Since we’re going to be embarking on reviewing the Lon Chaney version of Hunchback of Notre Dame I thought it would be a good time to ask an important question who is more Handsome, Chaney as Quasimodo or Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera? Mmmm this is a very tough question as beauty is in the eyes of the beholder but then again so is ugliness.
Lon Chaney as the Phantom of the Opera
Lon Chaney as the Hunchback of Notre Dame
To answer this very tricky question I asked a crack team of young, impressionable and insecure, teenage girls who all said that they were both ugly but if they had to pick they all chose the Phantom because even though he’s ugly, he is at least a musician and they all really like musician plus he is a better dresser. Though even when I pointed out that Quasimodo rang bells with making him a musician of sorts the girls still said the Phantom. I guess they like bad boys, typical huh?
My Crack Team of Young, Impressionable and Insecure, Teenage Girls a.k.a Disney Princesses
Sorry Quasimodo, the girls prefer the deform, obsessed, musically-inclined psychopathic genius to your deformed and slightly angry yet loyal nature.
Phantom makes the Ladies go weak in the Knees
But what do you think? Who is do think is more handsome the Hunchback of Notre Dame
recently and I notice a wonderful little refernce to the 1923 version.