Today’s magically and very profound Hunchback horoscope is;
“The cloister was deserted; the clergy gas to the bishop’s place to pray together; the court was empty, save for a few timid lackeys hiding in dark corners”
So take refuge with people whom you trust, the Barnes & Noble copy of The Hunchback has spoken.
A new picture from Lacombe’s second book of his graphic novel version of Notre Dame de Paris. It’s very pretty.
Lacombe’s Esmeralda Notre Dame de Paris
Quasimodo doesn’t mind menial jobs so long as he’s “out there.”
Quasimodo as the School Janitor
It’s a lovely rendition and the video takes more straight forward approach to the visuals than the Arena version where is lost in an labyrinth.
This song is on Dion’s All The Way…A Decade of Song
Today’s Fan-art is by YurikoSchneide. It’s the Court of Miracles which is one my favorite parts in the Disney film. I love the vibrancy and the framing with the noose and the skulls. It’s a very fun piece.
At the Court of Miracles colored 2 by yurikoschneide
This featurette is all about how the actors in the Le Mis movie are all singing live in the takes and how in this approach they can add so much to their performance. I think this approach is a good one. Les Miserables is a very gritty story so the vocal performance really should have a rawness to them. I hope more movie musicals will take this approach in the future.
Korean Boy Band, SHINee, released a song off their 2010 Album, Lucifer
English Translations
Your traces that my heart is filled with
Makes me able to breathe
When the long night is colored by the moonlight
Will the inescapable wait all end?
I wish for a miracle and ask and answer myself
Oh, I can’t tell you about me
Who wants to reach your heart
Like the starlight hidden behind the cold clouds
I love you, in the end, this painful confession
That lingers at the edge of my lips slide down in tears
This arrow that’s reached my heart
Feels like a part of my body now
Even though it hurts to death
I can’t remove you, who’s stuck in my heart
Because it’s love
Because for me, it’s love
*Even if I can’t have you
In the end, even when my heart is blocked
By the wall of sad connection
I love you, if it’s a place
where I can just watch you
Because you’re my everything
I stay up for so many nights
When the starlight becomes rain
That doesn’t stop like my tears
Remember that I loved you
*Repeat x2
It’s not tough, oh no
Because you have to be mine
In order for you to be you
Even if it hurts
Even if you make me cry
I love you
Tormented Frollo Jetlag Hunchback of Notre Dame
With exception of the happy ending where Esmeralda and Quasimodo runoff together the plot of the Jetlag version
Esmeralda’s (not) trial Jetlag Hunchback of Notre Dame
All the major parts are streamlined. The movie doesn’t spend much time developing anything and with a narrator major parts are just example and not shown. Esmeralda’s trial and torture for example are just mentioned and not shown. The characters are flat representations of the book. The Jetlag version has the bones of the story but it lacks finer details and the execution doesn’t help it much however with all the other different version messing the story up it’s refreshing to see an adaptation that follow the book.
Quasimodo gives the bell a hug Jetlag Hunchback of Notre Dame
Next Jetlag Article – The Characters
Esmeralda and Phoebus Jetlag Hunchback of Notre Dame
In addition to a novelist, poet, dramatist and writer Hugo was a a wonderful artist. Many of his works have survived. I really like his artwork. It has a whimsical fantasy aspect to it, at least from my point of view. I love have he used colors, his quality of lines and his use of positive and negative space.
Here are a view examples of his work but you can see more HERE
Victor Hugo The Snake c1866
Victor Hugo Octopus with the initials V.H
Victor Hugo Mushroom
Disney Esmerlada as the Sexy Librarian