Coach Phoebus de Chateaupers
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- 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Ian Carlye as Clopin 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Candice Parise as Esmeralda & Matt Laurent as Quasimodo 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Candice Parise as Esmeralda 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Lilly-Jane Young as Fleur de Lys & Stephen Webb as Phoebus 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Rpbert Marien as Frollo & Matt Laurent as Quasimodo 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Dennis Ten Vergert as Gringoire 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Matt Laurent as Quasimodo 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
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- Stephen Webb as Phoebus 2012 Asian Tour of Notre Dame de Paris
No, Esmeralda is not Quasimodo’s mother. Pending on what version is question Esmeralda is four years younger than Quasimodo in the book. In the Disney version while she may be maternal towards Quasimodo we know she is not because we see Quasimodo’s mother die.
Quasimodo’s Mother Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
But who is Quasimodo’s mother? In the Disney we see a young women who just wanted to get her child in Paris for a perhaps a better life. But what were her hopes, fears, ambitions, desires? What was her favorite color, foods, pastimes? The real tragedy is we never got to know her as a character.
Illustration of Frollo with baby Quasimodo
In book we only know that Quasimodo’s mother was an unfeeling vile women who abandoned him as baby. But Maybe she died in childbirth and some other relative abandoned him. Maybe she was lied to and she was told her baby died at birth and then he was abandoned.
Quasimodo’s Mother Disney Hunchback of Notre Dame
We’ll never know the truth regarding Quasimodo’s mother but one thing we do know is that she was not Esmeralda. Unless that was her actual given name and then I guess the answer is yes but what are the odds of that?
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Quasimodo from the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
At first glance you would think that the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame is just a cheap Disney knock-off. And while it’s is indeed very, very cheap it’s not actually a Disney knock-off. While I’m sure it’s conception was to capitalize of the Disney version the truth is that the Jetlag version follows the book pretty closely.
Frollo and Esmeralda from the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
I mean it still has a happy ending and the whole “beauty is on the inside” moral that the kiddies versions love, but Frollo is a priest and they don’t shy away too much from his obession with Esmeralda, Quasimodo is deaf, Phoebus is a jerk, Fleur de Lys is present, Djali spells, ect.
Esmeralda from the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
So while it is very cheaply done, the music is laughable and the pacing is slow and padded out despite its 46 minute running time it does slightly redeem its self for following the book fairy closely though not enough to make it a good movie by any means.
Phoebus and Fleur de Lys from the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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Next Time – The Plot
Gringoire from the Jetlag version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Victor Hugo
Portrait of Adele Hugo by Gemaelde von Louis Boulanger
Victor Hugo married the girl next door, Adèle Foucher. Hugo’s mother, Sophie, was against the match but after her death he married Adèle on October 14 1822. They had five children together. In 1830, after their youngest daughter (named Adèle ) was born the elder Adèle told Hugo that she didn’t want anymore children which was code for no more sex. Both Hugo and the Adèle took lovers. However it was the expulsion from Adèle bed’s that was the inspiration for Phoebus‘ tragic fate of getting married Notre Dame de Paris.
Further Reading
– Victor Hugo: A Biography
– Love Letters of Great Men: The Collection of Love Letters Drawn from by Carrie Bradshaw in “Sex in the City”
– Hugo: The Strange Life and Visions of Victor Hugo
This is a Music Video of Tina Arena singing “Live from the One I Love.” Which is the English version of Vivre. Arena played Esmeralda in the first London cast. This video reminds me so much of Jim Henson’s 1986 movie The Labyrinth
However this may have be a connect to Notre Dame de Chartes which has a Labyrinth and Chartes is considered the Seat of Mary, as it’s believed that her veil is housed there. Also all the water imagery relates to Mary too.
Or it could that a labyrinth stands for the singer being trapped and lost without it being a apparent that the song is from a musical.
For the most the video is kind of cheesy with its blues tones, CGs, weird overlays, weird cross fades and odd costumes. However despite the clunky lyrics, Arena sounds great.
Today art is by ramisiun. It a cute Comic of the disney version of the Hunchback meets the Andrew Lloyd Webber version of The Phantom of the Opera.
Phantom of Notre Dame by Ramisiun
http://ramisiun.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=notre+dame#/d2xyy4s