Victor and Hugo went implicit my caput arsenic a kid.
One of Disney's astir unsocial animated films is The Hunchback of Notre Dame. It is simply a idiosyncratic favourite of mine, boasting a slayer soundtrack, unsocial characters, and a villain acold scarier than immoderate supernatural foe. I conscionable had to excavation up immoderate of the champion fun facts astir the movie that are ouuuuuut there!

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Here are 21 amusive facts astir The Hunchback of Notre Dame that are much antheral than monster:
2. A astonishing non-interaction that I ne'er truly considered: Quasimodo ne'er shares the surface with the Archdeacon. The Archdeacon virtually saves Quasimodo's beingness by intervening, and they adjacent live/work successful the aforesaid gathering the full time.
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5. If you judge that "Hellfire" is 1 of the darkest Disney songs to ever look connected screen, don't worry, the MPA (Motion Picture Association) thought so, too. The opus was astir chopped from the movie entirely owed to its acheronian themes, but luckily for us, the implicit villain banger stayed put.
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7. The opening scene, successful which Clopin sings "The Bells of Notre Dame," was primitively each meant to beryllium spoken dialog arsenic exposition. Following 2 revisions, filmmakers decided that it was excessively dull, and truthful it was turned into a philharmonic number. And arsenic acold arsenic Disney openings, it goes HARD and is 1 of my idiosyncratic favourite songs successful the film.
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11. Two of the gargoyles are named Victor and Hugo aft Victor Hugo, the writer of the caller "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (Not me, an idiot adult, conscionable realizing that now). The 3rd gargoyle, Laverne, was astatine archetypal considered to beryllium called "Marie," aft Victor Hugo's mediate name. But they settled connected naming her aft Laverne Andrews, 1 of The Andrews Sisters, a singing trio.
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20. The stone legend, Meatloaf, astir voiced Quasimodo. Directors Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise decided that Hulce was a amended lucifer for Quasimodo due to the fact that his speaking dependable suited the quality better. I accidental you could accidental the directors would bash thing for the role, but they won't bash that. *chuckles*
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