Louise Fowler

@catwing Haha.  As someone who allows mainly the parents to die, but saves the children alive, wouldn’t that make you similar to Disney? 😛

@seekjustice Don’t they put on what’s supposed to be an operatic production? The costumes certainly nod to opera costumery.

Not killing parents does not make the deaths less, it only makes them different. 😉

@catwing Goodnight!

@rochellaine I’m very proud of myself, I’ve only ever killed two parent characters!

@rochellaine

Maybe I would, I don’t know 😀

I’m listening to the Phantom of the Opera currently. 😛 But I do have to point out that he’s the phantom of the opera house, which doesn’t necessarily mean that it has to be an opera, just that its set in an opera house.

@catwing Concealed Carry.  😉

@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]

@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]

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

@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]

@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!

@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?

@rochellaine

I’ve arrived!