Word: quasimodos
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...Hopkins and a cartoon isn't easy. Neither is wearing a prosthetic hump for 17 hours a day, but when Turner Network Television offered MANDY PATINKIN The Hunchback (of Notre Dame), he jumped at it. "I don't know how you call yourself an actor if you turn down Quasimodo," says Patinkin. The actor thinks only one of his predecessors really counts. "Laughton, not Victor Hugo, wrote this part," he says. "I'm just playing his notes...
...thing. You haven't read the book. I haven't read it. No one you know has read it. Far more Americans know the true story of Pocahontas (she returned to England with her husband John Rolfe--not John Smith--and shortly thereafter died of smallpox) than of Quasimodo (a fictional character, he in fact has no true story...
...voice of the hero Quasimodo, Tom Hulce ("Amadeus," Broadway's "A Few Good Men"), brings to his part the sensitivity and youthful enthusiasm that are essential to the Disney hero formula...
...Quasimodo however, is a new kind of hero for Disney. At age 20, he is the oldest protagonist in Disney history. A far cry from the beautiful Snow White--hated for her beauty by the jealous Queen--Quasi is reviled by the public for his misshapen form--and Disney spared no effort in making the guy ugly. He yearns to leave Notre Dame, where his ward, the evil Judge Frollo, keeps him isolated...
Like the clock and candlestick from "Beauty and the Beast," "Hunchback" animates the inanimate for comic relief. Three gargoyles are Quasi's only friends in the cathedral. Like Calvin's Hobbes, the Gargoyles are alive only to Quasimodo. They character's are a small tribute to the original Hunchback's author, as two of the three are named Vic and Hugo...