The Hunchback of Notre Dame

 "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is a very serious interpretation of Victor Hugo's story. It's quite solemn, more than I've seen in any disney films before. It's about a very ugly, but nice-hearted young boy named Quasimodo (half-formed), and the gipsy girl Esmeralda. There are some very severe tributes to the thinking of that time. The hated gypsies, the hated outlaws, outsiders, and the power of a sometimes very unjustly church. But it's still typically Disney: Great drawing style, great songs, and a firmly message. In fact, this is the film with the most singing in it, that's a reason why my sister didn't like it so much. Me, I loved the songs. My favourite character? Definitly: Clopin! He is a gipsy, and earns money with telling little children storys. Actually he's the narrator of the entire film. He has a great voice, and is a wonderful storyteller, along with his little hand-puppet and funny comments.

The Bells of Notre Dame

 "The Bells of Notre Dame"? Write it down? Oh, that's gonna be hard. It's one of the greatest, yet one of the longest songs with spoken dialogues in it. Sort of intro to "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" You'll love it, anyway! And since I do this, and I'm trying to make some content for my website, I'll write it down anyways.Every spoken line is gonna be cursive.

Clopin:
Morning in Paris, the city awakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
The fisherman fishes, the bakerman bakes
To the bells of Notre Dame
To the big bells as loud as the thunder
To the little bells soft as a psalm
And some say the soul of the city's the toll of the bells
The bells of Notre Dame
Listen, they're beautiful, no? So many colors of sound, so many changing moods! Because you know, they don't ring all by themselves.

Clopins puppet:
They don't??

Clopin:
No, silly boy. Up there, high, high in the dark bell tower, lives the mysterious bell ringer. Who is this creature?

Clopins puppet:
Who?

Clopin:
What is he?

Clopins puppet:
What?

Clopin:
How did he come to be there?

Clopins puppet:
How?

Clopin:
Hush! And Clopin will tell you. It is a tale, a tale of a man...and a monster!

Dark was the night when our tale was begun
On the docks near Notre Dame

First gypsy:
Shut it up, will you!

Second gypsy:
We'll be spotted!

Gypsy woman:
Hush, little one!

Clopin:
Four frightened gypsies slid silently under
The docks near Notre Dame

Guard:
Four guilders for safe passage into Paris!

Clopin:
But a trap had been laid to the gypsies!
And they gazed up in fear and alarm
At a figure whose clutches were iron as much as the bells

First gypsy:
Judge Claude Frollo!

Clopin:
The Bells of Notre Dame

Chorus:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Clopin:
Judge Claude Frollo longed to purge the world of vice and sin

Chorus:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Clopin:
And he saw corruption everywhere except within

Frollo:
Bring this gypsy vermin to the palace of justice

Guard:
You there! What are you hiding?

Frollo:
Stolen goods, no doubt. Take them from her!

Clopin:
She ran!

Chorus:
Dies irae, dies illa (Day of wrath, that day)
Solvet saeclum in favilla (Shall consume the world in ashes)
Teste David cum sibylla (As prophesied by David and the sibyl)
Quantus tremor est futurus (What trembling is to be)
Quanto Judex est venturus (When the Judge is come)

Gypsy woman
Sanctuary! Please give us sanctuary!!

Frollo:
A baby? A monster!

Archdeacon:
Stop!

Clopin:
Cried the archdeacon!

Frollo:
This is an unholy deamon. I'm sending it back to hell, where it belongs!

Archdeacon:
See there the innocent blood you have spilt
On the steps of Notre Dame

Frollo:
I am guiltless. She ran, I persued

Archdeacon:
Now you would add this child's blood to your guilt
On the steps of Notre Dame

Frollo:
My conscience is clear!

Archdeacon:
You can lie to yourself and your minions!
You can claim that you haven't a qualm!
But you never can run from nor hide what you've done from the eyes
The very eyes of Notre Dame!

Chorus:
Kyrie Eleison (Lord have mercy)

Clopin:
And for one time in his life of power and control
Frollo felt a twinge of fear for his immortal soul

Frollo:
What must I do?

Archdeacon:
Care for the child, and raise it as your own.

Frollo:
What? I'd be settled with this misshapen...very well. Let him live with you, in your church.

Archdeacon:
Live here? Where?

Frollo:
Anywhere.
Just so he's kept locked away where no one else can see.
The bell tower, perhaps. And who knows, our lord works in mysterious ways.
Even this foul creature may yet prove one day to be
Of use to me

Clopin:
And Frollo gave the child a cruel name! A name that means half-formed! Quasimodo!
Now here is a riddle to guess if you can
Sing the bells of Notre Dame
Who is the monster and who is the man?
Sing the bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells, bells

Clopin and Chorus:
The bells of Notre Dame!

The Court of Miracles

We find you totally innocent...which is the worst crime of all...SO YOU'RE GOING TO HANG! *giggle* This could be called Clopins very own song, although he's backed up with an army-chorus of gypsies. Since I love Clopin, this also could be called my favourite song of the movie. It has a very strange kind of humour, and you don't know if you shall scream, or laugh hysterically...

All:
Maybe you've heard of a terrible place
Where the scoundrels of Paris collect in a lair
Maybe you've heard of that mythical place
Called the Court of Miracles

Clopin alone:
Hello, you're there!

All:
Where the lame can walk
And the blind can see

Clopin alone:
But the dead don't talk...
So you won't be around
To reveal what you've found!

All:
We have a method for spies and intruders
Rather like hornets protecting their hive
Here in the Court of Miracles
Where it's a miracle if you get out alive!

Clopin alone:
Justice is swift in the Court of Miracles
I'm the lawyers, the judge, all in one!
We like to get the trial over with quickly
Because it's the sentence that's really the fun!

Any last words?

Quasimodo and Phoebus:
Mph! Mhh..mph!

Clopin:
That's what they all say...
Now that we've seen all the evidence...

Clopins puppet:
Wait! I object!

Clopin:
Overruled!

Clopins puppet:
I object!

Clopin:
Quiet!!

Clopins puppet: