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* "η παναγια των παρισιων" trasaltes to Holy Mary (panagia means literally all holy but its one of the Virgin mary's titles) of Paris making this tittle closer to the original french.
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!![[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame The Disney film]]
* TheCastShowoff:
** In the Swedish dub, Mikael Grahn sings the last note of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGYjVb_p1U Bells of Notre Dame]]" using his chest voice and is the only actor playing Clopin to do so.
** In the European Spanish dub, Creator/ConstantinoRomero (Frollo), Jesús Castejón (Clopin), Salvador Aldeguer (Hugo), Carmen Contreras and Creator/MiguelAngelJenner (The Archdeacon) did their own songs. This was one of Romero's few dubbing works where he shows his singing talents, Jesús Castejón was a stage veteran and he already performed singing for Disney as [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]; and Jenner performed songs in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast previous]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Disney Renaissance]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} films]].
* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisneyJudgeClaudeFrollo Judge Claude Frollo]]
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/DemiMoore at the time became the highest paid voice actor in Hollywood, receiving $1 million for lending her voice to Esmeralda. Creator/TomHulce, Creator/KevinKline, and Creator/JasonAlexander round out the cast as Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Hugo, respectively. The sequel casts Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt as Madellaine.
* CharacterOutlivesActor: Mary Wickes completed all but six of her lines for Laverne. However, Wickes died of cancer in 1995, so Jane Withers replaced her for the film's final scenes.
* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The Latin American Spanish dub was recorded at Cinema Digital S.C., which was located in Los Angeles in the United States, as well as Mexico City and Monterrey in Mexico. While most of the cast who recorded the dialogue were from Mexico City at the time, the late Fernando Escandón (Frollo), Renée Victor (Laverne) and Fabiola Stevenson (Quasimodo's mother) recorded their lines in L.A., and Julio Sosa (Clopin) recorded his dialogue in his native Monterrey.
* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/MaryWickes, Laverne's voice actress, died of complications from hip surgery on October 22, 1995, eight months before the film's release.
* DisownedAdaptation: The descendants of Creator/VictorHugo himself bashed Disney in an open letter to the Libération newspaper for their ancestor getting no mention on the advertisement posters for the film, and they harshly criticized the film itself as a vulgar commercialization and {{Disneyfication}} of Hugo's story.
* FakeNationality: None of the actors are French, despite the story taking place there.
* FanNickname: Frollo's Swedish voice actor, Stefan Ljungqvist, gained the nickname "Swedish Saruman" or "Swedish Creator/ChristopherLee" due to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDSem1CAvZc almost identical deep bass voice]]. Coincidentally, Christopher Lee himself spoke fluent Swedish.
* FlipFlopOfGod: The movie's directors have hinted that the gargoyles may all be figments of Quasimodo's imagination (a popular fan theory), but certain events in the film - namely Hugo startling Esmeralda's goat and them all taking part in the final battle - suggest they are real.
* ImageSource:
** [[DarkerAndEdgier/AnimatedFilms Darker and Edgier - Animated Films]]
** DidNotGetTheGirl
** FanaticalFire
** SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments
** [[MsFanservice/AnimatedFilms Ms. Fanservice - Animated Films]]
** [[Monster/Disney Complete Monster - Disney]]
** NotAMask
** PervertedSniffing
** VillainousCheekbones (2nd column)
** VillainousCrush
* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Judge Claude Frollo, a fanatical Catholic, is voiced by Tony Jay, who is Jewish in real life.
** One of the US stage actors for Frollo, Patrick Page, was actually an award-winning stage magician back in his teenage years.
* MilestoneCelebration: In 2021, Walt Disney Records celebrated the movie's 25th Anniversary by re-releasing the soundtrack as part of the Legacy Collection, upgrading it to a 2-Disc LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition by adding almost all of the score[[note]]"And He Shall Smite the Wicked" inexplicably stops before the balcony climax[[/note]], deleted songs, demos, and excerpts of ''Der Glöckner von Notre Dame''.
* NewbieBoom: The film saw a large, renewed amount of interest when the real Notre Dame cathedral was nearly destroyed by fire in April 2019.
* NonSingingVoice:
** Cabaret singer Heidi Mollenhauer provides Esmeralda's singing voice instead of Demi Moore.
** In the Norwegian dub, Frollo's speaking voice is done by Even Stormoen (previous voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Scar]]), while his singing voice is provided by Paul Åge Johannessen (previous voice of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]).
** In the Japanese dub, Frollo's speaking voice is provided by Takeshi Kusaka and singing voice by Toshihide Mura.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the European Spanish dub, the teaser for the film had Ernesto Aura -- who had a fitting voice to voice the character -- voicing Frollo. The role went at the end to Creator/ConstantinoRomero.
* PosthumousCredit: Despite Mary Wickes dying of complications from hip surgery eight months before the film's release, she's still given a credit as the voice of Laverne.
* QuoteSource:
** UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain
* RealLifeRelative: Carlos Pontón, who directed the Latin American Spanish dub and played Quasimodo's father, is the brother of Javier Pontón, who was the creative supervisor for the dub.
* TalkingToHimself: During the flashback in the opening number, Creator/JimCummings voices about three or four characters in quick succession (one or two of the Romani men, the boatman, and Frollo's guard). While Cummings does have an impressive vocal range, he unfortunately uses the same voice for all of these characters, making it very noticeable.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: When the film was being promoted, the CGI people were touted as a huge technological advancement. They were the logical next step after the CGI stampede scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. Instead of using CGI to reproduce the same model making the same movements over and over again, the crowds of ''Hunchback'' were randomized, with different elements such as clothing, body types, and behaviors being mixed and matched to create these gigantic ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''-esque crowd scenes that would, otherwise, either be much too expensive to animate, or have to be static parts of the matte. It's more noticeable now (especially if you remember watching "Behind the Scenes" featurettes which showcased the various behaviors back on the '90s Disney Channel), but at the time, especially on a first-time viewing, they ''were'' pretty impressive and evocative towards the party atmosphere in "Topsy Turvy" especially.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/KevinKline named his horse "Achilles" for the sake of the "Achilles, heel" joke.
* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: Mary Wickes was the primary voice for Laverne. Jane Withers later provided the character's remaining dialogue after Wickes succumbed to cancer during production.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Quite a few examples, some of which are discussed in [[https://www.slashfilm.com/hunchback-of-notre-dame-oral-history/ this 2021 oral history]].
** Creator/MandyPatinkin auditioned to play Quasimodo, but by all accounts, it was a disaster; notably, Creator/StephenSchwartz was displeased with how he was taking up more time than was necessary and suggesting changes to "Out There". Patinkin would eventually go on to portray Quasimodo in a Main/MadeForTVMovie released in 1997.
** Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/IanMcKellen, and Creator/DerekJacobi were considered to play Frollo before the casting of Creator/TonyJay.
** Instead of Victor, Hugo and Laverne the gargoyles would have been named Chaney, Laughton and Quinn as homage to actors Creator/LonChaney, Creator/CharlesLaughton and Creator/AnthonyQuinn who had played the title character in previous adaptations. This idea was brought back into the German musical, with the gargoyles being renamed to Charles, Antoine, and [[GenderBlenderName Loni]].
** Phoebus's speech rallying citizens to rebel against Frollo during the climax of the movie was originally said by Clopin, but the directors/producers felt that Phoebus needed to be more involved in the uprising.
** The prologue was originally going to be a straightforward narration. After a couple of read-throughs, the filmmakers found it too slow and plodding. So they rewrote it as a musical number - "The Bells of Notre Dame".
** A much more tragic ending was considered. [[spoiler: Frollo would have fatally stabbed Quasimodo before being killed by Esmeralda. Phoebus would have then found them and Quasimodo's last wish would have been to ring the bells one last time]].
** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyNlyzIQOWs&lc=UgzCNlwa1iKfTVDKnD54AaABAg Nat Jay]], Tony Jay wasn't able to initially reach the final note for "Hellfire", so he requested for the key to be lowered. Alan Menken refused which essentially forced Tony to take voice lessons for it, resulting in the iconic final note of the song.
** Music/MichaelJackson was ready and willing to produce and perform versions of "Out There", "God Help the Outcasts" and/or "Someday" after a meeting with Alan Menken, but Disney higher-ups [[ExecutiveVeto vetoed]] this due to Jackson's questionable reputation at the time raising the potential for the film to be OvershadowedByControversy.
* TheCastShowoff:
** In the Swedish dub, Mikael Grahn sings the last note of "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyGYjVb_p1U Bells of Notre Dame]]" using his chest voice and is the only actor playing Clopin to do so.
** In the European Spanish dub, Creator/ConstantinoRomero (Frollo), Jesús Castejón (Clopin), Salvador Aldeguer (Hugo), Carmen Contreras and Creator/MiguelAngelJenner (The Archdeacon) did their own songs. This was one of Romero's few dubbing works where he shows his singing talents, Jesús Castejón was a stage veteran and he already performed singing for Disney as [[WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas Oogie Boogie]]; and Jenner performed songs in [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast previous]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Disney Renaissance]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Pocahontas}} films]].
* CharacterSpecificPages: [[Characters/TheHunchbackOfNotreDameDisneyJudgeClaudeFrollo Judge Claude Frollo]]
* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/DemiMoore at the time became the highest paid voice actor in Hollywood, receiving $1 million for lending her voice to Esmeralda. Creator/TomHulce, Creator/KevinKline, and Creator/JasonAlexander round out the cast as Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Hugo, respectively. The sequel casts Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt as Madellaine.
