CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND A LIVE-ACTION HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME MOVIE WITH A GOOD ENDING WHERE NO-ONE DIES AT THE ENDING EXCEPT FOR THE VILLIAN?!?! PLEASE?!?!?
Poor Quasimodo! He is pretty much the only character who hasn't really done anything wrong- 'apart from kill the man who saved him' and he is treated so badly throughout this book-I really do feel sorry for him!
The only NDdP adaptation I've seen (apart from the musical), that remains completely faithful to the novel with the ending. In fact, this is probably the closest adaptation to the book I've seen. If only Quasi was uglier, it would be perfect....but even without being ugly, he still managed to capture the character remarkably well. I was so sad watching him lie next to her-like he thought he didn't deserve to touch her even in death. =( Still one of my favorite stories of all time.
so when she took the dead flowers she knew that represented phobus?? i always thought she picked the dead flowers to show quasimodo that she didnt care about his looks anymore.
She was so naive in the book it was scary.
It was really obvious that phobus didnt care for her and only wanted sex even to esmeralda it was obvoius to her but maybe she knew that and wanted him to love her but didnt work
It was the vases that represented Pheobus and Quasimodo respectively. Quasimodo's vase was simple, but sturdy, so the flowers were alive. Phoebus' one was beautiful, but had a crack in it. The flowers in his vase, dead ones, were the ones Esmeralda chose.
It's probably the best example of her shallowness and naivete. Despite his 'heart' having no worth, Esmeralda chose him on purely a superficial basis.
"When an attempt was made to seperate them, they crumbled into dust" wow that is the most beautiful thing I ever heard:), but did he just stay right there by her dead body for ever (all those years)just lying by her side? That is so kind of him :)
@GodessGrl94 The same thing happens in the book, I think Hugo had made that the ending because he wanted to show us that Quasimodo was the one and only person who truly loved Esmeralda and wished to be with her always, even in death.
yes the movie actually I don't think it's a translation it's more syncanised where they use say English actors to dub over the French Dialouge into English (and so on with the other tounges)
well I think that's right I just prasume it is because I remember reading on a site that this film was made in France (even though the actor of Quasimodo - Anthony Quin) was American I think but I'm still pretty sure it's orginal thing was French....Your welcome anyway
I completely agree with you. That very last sentence of the movie; "When an attempt was made to seperate them, they crumbled into dust..." So beautiful...
ho letto il libro,ho visto il mussical e ora vedo anche il film in inglese....aspetto di vederlo in italiano per capirne di più...cmq davvero un opera fantastica......
Does anybody know where I can get this on DVD Region 2? I saw this film when I was 6 and have been wanting to watch it again ever since. I remembered bits of it but it was the ending and Anthony Quinn's Quasimodo that have haunted me these last 30 years. Thank you for posting this, HugosNotreDame.
I loved that they kept it true to the stroy, everyone was obsessed with Esmeralda but Quasimodo was the only one that was truly in love with her. He was noble and true to her.
I dont think so. If you said: From them all Quasimodo was the only one who really deserve her love, then yes I agree. But you cant just said that Frollo didnt truly loved her. Unfortuanly in this movie it´s not clearly but in the book, there´s some parts where he is literally dying of love. In the book when he declare his love to her and in the end she calls for Phoebus, you just want to hit Esmeralda.
I am sorry but if Frollo truly loved her he wouldn't have wanted her either dead or in his bed, he would have wanted to see her happy in any way she liked to be. He didn't give her that option though so he doesn't truly care for her. He preferred to see her hanged than with another man. And he is not dying of love in the book, he is dying of LUST. Lust and love are very different things.
In the book he desires her and loves her. In the most of the time he feel lust for her, but in some parts, if you read it well the love supress the mere sexual desire. If he doesnt loved her, he woulnt have stabb himself while she was tortured...Phoebus just felt Lust for her.
Yes it pains him to her her suffering and yet he admits that he prefers to see her on the gallows than with Phoebus. Maybe he considers physical pain worse than death. Still, what use was cutting himself as proof of love? He said he would arrange her escape if she went with him. If he had such influence and loved her he should have arranged her escape without asking something in return. Cutting himself may also have been due to remorse.
And when he tells her he loves her, she asks what kind of love this is and he says "With the love of one damned". Even he knows that there is something twisted in those feelings. A better example is Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. Deeply in love with Marianne and although he knows she loves a very unworthy man, he doesn't try to ruin it for them. In the end he is the one who marries her as he deserved.
I believe he didn't love her otherwise he never would have said that if he couldn't have her then no one would and he allowed the execution to go on. Come on, the act of love is unselfish not selfish.
@DaniMajor Um, no. You don't want to hit a woman because she doesn't love someone, thats bullshit. She was a sixteen year old girl, she is entitled to her own choices, and if they are foolish, she is just a teen. Had Frollo loved her he wouldn't have let her die rather than be with her, saying that's "love" is the same as saying an abuser truly loves the woman he abuses. True love doesn't let the person you love die because they won't be with you. True love wants what's best for them regardless.
Finally a movie that shows the true ending of the story!!! I don't know why they change it in many movies this ending it's just great, I even cried when I read it on the book lol
Beautiful movie and the ending was the ending that I wanted to see, even if it pains me since it's so depressing
USAsoccerfan18 2 months ago
CAN ANYONE PLEASE HELP ME FIND A LIVE-ACTION HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME MOVIE WITH A GOOD ENDING WHERE NO-ONE DIES AT THE ENDING EXCEPT FOR THE VILLIAN?!?! PLEASE?!?!?
Redix1231 1 year ago
@Redix1231 the 1939 one.
HugosNotreDame 1 year ago
so, is this how it really ended in the actual novel version? or is it trimed off the edge a bit?
KingOfBlades1000 1 year ago
@KingOfBlades1000 It's accurate except of Esmeralda.
HugosNotreDame 1 year ago
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Aerodil 10 months ago
@HugosNotreDame Did she get beheaded?
Aerodil 10 months ago
@Aerodil Nope. Hanged.
HugosNotreDame 10 months ago
@HugosNotreDame Weird, in the one I read she got beheaded...
Aerodil 10 months ago
Poor Quasimodo! He is pretty much the only character who hasn't really done anything wrong- 'apart from kill the man who saved him' and he is treated so badly throughout this book-I really do feel sorry for him!
ShatteredxSpiritx 1 year ago 3
My favourite ending out of all the adaptions. In my view, the Frollo in this version seems the most malevolent.
agwoodliffe 1 year ago
she dies in the book? aw geez...i hate sad endings this totally depressed me....
matsuri990 2 years ago 3
T.T
matsuri990 2 years ago
this was the best verson ive seen by far. this was the closet to the book and i loved it.
CryingGypsy 2 years ago
The only NDdP adaptation I've seen (apart from the musical), that remains completely faithful to the novel with the ending. In fact, this is probably the closest adaptation to the book I've seen. If only Quasi was uglier, it would be perfect....but even without being ugly, he still managed to capture the character remarkably well. I was so sad watching him lie next to her-like he thought he didn't deserve to touch her even in death. =( Still one of my favorite stories of all time.
DragonHeart06 2 years ago 5
i've not seen a film version yet with that scene, and its my favourite part ^^
SakuraMayonaka 2 years ago
omg this is the only version i've seen that has the proper ending. good job to whoever directed this^^
SakuraMayonaka 2 years ago 4
OMG still
It makes me cry
Quasi really loved Esme!!!!
geepunky 2 years ago
Wow, all good until "The End", literally. Written into the dust like that it looks so cheesy.
Mysterioux 2 years ago 3
so when she took the dead flowers she knew that represented phobus?? i always thought she picked the dead flowers to show quasimodo that she didnt care about his looks anymore.
She was so naive in the book it was scary.
It was really obvious that phobus didnt care for her and only wanted sex even to esmeralda it was obvoius to her but maybe she knew that and wanted him to love her but didnt work
yourmomxxpp 3 years ago 11
It was the vases that represented Pheobus and Quasimodo respectively. Quasimodo's vase was simple, but sturdy, so the flowers were alive. Phoebus' one was beautiful, but had a crack in it. The flowers in his vase, dead ones, were the ones Esmeralda chose.
It's probably the best example of her shallowness and naivete. Despite his 'heart' having no worth, Esmeralda chose him on purely a superficial basis.
Mysterioux 2 years ago 4
If you've ever read Hugo's other works, most of his major female roles are either completely naive or completely crazy.
RocktheSocks 2 years ago 3
they made esmeralda get shot by an arrow then hanged to make this movie more darker and cruel so the audience would be shocked about it
yourmomxxpp 3 years ago 4
"When an attempt was made to seperate them, they crumbled into dust" wow that is the most beautiful thing I ever heard:), but did he just stay right there by her dead body for ever (all those years)just lying by her side? That is so kind of him :)
GodessGrl94 3 years ago 19
He loved her..
MaskedLion 3 years ago 6
Yes he certainly did.
longman718 2 years ago
@GodessGrl94 i think the books says he dies of starvation
halmjamin 1 year ago
@GodessGrl94 The same thing happens in the book, I think Hugo had made that the ending because he wanted to show us that Quasimodo was the one and only person who truly loved Esmeralda and wished to be with her always, even in death.
phantomlover991 7 months ago 2
That's so tragic!!! That is true love!!!! :'(
AmiAmorada 3 years ago 4
You've synthetized my opinion! Please tell, was it produced in France or in USA? Which is the original language of the film, is it French? Thank you!
desatormentandome 3 years ago
I's a French-Italian co-production. I'm not sure, but I suppose the orginal language is French
HugosNotreDame 3 years ago
It is actually in a foreign language??? Oh my gosh! I never knew!
longman718 3 years ago
yeah it was in French translated into English
(and other lanagues)
donfrollo2 3 years ago
The movie?
longman718 3 years ago
yes the movie actually I don't think it's a translation it's more syncanised where they use say English actors to dub over the French Dialouge into English (and so on with the other tounges)
donfrollo2 3 years ago
Oh I never knew. Thank you for telling me.
longman718 3 years ago
well I think that's right I just prasume it is because I remember reading on a site that this film was made in France (even though the actor of Quasimodo - Anthony Quin) was American I think but I'm still pretty sure it's orginal thing was French....Your welcome anyway
donfrollo2 3 years ago
Kudos to Hugo for writing the book, kudos to the film makers for keeping the original ending and kudos to HugosNotreDame for putting it up!
byzantine15 3 years ago
The end is so beautiful and tragic. Probably the best part of the film.
