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Why was Quasimodo such a jerk?

posted 11 years ago by blacknyellowsquid
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Why make him the antagonist, of any of them? I meaaaan Quasimodo was just like a deaf, kinda slow-witted, non-jerk in the original story. Not a nasty jerk like this one. I just didn't really get it. Why not make him Igor or some unrelated monster or something. Or where they just going for the "French" thing so they could make him a French chef? So they're like, hey Quasimodo is French so let's do it. Lol?

I didn't get it. Out of all the "monster" characters portrayed, he was the least that was actually a villain...because, actually, he wasn't a villain or jerk at all. (Or even a monster.) Just a deformed gypsy orphan who lived up in a bell tower after being taken in by a priest. Meh

[–] StarskyandChinaHutch 11 years ago

That deaf, kinda slow-witted non-jerk, sure is a mean old jerk. How do you think he does it?

[–] blacknyellowsquid 11 years ago

haha are you being sarcastic. I just find it an odd choice that one of, if not the, nicest, non-villainous characters (of the ones depicted) was made into the biggest jerk in this movie.

[–] blades_of_chaos77 11 years ago

Since he wasn't hunchbacked i just think it was a different chracter named Quasimodo.
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[–] TheFatDruidofNacyl 11 years ago

Well chefs are usually cruel to begin with. They always beat the eggs and whip the cream. Although as far as why they make him a villain out of everyone else, they probably wanted to do cooking and eating a human joke.

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[–] wez-chad9 11 years ago

Dudes your looking into this waaaay too much. you sound like your critiquing a kurosawa movie or something not an animated kids movie lol

[–] puschit-1 10 years ago

You basically said it yourself:
They needed a villain of sorts or at lest an antagonist to continue with the plot. And of course, this being an american production, they pick on the french guy. The plot was as basic and clicheed as a plot could be, why not pick the antagonist in a traditional way, too?
I mean, your suggestion was "Igor", a russian ... that isn't actually better ;)

[–] www1125 10 years ago

Could be that was what they were going for with the comedy. The bad and evil monsters(Frankenstein an exception) were all nice guys here. Makes since from a comedy perspective to make the one who wasn't evil the bad guy.

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[–] Shalotka 10 years ago

My sentiments exactly. I had the same train of thought.

They needed a mad chef for the plot. -> Cliché that the chef must be French. -> Lack of French horrors/classical cartoon villains to reference. -> Take any cartoon character from a movie set in France. -> Fail.

Quasimodo was the worst choice for a villain who hates humans, because in his original story he was a person, who suffered greatly from being treated as non-human, so it's about exactly oposite. And he was unrelated to food.

And that was particularly bad because all the other monsters were well played in regard to their original stories.

I don't know what/whom they could use instead. Maybe one human-size rat instead of human-looking-monster with a rat.

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[–] blacknyellowsquid 9 years ago

Good, glad someone understands my plight while watching this. ;P

If they wanted a jerkish scary French character for the angry French chef cliche, they could have used The Phantom of the Opera, even though he was also just a human, and didn't have much to do with cooking. But French, horrifying, and a villain. That might have made a fraction more sense? Quasimodo is just ... doesn't fit at all. He wasn't even a "horror" icon was he? At all? Ever? He's more Elephant Man genre than horror. Even Frollo would make more sense...lol.

Maybe the others are right, it was more of a "nod" and not really supposed to be the hunchback of Notre Dame. But his rat being named Esmeralda seems to support him (in the movie) being the actual Quasimodo.

[–] Shootmovie 9 years ago

He was the antagonist, it doesn't mean he was a villain. The monsters were all scared of humans, his rat smelled a rat almost instantly and the suspense came from wether Jonathan would be found out or not. Although if they were to make Quasimodo the villain of the piece I think that would have played well, it's made clear early that the monsters are harmless and misunderstood, making the only none monster the bad guy would have fit nicely into the story.