* CharacterOutlivesActor: Mary Wickes completed all but six of her lines for Laverne. However, Wickes died of cancer in 1995, so Jane Withers replaced her for the film's final scenes.
* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The Latin American Spanish dub was recorded at Cinema Digital S.C., which was located in Los Angeles in the United States, as well as Mexico City and Monterrey in Mexico. While most of the cast who recorded the dialogue were from Mexico City at the time, the late Fernando Escandón (Frollo), Renée Victor (Laverne) and Fabiola Stevenson (Quasimodo's mother) recorded their lines in L.A., and Julio Sosa (Clopin) recorded his dialogue in his native Monterrey.
* DiedDuringProduction: Creator/MaryWickes, Laverne's voice actress, died of complications from hip surgery on October 22, 1995, eight months before the film's release.
* DisownedAdaptation: The descendants of Creator/VictorHugo himself bashed Disney in an open letter to the Libération newspaper for their ancestor getting no mention on the advertisement posters for the film, and they harshly criticized the film itself as a vulgar commercialization and {{Disneyfication}} of Hugo's story.
* FakeNationality: None of the actors are French, despite the story taking place there.
* FanNickname: Frollo's Swedish voice actor, Stefan Ljungqvist, gained the nickname "Swedish Saruman" or "Swedish Creator/ChristopherLee" due to his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDSem1CAvZc almost identical deep bass voice]]. Coincidentally, Christopher Lee himself spoke fluent Swedish.
* FlipFlopOfGod: The movie's directors have hinted that the gargoyles may all be figments of Quasimodo's imagination (a popular fan theory), but certain events in the film - namely Hugo startling Esmeralda's goat and them all taking part in the final battle - suggest they are real.
* ImageSource:
** [[DarkerAndEdgier/AnimatedFilms Darker and Edgier - Animated Films]]
** DidNotGetTheGirl
** FanaticalFire
** SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments
** [[MsFanservice/AnimatedFilms Ms. Fanservice - Animated Films]]
** [[Monster/Disney Complete Monster - Disney]]
** NotAMask
** PervertedSniffing
** VillainousCheekbones (2nd column)
** VillainousCrush
* IronyAsSheIsCast:
** Judge Claude Frollo, a fanatical Catholic, is voiced by Tony Jay, who is Jewish in real life.
** One of the US stage actors for Frollo, Patrick Page, was actually an award-winning stage magician back in his teenage years.
* MilestoneCelebration: In 2021, Walt Disney Records celebrated the movie's 25th Anniversary by re-releasing the soundtrack as part of the Legacy Collection, upgrading it to a 2-Disc LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition by adding almost all of the score[[note]]"And He Shall Smite the Wicked" inexplicably stops before the balcony climax[[/note]], deleted songs, demos, and excerpts of ''Der Glöckner von Notre Dame''.
* NewbieBoom: The film saw a large, renewed amount of interest when the real Notre Dame cathedral was nearly destroyed by fire in April 2019.
* NonSingingVoice:
** Cabaret singer Heidi Mollenhauer provides Esmeralda's singing voice instead of Demi Moore.
** In the Norwegian dub, Frollo's speaking voice is done by Even Stormoen (previous voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing Scar]]), while his singing voice is provided by Paul Åge Johannessen (previous voice of [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]]).
** In the Japanese dub, Frollo's speaking voice is provided by Takeshi Kusaka and singing voice by Toshihide Mura.
* TheOtherDarrin: In the European Spanish dub, the teaser for the film had Ernesto Aura -- who had a fitting voice to voice the character -- voicing Frollo. The role went at the end to Creator/ConstantinoRomero.
* PosthumousCredit: Despite Mary Wickes dying of complications from hip surgery eight months before the film's release, she's still given a credit as the voice of Laverne.
* QuoteSource:
** UglyHeroGoodLookingVillain
* RealLifeRelative: Carlos Pontón, who directed the Latin American Spanish dub and played Quasimodo's father, is the brother of Javier Pontón, who was the creative supervisor for the dub.
* TalkingToHimself: During the flashback in the opening number, Creator/JimCummings voices about three or four characters in quick succession (one or two of the Romani men, the boatman, and Frollo's guard). While Cummings does have an impressive vocal range, he unfortunately uses the same voice for all of these characters, making it very noticeable.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: When the film was being promoted, the CGI people were touted as a huge technological advancement. They were the logical next step after the CGI stampede scene from ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994''. Instead of using CGI to reproduce the same model making the same movements over and over again, the crowds of ''Hunchback'' were randomized, with different elements such as clothing, body types, and behaviors being mixed and matched to create these gigantic ''[[Film/BenHur1959 Ben-Hur]]''-esque crowd scenes that would, otherwise, either be much too expensive to animate, or have to be static parts of the matte. It's more noticeable now (especially if you remember watching "Behind the Scenes" featurettes which showcased the various behaviors back on the '90s Disney Channel), but at the time, especially on a first-time viewing, they ''were'' pretty impressive and evocative towards the party atmosphere in "Topsy Turvy" especially.
