FROM VICTOR HUGO TO WALT DISNEY: THE DIALOGISM IN “THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE-DAME

• Main Author: Carlos Eduardo Brefore Pinheiro
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná 2009-12-01
• Series: Travessias
• Subjects: victor hugo; walt disney; releitura; aceitação do outro.
• Online Access: http://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/3436

The trip to a medieval Paris, the scenery of a tragic love story between a gypsy and a ringer with physical deformities, created by Victor Hugo in his book Notre-Dame of Paris, popularly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame. From the novel of this French writer, Disney industries have produced one of the most known cinematography adaptations, inside the animation films universe. The proposal of this lecture is to establish an analysis from the adaptation of Walt Disney, from 1966, from images and songs that are in the movie. It will be noticed that the visual art which is in Quasmodo and Esmeraldas plot as well as the discourse of the songs used by the characters during it, lead the viewer to reflect about tolerance and respect concerning the differences: physical ( related to Quasmodo) or religious (related to Esmeralda). Among the relationships that generate the intrigue, we could highlight the relations among The Hunchback, the gypsy and Dom Claude Frollo, the antagonist in the novel from one side, the discourse of the acceptance of the other, the solidarity wish among men and the hope of a fair society; from the other side, the intolerance, the prejudice and the disregard to the less privileged ones.