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3This is the 1996 Creator/GoldenFilms AnimatedAdaptation of ''Literature/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' (the Creator/VictorHugo novel), which [[TheMockbuster strangely was released near the date]] of [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney the Disney adaptation]].
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5The story is about the hunchback of Notre Dame, Quasimodo, and a Romani girl called [[AdaptationNameChange Melody]]. The troubles are caused by [[CompositeCharacter Jean Claude]], an arrogant, greedy killjoy who wants to stop Melody because he thinks she diminishes the taxes.
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8!!The film has examples of:
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10* AbledInTheAdaptation: Quasimodo's deafness from the books is absent and both of his eyes are functional. Not only that but he also ceases being a hunchback.
11* AdaptationalAlternateEnding: Quasimodo and Melody marry and supposedly will live happily ever after, in contrast to the EverybodyDiesEnding of the book.
12* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Quasimodo cannot really be called ugly, unlike Victor Hugo's creepy version. He even “becomes handsome” at the end.
13* AdaptationalComicRelief: Pierre is turned into Jean Claude's comic relief sidekick.
14* AdaptationalJobChange: Jean Claude is inspired on Claude Frollo, a SinisterMinister. However, here he is an aristocrat with an apparent military position instead.
15* AdaptationalVillainy: In the book, Pierre was an unfortunate poet. Here, he's working for the BigBad. [[MinionWithAnFInEvil He's not that bad of a guy, though]].
16* AdaptationDyeJob:
17** While Quasimodo had red hair in the book, this version of him has brown hair.
18** Esmeralda had black hair in the novel and most adaptations follow suit. "Melody", however, has red hair.
19* AdaptationNameChange:
20** The lead Romani character is not Esmeralda, but Melody. Since there's no reason to believe the creators of this ever read the book, it's possible they incorrectly assumed the book was still copyrighted or the name Esmeralda was owned by Disney and thus replaced her with a CaptainErsatz for nonexistent legal reasons.
21** The antagonist goes from Claude Frollo to Captain Jean-Claude. It’s possible his last name is still Frollo, but it is never mentioned.
22* AdaptedOut: Almost all the characters. The only characters who really avert this are Quasimodo and Pierre. Melody and Jean Claude are modified characters.
23* AloofBigBrother: Jean Claude has no love for Quasimodo, and is the one who imprisoned him in the bell tower.
24* AnachronismStew:
25** The story supposedly happens in medieval France, but there are people wearing clothes from the 18th and 19th centuries and looking more like they're from ''Literature/LesMiserables'' than from ''Hunchback''. A boy in modern looking clothing is also seen running across the screen towards the end of the opening sequence. The Can Can first appeared in 1830 and yet the opening song is a StandardSnippet of the Can Can.
26** The song "When I'm Looking at You" includes references to alarm clocks and telephones.
27** Jean Claude has an aerosol spray can, which wouldn't be invented until the 1900s.
28** At one point, Jean Claude threatens Melody with the guillotine, when the guillotine was invented during UsefulNotes/TheFrenchRevolution, centuries after the Middle Ages.
29** The violin is named Paganini, a reference to the Italian violinist Niccolò Paganini, who wasn't even born until 1782.
30* AnimateInanimateObject: Melody's instruments and a decorative bell chain. Some random objects (prison bars, stone blocks from the wall, a pile of straw, and a mop and bucket) also come to life during a song sequence, though they go back to normal afterwards.
31* AristocratsAreEvil: Jean Claude and his glutton father, the Baron.
32* BeautifulAllAlong: Quasimodo turns out to be a handsome {{Hunk}}.
33* BigBad: Jean Claude causes the problems of the film, since he is persecuting any kind of fun.
34* BigEater: Jean Claude's father, the Baron, is a large man who is always eating in every scene he appears in.
35* CainAndAbel: Quasimodo and Jean Claude are brothers. The latter imprisoned the former in Notre Dame.
36* CompositeCharacter:
37** Jean Claude takes the antagonistic role from Claude Frollo, while his name is a combination of Frollo and his brother Jehan's. His military style is taken from Phoebus. His appearance was taken from Gaston from ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' despite not being a character in the original story.
38** Pierre seems to be a combination of Pierre Gringoire from the book and Clopin.
39* DastardlyWhiplash: Jean Claude is a stereotypical, mustachioed villain.
40* DemotedToExtra: Despite being the titular character of the book, Quasimodo only appears sparingly throughout the film and has less than 15 minutes of screen-time.
41* {{Disneyfication}}: Exaggerated. This adaptation eliminated all the violence, and even the religious content. In fact, it Disneyfied the story even more than Disney's own adaptation.
42* DragonInChief: The Baron is the one officially in-charge, but he does virtually nothing of substance. His son Jean Claude is the true antagonist of the film.
43* DumbBlonde: Pierre is blonde and describes himself as "not keen of mind".
44* EarthyBarefootCharacter: Melody is a prime example of this and so are a number of background gypsies, mostly the women. She's even barefoot at her wedding, at which she is wearing a full wedding dress.
45* EverybodyLives: Yes, everybody lives. Including the bad guys.
