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Essay:Greatest Conservative Movies (view source)
Revision as of 05:05, October 16, 2021
, 05:05, October 16, 2021Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame has been added to the "debatable whether conservative" section.
|Sequel to the Worst Liberal Film ''Horrible Bosses''. Though this film could be argued to actually support the American Dream and capitalism, which its processor clearly did not.
|Sequel to the Worst Liberal Film ''Horrible Bosses''. Though this film could be argued to actually support the American Dream and capitalism, which its processor clearly did not.
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|''The Hunchback of Notre Dame''
|1996
|G
|Released during Michael Eisner's presidency at Disney, the film present a mixed package. The original source material was not intended for children, yet the Disney film was marketed as such to young audiences.
In some cases, the film manages to be more pro-Christian that it's source material. For example, the character of Frollo, who was the corrupt archdeacon in the novel, is now the minister of justice and the Archdeacon is now a separate character voiced by Davis Odegn Steirs, who serves as the positive Christian conscience in the film. The Archdeacon is the one responsible for saving Quasimodo from Frollo committing infanticide and encourages Esmeralda to pray to God.
Christian imagery is present throughout the film, appropriate since Notre Dame is an actual location, as opposed to Other Disney films where churches are absent of religious imagery to be more politically correct. The Latin Requiem Mass is also present in the musical score.
Unlike most films in the Disney animated canon, this film actually has the character's relying to God's grace to resolve the conflict, instead of relying on some special magic.
In some cases, the film actually manages to be even darker than the original novel. Originally, Quasimodo's vicious punishment at the hands of the Parisians during the Feast of Fools ceremony was out of corporal punishment; while in the Disney film, it had been done at the whim of the Parisians just for the sake of it.
To make the film even darker, a gypsy genocide plot is introduced, and Paris was also the victim of arson late into the film. This is a stark contrast to most other Disney film adaptations, which have a history of toning down the original works (as in The Jungle Book, in which Disney advised the writers to ignore the book specifically because its contents were unsuitable for children).
Some mild language is present too (namely the words "damnation" and "eternal damnation").
Worst of all, one of the male gargoyles falls in love with Djali, who is explicitly male, which means that liberals will subtly shoehorn the homosexual agenda into anything, even the gargoyles of Notre Dame. However, this should be taken with a grain of salt, because the DVD audio commentary Kirk Wise (co-director), Gary Trousdale (co-director), and Don Hahn (producer) suggest that it's possible that the three gargoyles exist purely in Quasimodo's mind and are in fact split off portions of his own personality created to deal with his loneliness<ref> '''Gary Trousdale:''' We've always operated under the assumption that the gargoyles were kind of figments of Quasimodo's imagination. They didn't really move around, or did they? You know...
'''Kirk Wise:''' Yeah, we like leaving a little bit of a question mark; kind of like Harvey the rabbit or Calvin and Hobbes.
'''Gary Trousdale:''' They're inanimate when anybody else comes in the room. They don't talk to anybody else, except the goat. So that's here we kind of crossed the line a little bit.
'''Kirk Wise:''' We like to keep it a little bit iffy. </ref>. So this matter could have less to do with the liberal agenda and more to do with poor writing. A line that even the directors admit they shouldn't have crossed.
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|''[[The Hunger Games]]''
|''[[The Hunger Games]]''