* ThrowItIn: Creator/KevinKline named his horse "Achilles" for the sake of the "Achilles, heel" joke.
* TwoVoicesOneCharacter: Mary Wickes was the primary voice for Laverne. Jane Withers later provided the character's remaining dialogue after Wickes succumbed to cancer during production.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Quite a few examples, some of which are discussed in [[https://www.slashfilm.com/hunchback-of-notre-dame-oral-history/ this 2021 oral history]].
** Creator/MandyPatinkin auditioned to play Quasimodo, but by all accounts, it was a disaster; notably, Creator/StephenSchwartz was displeased with how he was taking up more time than was necessary and suggesting changes to "Out There". Patinkin would eventually go on to portray Quasimodo in a Main/MadeForTVMovie released in 1997.
** Creator/PatrickStewart, Creator/AnthonyHopkins, Creator/IanMcKellen, and Creator/DerekJacobi were considered to play Frollo before the casting of Creator/TonyJay.
** Instead of Victor, Hugo and Laverne the gargoyles would have been named Chaney, Laughton and Quinn as homage to actors Creator/LonChaney, Creator/CharlesLaughton and Creator/AnthonyQuinn who had played the title character in previous adaptations. This idea was brought back into the German musical, with the gargoyles being renamed to Charles, Antoine, and [[GenderBlenderName Loni]].
** Phoebus's speech rallying citizens to rebel against Frollo during the climax of the movie was originally said by Clopin, but the directors/producers felt that Phoebus needed to be more involved in the uprising.
** The prologue was originally going to be a straightforward narration. After a couple of read-throughs, the filmmakers found it too slow and plodding. So they rewrote it as a musical number - "The Bells of Notre Dame".
** A much more tragic ending was considered. [[spoiler: Frollo would have fatally stabbed Quasimodo before being killed by Esmeralda. Phoebus would have then found them and Quasimodo's last wish would have been to ring the bells one last time]].
** According to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyNlyzIQOWs&lc=UgzCNlwa1iKfTVDKnD54AaABAg Nat Jay]], Tony Jay wasn't able to initially reach the final note for "Hellfire", so he requested for the key to be lowered. Alan Menken refused which essentially forced Tony to take voice lessons for it, resulting in the iconic final note of the song.
** Music/MichaelJackson was ready and willing to produce and perform versions of "Out There", "God Help the Outcasts" and/or "Someday" after a meeting with Alan Menken, but Disney higher-ups [[ExecutiveVeto vetoed]] this due to Jackson's questionable reputation at the time raising the potential for the film to be OvershadowedByControversy.
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* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/DemiMoore at the time became the highest paid voice actor in Hollywood, receiving $1 million for lending her voice to Esmeralda. Creator/KevinKline also lent his voice to Phoebus and Creator/JasonAlexander was Hugo. The sequel casts Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt as Madellaine.
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* CelebrityVoiceActor: Creator/DemiMoore at the time became the highest paid voice actor in Hollywood, receiving $1 million for lending her voice to Esmeralda. Creator/KevinKline also lent his voice to Phoebus Creator/TomHulce, Creator/KevinKline, and Creator/JasonAlexander was Hugo.round out the cast as Quasimodo, Phoebus, and Hugo, respectively. The sequel casts Creator/JenniferLoveHewitt as Madellaine.
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* MilestoneCelebration: In 2021, Walt Disney Records celebrated the movie's 25th Anniversary by re-releasing the soundtrack as part of the Legacy Collection, upgrading it to a 2-Disc LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition by adding the complete score, deleted songs, demos, and excerpts of ''Der Glöckner von Notre Dame''.[[note]]This marked the first addition to the Legacy Collection since the 2018 re-release of the ''Beauty and the Beast'' soundtrack.[[/note]]
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* MilestoneCelebration: In 2021, Walt Disney Records celebrated the movie's 25th Anniversary by re-releasing the soundtrack as part of the Legacy Collection, upgrading it to a 2-Disc LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition by adding almost all of the complete score, score[[note]]"And He Shall Smite the Wicked" inexplicably stops before the balcony climax[[/note]], deleted songs, demos, and excerpts of ''Der Glöckner von Notre Dame''.[[note]]This marked the first addition to the Legacy Collection since the 2018 re-release of the ''Beauty and the Beast'' soundtrack.[[/note]]