46* {{Expy}}: Jean Claude is a blatant one to Gaston from Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast''.
47* FatBastard: The Baron is fat and allows his son to control the citizens.
48* FourthDateMarriage: Exaggerated. Quasimodo and Melody marry after having known each other for only a few days.
49* FunHatingVillain: Jean Claude bans singing, dancing, and any kind of recreation so that people will work hard to pay their taxes.
50* GayParee: Portrayed anachronistically as such in the opening number.
51* GoKartingWithBowser: The baron stays as a guest for Quasimodo and Melody's wedding.
52* GratuitousFrench:
53** Jean Claude often has a habit of doing this. Such cases include calling himself “Le Grande Fromage” (Which translates to "The Big Cheese"), and when he uses a lasso, he says “Le Yee Haw!”.
54** The opening song contains a {{pun}} where they show an image of toes, and singing “Château”. "Château" is French for "castle" and is also used to refer to a manor house, and nothing to do with feet or toes.
55* {{Greed}}: Jean Claude's motivation is a desire for material wealth.
56* TheGrotesque: Quasimodo averts this trope. Even before his appearance change, Quasimodo isn't really ugly. His hunchback status happened because his stepfather forced him to work in the cathedral.
57* HotGypsyWoman: Melody and a few background Romani women.
58* HotWitch: Melody is an actual witch and is pretty.
59* {{Hunk}}: Jean Claude, being an {{Expy}} of Gaston, is handsome and very muscular. At the climax, Quasimodo is revealed to be a hunk himself.
60* InformedDeformity: Quasimodo is supposed to be a hunchback, but he slouches at worst.
61* InNameOnly: Aside from having a hunchback who rings Notre Dame's bells and falls in love with a Romani girl, the narrative is completely different. The narrative is closer to a Beauty and the Beast story than one of the Hunchback. The [[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisney Disney version]] had more to do with the source material than this one. The trope also extends to the few remnants of the book, especially Quasimodo, who is neither ugly nor a real hunchback, and Pierre, who in this adaptation is Jean-Claude's sidekick rather than a poet in love with Esmeralda/Melody.
62* {{Jerkass}}: Jean Claude.
63* JesusTaboo: Despite being set around a cathedral, this adaptation largely avoids religious references.
64* KarmaHoudini: Jean Claude and his father aren't the best rulers ([[InformedAttribute or the audience is supposed to believe so in the case of the former]]) and they get off scot-free. The former escaped and the latter stayed as a guest during the ending.
65* MinionWithAnFInEvil: While Pierre is Jean Claude's minion, he doesn't do anything evil and seems just as afraid of his boss as everyone else is.
66* NeckLift: Jean Claude has a habit of doing this to Pierre. Considering their size difference, it's not that hard.
67* {{Not}}: Treated like an ''original joke'' by the bats.
68* OohMeAccentsSlipping: Or rather, [[SpeechImpediment lisp]] slipping in this case. In one scene, Pierre (who speaks with a lisp) briefly talks without one during a conversation with Jean Claude.
69* PlotHole: Melody's song implies that her magical powers are just part of her imagination, but if that was true, that would mean the instruments aren't real and therefore they couldn't tell Quasimodo not to ring the bell. If all the magic is real, why doesn't she escape from the jail?
70* ProducePelting: Jean Claude is banished by people throwing tomatoes at him.
71* PublicDomainSoundtrack: Classical music pieces are used as background music, which [[SoundtrackDissonance don't always fit the scene]]; ''Aragonaise'' from ''Theatre/{{Carmen}}'' is heard at one point, and the opening song uses a melody from Offenbach's ''Infernal Galop''.
72* RelatedDifferentlyInTheAdaptation: In the book, Frollo (whom Jean-Claude is based on) is Quasimodo’s adopted father. Here, they are half-brothers.
73* RelatedInTheAdaptation: A variant. In the book Quasimodo and Frollo are related by adoption, but this movie makes them half-brothers and thus biologically related.
74* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Quasimodo drops one to Jean Claude, calling him an oppressor.
75* ShapedLikeItself: At one point, Jean-Claude says "Doing anything against the law is illegal."
76* SparedByTheAdaptation:
77** Quasimodo. Well, everyone, really.
78** In the book, Frollo became an orphan at early age due to the Black Plague. Jean Claude's father is alive in this adaptation.
79* SpotlightStealingSquad: This movie focuses a lot more on Melody's instruments and Jean Claude instead of Quasimodo and Melody. It's hard to name a scene that doesn't have the instruments talking or doing anything.
80* TalkingAnimal: The Bats of Notre Dame hold conversations between themselves.
81* TheThemeParkVersion: Not only the film, but the opening song, which is just reduced to stereotypes about Paris.
82* UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain: Quasimodo vs. Jean Claude. Subverted at the climax because Quasimodo was BeautifulAllAlong.
83* VillainousCrush: Well, "crush" is pushing it with Jean Claude's attitude towards Melody. He admits that he finds her attractive, but he lacks the sexual obsession with her that's a driving force of the plot in the original book and most of its adaptations.

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