QueenOfTheKelpies 3 years ago
Damn depressing.
i'm gona commit suicide now.
bayareamilan 3 years ago
I hope not.. :/
QueenOfTheKelpies 3 years ago
She is hanged
HugosNotreDame 3 years ago
I completely agree with you. That very last sentence of the movie; "When an attempt was made to seperate them, they crumbled into dust..." So beautiful...
Chajagirl 3 years ago 2
ho letto il libro,ho visto il mussical e ora vedo anche il film in inglese....aspetto di vederlo in italiano per capirne di più...cmq davvero un opera fantastica......
piccolaax 3 years ago
Excellent ending for an excellent movie! Bravo!
NovaDkn 4 years ago
Gosh! the real ending! (sort of...)
twolionss 4 years ago
I don't understand at the end they said that she was hanged but she died by an arrow.
barnardoo98 4 years ago
They killed her by an arrow, but they hung her anyway.
longman718 3 years ago
YEA you rock 4 putting these up....Not as good as the one from the 30's but Esme was better. Thank you aloot.XOXOXOXOXOXoXO.
~Twiggy_JIGGY
twiggyjiggy 4 years ago
poor guy...
TwilightGeisha 4 years ago 2
Does anybody know where I can get this on DVD Region 2? I saw this film when I was 6 and have been wanting to watch it again ever since. I remembered bits of it but it was the ending and Anthony Quinn's Quasimodo that have haunted me these last 30 years. Thank you for posting this, HugosNotreDame.
pizzizzi 4 years ago
I loved that they kept it true to the stroy, everyone was obsessed with Esmeralda but Quasimodo was the only one that was truly in love with her. He was noble and true to her.
orlandobabe 4 years ago 3
I dont think so. If you said: From them all Quasimodo was the only one who really deserve her love, then yes I agree. But you cant just said that Frollo didnt truly loved her. Unfortuanly in this movie it´s not clearly but in the book, there´s some parts where he is literally dying of love. In the book when he declare his love to her and in the end she calls for Phoebus, you just want to hit Esmeralda.
DaniMajor 4 years ago
I am sorry but if Frollo truly loved her he wouldn't have wanted her either dead or in his bed, he would have wanted to see her happy in any way she liked to be. He didn't give her that option though so he doesn't truly care for her. He preferred to see her hanged than with another man. And he is not dying of love in the book, he is dying of LUST. Lust and love are very different things.
NorthStar8211 4 years ago 5
In the book he desires her and loves her. In the most of the time he feel lust for her, but in some parts, if you read it well the love supress the mere sexual desire. If he doesnt loved her, he woulnt have stabb himself while she was tortured...Phoebus just felt Lust for her.
DaniMajor 4 years ago
Yes it pains him to her her suffering and yet he admits that he prefers to see her on the gallows than with Phoebus. Maybe he considers physical pain worse than death. Still, what use was cutting himself as proof of love? He said he would arrange her escape if she went with him. If he had such influence and loved her he should have arranged her escape without asking something in return. Cutting himself may also have been due to remorse.
NorthStar8211 4 years ago
And when he tells her he loves her, she asks what kind of love this is and he says "With the love of one damned". Even he knows that there is something twisted in those feelings. A better example is Colonel Brandon from Sense and Sensibility. Deeply in love with Marianne and although he knows she loves a very unworthy man, he doesn't try to ruin it for them. In the end he is the one who marries her as he deserved.
NorthStar8211 4 years ago
I believe he didn't love her otherwise he never would have said that if he couldn't have her then no one would and he allowed the execution to go on. Come on, the act of love is unselfish not selfish.
orlandobabe 4 years ago
@DaniMajor Um, no. You don't want to hit a woman because she doesn't love someone, thats bullshit. She was a sixteen year old girl, she is entitled to her own choices, and if they are foolish, she is just a teen. Had Frollo loved her he wouldn't have let her die rather than be with her, saying that's "love" is the same as saying an abuser truly loves the woman he abuses. True love doesn't let the person you love die because they won't be with you. True love wants what's best for them regardless.
ChristinasMinx 1 year ago
ahh much closer to the real ending. so depressing.. I gotta read the book
LetsGo6009 4 years ago
yep, sad, but true
longman718 4 years ago
Finally a movie that shows the true ending of the story!!! I don't know why they change it in many movies this ending it's just great, I even cried when I read it on the book lol
Sarahita 4 years ago
that's what i'm saying! Bloody brilliant ending!
rabidfangirl777 4 years ago
indeed. pretty sad though. crying.
naly202 4 years ago
Now THAT's the ending I've been hoping to see! Thanks for this!
vasanoja 4 years ago