disney movie and the Broadway musical (the adultified version of the Disney musical). I’m not brave enough to see any of the other ones. I’ll be honest that the book horrified me.

@valtmy Hello!

@seekjustice Haha! Oh, what fun! 😀

Do you mean the French musical?

And, which movie did you see?  Because there have probably been fifteen adaptions or so.  I’ve seen two that I recall, one a silent film. 😉

@catwing Hello!  I’m attempting a little bit of research about New Testament geography and customs.

@catwing

Awesome! You’re making great progress so far!

@seekjustice @rochellaine ‘Ello! I am editing comments! Maybe only a few days until I shall get to start rewriting! Yay! Then it will be better and I can write the sequel!

@rochellaine

No, actually. I’m reading an article with dubious morality and lack of Biblical basis and making mental responses to it.

Well, I’ve read the Hunchback and seen the movie and listened to the Broadway musical (which is hugely interesting, because it has a deaf actor in it. So I find it fascinating), but I don’t particularly like it.…[Read more]

@seekjustice Hi!

Still Marie Antoinette?

I was watching an interview-ish thing with Charles Laughton today and began to wonder what a retelling of the Hunchback of Notre Dame would look like. 😉

How do you like The Hunchback?